Friday Fives

1. What’s your favorite sport (to watch or participate in)? How often do you have a ritual you participate in as you play it/watch it?
I watch a few sports on television but I am not would you would describe as a sports fan. Back in the day (last year) I watched hockey a lot. I usually watch the Bronco game each week during football season. With the dearth of hockey, I am looking for something to focus my interest – maybe baseball. Maybe tennis. Maybe curling.

2. Do you feel that your favorite sport has a lot of negative influences on yourself or others?
Hockey has a lot of aggression and violence. I suppose in a super-protective parent land, that can be a negative influence. But hockey wouldn’t be hockey with out a nice brawl by the boards and some blood spilled on the ice. Take away all of that and its simple team ice dancing and how gay is that?

3. As a kid, did you have a sport/athlete idol?
I followed the Olympics one summer as a kid and developed a hero like admiration for Bruce Jenner. He was so cool at the time. He is pretty lame know, but when I was 9 or 10, he was the shit.

4. Which “extreme” sport would you like to try (or would have already tried) if you weren’t afraid of doing it?
Shark week on Discovery just wrapped up. Swimming with the sharks would be cool, but I will save that for my sister. When I hear the term Extreme Sports, I think of speed and snow so I guess some kind of deep powder, back country, avalanche prone downhill danger skiing would be in order.

5. Are you caught up in “March Madness” (i.e., the NCAA basketball tournament)? Are you a basketball fan? Who will win
I have caught a few games so far and I must admit, college basketball is much more exciting than pro ball. Less thugs, less ego and instead replaced with a real love of the game. I don’t have a clue who will win but will still probably settle in and watch a game or two over the next few weekends.

7 Replies to “Friday Fives”

  1. 1. My favorite sport to watch is definitely hockey. The pace. The chaos. The technical skill required. I don’t really have any “hockey watching rituals,” however. Unless drinking vast quantities of beer counts as a ritual. But I don’t think it does.

    2. It has had no negative effect on me. However, it turns my friend Chris Reid into a drooling sociopath. So I guess it does have *some* negative effect.

    3. ummm. no. I did admire Willie Shoemaker (the jockey), but I didn’t really think of him an athlete–nor an idol.

    4. If only my employment contract didn’t preclude it, I’d be the gnarliest BASE jumper in a five-state region.

    5. As much as I pretended that I’m not caught up in March Madness, I’m now caught up in it. I love the scrappy fortitude of West Virginia. The Lousville story is a good one. And I’ve always liked Duke. However, Illinois will be tough to stop.

  2. 1. Hockey, but since there is no hockey, I’d have to say my new favorite sport to watch is Reid swearing at his Playstation game.

    2. (see the Rev’s comment)

    3. Only if the Bionic Woman counts.

    4. Luging! Just because of the word ‘luge’, not because I *really* want to go downhill in an ice trench at 100 mph.

    5. No, too late to get caught up now AND I missed the office pool. Rats. Years ago, I actually won $400 from a March Madness pool at Hoffbrau.

  3. 1. i watch a lot of sports. i am obsessed with sports. hockey (avs), football(broncos, eagles), baseball (CUBS), basketball(nugs). my “ritual” is very similar to Ed’s…drink as much beer as possible before the final buzzer sounds.
    2. um…”yes”. i’ve been known to engage in fisticuffs over sports. i’ll leave it at that.
    3. michael jordan.
    4. i always wanted to try Motocross. snowboarding is considered an “extreme” sport…but i dont get quite as “extreme” as i used to…i now fear things like “severe head trauma” and “blown-out knees”.
    5. i’m a casual observer of college basketball…i may catch 2 or 3 games. but how ’bout them Nuggets? 20-5 since Coach Karl took over.

  4. 1. I would have to say I am torn between swimming (duh) and killing for sport (duh). Although, I have had to go to a lot of bowling tournaments in order to procure a trophy or two.

    2. Swimming is very positive. It’s a sport that you can do at any age. The killing can be negative (depending on the personality of the victim). Come on you all have someone you want me to “take care of.”

    3. Mark Spitz and even though he is a fictional character Hannibal Lecter.

    4. I really would like to swim with the sharks (see Roy’s post), but every few months I do do something extreme it involves stalking and a bowling trophy.

    5. Only that in my main “hobby” I can effect the point spread on some very lucrative games.

  5. 1) What’s your favorite sport (to watch or participate in)? How often
    do you have a ritual you participate in as you play it/watch it? sorry NO sports for Thom (well sex…..)
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    2) Do you feel that your favorite sport has a lot of negative
    > influences on yourself or others? Negative sex?
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    3) As a kid, did you have a sport/athlete idol? Does batman count?

    > 4) Which “extreme” sport would you like to try (or would have already
    > tried) if you weren’t afraid of doing it? Jumping out of a plane, with or without a parachute
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    > 5) Are you caught up in “March Madness” (i.e., the NCAA basketball
    > tournament)? Are you a basketball fan? Who will win? Ugh

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