Why are white american males currently so bad at sports?

N0bama... wrote:

OK, so list the sports that fit your extremely narrow definition.

1. White Americans ARE good at golf. All Americans are relatively bad at .

You don't really think golf is a sport, do you? I mean, not like the others on that list. Let's face it , if you can be a world force in it at age 40 something, do it while wearing long pants and dress shoes, do it while driving around in a little car, and can have a huge gut and be pretty good at it, is it really a sport?

I'm not saying it doesn't take skill, but come on now.Golf, a sport? Really?!

viva italia wrote:

It's because they are too good at sex.

Nope, that's not it.

joshwalker wrote:

controversy wrote:

White people from other countries seem to do fine, even in the NBA. We are even bad at the white people sports (tennis, golf (relatively), soccer). Why don't we have a Dirk or a Nick Willis or a Gareth Bale? Are they all playing football and baseball?

Discus.

I don't think they are all doing discus. Many of them are doing javelin, shot put, hammer throw, steeplechase, pole vault and race walking as well. They seem to do pretty well in these events - in the USA.

You must be new to letsrun...

totallyofftopic wrote:

N0bama... wrote:

OK, so list the sports that fit your extremely narrow definition.

1. White Americans ARE good at golf. All Americans are relatively bad at .

You don't really think golf is a sport, do you? I mean, not like the others on that list. Let's face it , if you can be a world force in it at age 40 something, do it while wearing long pants and dress shoes, do it while driving around in a little car, and can have a huge gut and be pretty good at it, is it really a sport?

I'm not saying it doesn't take skill, but come on now.Golf, a sport? Really?!

The OP listed it, I was responding to it. Is it a sport? Sure. Is it on the same level athletically as the others listed? No.

Yeah, and gymnastics and ice dancing, too. We're good that those non-sports.

Laylock wrote:

Yeah, and gymnastics and ice dancing, too. We're good that those non-sports.

Gymnastics is a non-sport???? Are you kidding?

Current NBA: Kyle Korver, Kevin Love

Past NBA: Larry Bird, John Stockton, Jerry West

Golf: we have 4 of the top 6 in the world so I'm not sure what you're talking about.... (Spieth, DJ, Bubba, Fowler)

Tennis: We are currently lacking a tennis star (though we still have 4 guys in the top 40 worldwide), but prior to the Federer era Sampras was pretty much considered the best ever.

Soccer: because as much as I love soccer it frankly it's just never been big and likely will not catch on in the US for sometime as the media networks don't make as much off 90 minute games with no commercials as they do other events which has a major impact on what kids see growing up and what they become interested in.

But the really really obvious answer to this question is yes, the best white american male athletes are playing football and baseball... JJ Watt, Bryce Harper, these guys are absolute athletic freaks.

Local college around here just recently started to give scholarship money for e-sports. Crazy

controversy wrote:

White people from other countries seem to do fine, even in the NBA. We are even bad at the white people sports (tennis, golf (relatively), soccer). Why don't we have a Dirk or a Nick Willis or a Gareth Bale? Are they all playing football and baseball?

Discus.

I have no idea how to throw a discus, but I'll chime in on the soccer

The reason the US doesn't have a Gareth Bale of any race is that the elite athletes in the US all pick other sports and it's not possible to switch to soccer at a later age after you have decided that football/basketball aren't going to work out.

The way you produce a Gareth Bale is you take all of your best athletes and train them correctly starting at 8 or 9 years old. If you do that, you may get lucky and get a Gareth Bale every decade or so if you have a population base like the US. If Gareth Bale were born in the US, he would have ended up playing WR for a college football team.

Weak effort overall until the last line where you redeemed yourself.7/10.

Tom Brady

/thread

Ever heard of genetics?

-Participating in sports is considered low class

-Watching sports is considered middle class

-Controlling both is the job of the upper class

fsdf423 wrote:

joshwalker wrote:

I don't think they are all doing discus. Many of them are doing javelin, shot put, hammer throw, steeplechase, pole vault and race walking as well. They seem to do pretty well in these events - in the USA.

You must be new to letsrun...

I think you're the new one.

This topic was among your favorites. It's on to statutory rape of muscular African American football players.....

American males have been feminized, that's why

Can't compete with west Africans at most American sports which require speed and explosion. Check out the anthropomorphic measurements for the NBA draft. Who has longer arms, hands, legs.

Distance running obviously east africans

Lunchbox wrote:

Can't compete with west Africans at most American sports which require speed and explosion. Check out the anthropomorphic measurements for the NBA draft. Who has longer arms, hands, legs.

Distance running obviously east africans

Nice misuse of anthropomorphic. You're not as smart as you pretend to be.

critic 100 wrote:

Ever heard of genetics?

How are white American males different from white Europeans?