Dama White "Soccer is the least talented sport on Earth"
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Skeetnl said:
This is just stupid -.- I know Dana says stupid s**t all the time but damn this is really bad.
There's a reason three-year-olds can play soccer.
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Three year old can't play hockey?
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You spend the first year learning to skate. Organized hockey starts at 5 years old for most of Canada. That said I am sure many kids are on the frozen ponds at 2 and 3 years old. But do you think kicking a ball takes the same coordination as ice skating with a stick and controlling a puck? Then once you get to contact you have to keep your head up at all times doing that or you get steamrolled. Eye, hand and foot coordination done at a speed faster than you can sprint.
i wouldn't say football at the top levels is the least talented sport but the basics of it he has a fair argument with.
Gnarcore said:
Skeetnl said:
This is just stupid -.- I know Dana says stupid s**t all the time but damn this is really bad.
There's a reason three-year-olds can play soccer.
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Three year old can't play hockey?
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You spend the first year learning to skate. Organized hockey starts at 5 years old for most of Canada. That said I am sure many kids are on the frozen ponds at 2 and 3 years old. But do you think kicking a ball takes the same coordination as ice skating with a stick and controlling a puck? Then once you get to contact you have to keep your head up at all times doing that or you get steamrolled. Eye, hand and foot coordination done at a speed faster than you can sprint.
i wouldn't say
football
at the top levels is the least talented sport but the basics of it he has a fair argument with.
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False!
1st and 10, run up the middle for 3yrds. 2nd and 7 false start now 2nd and 12. pass up the middle for 8 3rd and 4 , pass incomplete 4th and 4 Punt! a play in the NFL can be as long as a paragraph. a playbook as thick as a bible. all 11 on offense or Defense has to work together to execute the play. They have techniques as in MMA to beat their man across from them. and the list goes on , etc...
Skeetnl said:
... yes it's called FOOTBALL.
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I enjoy handegg sometimes but this always cracks me up. :lol: :lol:
TurdFurguson said:
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:lol: :lol: These are so good it hurts, but this other one ...
... isn't a dive. You can see the red guy's knee knock the blue guy's heel so that his foot gets knocked onto the back of his own heel. That's a genuine trip. I mean, if the red guy's knee doesn't touch the blue guy's leg why does the red guy stumble a little also? Was he
also
faking?
Brick said:
My, my; aren't soccer fans an insecure bunch.
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Seems that way. Of course the soccer fans in this thread are also MMA fans of course, sooooo ... :lol:
Spud said:
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:lol: :lol: :lol: This is my new favourite thread.
smartigan said:
Not insecure,just baffled why he would say something so stupid
Football is not a sport in Brazil it's a religion
If he said this in Brazil I wouldn't be surprised if they boycotted the Silva fight( which happens to be in a football stadium :lol: )
People murder because of football there
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People are murdered everywhere over football, a guarantee someone is killed in Glasgow (Scotland) over the Rangers/Celtic game this Sunday.
AllDay said:
False!
1st and 10, run up the middle for 3yrds. 2nd and 7 false start now 2nd and 12. pass up the middle for 8 3rd and 4 , pass incomplete 4th and 4 Punt! a play in the NFL can be as long as a paragraph. a playbook as thick as a bible. all 11 on offense or Defense has to work together to execute the play. They have techniques as in MMA to beat their man across from them. and the list goes on , etc...
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Wrong football.
TurdFurguson said:
Spud said:
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that's why i've always said Kos should play soccer, but always think i be trollin'
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Kos got hit by his other knee half a second before this gif starts. That is what he was reacting to. There's a thread on it somewhere which shows it in it's entirety.
mabrown45 said:
if you look at soccer from a basic sense it is pretty damn easy, and probably the easiest.
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I agree with this.
Now obviously high level soccer players are ridiculously talented, just as talented as high level professionals of any sport, but soccer from a beginners sense is a pretty basic sport, imo.
I enjoy watching the World Cup, but besides that, there isn't a huge market for it over here in the US.
mma_guru333 said:
mabrown45 said:
if you look at soccer from a basic sense it is pretty damn easy, and probably the easiest.
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I agree with this.
Now obviously high level soccer players are ridiculously talented, just as talented as high level professionals of any sport, but soccer from a beginners sense is a pretty basic sport, imo.
I enjoy watching the World Cup, but besides that, there isn't a huge market for it over here in the US.
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Id say boxing is the easiest if you are looking at it like that. Standing there punching eachother? pretty simple.
Gnarcore said:
AllDay said:
False!
1st and 10, run up the middle for 3yrds. 2nd and 7 false start now 2nd and 12. pass up the middle for 8 3rd and 4 , pass incomplete 4th and 4 Punt! a play in the NFL can be as long as a paragraph. a playbook as thick as a bible. all 11 on offense or Defense has to work together to execute the play. They have techniques as in MMA to beat their man across from them. and the list goes on , etc...
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Wrong football.
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What?? they call soccer football? i though it was Futbol!
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roorippin said:
mma_guru333 said:
mabrown45 said:
if you look at soccer from a basic sense it is pretty damn easy, and probably the easiest.
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I agree with this.
Now obviously high level soccer players are ridiculously talented, just as talented as high level professionals of any sport, but soccer from a beginners sense is a pretty basic sport, imo.
I enjoy watching the World Cup, but besides that, there isn't a huge market for it over here in the US.
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Id say boxing is the easiest if you are looking at it like that. Standing there punching eachother? pretty simple.
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Obviously this is putting far more thought than Dana did into a comment he probably doesn't even remember making but since we're playing here -
Running is an easier sport than football too. So is long jump and high jump. And wrestling. So is throwing a ball of any kind with your hands. Human beings are "designed" to do things with our hands, not our feet. It's easier to make a ball do what we want if we use our hands than our feet.
Ergo, Handegg actually requires less talent than football. In fact, when you think about it, the vast majority of Handegg players never even have to touch a ball, they just run and/or bash into each other. I enjoy a nice game of Handegg but overall it requires far less skill than football.
At first I was just treating this thread as a joke but now look, old Uncle Dana went and made us use our brains a little bit.
anotherusername said:
The thread title clearly attributes the quote to Da
m
a White, but people are jumping all over Dana White for it. It's not fair that Dana gets blamed for what his ignorant twin brother says.
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I love soccer! Very ignorant comment coming from Dana. But it's Dana white, who takes him serious when he rants about things other than his company?
I play indoor soccer and love it just as much as mma. Though we got banned for a year for fighting. =[ Moving on to another city. lol