Author Topic: US no longer Kings of the world (Read 632 times)

Fyre · « **Reply #15 on:** September 06, 2002, 11:07:42 PM »

Sorry Elf, but I have always and will always resent the fact that the college players were cut completely out of the picture because they lost a game in the Olympics to Brazil. It wasn't their fault. It was poor coaching. But they got no second chance.

When sports fans began talking about the first "Dream Team" I got nauseous.

Do you remember the Olympic team that had Michael Jordan and Patrick Ewing and Joe Klein and Alvin Robinson on it? The last team I can remember made up of college players that won the Gold Medal? Their exploits were exciting to watch! They had it all...drive, and talent, and enthusiasm. They were a REAL Dream Team~

Some of the pro players I have watched at the Olympics acted as they were playing a pick-up game.

Besides, the whole object of the Olympics is to showcase the talents of non-professional athletes from all over the world. But the professionals have taken over, not just in the Olympics, but in the World Games as well.

You can have it.

Regards, Shuckins

SC-Sp00k · « **Reply #16 on:** September 06, 2002, 11:14:27 PM »

Isnt Basketball a girls game? Or is that Netball?
Theres a difference isnt there?

eskimo2 · « **Reply #17 on:** September 07, 2002, 03:37:10 AM »

Spook,
I think basket ball is that game where they toss big orange balls into high netted hoops... they bounce them a lot too... I think...? Not really sure though, never really bothered to watch.

eskimo

Eagler · « **Reply #18 on:** September 07, 2002, 08:23:44 AM »

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Originally posted by eskimo2
Spook,
I think basket ball is that game where they toss big orange balls into high netted hoops... they bounce them a lot too... I think...? Not really sure though, never really bothered to watch.

eskimo

and they run back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and ..... ZZZzzzzz

I do believe a listed grievance in the reparations lawsuit

Elfenwolf · « **Reply #19 on:** September 07, 2002, 11:24:28 AM »

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Originally posted by Fyre
Sorry Elf, but I have always and will always resent the fact that the college players were cut completely out of the picture because they lost a game in the Olympics to Brazil. It wasn't their fault. It was poor coaching. But they got no second chance.

When sports fans began talking about the first "Dream Team" I got nauseous.

Do you remember the Olympic team that had Michael Jordan and Patrick Ewing and Joe Klein and Alvin Robinson on it? The last team I can remember made up of college players that won the Gold Medal? Their exploits were exciting to watch! They had it all...drive, and talent, and enthusiasm. They were a REAL Dream Team~

Some of the pro players I have watched at the Olympics acted as they were playing a pick-up game.

Besides, the whole object of the Olympics is to showcase the talents of non-professional athletes from all over the world. But the professionals have taken over, not just in the Olympics, but in the World Games as well.

You can have it.

Regards, Shuckins

I agree Shuckins, I'd rather watch our college kids lose an international game than our pros win one. I didn't really follow these world games except to read about that big Chinese guy the Rockets got, but my point is that the guys on the US team may not have been our very best but thay at least showed up to represent the USA. Guys like Jason Kidd, Alan Iverson and Chris Webber were too busy smoking blunts is strip club parking lots at 4 AM to bother showing up. LOL Personally as a Sacramento Kings fan I was rooting for Yugoslavia anyway.

Cherlie · « **Reply #20 on:** September 08, 2002, 08:49:11 AM »

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Personally as a Sacramento Kings fan I was rooting for Yugoslavia anyway.

YEAH BABY!!!!! WE WER RIPPED OFF IN THE PLAYOFF'S I TELL YA!!!

CB

midnight Target · « **Reply #21 on:** September 08, 2002, 08:53:48 PM »

The Olyimpics were originally for Amatures only, but the real intent was to keep out the riff raff underclass. Only moneyed people in the 1890's had the time to train for athletics, and Baron De Cubertain liked it that way.

The Pro's should have always been eligible.

H. Godwineson · « **Reply #22 on:** September 09, 2002, 09:53:25 AM »

Midnight,

I disagree totally. The pros already have the big salaries and name recognition and tons of fans and a thousand other perks that come with doing such important and socially redeeming work. Why should they have it all?

Kick the pros out of the Olympics and give it back to the amateur athletes. Then, perhaps, the slide in Olympic popularity with its long-time fans might be reversed.

Regards, Shuckins

midnight Target · « **Reply #23 on:** September 09, 2002, 10:10:44 AM »

Outlaw pros and you will end up with teams like the Red Army Hockey Team. Amatures my ass.

Which pros would you disqualify? What about track and field. Most top track stars make a fortune on the European circuit. What about the Italian pro basketball league, or the Greek, or the Israeli?

What about pro hockey, pro soccer? Do you want to go back to the days when an Eastern block soccer team always won the Olympics? We all knew they were professionally amature.

Amature status is a silly notion that just doesn't exist anymore unless you drop down to the high school level.. even then the elite are given special consideration. Let the best play. Not the richest. Because only the richest amatures can hope to afford the training and time it takes to become World class.

Wlfgng · « **Reply #24 on:** September 09, 2002, 10:12:00 AM »

college basketball rules IMO.

pro basketball ? pro at what? being lazy? snore..

and baseball? yawn

football and hockey.. oh yeah !

H. Godwineson · « **Reply #25 on:** September 09, 2002, 10:59:09 AM »

The only reason the Eastern Block countries fielded bogus amateur teams was because the Olympic committees that certified teams for competition didn't have the guts to disqualify them. I would rather the U.S. had the guts to stop participating rather than bestow legitimacy on the whole process by adopting the attitude "well everyone else does it."

The argument that only the rich would participate if the games were restricted to amateurs is specious. Sports fans and organizations in the U.S. have always found ways to support our amateur athletes' financial needs. Despite the handicap of facing the foreign teams that are heavy with "professional talent," our athletes have won their fair share of medals.

Kick the bums out!

Regards, Shuckins

midnight Target · « **Reply #26 on:** September 09, 2002, 11:17:05 AM »

Well Shuckins, I guess we just need to agree on what you mean by "amateur". If you are supported solely by your sport, you are a professional.

edit... I really need to get a spell checker.