BOB COSTAS RIPS POKER!!!!

Smoothcall · #1 08-16-2005, 03:34 PM

Did anyone see Costas Now this week? At the end of the show he does a commentary on poker. He portrays poker players as degenerate, pasty faced, overweight losers. And shouldn't call poker a sport.

I got a question for Bob. Why does he glorify professional athletes in the football, baseball, basketball, etc.. and say what they do is a sport and deserve praise. And think a poker professional are degenerate losers that deserve to be looked down upon? Because a human can be born and abnormal size and put a ball in a hoop or over a wall(probably with the help of steroids) are the people he feels he and the nation should praise. But a poker player who uses his brain to make decisions to win the event should looked down upon?

I guess poker players should apologize for being intelligent and using there brains. And start taking steroids and use braun(like cavemen) to win Bob over!

Btw his commentary is exactly how the public that knows nothing about poker has seen it for years. Just as we start turning the corner we get dopes like Costas bashing it. You would think someone in his position would want to know somehitng about poker before making a commentary bashing it.

Boris · #2 08-16-2005, 04:19 PM

The point that poker is not a sport is valid. So is the point about poker being full of over weight, pasty faced white guys.

JayLear · #3 08-16-2005, 04:24 PM

Regarding that, what is with the need to have an event validated by having it referred to as a sport? I happened to be watching ESPN at one point and came the hot dog eating contest. I couldn't help laughing hysterically as the commentator referred to the event as a sport and insisted upon calling the contestants "finely tuned athletes". Poker players, chess players and competetive eaters are certainly not athletes.

drewjustdrew · #4 08-16-2005, 04:27 PM

Costas is overrated. He once bashed football as being too violent, now he will be working with NBC on the NFL. I give him no credibility even though I know that is not the general consensus..

TimTimSalabim · #5 08-16-2005, 04:50 PM

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The point that poker is not a sport is valid. So is the point about poker being full of over weight, pasty faced white guys.

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So, bowling and golf aren't sports either?

JayLear · #6 08-16-2005, 04:53 PM

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The point that poker is not a sport is valid. So is the point about poker being full of over weight, pasty faced white guys.

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So, bowling and golf aren't sports either?

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Both are on the fringe.

IronDragon1 · #7 08-16-2005, 06:32 PM

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The point that poker is not a sport is valid. So is the point about poker being full of over weight, pasty faced white guys.

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So, bowling and golf aren't sports either?

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To me they aren't

Quicksilvre · #8 08-16-2005, 07:01 PM

He said that poker is not a sport. He is right.

SomethingClever · #9 08-16-2005, 07:04 PM

Poker isn't a damn sport.

However, the state of professional athletics isn't something I'd be overly bragging about, Bob.

Boris · #10 08-16-2005, 07:53 PM

Bowling and golf both require a certain amount of athleticism and repetitive physical training.