Comments on: San Diego Chargers Stadium Issue http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/01/14/san-diego-chargers-stadium-issue/ The supposedly futile struggle against chaos - with a focus on Linux migration, security, corrosion engineering, surviving cancer, website construction, and life... Sat, 02 Apr 2011 14:15:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Greg http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/01/14/san-diego-chargers-stadium-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-652 Greg Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:52:48 +0000 http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/01/14/san-diego-chargers-stadium-issue#comment-652 <em>Basketball!!!</em> I know I said that you didn't have to agree with me, but this is touching a raw nerve. What happens when you take a tall kid (eventually reaching 195cm - 6'5") from a country where basketball is relatively unknown, and stick him in an American high school? I'll tell you - you get a lot of people telling him he ought to play basketball. But of course, he has the ball-handling skills of a Pleistocene mastodon, and the only real talent he has is throwing bricks. So how does he end up thinking of the sport? Can you say "loathing"? The thing I learned to love about American football is that players can be praised for their ability to <em>run into people</em>. Now that's something I can do! Basketball!!! I know I said that you didn’t have to agree with me, but this is touching a raw nerve. What happens when you take a tall kid (eventually reaching 195cm – 6’5″) from a country where basketball is relatively unknown, and stick him in an American high school? I’ll tell you – you get a lot of people telling him he ought to play basketball. But of course, he has the ball-handling skills of a Pleistocene mastodon, and the only real talent he has is throwing bricks. So how does he end up thinking of the sport? Can you say “loathing”?

The thing I learned to love about American football is that players can be praised for their ability to run into people. Now that’s something I can do!

]]> By: KirkH http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/01/14/san-diego-chargers-stadium-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-639 KirkH Sun, 15 Jan 2006 06:47:22 +0000 http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/01/14/san-diego-chargers-stadium-issue#comment-639 Maybe instead of building a new stadium we should build a better sports arena downtown - with the only retractable roof in the NBA - so when we get the Clippers back down here they can play in the sun and we can keep the tourist dollars rolling in. Maybe instead of building a new stadium we should build a better sports arena downtown – with the only retractable roof in the NBA – so when we get the Clippers back down here they can play in the sun and we can keep the tourist dollars rolling in.

]]> By: San Diego Blog » Blog Archive » Chargers Stadium, and a lot more… http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/01/14/san-diego-chargers-stadium-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-630 San Diego Blog » Blog Archive » Chargers Stadium, and a lot more… Sun, 15 Jan 2006 03:38:23 +0000 http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/01/14/san-diego-chargers-stadium-issue#comment-630 [...] Originally posted at altjira’a blog. [...] [...] Originally posted at altjira’a blog. [...]

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