@the-gipper said:

I dunno, I think you got your name because you have a male companion named Pancho.

He carries my saddle and works for peanuts. It's a sweet deal.

@the-cysko-kid said:

Weird redcoat loyalists.

@the-cysko-kid said:

I use gay as many do to mean more 'lame' and 'stupid' and less like 'homosexual' and 'kosar for president'

I dunno, I think you got your name because you have a male companion named Pancho.

@the-cysko-kid said:

I'm not the queerditch loving harry potter afficianado.

Don't homophobes have the high rate of actually being closeted homosexuals?

@the-gipper said:

Is that a declaration of your status?

Not that there is anything wrong with that.

There really has been only one person on the board I thought was gay and it's Cysko. The only thing the dude talks about is why things are gay or are not gay.

@the-cysko-kid said:

Gay

Is that a declaration of your status?

Not that there is anything wrong with that.

@the-cysko-kid said:

Stop saying "muggle" were every last one of us on earth "muggles"

Speak for yourself, muggle breath. All the ladies say that I have a magic wand.

@the-cysko-kid said:

Lol, it would be a little less gay if you didn't have to run around with a broom between your legs.

I guess, in Muggle version, the broom also acts as a device that you can swat the bludgers or quaffles or whatever with.

The thing that is "gay" (lame as the term is now used) is the fact that if you "catch the Snitch" the game ends. Well, in this case it took all of 3 minutes of action to catch the snitch.

What is the point of having a game that is 3 minutes long, I mean, it isn't a Mike Tyson boxing match.

@the-gipper said:

Dude, when you get whacked in the face with a Bludger we'll see how much of a pansy you think the game is!

Lol, it would be a little less gay if you didn't have to run around with a broom between your legs.

@the-cysko-kid said:

Now you'd have us all playing queerditch like a bunch of magic Pansies?

Dude, when you get whacked in the face with a Bludger we'll see how much of a pansy you think the game is!

@the-gipper said:

Don't worry about the Cysco Kid. He is still mad about the Brits burning the White House.

He forgets that we already got even at the Battles of Lake Erie and New Orleans.

But, allow me to digress.

What I think we should all really be debating in the sports world is whether or not Football, Soccer, Baseball, Rugby, Basketball etc. etc. are going to be replaced in popularity by Quidditch. Here is a link to the rules of Muggle Quidditch:

http://knology.net/~lionheart/Quidditch/Quidditch.html

Now you'd have us all playing queerditch like a bunch of magic Pansies?

Got no beef with Rugby seems like a great sport

@howiedawg said:

Are you for real? Do you think that the 250,000 current US rugby players are all proud decendants of the original Mayflower posse? Live and let live man.

Bloody hell.

Don't worry about the Cysco Kid. He is still mad about the Brits burning the White House.

He forgets that we already got even at the Battles of Lake Erie and New Orleans.

But, allow me to digress.

What I think we should all really be debating in the sports world is whether or not Football, Soccer, Baseball, Rugby, Basketball etc. etc. are going to be replaced in popularity by Quidditch. Here is a link to the rules of Muggle Quidditch:

http://knology.net/~lionheart/Quidditch/Quidditch.html

@howiedawg said:

Although tempted I did not dive into this one straight away.

I see predjudice against American Football over here in the same way some people on this board are predjudiced against Rugby. The simple fact is - you can compare the sports but to what avail? They are completely different games - if someone said to you I don't like bananas because they don't taste like apples you would rightly think they were an idiot. Both games are excellent to play and watch (although I would rather watch your brand of football)

Regarding the toughness of each sport. Hmmmm. It has been interesting to read so many comments here from football players who have also played rugby and say Rugby is a tougher sport on the body! Martyn Johnson, ex England Rugby captain - won the world cup in 2003 - an avid American football fan - stated that he would no way play American Football as it was so much more brutal than Rugby. I played Rugby for 8 years as a lad and took my far share of knocks and a few breaks but the way you are coached to take a tackle can help you avoid injury. I played American football for 6 months back in 1986 for a team here in the UK and broke 3 fingers, 2 ribs and a colar bone. Maybe I was the worst WR in history but helmets under the ribs, into the hands and getting blindsided without the ball in your hands was a rapid learning curve. I gave upo beacuse I was missing too much studying time due to injury!

So, I think the sensible crew on the board have summed it up right. They are two completely different sports, both for real men and any attempt to call either soft or gay is, well, gay.

Well, I do hear some futbol fans and a few Rugby fans chide Football players for wearing all the protective gear they do, but that is because they don't comprehend the brutality with which the sport is played.

Soccer is like basketball, there is not supposed to be contact, but certainly some occurs in the course of a game.

From what I hear of rugby, the only contact that is supposed to be allowed is the tackling of the player with the ball...and that tackling is only supposed to occur within tightly controlled strictures.

The point of football is all about brutal collisions. There is one guy with the ball, and the other 10 on his side are supposed to disintegrate the players on the other team to allow the guy with the ball to go free. On the other hand, those 11 guys are allowed to brutalize everyone on the offensive side on every play in an effort to brutalize the guy with the ball. Yes, some rules for player safety have been implemented...no face mask grabbing, no horse collar tackling, no chop blocks, no helmet to helmet in certain situations, no head sslaps, but otherwise it is no holds barred in beating all hell out of every player on the other team.

@the-cysko-kid said:

Weird redcoat loyalists.

+1 Cysko, that is some funny shite right there (spelled it like the Brits in your honor).

@the-cysko-kid said:

weird fringe redcoat loyalists

Are you for real? Do you think that the 250,000 current US rugby players are all proud decendants of the original Mayflower posse? Live and let live man.

Bloody hell.

I see predjudice against American Football over here in the same way some people on this board are predjudiced against Rugby. The simple fact is - you can compare the sports but to what avail? They are completely different games - if someone said to you I don't like bananas because they don't taste like apples you would rightly think they were an idiot. Both games are excellent to play and watch (although I would rather watch your brand of football)

Regarding the toughness of each sport. Hmmmm. It has been interesting to read so many comments here from football players who have also played rugby and say Rugby is a tougher sport on the body! Martyn Johnson, ex England Rugby captain - won the world cup in 2003 - an avid American football fan - stated that he would no way play American Football as it was so much more brutal than Rugby. I played Rugby for 8 years as a lad and took my far share of knocks and a few breaks but the way you are coached to take a tackle can help you avoid injury. I played American football for 6 months back in 1986 for a team here in the UK and broke 3 fingers, 2 ribs and a colar bone. Maybe I was the worst WR in history but helmets under the ribs, into the hands and getting blindsided without the ball in your hands was a rapid learning curve. I gave upo beacuse I was missing too much studying time due to injury!

So, I think the sensible crew on the board have summed it up right. They are two completely different sports, both for real men and any attempt to call either soft or gay is, well, gay.

Wasn't that movie with Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman about South Africa winning the Rugby World Cup? Directed by Clint Eastwood? Good movie.