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Originally Posted by MattyC
So is whacking at a disk with a twig while balancing on ice. So is killing each other for possession of a ball. So is seeing who can hit a thrown ball the furthest and running around some arbitrary base placements. So is trying to get a ball in a hole hundreds of yards away with a goofy club.
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Except its infinitely more entertaining to watch real life athletic competition than it is to watch some guy use a joystick to control pixels on a screen.
I can appreciate these guys have a high level of skill in the medium (good for them for making money at it), but I have no idea how this stuff has such a huge audience. And I say that as someone who genuinely enjoys gaming.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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