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2nd Team All-American
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![]() Another point is that many other questionable activities that are generally accepted as sports (gymnastics, diving, NASCAR) have huuuuge histories and have over gone many changes.. Competitive cheerleading is basically in an infant stage. It needs time to work out kinks. Will it ever get to that point? Maybe, maybe not. But it could definitely benefit from time to work itself out.
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Banned
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![]() NASCAR is a sport, but so is curling, both are dull to watch.
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Been caught moddin'
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So: Gymnastics is not a sport but Billiards is? Snowboarding Half-pipe is not a sport but darts is? Boxing is not a sport but bowling is? Cheerleading is not a sport but chess is? Freestyle Moto-cross inst a sport but NASCAR is?
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#44 |
Fear The Thumb, Clemson
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#45 |
Heisman Winner
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![]() They're making a left turn!!!!
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BIGGER. STRONGER.LONGER
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Darts is tuff. those guys that are good are able to stick three darts in about a 1inch by 1/2 area. You think it isnt hard go practice for 3 months and you still wont be close to doing that. Crazy hand eye coordination. also yea, Sport and Competition are different things. nothing wrong with it. Chess isnt a sport either, its a game. |
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BIGGER. STRONGER.LONGER
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1st Team All-American
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Cheerleading is also über dangerous. Next time you watch a routine pay attention to the flier. If she is dropped or falls wrong she can be hurt or even killed and she has nothing to protect her but a hairbow and a skirt. The same thing can be said of the bases, if the flier falls on them (even though she is tiny) it could mean disaster. Just look at all the knee and ankle braces on them next chance you get. They are every bit as banged up as football players. Incedentally I have a baby girl due in may, and you guessed it she's going to take cheer.
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Been caught moddin'
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![]() I guess this isn't a sport either
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#52 | |
1st Team All-American
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I'm very familiar with cheer, seeing as my wife coaches it, and I have no problem saying it isn't a sport. Is it tough, athletically demanding? Yes. Does that make it a sport? No. |
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#53 |
1st Team All-American
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![]() Again, no the fighters had a chance to decide the winner prior to the judges scoring the fight. This continuously incorrect use of a counterpoint would be like saying college football isn't a sport because their is a ranking system. The fighters beat the hell out of each other with a chance to directly determine the winner. Then, for safety, there is a time period that ends it and there is a panel that chooses A or B won. Cheer has no point where someone can win without being selected by a subjective set of rules and panel of judges.
If boxing started subtracting points for not smiling or techniques of how you threw your punches than it would be more comparable to cheer and these other judges competitions. Literally smiling or not yelling loud enough can be deamed by a judge as a deduction while others don't judge that way. The same routine performed exactly the same can get a 30 point swing depending on who is judging it. That isn't how a sport works. |
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#54 |
Been caught moddin'
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![]() I personally don't care if people consider cheer leading a sport or not.
I just think the assumption that if something is judged then it is not a sort is ludicrous.
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#55 |
Gamecock gamer!
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![]() Absolutely correct!
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Cunning Linquist
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![]() It could be a sport if the women were nekkid and oiled up.
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#57 |
1st Team All-American
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![]() Just as I think the thought that a judge only decided competition to be considered a sport is ludicrous.
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#58 |
Bowl MVP
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#59 |
2nd Team All-American
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#60 |
BIGGER. STRONGER.LONGER
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![]() my point is, a judge makes something a competition, you are competing to win favor in the judges eyes, sport is head to head the match that is decided between the two parties. doesnt really matter in the scope of things, nor does it make people athletes or not. I see where you come from, i hope you see where I and a few others come from, and we just gotta agree to disagree. :)
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