When did your sport career end …

• Sonofanump

  Now boxing is a quandary, it is a judged athletic event that can be turned into a sport with a KO or TKO.
• OSH

  

  Sonofanump;1525690 wrote:If you shot a deer, what do you tell your friends? "Yo, I shot a 3 point buck! Deer chili for the winter!"

  Well, I would never shoot a 3-point buck.
  
  I don't have to tell them anything. I enjoy the outdoors. I enjoy hunting. There is a thrill in the hunt. And then...yes, I do eat it.
• LJ

  

  Sonofanump;1525690 wrote:If you shot a deer, what do you tell your friends? "Yo, I shot a 3 point buck! Deer chili for the winter!"

  I hunt more for the meat so its usually the hang weight that I tell people. Deer-guts and skin= hang weight
• BR1986FB

  OSH;1525643 wrote:I do it for the sport -- or "recreation" -- whichever one may want to call it.
  
  Professional wrestling has a winner and a loser...isn't that what sport can have too?

  Not a sport. Part of the reason the explanation was changed to "sports entertainment." Everything is predetermined except for once in awhile you'll have some unplanned blood.
• I Wear Pants

  OSH;1525682 wrote:Hunting and fishing are considered "outdoor sports." They aren't competitions.
  
  Last thing I checked, professional wrestling also has competitions...there are belts on the line. There are winners and losers.

  If I make a play where there's a football game in it but it's scripted then the people in the play haven't participated in a sports competition but rather a performance.
  
  And hunting and fishing are sports when they're done competitively, that's not usually the case.
• Classyposter58

  

  If getting ***** is a sport then it's continued on
• Classyposter58

  

  In all seriousness though I still golf avidly and may play on BGSU's club lacrosse team, but they might go too hard lol. 4 nights a week of practice and then games all over the Midwest is a lot for what I thought would be some good fun like a rec league or something
• hasbeen

  

  Classyposter58;1525916 wrote:In all seriousness though I still golf avidly and may play on BGSU's club lacrosse team, but they might go too hard lol. 4 nights a week of practice and then games all over the Midwest is a lot for what I thought would be some good fun like a rec league or something

  It's D1 club, not intramural.
• Big_Mirg_ZHS

  

  Baseball-18 year old summer ball.
  Basketball- Still play on a rec league team when they are short guys every now and again.
  Softball- Same as rec league basketball. When my buddies need a fill in.
  Golf- never played in high school but play in a league every year also play competitive amateur tournaments. Im a 10 handicap.
  Football- sophomore year. Got into drugs in high school. One of my main regrets.
  Also play in pool leagues and tournaments on the local moose lodge team.
• Firad

  

  ernest_t_bass;1524998 wrote:My organized sporting career ended b/c I didn't want to play for a shitty football team (Urbana), and chose cheaper schooling and good times instead (BGSU).

  Same but the shitty football/wrestling teams were Wilmington or Wittenberg and chose the good times school, OU. I made the right choice.
• fan_from_texas

  My organized sports career ended when I finished high school. I played intramurals in college and rec league stuff now, but I don't think that really counts.
• ohiobucks1

  

  Firad;1528249 wrote:Same but the shitty football/wrestling teams were Wilmington or Wittenberg and chose the good times school, OU. I made the right choice.

  
  Bite your tongue, we are the winningest D3 program of all time!
• O-Trap

  

  When I was 21. Got a chance to pitch in college, but during my third year, my arm died.
• I Wear Pants

  O-Trap;1530032 wrote:When I was 21. Got a chance to pitch in college, but during my third year, my arm died.

  Did you bury it?
• O-Trap

  

  I Wear Pants;1530033 wrote:Did you bury it?

  In ice, yes. Then I used it to drink a beer.
• BRF

  

  O-Trap: I was going to give you a rep but I can't.........impressive that you pitched at college.
  
  My only claim to college fame is being on the varsity tennis team at Wooster College but never playing in a match. I was the "first substitute". Quit my sophomore year when they brought in a bunch of east coast preppies that were better than me.
  
  I mentioned before that I tore my achilles (right side) at 40. I would add that my Dr. told me that if I were to continue playing like I did after it healed, my other one could easily go. I decided right then and there to cool it because that was a pretty bad deal to get through. Partial tear, no surgery, tipped cast for 6 weeks (meaning you can't walk on it), cam-boot for another month, and took a full year for the tendon to grow back to normal size.
  
  Today, I like to power walk........and golf, shoot guns and throw the tomahawk with Belly!
• I Wear Pants

  Ouch, tearing an Achilles is something I never want to do. Makes me cringe a bit thinking about it.
• BRF

  

  I Wear Pants;1530061 wrote:Ouch, tearing an Achilles is something I never want to do. Makes me cringe a bit thinking about it.

  One more thing for you young guys............stretch out before your activity.
• O-Trap

  

  BRF;1530059 wrote:O-Trap: I was going to give you a rep but I can't.........impressive that you pitched at college.
  
  My only claim to college fame is being on the varsity tennis team at Wooster College but never playing in a match. I was the "first substitute". Quit my sophomore year when they brought in a bunch of east coast preppies that were better than me.
  
  I mentioned before that I tore my achilles (right side) at 40. I would add that my Dr. told me that if I were to continue playing like I did after it healed, my other one could easily go. I decided right then and there to cool it because that was a pretty bad deal to get through. Partial tear, no surgery, tipped cast for 6 weeks (meaning you can't walk on it), cam-boot for another month, and took a full year for the tendon to grow back to normal size.
  
  Today, I like to power walk........and golf, shoot guns and throw the tomahawk with Belly!

  Thank!
  
  And tearing your Achilles sounds horrible! I echo IWP's sentiment. Sends chills up my spine.