This is exactly why I stopped playing competitive. Some of these guys play like their lives depended on it, and it stopped being fun. Too many times people would try to escalate stuff on (and off) the pitch. Why... I have no idea. I just wanted to play for fun and then go for beers with everyone after the game. Cause you know... it's not Premier League.
I often play city league women's soccer, and that stuff happens there. A teammate full-out clocked a chick in the jaw one game.
We are literally playing for nothing, why so serious?
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This is exactly why I stopped playing competitive. Some of these guys play like their lives depended on it, and it stopped being fun. Too many times people would try to escalate stuff on (and off) the pitch. Why... I have no idea. I just wanted to play for fun and then go for beers with everyone after the game. Cause you know... it's not Premier League.
Sounds like the d-bags I encounter in low level men's beer league hockey. 23 years old, and still trying to make the NHL... or their self esteem is so low they feel the need to skate circles around a bunch of middle aged men who are trying not to hurt themselves.
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This is why they should have leagues where you smoke weed before playing instead of drinking. Might not be as intense but at least everyone will get along.
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This is why they should have leagues where you smoke weed before playing instead of drinking. Might not be as intense but at least everyone will get along.
I believe those are called lan parties.
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Well to be fair in Canada you're not going spend your life in prison unless you kill multiple people, or a cop.
I have a feeling, that to people who engage in this type of behaviour the actual sentence is irrelevant in the heat of the moment, and wouldn't pose much of an incentive or deterrent.
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Why the hell has this thread turned into a discussion about recreational sports etiquette? Seriously take your stories somewhere else, maybe the gear grinder thread about two down. A young man lost his life here.
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This confrontation boils down to a type of ego-based, zero-sum masculine confrontation where one party expresses his insecurity in life or death terms.
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Why the hell has this thread turned into a discussion about recreational sports etiquette? Seriously take your stories somewhere else, maybe the gear grinder thread about two down. A young man lost his life here.
Agreed. I legit thought this was the gear grinder thread. So just ignore my post...opened a bunch of threads on my browser and responded to the last post without realizing what thread it was
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I think its mostly the younger generation now (BTW I'm 26 and I feel old writing this) the kids now seem to get bent out of shape over almost anything and take it personal. One of the reasons why I stopped playing competitive sports and just stick to co-ed.
I dunno, I remember how gangster we thought we were when I was 18. Kids are just stupid no matter the era. I think the difference is we didn't have guns. Well most of us didn't, as I do remember seeing a guy pull a gun and point it on the dance floor of Spagucci's around 1997. I just grabbed my girlfriend and ran out the door.
I talk to the middle aged folk at work and they have stories of electric avenue that are about the same. Except guns just weren't as prevalent either. So mostly the stabbings, beatings, etc.
Dangerous mix of drugs, immaturity, and guns. Although buddy may have been stabbed to death; I doubt it would have happened. He'd probably be alive today.
I dunno, I remember how gangster we thought we were when I was 18. Kids are just stupid no matter the era. I think the difference is we didn't have guns. Well most of us didn't, as I do remember seeing a guy pull a gun and point it on the dance floor of Spagucci's around 1997. I just grabbed my girlfriend and ran out the door.
I talk to the middle aged folk at work and they have stories of electric avenue that are about the same. Except guns just weren't as prevalent either. So mostly the stabbings, beatings, etc.
Dangerous mix of drugs, immaturity, and guns. Although buddy may have been stabbed to death; I doubt it would have happened. He'd probably be alive today.
I remember being on Electric avenue on the night the Flames won the Stanley Cup and a guy got thrown through a ground floor window during a fight.
We had fights, people pulled knives or swarmed, we weren't much better then the punks now.
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I remember being on Electric avenue on the night the Flames won the Stanley Cup and a guy got thrown through a ground floor window during a fight.
We had fights, people pulled knives or swarmed, we weren't much better then the punks now.
Ya I caught the tail end of electric avenue when I first started going to bars in the mid-late 90's. I'll tell you I believe every story told about that place. Calgary was Calgary basically everywhere but that strip. It was a fun place to party, but man could things get violent in big ways very quickly.
As a tail end of Gen X-er I take pride in my superiority to Millennials, but on one thing we're not is violence. I actually think they are less violent, seems like they would be more willing on online assault you than actually punch you.
It really ruffles my feathers that the CBC headline on this Story is "Teen charged with murder of Calgary Stampeder".
Don't give me this teen BS. This was an adult with a long history with the Calgary police. He should have the book thrown at him, not coddled like some misguided youth.
