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PostPosted: Fri May 05, 2006 6:27 am
by baseball
Tiger Pride wrote:Now we are talking.  We can start a club for each in Steele.  You can be the pit chief and I get to be the captain of the fishing boat. 

That could possibly be the dumbest thing ive ever heard.  And ndfan to answer your question, track does atleast involve some athletic ability.  Fishing is sitting in a boat or standing on shore?

PostPosted: Fri May 05, 2006 6:41 am
by Wild Wolves
I am laughing so hard I can hardly type. 

Dumbest thing you've ever heard (If golfing is just a hobby what is golf.) A hobby?

It was a joke.

The argument is coming down to the difference between competitive recreational activities and athletic competition.  Golfing can fall into both categories.  Fishing only the first.

Auto racing, got me. 

Dance, figure skating, gymnastics, diving and activities of this nature are really the tricky areas.  Because they obviously require athletic ability.  The difference or problem is that to the untrained eye there is no way of telling who the winner is in a competitive sense.


 

PostPosted: Fri May 05, 2006 8:21 pm
by Saucesauer
i dont know if fishing is a sport but i was just voted captain of the steele competitive watch paint dry team thank you everyone for your vote.

PostPosted: Fri May 05, 2006 8:21 pm
by Saucesauer
i dont know if fishing is a sport but i was just voted captain of the steele competitive watch paint dry team thank you everyone for your vote.

PostPosted: Fri May 05, 2006 8:39 pm
by RedWings7
id have to say mandan would easily win state fishing if there was such a thing..ask mandan 50..he could probably make up some names and stats and try to prove to us that mandan is the best at this sport too....some people just dont konw when to quit

PostPosted: Sat May 06, 2006 8:49 am
by syracuse_10
"Well our number 1 fisherman heading into the year is Caleb Haugen. He is about 5'10 150. Can bench 225 lbs. 12 times. Runs the mile in under 5 minutes. Can eat 3 steak dinners in one sitting. Can also hold a fishing pole. He will be one of the top fishermen in the state"

PostPosted: Sat May 06, 2006 11:44 am
by baseball
Some fishers are athletic.  But what im saying is you could be 4'9" 365lbs and barely bench 70 lbs but you can still fish.

PostPosted: Sat May 06, 2006 12:05 pm
by Saucesauer
you can be 300 plus pounds and do most of the feild events in track and feild does that not make it a sport because heavier people can do it

PostPosted: Sat May 06, 2006 12:36 pm
by baseball
baseball wrote:4'9" 365lbs and barely bench 70 lbs but you can still fish.

barely bench 70...that would mean hes not very athletic or strong.  The guys doing the field events in track can bench over 275 on the average?

PostPosted: Wed May 10, 2006 8:35 pm
by NATURAL TALENT
Fishing in no way belongs in High Schools. Great idea but no, it would never happen. Takes skill to be a fisherman just like it takes skill to shoot a jumper or toss a football. The competitiveness in fishing is quite equal to that of your usual "sports," also.  Im on the lake nearly the entire spring/summer/fall and fish on average 6 tournaments a year.(probably less this year with gas at $3/gal:shock:) The adrenaline and nerves when your taking off from the launch in the morning is equal to that of pregame locker room jitters before the big game.

In all, I hardly doubt you'd find enough people to want to get high school fishing teams. That just sounds funny. It would be pretty neat though and I'd probably have to try to enroll in school again!!:)

PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2006 6:11 pm
by #50mandan
I dont understand why you guys drink the HATERADE,  i mean come on, you know how to find me if you really want to

PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2006 6:52 pm
by Saucesauer
#50mandan wrote:I dont understand why you guys drink the HATERADE,  i mean come on, you know how to find me if you really want to

DUDE GIVE UP THE ACT

PostPosted: Mon May 15, 2006 7:36 am
by RedWings7
im with you Saucesauer give it up 50

PostPosted: Tue May 16, 2006 5:10 pm
by jrh22
Fishing isnt a sport.  It's just another reason for men to get away from their wives and drink beer for 4 hours.  So you might as well say drinking is a sport.  If you think fishing is.

PostPosted: Tue May 16, 2006 6:18 pm
by Wild Wolves
Read the thread.  Fishing is a sport.  There is a pro fishing tour.  They make big bucks.  If there wasn't any competition then perhaps.
Golf wouldn't be a sport according to you.

PostPosted: Tue May 16, 2006 7:02 pm
by syracuse_10
I'm guessing he thinks golf is a sport.

PostPosted: Tue May 16, 2006 7:43 pm
by baseball
hand eye cordination. the skill of hitting a ball 300 yards and straight or the skill of puttin a word on a hook n tossing it in water.  whats more of a sport?

PostPosted: Wed May 17, 2006 12:59 am
by point/center
looks like were back to the beginning of this argument again...fishing is a sport.

PostPosted: Wed May 17, 2006 8:16 am
by bballer2
so is golf so dont punish the sport of golf... you woulda just been fine if u woulda said put in fishing but u hadda say golf wasn't a sport.... that was dumb

PostPosted: Wed May 17, 2006 8:19 am
by point/center
what i said, maybe different than what i meant. i meant if fishing is NOT a sport than neither is golf

PostPosted: Wed May 17, 2006 7:08 pm
by #50mandan
I like to fish, its fun

PostPosted: Thu May 18, 2006 5:17 am
by ndplayer
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that neither are sports.  I've seen a 14-year girl (Wie) beat professional men golfers.  I've seen a woman win a fish tourny.

When a little girl can beat the best of the game, then it is no longer a sport.  Golf was a sport until the pros got beat by a 14 year old girl.

PostPosted: Thu May 18, 2006 5:24 am
by point/center
think about what you wrote? might want to delete it if there's ever a girl that could knock down a three and clean your clock on the bb court

ndplayer wrote:I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that neither are sports.  I've seen a 14-year girl (Wie) beat professional men golfers.  I've seen a woman win a fish tourny.

When a little girl can beat the best of the game, then it is no longer a sport.  Golf was a sport until the pros got beat by a 14 year old girl.

PostPosted: Thu May 18, 2006 5:27 am
by NATURAL TALENT
Are you kidding me? Wie is an athlete, not any "little" girl is going to be playing golf at 14 and competing with the best of them.  Get real.  Im not so old and have won a few fishing tourneys already fishing against some touring pro's who fish the local circuits. Age, sex, etc does not determine whats an athlete or whats a sport.

PostPosted: Fri May 19, 2006 5:01 am
by ndplayer
Let's take a look at the definate sports.  Basketball, baseball, football, and hockey are all without a doubt sports.  A 14 year old girl could never play in those leauges.  Sure the pro girls could beat the snot out of me at their sports, but im no professional.  Fact is a 14-yr-old girl should not beat grown men (the best of the best grown men) at their own game.  This is not hatemail towards women.  There are plenty of things 14 year girls are better at then any man.