Why don't we just abolish sports?

[Negative]

Originally posted by whizkid2300
No we should not ban sports, First I play sports that is the first reason.

Now *that* is the real reason we should never ever ban sports!

[whizkid2300]

Your right Negative, And let me tell you why.

In the inner city guess what alot of the students do they Play sports.

Guess what if there were no sports guess what they would be doing. Selling Drugs and all types of other things they shouldn't be doing. I can vouch for this because before I started playing and got into them alot that is what I did. Now sports have there problems but the general thing, that you get from them is alot more worth it then to just simply get rid of them.
Now maybe modify them yeah, but no never get rid of.

Mr. Jizzels

BTW WHY?

Give me one reason, that makes sence.

[tammy_hope]

"posted by rcgreen: Everybody knows that athletes are the cause of about 90% of all the rape , murder and other mayhem in America"
Im laughing at the moment....
Thay are not the only ones who do it and i doubt that thay are the mass majority doing it eather. Thay are just the ones that you are going to be hearing about and are mor inclined to remember becos of there status.


Nightfalls_Girl

[rcgreen]

Guess what if there were no sports guess what they would be doing.

Uh, I dunno. Going to school? Getting a job?

[cheyenne1212]

Are you kidding rcgreen?

I use to be from Chicago. These kids would never go get a job. (maybe just a couple, but a very few). Sports is one of there number one pastime. If you drive down the streets you'll see bunches of kids playing basketball, football, baseball. If they did not have sports, then I know for a fact that they would be either in a gang or in the slammer.

I don't live in Chicago now, but trust me, I know enough to know that what I just is true. There is no getting a job for a lot of kids.

[rcgreen]

There is no getting a job for a lot of kids.

Oh, I get it. They refuse to work for a living, so we should
pay them to f**k around, play ball and snort cocaine, rape an
occasional woman...
How do I get in on this gravy train?

[cheyenne1212]

So if you managed to make it onto a team to play sports professionally then your automatically a rapist and a drug user?

Playing sports teaches these kids some discipline. They have to stick together to win the game, so it also teaches them teamwork. Don't you see, that these kids will keep playing sports for a long time there fore keeping them off the streets for a long time.

btw:

Where did you get this crazy idea that 90% of all professional sports players are bad people.
Sure theres a couple out there that are pretty crazy, and scary, but nowhere near 90%.

Just like Nightfalls girl said, There are a lot of people out there that do all of these horrible things, but you just don't hear about it because they're not famous like the sports palyers.

[rcgreen]

Where did you get this crazy idea that 90% of all professional sports players are bad people.

Personal experience. What, you've never been to high school?
Get real!

[FrameWork]

Everybody knows that athletes are the cause of about 90% of all the rape , murder and
other mayhem in America. I say it's time the SOBs got real jobs like the rest of us and
we just outlaw all sorts of ballgames and other nonsense.

Screw that, i can't live without my Titans! ! !

Who knows, perhaps 90% of the folks you knew during highschool were like this, but 90% of all athletes just seems far too broad to me.

Air McNair all the way baby! ! !

[cheyenne1212]

Yeah,

90% seems just a little to broad for me to.

I could understand something like 15% but thats it. I've known some professional football players, and the ones that I knew were real nice people. I know this becaause I was around them for a year or so.