Be honest if you were good at football/baskball you wouldn't have distance running

Wrong. I started running to condition for basketball, and I liked it because there wasn't any team mates to screw things up.

Nope. I was great at football and still am pretty good as a wide receiver. Albeit I'm older now.

Now you be honest.....

If you understood the language better, you probably wouldn't embarrass yourself in forums posting stupid questions.

Bask ball? LOL

Used in a sentence: The OP likes to bask in the aroma of his dad's balls.

Conditiona is betta wrote:

Be honest. If you were good at football/basketball/baseball, you wouldn't have started running.

Hahahaaaa.... Good has nothing to do with it.

Football? > don't weigh 240 lbs.

Basketball? > not 6'8"

Baseball? > boring, old-fashioned WOT

Not true. I was a very good wide receiver in football. I was fast, I could jump, and I could catch anything that got near me.

I ran cross country for two reasons:

1. The HS coach showed up at the Junior high track meet and recruited us. The football coach didn't do that.

2. I really didn't like the high speed hits in football and I could tell I probably wouldn't last long on the football field.

But there's no doubt I would have made the team, if I could have lasted through the tryouts!

DiscoGary wrote:

Not true. I was a very good wide receiver in football. I was fast, I could jump, and I could catch anything that got near me.

I ran cross country for two reasons:

1. The HS coach showed up at the Junior high track meet and recruited us. The football coach didn't do that.

2. I really didn't like the high speed hits in football and I could tell I probably wouldn't last long on the football field.

But there's no doubt I would have made the team, if I could have lasted through the tryouts!

Part of being good at football is being able to take a hit. In fact, it is an essential part of being good at football. So not true that you were a very good wide receiver. Also, claiming you were good at anything based on your performance in junior high is weak sauce.

If Stephan Curry were good at distance running rather than basketball he probably wouldn't be a basketball player either.

Haha fred I have the exact same story.

I think most people here are too smart to play football. You could play basketball and run.

I'll admit this. I loved basketball as a kid and was a pretty good player until around 9th-10th grade when my lack of size really started to catch up with me. Luckily, I started running around that same time. I'm really glad I did as I'm still at it over a decade later. Basketball was fun, but I've gotten way more enjoyment out of running.

Still chose running.

You totally control your own race in running. There are no judgement calls by the officials. No team mates to mess things up.

Any glory or success you achieve is yours and yours alone.

You can quantitatively measure individual personal improvement in running. The clock does not lie.

There is little chance you will be injured as the result of the actions of others in running. Mostly non-contact. You could be taken out, and even suffer a career ending injury, at any time in Bball or FBall.

If you are not good enough to be a pro, there are endless easy access opportunities for a lifetime of open competition in running. Especially if you are a distance runner doing 5k and up. Try to play competitive football when you are 45 or older.

Running is inexpensive, you can train anytime anywhere and do it alone.

A problem with running is our culture does not support it like the other team sports. There is something primal about sending a representative group of warriors from your clan or tribe into battle to face off against another group.

The whole tribe will turn out to support team sports, and running is not really a team sport.

Nope. I did some team sports until I was 10 then I started skateboarding and never looked back. I hate team sports and have no interest in being a part of that culture. I will pop wood over XC but come on, that ain't no team sport y'all.

I see football, but how are we not talking about soccer compared to basketball? Or at least in the mix.

Any claim on any topic by the Disco Kid should be assumed to be a lie. Hence it is reasonable to assume that he was not even good at the junior high level.

Most likely he was the very last kid picked for every team in PE class (which would explain a great deal about his seemingly infinite bitterness).

Didn't Usain Bolt want to be a soccer or cricket player or something like that?

Conditiona is betta wrote:

Be honest. If you were good at football/basketball/baseball, you wouldn't have started running.

What if someone was good at those sports but disliked them and enjoyed running more? In high school sure, doing those sports and dunking in front of the gymnasium is thrilling from a purely punani perspective. And baseball is a great way to get a group of close guy friends and get ganja connections in hs. But those sports do not get you high, physically speaking, the way distance running training does (sprint training honorable mention). I dreamed of being a basketballer growing up, but when I matured in young adulthood I realized how depressing team sports are, both watching them and doing them . Basketball is extremely artificial. Passing around a ball on a wooden court indoors mostly. It's an artificial construct apart from the joyous force of life and nature. It's an artificial construct and game that obfuscates the simplicity of the body and physical training. Same thing I would say for other conditioning activities. Weight listing, etc training gets me high and makes me feel good and look good. Team sports are just added bs.

There are also a lot of disciplines and activities that pay well. There are certainly people who are good at them that don't do them because they don't like them. I was a prodigy in school growing up. But racking up grades and achievements did not get me high. Doesn't matter the bogus glory and well paying jobs and career you can get down the line.

When I got even older, I also had moral and spiritual awakenings which affected what I found to be fulfilling and pleasurable.

I guess you are still at the middle school level, though, along with an unknown but huge percentage of our society (who are grown up and not in middle school anymore).

If team sports are rather arbitrarily inflated and enjoyable by way of

Punani from society's arbitrary glamorizing of the arbitrary finesse of those sports

Why not get to the heart of the matter

And just be good at getting, hanging with and boning members of the opposite sex?

And if those sports pay well for the people who are good at them, why not get to the heart of the matter of acquiring money in all the myriad ways?

At the end of the day, the owners and entrepreneurs in sports are making more than most of the athletes, just hear from Shaquille o Neal himself on this (sham talks back, chapter about contract negotiations, lockout etc)

But I guess your cognition and imagination is not as strong as your team sport and Epsn watching skills, eh?

Maybe at the high school level. But Skolinsky aside I have never seen a distance runner with any mass to absorb hits from college prospects.

You loser middle school pea brained dweebs full of illogic. Yeah football boy want to take real hits? Get into wrestling, boxing or MMA. Or join the military. You cookie cutter monkeys have been indoctrinated by corporate controlled media and societal institutions. Do you think you are anything special versus millions of other kids being churned out the assembly line? If running got you more money, popularity and poontang than football and basketball, nobody would play those sports just for the "love of it". They are arbitrary sports, football having the element of being a substitute for martial arts and warfare.

I'm 6'4 and played basketball and varsity hockey as a sophomore in HS. I switched to running my junior year because I was extremely antisocial and never felt part of the team, or wanted to be. But I was the best conditioned and running felt right.