Familiar posts from the Giants forum.

[CATCH17]

Two guys beating the **** out of each other doesnt qualify as a major sport.

MMA is a major sport these days and its far more than 2 people just beating the heck out of each other.

 

[MapleLeaf]

Baseball has something to say about that.

...unfortunately baseball would lose that argument.

From the ranks of minor ball all the way up to the NFL football eclipses baseball in the complexity of all aspects of the game.

There is a reason why the Wonderlic became a staple for the evaluation of players in the NFL. Those who's job is to field NFL teams found out that a certain amount of intelligence is needed to excel in the game with all that is happening strategically on the field.

For baseball all you really need is the hand eye coordination to hit the hanging curve ball and stay up with the fastball and you can play baseball until you are 45.

With the exception of kicker it's highly unlikely you will last in the NFL unless you can develop a certain amount of game intelligence - typically gained through years of film study and exposure to different schemes.

A good NFL player is a student of the game. I'm not sure if you can say that about good baseball players.

By the way, the item I stated in black is what I was told by Cito Gaston in meeting him at a sports banquet and talking to him about the secret to a baseball career. He was talking about the DH whom by the way makes considerably more than any kicker in the NFL.

 

[MapleLeaf]

MMA is a major sport these days and its far more than 2 people just beating the heck out of each other.

...is a much more sophisticated and technical sport than MMA will ever be.

Until technique and style and ability has a chance to win MMA matches it really is only two guys pounding on each other.

The real test is having an MMA fighter be placed in a boxing ring and see if they can win a match against a title champ.

I highly doubt the skill of present MMA fighters. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if their faces were pounded into pulp as they constantly struggled with trying to box without the clutching, grabbing that MMA sports.

Sorry, but the skill isn't there for me.

I consider MMA to boxing the rugby to football comparison.

 

[Teren_Kanan]

MMA is terrible and boring =(

15 minute fights, 12 of those minutes are on the ground holding each other. MMA might be fun if you removed grappling, or 80% of the rules related to grappling, turn it into the Korean style where you knock someone down you can jump up and land knee first on their face, then it might entertain me.

 

[The30YardSlant]

Boxing isn't a sport?

MMA isn't a sport?

They are proof that people value money over physical well-being and that drugs do wonders for pain tolerance.

It's all fake? I want my money back.

Who said it's fake?

 

[The30YardSlant]

MMA is a major sport these days and its far more than 2 people just beating the heck out of each other.

You can dress it up all you want, it's still the equivalent of two cavemen beating on each other. The only difference was the cavemen did it to survive, these meatheads do it for money.

 

[Rampage]

]...is a much more sophisticated and technical sport than MMA will ever be.[/B]

Until technique and style and ability has a chance to win MMA matches it really is only two guys pounding on each other.

The real test is having an MMA fighter be placed in a boxing ring and see if they can win a match against a title champ.

I highly doubt the skill of present MMA fighters. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if their faces were pounded into pulp as they constantly struggled with trying to box without the clutching, grabbing that MMA sports.

Sorry, but the skill isn't there for me.

I consider MMA to boxing the rugby to football comparison.

:laugh2: you have no idea what you're talking about.

 

[CaptainMorgan]

With the exception of kicker it's highly unlikely you will last in the NFL unless you can develop a certain amount of game intelligence - typically gained through years of film study and exposure to different schemes.

Yes, just ask Dexter Manley

 

[Clarkson]

...unfortunately baseball would lose that argument.



For baseball all you really need is the hand eye coordination to hit the hanging curve ball and stay up with the fastball and you can play baseball until you are 45.

I guess you've never played baseball, sir, because that's absurd.

 

[Clarkson]

Boxing is much, much, MUCH better than stupid MMA.

 

[Deep_South]

Kimbo is fighting Houston Alexander on Spike tonight - for those who don't hate MMA.

 

[Section446]

Football fans, as a group, seem like the least educated fans of any major sport.

It's a far more complex sport that most sports.

 

[RoadRunner]

Do you consider yourself part of that group or above it? If your above it please explain why. The guy made a post, you made a comment, why not explain yourself.

It doesn't take a big or smart person to insult someone or their post, it takes a very small one.

There is a need for some to create the illusion that they themselves are superior human beings to others. Its actually a deep down inferiority complex. They lash out and try to demean as many people as they can in the hopes that some will perceive them as paragons of virtue. "Everyone is stupid except for me" is their basic mantra. Just ignore the lot of them. Or pity them as is really warranted.

 

[Hostile]

Do you consider yourself part of that group or above it? If your above it please explain why. The guy made a post, you made a comment, why not explain yourself.

It doesn't take a big or smart person to insult someone or their post, it takes a very small one.

I insulted him by agreeing with him?

I would like an explanation of that before I bother to explain anything that you have asked. I want to make sure I understand this on the off chance I might agree with you at some point. I want to know how insulting that would be.