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I was truly embarrassed for my Hoosiers yesterday. Then I saw the Notre Dame game (14-66) and felt a bit better.
https://i.postimg.cc/s2zV7Qt6/iu.png
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I remember back in the late 80s when "Spirit Rebel" Kyle Griffith said that sports were the latest way, since the decline of religion, for the dead to syphon energy from the living, and that it would just get bigger and bigger. It has gotten bigger and bigger, so maybe he was right.
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I doubt any American football player could compare to this man, the most astonishingly powerful rugby player the game has ever produced. :sun:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-FkJ1Wp9iko
And this time for baseball fans: :P
Here's the legendary West Indian Sir Garry Sobers, one of the greatest cricketers the game has known, hitting 6 sixes in succession back in 1968. The feat has been repeated a tiny handful of times in the 50 years since, but this was the first time it'd ever been done.
An explanation of what a 'six' is: it's when the ball is hit to clear the whole outfield without bouncing. So what you see here is pretty much the equivalent of a batter hitting six home runs in consecutive pitches.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=iydq3JyUOrU
Colts won!!! 19-17 over the Titans. Adam V. couldn't kick an extra point to save his life, but they were still able to hold on with a risky gamble of a fourth down play. What-a-game!
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Utterly “in the zone,” which was then so rudely disrupted by a call over his headset..Quote:
Posted by Bluegreen
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Ok NOW I'm starting to doubt your judgement! :ROFL:Quote:
Posted by Bill Ryan
So I follow the Jacksonville Jaguars. We suck, which sucks. We can't get a break. At the very start of this season our quarterback got injured and now he's out for the rest of the season.
What sports did you folks play? I wasn't a hardcore sports guy but for 1 year each I played soccer (mid), then football (strong safety) and then wrestled. I'm glad I did it when I did, it was a great experience.
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LOL
If the Browns only had a line.
:facepalm:
I've been in anguish for DECADES!
Jeesh!!!
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Vroom, vroom....
GT40, what a car!
I'm not too much on round-d-rounds, but I love me some road racing.
I think this belongs here. Sport doesn't have to be competitive. :)
Alex Honnold's extraordinary solo (meaning: no ropes or safety equipment of any kind) ascent of the 3,600 foot vertical granite wall El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park.
He did it in a touch under 4 hours. The very first time it was ever climbed, back in 1958, it took a roped team of the best climbers in their generation 45 days over a period of 18 months.
The camera team, multiply suspended from ropes not far from him as he climbed, were genuinely concerned they might be filming his death. In the film, one professional climbing cameraman, with his feet safe on the ground in the meadow below, can be seen turning his head away, quite unable to watch.
It's been hailed as the most extraordinary and exceptional athletic feat by any human, in all time.
Perfection or die.
World-class climbers were almost speechless in their reaction. "Unrelatable." "Mind-bending." "So far out in front of conventional reality." "Terrifying." "Incomprehensible."
The documentary, which won a well-deserved Oscar, is kind of hard to sit through: even when you know he was successful.
The film is here:
And this is the two-and-a-half minute trailer... watch if you dare!
- http://avalonlibrary.net/Free_Solo_(2018)_HD.mp4 (4.1 Gb)
- http://avalonlibrary.net/Free_Solo_(2018).mp4 (944 Mb)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=urRVZ4SW7WU
Just one of the images, a terrifying sight for mere mortals: :)
https://i.redd.it/u4nhb4fjiei31.jpg
Agreed, and in the same light:Quote:
Posted by Bill Ryan
Man with no arms or legs climbs Mount Kilimanjaro.
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