5 Sports That Need To Be Retired

1. Boxing - Remember when boxing was relevant? I do. I remember when names like Ali, Foreman, Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran, Tyson and Holifield were household names. But something changed. Name me the current champs of three weight classes. If you can do so without looking it up, you're in the minority. Without the names, boxing is just two guys beating each other's brains out. Time to end it.

2. Horse Racing - Perhaps the dumbest thing I've read in a long time was printed today after the Kentucky Derby winner, Barbaro, had to be put down after months of medical treatment for a broken leg. The article said Barbaro "was a champion till the end." No, Barbaro was a horse. All things being equal, he would have rather lived in a field somewhere, eating grass and enjoying being a horse. I'm sure he never thought, "gee, I'd like to have someone whip me so I'll run until my leg snaps."

3. Greyhound Racing - Pretty much the same as above.

4. NHL Hockey - Nobody cares. Well, at least not South of Canada. Please.... stop telling me that there are four major sports in the U.S. There are three: football, baseball and basketball.

5. Televised Poker - Okay. Its not really a sport. So why is it on ESPN (and, yes, I know the "E" stands for entertainment, but its not entertaining). To me, watching a bunch of people play cards is about as exciting as watching grass grow (I'll bet $50 on the blade on the left!).

Don't forget competitve eating. Seriously.

Watching people eat all they can before time runs out, until they are ready to blow technicolor chuunks is disgusting

Golf should be banned from television.

The sports that should be banned are:

Cricket - who names a sport after a freaking insect??? Besides, I don't even know what it is so it cannot be important, right?

Wife-carrying - There is a competition for this sport every year. In fact, I know a guy that was the state champion here in Oklahoma. Change it to Keg Carrying and then you have a sport.

Cooking competitions - who freaking cares?

Belly Bucking - this one may be dead. If it isn't, it should be.

Discus Throwing - what is the point? Tossing the javelin, now that's useful.

Tennis
Soccer
Cow chip tossing
WWWhatever wrestling
Boxing
Extreme dodgeball
any animal racing
polo
equestrian whatever it is


I could go on all day, but I won't.

Dare I say auto racing???

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Originally Posted by MOM

Tennis
Soccer
Cow chip tossing
WWWhatever wrestling
Boxing
Extreme dodgeball
any animal racing
polo
equestrian whatever it is


I could go on all day, but I won't.

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Have to disagree on the soccer count,Football as we Brits call it is a fast,truly skilled sport that attracts millions of fans the world over,surely that many people can't be wrong..:l