We can always bring back the coliseum.

congratz on finding Clockcats tie in, to sports... hehe

Also...

YES! yes... yes... *orgasmic* YEEEEEES!!!!

*cough*

Whos the dumbfucker that disposed of the mighty coliseum anyway?

          You last two should have been in Phillidelphia last night.  They ALMOST  had a football game.  But the Washington (DC) First nations showed up and that ended that.

But your prececonceptions about cricket are little skewed. Test cricket goes on and on for 5 days and can be a bit tedious but it's a great adjunct to anything else you might be doing. You don't have to watch all the time - you can skive off and go waterskiing or have a BBQ and it will still be going on when you get back - it's a process as much as a game. Test cricket is a subtle business and the crowds are highly knowledgeable. They'll be enthralled by anything from the state of the pitch - the ball gets to hit the ground first remember and pitches vary - to the wear on the ball - a worn ball will swing - wildly if the bowler is skillful enough. And there isn;t just one bowler or pitcher as in baseball - there are 5 or 6 with different skills and styles.

But there are a couple of other forms of cricket for short attention spans - One Day cricket - which not surprisingly lasts for one day - and 20-20 - which is a massive slugfest that goes for 2 or 3 hours and is about as close to baseball as cricket will ever get.

In One Day and 20-20 and even in some 5-day test matches that are neck and neck in the last few overs - there is sliding believe me. It's odd how often with 2 well matched sides that after 5 days play the decision will come down to the final session of play - and sometimes to the last few overs of play.

And finally, the Melbourne Cricket Ground - 'The G' as locals call it - doesn't hold 50,000 screaming fans, it holds 100,000 screaming fans.

It's a bit sad that no one else here has ever heard of Adam Gilchrist. At the Sydney Cricket Ground I saw him smite the ball over the fence about 8 times in ten minutes on a tricky, turning pitch. The 46,000 fans there that day

were definitely screaming. 

Actually I was carefully trying to avoid any commentary on cricket or rugby.  I was merely pointing out that neither happen to have the act of sliding into a home plate as a feature of their game.

AAAAGGGHHH !!!   Find me (ONE) defensive back in the NFL who is 270 lbs ?

Just ONE !!!     Did I mention...... ONE ?

Linemen are often overweight as they are the largest players on the field and are purposely selected from a pool of the very largest people on the planet.

To find any other player on the field who is overweight would be a rarity. Football players are selected based on size, strength, speed and skill at playing the game. 

You are unlikely to find an athlete playing football with a runner's build as they could not survive the physical wear and tear.  To put it another way, that sort of body could never begin to take that kind of punishment.  Whether they are 250 pounds or 180 (the low end) you should expect that they are in top physical condition and likely carry little to no extra body fat or they wouldn't survive at that level of competition. 

Again a defensive back has to be the fastest (or at least compete with the fastest) player on the field.  It would be rare to find one over 215 lbs at the high end.

I wouldn't begin to argue their overall health, but I think it would be fair to say that football players as a whole are among some of the fittest people on the planet.

You are clearly not watching the CFL !

Then let us skip hockey and football/rugby all together, and head back to the great games of old! You'd be hard pressed to find a sport that requires more physicality, strategy, and all out skill, then a gladiator death match

I'll see you and raise war games with live ammo.

That looks familiar. AI for the win, until it realises there is no win. lol.

A compromise: War games with 12th century technology. Effectively the Colliseum en masse.

I think that can be arranged. Eye in the sky too for those more interested in the big picture.

If given the population of the world, and only 1 site for its application, there will be no shortage of volunteers... those seeking fame and glory, wealth, suicidal teenagers, psychopaths... perfect! i for one, would kill for the chance... *snicker*

I still must contest that gladiatorial, is the way to go. Venues run the guantlet from Man vs Beast -- Group vs Group, armament from Bareknuckle brawling, to some of the deadliest melee weapons ever invented. Not every match aurring the age of Rome was a death match either, even if fought with swords!

If we go with mordern warfare + weaponry, we'll run through contestants at alarming rates and never with a chance of reappearance.

    In that vein....I propose a contest between a gladiator armed with a modern flame thrower against an opponent armed with a dinner fork

Ok tbh i don't hate american sports, that was more just provoking a reaction  Its funny how people defend them. Im guilty of it to though.

As for the american sports of baseball, american football and basketball. I have played all 3.  We had an american coach for P.E. he insisted on diversity.

Baseball was tbh boring to play and watch, it just seemed to come down to who could hit harder and throw faster. Yes there are some tactics just none that interested me. American football we played without protective gear was fine no injuries, considering i was playing with the schools 1st team for rugby and they are rather large and rather fast (and i am not), so im still taking that hole protective gear thing with a pinch of salt, hurt a little il admit but thats all the more reason not to get hit adds a little motvation. Basketball I just don't have the energy for it, entertaiing for a time but repetative.

funny that

but atleast it would put psycopaths to some good use.