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• Miraak

  

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  June 10, 2014 5:37 AM EDT

  With my favorite sport just around the corner I thought I'd ask what kind of sports people here on the Blog play, and what your favorite sport of all time basically. I'll start off...

  I enjoy playing American Football, I say it like that because the Blog is multinational, and I dislike Soccer/Football because it's just not very popular where I come from.

  My favorite sport to watch being played is hockey, those guys are the manliest manly men around. Nuff said.

  So, what kind of sports do you guys enjoy to watch/play? Share in the comments below.

• Vazgen

  

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  June 10, 2014 5:47 AM EDT

  Football (the one that is played with feet)  I enjoy both playing and watching it! I like to watch some other sports too, like biathlon and Russian women curling (because...) 

• Miraak

  

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  June 10, 2014 5:54 AM EDT

  I think I could get into that curling thing too... 

• Golden Fool

  

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  June 10, 2014 6:02 AM EDT

  Tennis, i can't stand watching it (or any other sport), but playing it that i can do.

  Although Vazgen may have convinced me to start watching curling.

• Shimazu

  

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  June 10, 2014 6:15 AM EDT

  Is there anyway I can participate in russian womens curling ?
• Vazgen

  

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  June 10, 2014 6:23 AM EDT

  You can enjoy watching it 

• Shimazu

  

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  June 10, 2014 6:25 AM EDT

  Football ! Football is massive where I'm from (Manchester).
  
  I fight in both muay thai and MMA, so those are special to me as well.
• Shimazu

  

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  June 10, 2014 6:27 AM EDT

  I think I might start attending
• Miraak

  

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  June 10, 2014 6:31 AM EDT

  Lol I picked a bad time to post this, all the Soccer guys are on :P

• Shimazu

  

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  June 10, 2014 6:36 AM EDT

  Fun fact, soccer is an english term. After the rugby football and association football (soccer) split, players started shortening it to asoccer, then over time, soccer. It used to wind me up thinking that americans had plucked a word out of thin air to call our sport, but now I know the roots it can be forgiven ;) it shows that ignorance makes a difference.
• Miraak

  

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  June 10, 2014 6:38 AM EDT

  But America hate Britain so we change every word evar :P

• Shimazu

  

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  June 10, 2014 6:51 AM EDT

  Or even just change letters for no reason haha !
• Luca Blight

  

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  June 10, 2014 7:35 AM EDT

  Badminton. Though I hardly play it anymore after my leg injury.

• Alduin

  

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  June 10, 2014 8:36 AM EDT

  Football. The real one.

• Miraak

  

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  June 10, 2014 10:20 AM EDT

  A guy literally died on the bench in a hockey game and asked to be put back in afterward.

• Miraak

  

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  June 10, 2014 10:21 AM EDT

  Football. The foreign one. 

• Miraak

  

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  June 10, 2014 10:50 AM EDT

  Bloody faces are an everyday thing in hockey though, you ever had your face, guarded or not smashed into sharp rock-hard ice? I'll settle on them both being hardcore sports, but I will never be convinced that hockey isn't manly until I see a player die twice and want to play again! :P

• Miraak

  

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  June 10, 2014 11:00 AM EDT

  I've never seen a Hurling game, only that picture and that vid, I'll say it's manly, but nothing beats hockey.

  BTW, did some research on Hockey and found that it's related to Hurling! It's like Viking Hurling or something, I didn't really pay attention to anything else, I just saw Viking and automatically was like "This is instantly ten times more badass!"

• Matt Walker

  

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  June 10, 2014 11:17 AM EDT

  Football. The violent one.

• Bryn

  

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  June 10, 2014 11:26 AM EDT

  So both?

• Iseme

  

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  June 10, 2014 11:44 AM EDT

  I enjoy playing football (not rugby), basketball, badminton and hockey ( not the ice one). I love watching people swim (can't swim though).
• Matt Feeney the New Guy

  

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  June 10, 2014 11:49 AM EDT

  I don't enjoy watching any sport. I do, however, kind of enjoy of soccer if I'm playing against people who are around my skill level. Dodgeball is always fun except I suck at throwing. And I'm a semi-kinda-alright long distance runner.
• Ticklefeather

  

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  June 10, 2014 11:55 AM EDT

  I played basketball in high school but don't enjoying watching televised games. More fun to play than watch. 

  On a side note, I just learned there is a professional basketball team here in Berlin! 

• Wally

  

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  June 10, 2014 12:44 PM EDT

  Football (soccer), I play everyday Sunday and also play 5/7 a-side throughout the week. I'll also watch any game if it's on tele, I plan on watching all the world cup games if my work allows (which I'm certain it will). :D
• Borommakot

  

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  June 10, 2014 12:52 PM EDT

  I'm lanky and awkward, so I don't go in for sports much. I usually enjoy myself when I play basketball, baseball or raquetball, though. I can enjoy watching sports if it's with the right crowd. I'd prefer to be at a live event, though. Televised really doesn't do much for me.