Cheerleading not a sport

[Ksandra]

I don't know what kind of football you're watching, but I can't remember ever having seen a cheerleader get hurt at a game and I've seen puh-lenty of football players get hurt.

holy whoosh batman

[Tyche]

Actually it takes more physical fitness and is much more dangerous than the sports they're cheering. Can YOU find a bunch of basketball/americanhandegg players that are willing to be vaulted 20+ feet in the air to do backflips without any protective gear to be caught by some skinny white bitch?

Yes. Clearly that's the case. In fact, in every football game I've watched, more cheerleaders got hurt than football players. Football players should just stop being such big surly pansies.

I don't know what kind of football you're watching, but I can't remember ever having seen a cheerleader get hurt at a game and I've seen puh-lenty of football players get hurt.

God damn it.

ohmy

[BerenTebogo]

Best response was the first response.

[bigrougabagel]

As much as I would like to throw out the next dud of a joke. I think a more serious approach is necessary. No, it is not a sport, nor will it ever be. Any sport that is scored subjectively is utter bullshit. And yes, all sport have some level of subjectivity, be it with an umpires call, or not call, but in the end of the game, one team scored more than the other through an objective scoring mechanism. Football players dont get more points for their celebration after a touchdown, in fact they get fined.

So until you can find a way to scored cheer leading with an effective objective system, it will not be a sport. I also don't consider golf or baseball a sport, mostly because they require little to no physical exertion. If you can play the game with a dip in while holding a beer and have to sprint a couple times per game, or at all, then it is not a sport, it is a game.

[isladar]

So until you can find a way to scored cheer leading with an effective objective system, it will not be a sport.

Perhaps you've not heard of "cup size".

[bigrougabagel]

Perhaps you've not heard of "cup size".

If that's the case, can they stop telling me to be aggressive and start removing their clothing, you know the ones who are 18?

[Penthesilea]

So until you can find a way to scored cheer leading with an effective objective system, it will not be a sport. I also don't consider golf or baseball a sport, mostly because they require little to no physical exertion. If you can play the game with a dip in while holding a beer and have to sprint a couple times per game, or at all, then it is not a sport, it is a game.

I don't want to but, holy shit you're retarded. I guess seeing those pitchers throw 95+ miles per hour or players that crush those said pitches isn't physical exertion?

[BerenTebogo]

Really makes me wonder how many people realize the impact that the word "sport" carries with it. Most of the comparisons being made are subjective opinions based on levels of physical activity or whatnot, whereas the real effect is that any "sport" requires physical trainers who are certified in, you know, health and safety, as well as regulations regarding the minimum acceptable level of safety equipment required for the event.

Honestly, Penn & Teller did a really good job of doing an objective look at the controversy. You have tens of thousands of girls breaking bones, tearing muscles and ligaments, and in some cases ending up paralyzed for life as a result of accidents in cheerleading every year and yet in many cases the coaches and "health" personnel aren't certified in any actual health and safety protocol whatsoever. It's pretty fucking dangerous.

I, for one, am tired of seeing our hot, flexible, young female athletes breaking legs, injuring their knees, etc, and ending up as fat, bitter, has-beens by the age of 25. Help support hot chicks, help keep them able to exercise and do splits. Don't restrict these lovely, flexible, sexy young girls to couches eating ice cream in spite as they watch Ugly Betty reruns with a cast on their leg.

It's the American way.

[Tyche]

Baseball isn't a sport. For it to be a sport, it needs to be the slightest bit entertaining. Even cheerleading is at least that...

[bigrougabagel]

I don't want to but, holy shit you're retarded. I guess seeing those pitchers throw 95+ miles per hour or players that crush those said pitches isn't physical exertion?

No its not. Any game you can play where you don't even break a sweat isn't a sport. Sure they are physical freaks that can manage to propel a ball at awesome speeds. In that case, they should be in a carny side show. Let's send the Yankees down to the fair grounds and get a few barkers for 'em.

[Correction]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfZs_5fM1Y4#t=4m05s

the MSNBC article seems thin on detail but the issue doesn't appear to be one of athleticism but organization. And the whole thing started with the cancellation of a volleyball program, saying an expanded cheerleading squad would be an acceptable substitute for the girls who couldn't play volleyball.

[quannum]

cheerleading is just a type of gymnastics, gymnastics aren't sports.

[BerenTebogo]

No its not. Any game you can play where you don't even break a sweat isn't a sport. Sure they are physical freaks that can manage to propel a ball at awesome speeds. In that case, they should be in a carny side show. Let's send the Yankees down to the fair grounds and get a few barkers for 'em.

The quest of one man to tear down thousands of years of precedent under the weight of only his unsupported, nonsensical opinion.

Coming to a theater near you this summer:

bigrougabagel stars in The fallacy of presumption.

It'll rock your world.

[Not not Mattaru]

No its not. Any game you can play where you don't even break a sweat isn't a sport.

Masturbating on a hot summer day is inching up as a sport here, and yes you can measure it objectively.

[bigrougabagel]

The quest of one man to tear down thousands of years of precedent under the weight of only his unsupported, nonsensical opinion.

Coming to a theater near you this summer:

bigrougabagel stars in The fallacy of presumption.

It'll rock your world.

So precedent is the only viable argument?

[BerenTebogo]

So precedent is the only viable argument?

I'm missing the point where you actually have an argument and aren't just throwing your opinion around.

Wait...no I'm not. You ARE just throwing your opinion around. Silly me, thinking you may have some legitimacy to your posts.

[Not not Mattaru]

It's totally ok to give hierarchy to preferences because one is mine.

[Ksandra]

No its not. Any game you can play where you don't even break a sweat isn't a sport.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ssional_sports

auto racing
bowling
billiard
golf

are considered professional sports. So ya you're definition is pretty retarded.

[Moss]

Except that you "break a sweat" in all of those sports, maybe save billiards.

[Ksandra]

Except that you "break a sweat" in all of those sports, maybe save billiards.

you'd break the same amount of sweat in competitive cheerleading too.