Because their hockey teachers were mean vindictive bitches who used to laugh when their legs got hit and bruised with the sticks and yell into their ears that they werent good enough at hockey and they needed to play harder... Probably
Sport just doesnt seem to be so important to as many people over here. There are those who happen to be big fans of a certain sport, but otherwise no-one tends to give much of a shit, its certainly not so important in schools so much as general exercise these days. I have to admit I hate any team sport really
who needs hockey........we rock at...........bowls? sport does generally suck to play. only extreme sports are any good for me. but i'll watch sport live.
Lack of sport in schools is a problem. I'm sure if we'd won more than one Olympic gold it could change. It's also entirely amateur, so there isn't the possibility of a career as with other sports.
hey, i was just bullshitting around with that remark. as a whole, both the brits and scots are alright by me. what is baseball? i think the best definition, i have ever come accross for baseball, was on a bbc sci fi tee vee program i saw about 20 years ago. (sorry, i don't remember the name of the program.) "baseball is that dumb earthling game where they stand around for hours doing nothing." (just substitute the word 'american' for 'earthling.') i always wondered.... why can't we yanks play cricket? hummmm, come to think of it, maybe baseball is the american version of cricket?
i could play cricket! i don't know the rules but i have never looked into it either. it seems fairly straightforward. smack ball run back and forth?
I lol'd when I read the thread title. Then as the page loaded I prayed you were being serious. :biggrin: I love hockey, it's one of my favourite sports, I used to do hockey club when I was younger but I quit after a while. I was just too crap. I can't ice skate though and Simpsons/the media taught me that American Hockey tends to be on ice. Baseball is closer to Rounders than it is to Cricket.
Cricket used to be a simple game- 22 men played for five days and the Australians always won. Not any more- England will regain the Ashes this summer!
even germany has an olympic team! also you meant to say north american right?? rounders?? sure i could google or wiki it but i figured i'd allow you the pleasure of enlightening me. you can put it on your resume!
Just another way of torturing schoolgirls. Half the people bat with ridiculous club-like things, half bowl. The batting ones have to run around like retards once the balls been hit, around 4 posts. Something else happens but I forget what. Yelling at the person running usually occurs