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Fartknocker's avatar

I watched some females wrestle in a children's wading pool with baby oil once and the didn't look lady-like and could successfully kick my ass.

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Painter of Goats's avatar

Larger cups? Let's just go full codpiece.

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𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

I guess Allen never heard of Judit Polgár. She's only beaten ten world chess champions, among them Magnus Carlsen, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, and Boris Spassky.

But hey, there's more of them, so it must be a man's game.

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Lefty Mark's avatar

Exactly. We already have NHL hockey to satisfy our blood lust.

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Lefty Mark's avatar

The biggest football fan in my family is my sister. (I like the game too, but I don't approach her level of devotion.) The women in my wife's family are all big sports fans too, but they reserve most of their fanaticism for baseball.

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Lefty Mark's avatar

Hey, paleoanthropologists now say that the popular depiction of Neanderthals as beetle-browed, knuckle-dragging lummoxes is not accurate. That image properly belongs to commenters on Free Republic.

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Lefty Mark's avatar

Let anyone among us who has never choked at a key moment in a game spend the rest of their lives throttling a dead rooster.

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Lefty Mark's avatar

Did they end up talking about how one of their <a href="http:\/\/bdcwire.com\/list\/13-best-bill-brasky-quotes-from-saturday-night-live\/" target="_blank">legendary co-workers</a> once punched a hole in a cow just so he could see who was coming up the road?

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Lefty Mark's avatar

He spends too much time in the lofty confines of macadamia.

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Lefty Mark's avatar

For that you need Yahoo!

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Lefty Mark's avatar

Bobby Layne, Yale Lary, Lem Barney, Barry Sanders. Hail the colors Blue and Silver, let them wave.

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Joshua Norton's avatar

If you're a wingnut columnist, sexual violence is ok; it's the consensual stuff that's a problem.

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Olav_Pompatus's avatar

All this fuss over a sport that gives you a little bit of permanent brain damage! If brains were really all that important, why is the Tea Party still a thing?

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Lot_49's avatar

<i>LA Times?</i> You mean the Western Neighborhood edition of the <i>Chicago Tribune?</i>

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Spotts1701, Taking Bible Guns's avatar

<em>It’s chess (another overwhelmingly male game) with live bodies.</em>

I thought baseball was the "game of nerds"?

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Chris Grrr's avatar

Caveboys will be caveboys.

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