tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post9173664618240567559..comments2024-03-28T12:29:39.157-07:00Comments on Graphic Firing Table: Touch 'em allFDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-11714198611717624522008-05-14T10:37:00.000-07:002008-05-14T10:37:00.000-07:00Stephen, for heaven's sakes...That was my point wi...Stephen, for heaven's sakes...<BR/><BR/>That was my point with this post. Sports are just that - sports. Entertainment, diversion, exercise, an outlet for our striving for physical greatness. There are times when they present us with the opportunity to do more than "win" - they present us with the opportunity to defeat ourselves and become greater as a person.<BR/><BR/>Musashi said that the greatest victory a duelist could win was to conquer without fighting; to conquer his (or her) own doubts, fears and weaknesses.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, you're right about Colbert; I've heard this from other places. Which just reinforces my conviction that sports, like politics, is the ultimate mirror. You come to it an asshole, you get more asshole out of it.<BR/><BR/>Snarglies. Hurts just to say the word...FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-73915767071344127072008-05-14T10:00:00.000-07:002008-05-14T10:00:00.000-07:00By the way, Stephen Colbert "opined" in his own sp...By the way, Stephen Colbert "opined" in his own special way that this story is the ultimate sign that women shouldn't be allowed to play competitive sports. Men would have seen their opponent writhing in pain and piled on with a few swift kicks to the snarglies. (Snarglies is my word, not Colbert's.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com