Water polo

[LesStrat]

I just realized that the USA has a team.

This begs the obvious question: Why

[idsnowdog]

Because their horses drowned and the jockies needed the work.

[JOLLY]

I just realized that the USA has a team.

This begs the obvious question: Why

Why not?

[Jake]

I just realized that the USA has a team.

This begs the obvious question: Why

Some people genuinely like playing sports that don't pay millions of dollars.

Come on, peerless one.

[LesStrat]

Yes, that is true. What does that have to do with water polo

[aleclee]

Ever play water polo? It's doesn't involve vicious hits like football but it's a brutal sport in its own right. That said, it's not a great spectator sport.

[MetalManiac]

I thought that had vaccines for that?

[gnomefiddler]

How do you play water polo?

[GuitarStv]

How do you play water polo?

You get one blindfolded person to yell 'MARCO' at one end of the pool . . .

[LesStrat]

Nominated for post of the year.

[Jessie's ghost]

You get one blindfolded person to yell 'MARCO' at one end of the pool . . .

If it ends up like this, you win.

[slash08]

I have friends that play water polo and I've seen them play I honestly don't get the point of the game.

[Jessie's ghost]

I have friends that play water polo and I've seen them play I honestly don't get the point of the game.

Hazing new team members. Obviously.

[aleclee]

Playing water polo is hazing for all parties concerned unless you're part dolphin.

[Frankly]

Frank Lee enjoys water polo. Just a FyI.

Thank you.

[uOpt]

One of the stupidest sports in these Olympics. Naturally, NBC shows a lot of it.

[ratherdashing]

So is this how things are now? If we don't find something immediately entertaining, it must have no purpose and therefore should not exist?

[GuitarStv]

Water polo looks silly, but I'm sure that it's a pretty huge exertion of energy and seems to be pretty competitive. I can name at least two Olympic sports that are far worse than water polo though:


- Racewalking: Walking a really long distance without being allowed to break into a jog (one leg must always touch the ground . . . resulting in the strangest looking awkward shuffle of a walk that you've ever seen and a bunch of guys who look like skeletons).

- Dressage: riding a horse around to music for a while, making minimal corrections. (It effectively looks like the rider is doing nothing athletic whatsoever).

[gnomefiddler]

So is this how things are now? If we don't find something immediately entertaining, it must have no purpose and therefore should not exist?

That seems to be a very self-centered point of view doesn't it?
I always thought curling was kind of silly but, hey enough people like it to make it olympic sport so who am I to say anything about it?

[garublador]

So is this how things are now? If we don't find something immediately entertaining, it must have no purpose and therefore should not exist?

That's how it's always been here.