Sportsball WTF
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@izzion goddamn standard revisions.
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@Gąska said in Sportsball WTF:
@izzion goddamn standard revisions.
Pretty embarrassing that an American knows more about round-foot than a European
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@izzion it only makes sense they're more rule-savvy. Handegg rulebook is, what, 820 pages long?
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@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
@Gąska said in Sportsball WTF:
Pray tell, when exactly is passing the ball past the rearmost defender legal in football?
When the rearmost defender (and the person to whom you are passing the ball) are both on your team's half of the field.
Also, also, the rule is actually based on being past the second-rearmost defender (regardless of position played). No distinction is made based on any given defender being the goalkeeper.
That's cricket, yeah? Pretty sure that's cricket.
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@Gąska said in Sportsball WTF:
Pray tell, when exactly is passing the ball past the rearmost defender legal in football?
Also also also, it's legal when the player you pass to wasn't past the (second) rearmost defender at the time you kick the ball. It's pretty much the most basic attack strategy, pass past the (second to) last defender and have another player sprinting from before the defender to catch the pass (past that defender) and score.
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@Gąska said in Sportsball WTF:
@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
Somehow missed that post before. Anyway, reading through the article, this part caught my attention:
in soccer you can’t simply run ahead of everyone else to get a clear shot at goal. Instead, you have to wait until Carl wipes the mustard off his mouth and gets back in position somewhere in front of his goal, then don’t run past him. You can kick it past him. Just don’t get behind him.
I know it's satire but even then I'm not sure the author is aware the exact opposite is true (it's always legal to run past the opponent, but kicking the ball past him usually isn't.)
I think he's kidding. I think there's enough people who know that "offsides" is a thing in other sports in his audience.
Also, isn't not embarrassing the opponents a handegg thing? I remember a discussion somewhere on this forum where people claimed the pinnacle of sportsmanship is to stop playing the game and blatantly running the clock if the other team can't keep up with you.
Yeah. It is. What about it?
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@Carnage said in Sportsball WTF:
@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
Who are these people?
Jake Paul is a
narcissistinfluencer who has been pursuing a series of boxing fights against other crossover boxers or should have been retired professionals, but hamming them up on Twatter and such like an MMA fighter. So far he’s won all 4 fights and made mucho dinero while fighting effective unknowns.Tim Tebow is the original “way more popular than his ability warrants” athlete of the 21st century, having been a quarterback at the University of Florida and eventually drafted by the NFL but having a fairly short and uneven career. He had a few spectacular comebacks on bad teams, but was most notable for being outspoken about his Christian faith and basically being the religious equivalent of a modern day BLM kneeler (though at appropriate times and not grandstanding during the national anthem), so he got a lot of “fans” defending him because they thought he didn’t get a fair shot because of being out about his faith. He has since tried to make the New York Mets (MLB) organization, flaming out in mid-level minor league baseball, and has tried to return to the NFL as a tight end, flaming out midway through training camp.
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You forgot the most important part of his history. He beat Alabama.
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@Dragoon I forgot about that. Didn't forget about this: https://www.rollbamaroll.com/2019/12/5/20976051/2009-alabama-florida-sec-championship-saban-mark-ingram-tim-tebow
Note: I like Tim Tebow. But when I think of him vs Bama, this is what I remember.
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@boomzilla said in Sportsball WTF:
First thought? That must be impossibly dangerous to be the pitcher when facing a left-handed batter.
Second thought? I wonder if it's fair territory past second base to the right and past third base to the left.
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The Bee really needs to fix their cross-platform leakage...
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@izzion I thought at first they were talking about this kind of balloon, and having a World Cup didn't sound like a particularly crazy idea.
Then I read the article and realized they're talking about this kind of balloon, and a World Cup is definitely a .
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@HardwareGeek it looks like fun, though, if you watch the video.
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@boomzilla Sure, I've done that lots of times with my kids or at family parties or whatever. But a World Cup sport? That's dumb. But then I think "e-sports" are dumb, too.
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@HardwareGeek said in Sportsball WTF:
@boomzilla Sure, I've done that lots of times with my kids or at family parties or whatever. But a World Cup sport? That's dumb. But then I think "e-sports" are dumb, too.
No more so than chess.
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@PleegWat said in Sportsball WTF:
@HardwareGeek said in Sportsball WTF:
@boomzilla Sure, I've done that lots of times with my kids or at family parties or whatever. But a World Cup sport? That's dumb. But then I think "e-sports" are dumb, too.
No more so than chess.
Or basket or soccer or a whole host of shit that there is a world cup for.
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@Carnage don't forget ironing.
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@HardwareGeek I first learned about it when I googled "underwater basket weaving". Didn't find what I looked for, but this was close enough.
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@Gąska
I find the Irony heavy in this sport
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The Power 5 Invitational is going to have to rewrite the rules again to give them a better fig leaf.
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Man undresses five men on national TV:
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Apparently the Women’s Tennis Association has bigger balls than the NBA.
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@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
Apparently the Women’s Tennis Association has bigger balls than the NBA.
I hope more organizations grow a fucking backbone and refuse to whore themselves out to China.
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Hey, he gets a triple win. A meaningless touchdown in a game that was in hand, a rule named after him, AND the Patriots are going to trade up to take him #1
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@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
Hey, he gets a triple win. A meaningless touchdown in a game that was in hand, a rule named after him, AND the Patriots are going to trade up to take him #1
Yeah, you can't fucking do that. The slide rule is there for a reason.
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Well I suppose I owe AB an apology for assuming he was just throwing a tantrum on Sunday.
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@izzion assuming he's telling the truth.
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Man, I knew Poles were powerful, but hitting someone to cancel a futbol game seems a bridge too far.
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@izzion he should consider himself lucky. Usually we use explosives.
For once, a good onebox!
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@boomzilla the text on his helmet has prevented me from commenting on his behavior!
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I mean, with a $100k cash prize pool, e-sports have to be real sports now, right?
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Russia, having been caught with a systemic doping program, has been banned from multiple Olympics as a country. But blocking all the innocent athletes who weren't part of the doping program would be bad, so we'll let them compete under the "Russian Olympic Committee" name and the IOC flag, no big deal...
The winners in the team figure skating competition at the Beijing Olympics still have not received their medals, with reports saying the delay has been caused by a positive drug test from one member of the gold-winning Russian team.
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I am disappoint.
I came here expecting something like Polandball, only to have this thread.
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@CHUDbert We do have a polandball thread, though it hasn't seen much activity lately.
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@antiquarian after seeing this comment I went and found it and was amused by it again after all these years.
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@CHUDbert think of it as robot snake reunion.
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Note that neither the Lakers nor the Dodgers are actually champions.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear But they participated.