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climbing?

yeah, good point, but we don't get paid millions of dollars for sending something.

See, the point of golf is to get the ball (or "golf ball") into 18 seperate holes in the fewest amount of swings (or "strokes") using various clubs.

The point of American football is to score more points than the opposing team.

Hope this helps.

~Bob

sure they have goals, but what I guess I meant to say is that these men and women get paid millions of dollars to do what? throw/hit a ball? There are thousands of people out there that could use that money so much more than the people who get it. And it's not like they are getting paid to do something useful or meaningful.

I know... I was just being a smartass for the hell of it.

According to linguist Noam Chomsky, professional sports as entertainment (especiially football) are tools of the governing powers to distract the populace from social concerns, such as war and poverty. Therefore, these sports have very little intrinsic value, but they serve a goal to keep us ignorant of more important things.

we just climb rocks.

but seriously i do agree that profesional footbal, baseball, basketball players... etc are paid way too much and that money could go to someting way better.

Curling

Golf is a lot like climbing: you need to be able to read the details of the terrain, and you need to be alert for changes in the weather.

Most pointless? Bouldering?

Professional sports offers entertainment for tons of people. They also provide people a time to step away from social concerns. If people didn't have an otlet such as that then there would be even more crazy people than there already are now. These sports also provide a ton of revenue to cities, towns, and jobs to people. Bitching about how much they get paid just falls back to class envy. As much as some of them suck as people and roll models they usually are extremely gifted athletes. As far as just giving millions away to needy people I guess I would have to wonder where the source of revenue would come from? Money still doens't grow on trees. Funny you didn't mention soccer/futbol as being a pointless sport.

Auto racing in any form (ie. nascar, indy, formula 1, well except go-karts!) whata waste of energy-gas, rubber, air pollution, etc... this is by far the worst sport on the planet!

I went to a NASCAR race a couple weeks ago. All I'm going to say is that it explained a lot about how rich slave owners could get thousands of poor white southerners to fight and die for their interests in the 1860s.

Unless you are participating in competitions, you are not engaged in climbing as a sport.

That said, thinking you are and calling it as such when in reality you are just making up your own little rules so you can win at whatever it is you think you are good at - that is lame.

Competitive eating?
Competitive body building?

I thought the point of all sports was to impress the chicks.

gotta be climbing - at least BITD it was used to summit stuff...

Ferret Legging!!

IMHO: all sports are valid as long as your participating passionately!

Thank god the world cup of keep'away is over.

Rappelling. If an activity doesn't have a magazine associated with it, it's lame.

@ Doug, valid point about golf. However, what seperates bouldering from roped climbing other than the length? Bouldering in many respects is harder.

@ mkeown, class envy?

@ JLP, I guess I just called it a sport for lack of a better word. Activity? Hobby? Interest?

Also, thought of another sport, wrestling.

Golf for sure. AND I insist they call stuff like golf and bowling a 'pasttime', not a sport. Sports requires sweat, athleticism. Old guys in 70's golf. The only way to improve golf is to make you RUN to each hole, clutching your 3 favorite clubs. It's a combination handicap of speed vs your accuracy. Sacrifice extra shots for the speed of getting to the hole. Then you get a whole minute to rest before the next swing/sprint. After first 9 holes, you get 2 min. between each one. Add a nice boulder problem at the 14th tee and you've got a dam good fun outing.

I'm with Stackhouse! Hasn't the past month driven home the fact that SOCCER is the most pointless (lame, etc...) sport? It doesn't even compare to "American" Football or Baseball... PERIOD(s).