whoever posts last in this thread is a dick

[TheReal_ND]

I mean it would be cool if each nation was represented by their people I guess. Seems like the original intent.

[StCapps]

Fuck it, let's start again. If you don't want to enjoy the Olympics more fool you. Those of us who do this is a place to discuss the sports.

Olympics are gay af fam. Don't really care about them.

Hockey sucks though. Bunch of grown men on skates. That's the only way Canadians ever fight is when they are wearing skates.

O Really?

[TheReal_ND]

He's about as Canadian as your gay as fuck Hockey shit. The fuck out of here. Btw Hockey was invented by Americans.

[TheReal_ND]

Also MMA is fucking weak any way. Nobody cares about your man child sports.

[StCapps]

He's about as Canadian as your gay as fuck Hockey shit. The fuck out of here. Btw Hockey was invented by Americans.

Lies, on both counts.

[StCapps]

Also MMA is fucking weak any way. Nobody cares about your man child sports.

MMA is the shit, there are too many fight cards these days, but I profit off of that, so works for me. Thank god it's not in Olympics, if it was it would be terrible.

[Montegriffo]

One could hear Canada's collective identity cracking this week when news broke that researchers had solid evidence that ice hockey, the country's national sport and favourite pastime, was in fact not made in Canada.


According to a forthcoming book co-written by Canadian historian Jean-Patrice Martel, extensive references to hockey in Britain led he and his fellow authors to conclude that the game was first played in the UK. To make matters even more bizarre, much of their evidence comes from the letters of Charles Darwin, in particular one that dates from 1853, in which he describes putting on skates to play "hocky" on an icy pond.

If people in other countries found out their national sport had been invented elsewhere, they might be able to simply shrug it off. But consider how fragile the Canadian identity is. We have what could be called a colonisation complex, given that in our initial form we were a British colony, and we are now, for all intents and purposes, an American one.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... a-identity

[TheReal_ND]

Also MMA is fucking weak any way. Nobody cares about your man child sports.

MMA is the shit, there are too many fight cards these days, but I profit off of that, so works for me. Thank god it's not in Olympics, if it was it would be terrible.

It's just as stupid as your hockey crap. WAHHH someone sticked me i better make a show of throwing my gloves off and doing absolutely nothing about it or my fans might chimp out!

Fuck out of here man-baby

[StCapps]

Also MMA is fucking weak any way. Nobody cares about your man child sports.

MMA is the shit, there are too many fight cards these days, but I profit off of that, so works for me. Thank god it's not in Olympics, if it was it would be terrible.

It's just as stupid as your hockey crap. WAHHH someone sticked me i better make a show of throwing my gloves off and doing absolutely nothing about it or my fans might chimp out!

Fuck out of here man-baby

Hating on good sports, you're missing out bro, football isn't the only good sport, you got to broaden your horizons.

[Montegriffo]

http://torontosun.com/2014/05/24/hockey ... 74b63c0f38

The mother country that gave Canada warm beer, Coronation Street and Benedict Cumberbatch, can now lay claim to originating and exporting our cool national sport.

Yes, there’s some new, compelling and no doubt controversial evidence that hockey came from over ‘ome and was played, with basic rules, much earlier than 1875 in Montreal, generally accepted as the first official match.

Before you dismiss it all as hum-buggery (how many English players have won the Hart Trophy, anyway?), check the extensive work put in by a trio of hockey historians in Sweden and Canada. They will present their findings Saturday at the annual meeting of the Society for International Hockey Research in Penetanguishene, Ont.

Swedish medical doctor Carl Giden, countryman and sportswriter Patrick Houda and Montreal computer analyst Jean- Patrice Martel, 53, are putting their research on the table, ahead of a new book on the subject.

"So many people have such strong view that hockey’s birthplace is Canada," said Martel, who heads up SIHR’s Montreal chapter. "But my Swedish colleagues have kept looking the past 20 years and were always finding conflicting information. So they kept going. A couple of people had pointed them to the British origins, a totally different direction. But then they started to find hundreds of references. And a lot of the British ice hockey clubs had old books about where their teams had started. It was fascinating."

Gilden and Houda not only found the sport had flourished as far back as the 17th or 18th centuries, but that it was commonly called hockey.

* Letter from Charles Darwin, March 1, 1853, to son William, who had followed his father to Shrewsbury School: "My Dear Old Willy … have you got a pretty good pond to skate on? I used to be very fond of playing at Hocky on the ice in skates."

The trio’s new book will be called On The Origins Of Hockey, after Darwin’s ‘On The Origin Of Species.

* Penny Illustrated, Jan. 8, 1864: The Prince of Wales, future King Edward VII, was sketched playing hockey at Windsor. He wears a ribbon, which is how teams were distinguished.

* Of the seven most noted references to hockey in Canada in the 1800s, Martel noted six came from those of English background.

* In addition, there were letters from one of doomed Arctic explorer John Franklin’s early voyages about his men killing time playing hockey on skates.

"If there was a tipping point in the research, it was when they found a copy of Boys Own Book from 1829, describing various activities and mentioning hockey," Martel said.

"I know a lot of critics have said ‘it’s not really hockey unless you can prove there were rules’, so I had been nagging Carl and Patrick about that. But there were eight rules for hockey printed around the late 1860s.They were really field hockey rules that had been changed and some had been removed entirely, but they had adapted them. One of the notations was ‘with good skatand ers, this is a great game.’ " The kerfuffle about rules