I agree. Other may disagree (they are certainly entitled to their opinion), but I place race car drivers in the same category as bowling, billiards and darts.
What makes someone an athlete?
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Agreed. Case in point...
If that is your defense then you could almost say that many football players are not a athlete. Have you seen Shaun Rogers in his prime?
Football players that size move a lot faster.
They sure do as they run to the buffet line.
...funny, not ONE PERSON posted that to be considered an athlete, you have to play either offense or defense....and any statement that resembles it....
....And yet everyone has been able to state their opinion as to what their perception of an athlete is....without blood or incident....
....And yet everyone has been able to state their opinion as to what their perception of an athlete is....without blood or incident....
Being fat doesn't disqualify someone from being an athlete. Lots of baseball players are fat slobs too.
Never said it did. Was just responding because the example of a over weight person playing golf is not an athlete.
OK....I don't know about "Lots of baseball players"....I highly doubt that of the 700+ major leaguers....I would say less than 1% is fat.
I still am amazed how no one has ever matched the slob-ness of Gilbert Brown who played for the Packers. He was one huge man!
Pilots who fly in competitive aerobatics or circuit airplane races are most definitely athletes too! Once again, physical exertion and competition, hand-eye coordination. Make any definition to the word athlete and see if this fits. If it doesn't I bet I can use the same definition to disqualify "traditional" athletes like football or baseball players.
People who insist that race car drivers aren't working their asses off in those cars are ignorant! (not stupid, ignorant---a specific word chosen carefully for its specific meaning).
Again, make ANY definition to the word "athlete" and race car drivers fit the bill. Try it.
See ya
Tony
Thank You!!! :up
Speaking of golf, misconstruing someone's statement to fit their argument is par for the course for a certain poster...
Sandra
This is sure to get a reaction:
[ame="http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/nascar/cup/news/story?id=4761210"]Jimmie Johnson named AP Male Athlete of the Year - ESPN[/ame]
[ame="http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/nascar/cup/news/story?id=4761210"]Jimmie Johnson named AP Male Athlete of the Year - ESPN[/ame]
The link was ESPN, but the voting was from AP sportswriters.ESPN...would this be the same network that broadcasts the sport of Poker?
Right Cosmo.ESPN...would this be the same network that broadcasts the sport of Poker?
ESPN was reporting the AP Sports Writers' vote. ESPN did not choose the winner.
To be clear, SPORTS WRITERS consider race car drivers athletes!
BTW, the E in ESPN stands for Entertainment.
Agreed. Case in point...
Also, anyone that can bike those passes in the Tour de France at the speeds they do - without doping - is an athlete.
Yep...
So, if size is what is one of the determining factors of being an athlete, I guess some football players will not fit under the definition either?
I agree with Tony's posts... different sports take different skills... is a skateboarder who skates everyday or a a motocross rider who rides several times a week no less or no more athletic than a Boxer who fights every 4 to 6 months, or a skier that competes mainly in the winter?
