Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for May 08, 2015

Man, Bolling sure hates sports in general and contact sports in particular. He’s never had a positive depiction of an athlete or sports enthusiast.

it’s getting to where there are more ethics in gangbanging than sports. when did winning actually become the only thing? i used to be in a baseball pool, bet on sports, etc, then a thought occurred to me. while watching people gamble on sports, i saw they were’nt enjoying the game at all, they were only paying attention to their bets. that’s when i realized i only love baseball and hockey…

Who killed Davy Moore anyway?

It’s kind of hard to think of good things to say about two men battering each other into permanent damage. The fact that some commentators utter sludge like “the sweet science” is certainly worthy of a takedown. I used to hate all sports, pretty much, except Dog Frisbee, and though I’ve mellowed considerably, competitively damaging somebody else still seems sort of worthless. (My respect for Muhammed Ali is pretty much in spite of his vocation, not because of it. You can see what it’s done to him.)

What? No Cloggies?

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This is why I have switched to watching profession wrestling.

(Everyone knows that it is fake, so nobody ever gets hurt.)

I saw Ray Mancini kill Duc Koo Kim. Sickening. Cosell was as good as his word and never called another fight.

you can never change a true jock’s love of blood sports. It’s in our DNA, and it makes us who we are. Some of us, however, are freaks of nature and are born without the taste for blood—-myself included

Man, some people here sure have contempt for people who value different things than they do.

It’s like they want to feel superior to people who enjoy contact sports rather than educate them on the possible dangers.

As for myself, I thought about it and realized “Well we all have to age and die, and for many of us it will be very drawn out and unpleasant, no matter what life choices we make while we’re young. Why not indulge in what we are good at and desire to do?”

Take Jon Urschel. He knows his sport of football might damage his ability to do his other great love, theoretical mathematics. Yet he does it anyway because he is compelled to challenge his body in mock physical combat with other men in order to feel completely self-actualized. Life is full of trade offs.

There will always be hardy men willing to destroy themselves and each other while softer men recline on cushions far from the field and profit from the spectacle.

I like gymastics — to watch, I can’t do any. Every now and then I watch the videos of Nadia Comaneci getting a perfect score at the 1976 Olympics.

If you like direct combat, and find pro wrestling too silly, there are several kinds of martial arts that do not necessarily involve permanently damaging your opponent.

However, if you like grosser stuff, why not have gladiatorial combat? Why hide the damage?