I know a rather prominent runner who brags he has never watched a complete football game or boxing match and so forth. Apparently the so-called violence turns him off. Do most distance runners feel this way? Jeez, no wonder other athletes make fun of us and call us girly boys sometimes.
Yes, and that's why you don't let most runners get behind you in the shower.
How match interest do you think the average runner takes in what we do?
That having been said, I watch football. Used to watch boxing before there were 17 different "sanctioning" organizations.
Pad Berson wrote:
How match interest do you think the average runner takes in what we do?
That having been said, I watch football. Used to watch boxing before there were 17 different "sanctioning" organizations.
this makes negative sense, go back to class.
Just watch this last weeks episode of Runnerspacelive you'll have no doubt about the effimacy of some runners!
Yes. What other sport can guys get away with shaving their legs and wearing unisex gear (shoes). For the record I only shave my legs to make it easier to use the stick....and those unisex shoes where on sale and I real don't mnd the silver speckles in the shoe laces anymore.
Night Runner wrote:
I know a rather prominent runner who brags he has never watched a complete football game or boxing match and so forth. Apparently the so-called violence turns him off. Do most distance runners feel this way? Jeez, no wonder other athletes make fun of us and call us girly boys sometimes.
Why are you blaming someone else for being called a girly boy sometimes?
Chris Solinsky will pile drive you!!
I don't watch football or basketball. It's not because I'm afraid of violence, it's because I don't give a shit.
Hmmm. So watching football and boxing in their entirety would make a difference between effiminate and masculine? Is that the threshold for manliness in your world?What if you watch these sports because you like to see grown men pat each other on the butt, or watch them sweat, because of the way it makes you feel, deep down? Does that make you a bigger man?I heard rugby was like American football without all the rest breaks and protective padding.I wonder how a boxer would do in a K-1 tournament?I guess being a girly-boy is all a matter of perspective.
Night Runner wrote:
I know a rather prominent runner who brags he has never watched a complete football game or boxing match and so forth. Apparently the so-called violence turns him off. Do most distance runners feel this way? Jeez, no wonder other athletes make fun of us and call us girly boys sometimes.
Pump me up! wrote:
I heard rugby was like American football without all the rest breaks and protective padding.
Different games. The fact that there are "rest breaks" means that the play calling can be much more complex and the players recover causing more violent collisions which require padding.
Night Runner wrote:
I know a rather prominent runner who brags he has never watched a complete football game or boxing match and so forth. Apparently the so-called violence turns him off. Do most distance runners feel this way? Jeez, no wonder other athletes make fun of us and call us girly boys sometimes.
Well, HE might be a girly man. Some runners are. Some aren't. Boxing was HUGE in the 70s when I was a kid, and I watched it all the time. Now, boxing has been replaced by MMA. MMA is much more entertaining, requires more athleticism and with fights of just 3 or 5 rounds, the time required to watch a complete fight isn't much...just what the public wants.
While I love baseball, football is the best spectator sport made for television, and I don't understand why someone would not want to watch some football.
Night Runner wrote:
I know a rather prominent runner who brags he has never watched a complete football game or boxing match and so forth. Apparently the so-called violence turns him off. Do most distance runners feel this way? Jeez, no wonder other athletes make fun of us and call us girly boys sometimes.
I don't watch boxing, but I watch some football. I'm not a big fan because I've never participated in the sport and don't find it as interesting as track and field. Oh and I'm not effeminate.
I consider myself rather effeminate yet I watch a bit of football and watch MMA regularly. I also run. I don't think there is a corrolary between the viewing of football/MMA/Boxing and one's effeminateness. I do like to stare a naked men and often like to take it in the rear, but I don't really think this matters either.
It's completely arbitrary.
Example:
I know a guy who doesn't shave his pubes because he thinks shaving anything other than his face is girly.
I shave my pubes because I found that it makes the girls wanna come back for more, so to me it's not girly at all.
i run and love watching football and I hate boxing. MMA is killing boxing. I even do MMA training and fighting and ran D1 in the 80s. Does that make me effimate? I shave nothing but my head and face
I call BS on the MMA fighting if you shave nothing but your head and face. If you fought in any type of sanctioned fight, or even belonged to one of most gyms, you would be required to full body shave before getting in the octagon. Legs, chest, arms, armpits.
Night Runner wrote:
I know a rather prominent runner who brags he has never watched a complete football game or boxing match and so forth. Apparently the so-called violence turns him off. Do most distance runners feel this way? Jeez, no wonder other athletes make fun of us and call us girly boys sometimes.
Fag needs to be head stomped IMO.
I don't know the answer to the OP's question, but this thread proves pretty conclusively that homophobes can't spell.
It's not necessarily that runners are all effeminate (although a lot are).
It's more that they're extremely elitist, with no good reason to be that way. Runners are essentially at the bottom of the athletic ladder (well, maybe curlers or bowlers or what have you, but you get the point). Most have subversive (or overt) inadequacy issues (I was there once, too) and feel the need to constantly assert their perceived superiority.
I knew a bunch of my teammates in college who loved to make fun of those "dumb jock" football players (which was stupid since it was an Ivy school and the football players all seemed fairly bright). These guys reveled in the fact that they were all man enough to go out and run 80-120 miles per week and that made them men.
Everyone has a different definition of what's "masculine", but many runners don't fit society's standard criteria all that well. If that's your nature, hey, no worries.
But if you actively avoid things that society perceives as "masculine" such as football, etc, just because you think you're somehow "better" than that, well that's when you cross the line over into the category of giant tool.