Monday, February 20, 2006

Making Sport

It seems the big deal at the olympics right now is that some skaters fell. Yeah, I know it's hard to belive, but some skater fell. That's my sign it time for my offcial list of things that are not sports.



  1. Figure Skating
  2. NASCAR
  3. Golf
  4. Soccer
  5. Pool
  6. WNBA
  7. Anything involving a gun
  8. Anything needing the word "shuffleboard" to describe it (ie. Shuffelboard and Curling)
  9. Anything described with the word "dancing"
  10. Anything dominated by Scandinavian countries.
  11. Blogging

Additions:

  • Anything with the word "synchronized" (Thanks to reader "Frank")
  • Anything needing judged (especially by a French or Russian) (Thanks to reader "Shannon")

Thanks to reader "James" for the following...

  • Anything involving eating (a generally recognized rule somehow forgotten at fairs and family gatherings)
  • Anything you do in a bar (from drinking to darts to pinball to pool to shufflepuck to that one game with the fold-up pins and the wood track and the saw dust and the metal puck)
  • Anything you do sitting down in a chair at a table (from arm wrestling to board games INCLUDING CHESS to any card game including those which have yet to be invented)
  • Anything you have to prepend "The World Series of" to (noting, obviously, the baseball does NOT prepend that... it's just "The World Series" not "The World Series of Baseball")

Feel free to add to the list.

5 comments:

ejs said...

synchronized swimming.

Anonymous said...

Anything you have the ability to play can't be called a sport.

Barry said...

I almost went with that anonymous but I can play hockey. Really. And it's definitely a sport. Also, heroclix... a sport.

shannoncaroland said...

anything where judges give scores. Anything that subjective is not a sport.

James said...

More Not Sports:

* anything involving eating (a generally recognized rule somehow forgotten at fairs and family gatherings)

* anything you do in a bar (from drinking to darts to pinball to pool to shufflepuck to that one game with the fold-up pins and the wood track and the saw dust and the metal puck)

* anything you do sitting down in a chair at a table (from arm wrestling to board games INCLUDING CHESS to any card game including those which have yet to be invented)

* anything you have to prepend "The World Series of" to (noting, obviously, the baseball does NOT prepend that... it's just "The World Series" not "The World Series of Baseball")