Posted on 09/25/2013 3:13:34 AM PDT by Jacquerie
Just like Indy car, right? Or NASCAR? Nobody watches that.
If they’d be dressed in pirate outfits (avast there matey!!!), firing smoothbores at rival ships, and swinging cutlasses as they boarded the ships, I might just watch.
Please tell me - how is the very highest level reachable IN ANY SPORT for the common man? The very nature of the top level is that very VERY few can participate at that highest level. How is this any different?
Most sports exclude based on genetics. Willie shoemaker would have had trouble on an NFL line. Neither could Reggie White have successfully ridden in the Kentucky Derby. But if you watch any sport you watch what is even more inaccessible to the common man than sailing.
Oh, the top level you say? America's cup? Well, what is the limiting factor? What is the nature of the exclusion?
Good luck with the response. In hold-em I believe this is called "the nuts". You may want to fold.
They don’t even resemble boats any more!
No more nor less than an F-22 resembles a Boeing 707.
WE WON!!!!
WE WON!!!!
WE WON!!!!
UNBELIEVABLE!!!!
Greatest comeback in the history of sports!!!
Never seen anyone come back from behind like this and take it all!!!
The official score is Oracle 9-8 but, the real story is they won by 3!!!
After being penalized by two races Oracle’s actual win is 11-8!!!
And! They scored a new world record for completing the race today.
Just Amazing!!!
The multi-hull "catamaran" design has been around for so long we don't even know when it began; possibly prehistory. A written description of one goes back to 1697. Modern catamarans have certainly been around for our entire lifetime.
The faster the boat travels the faster a crew must act and react in a race situation. So long as the rules are adhered to, technology should be allowed to provide as fast a sailing vessel as possible. These are exciting competitions IMO, and even more so with the upgrade to this design.
I have no interest in horse racing and think the term "horse racing industry" is absurd. The only tangible thing this "industry" produces is road apples. I lived 40 minutes from Pimlico in Baltimore for a number of years. I also lived 30 minutes from Saratoga’s race track for even more years. I have seen one race in my life but it wasn’t at either of those tracks. I'm aware that one must ordinarily be well-heeled to participate, but consider that irrelevant. I understand and appreciate the hard work that goes into the sport, the beauty of the animals and the drama of a good race. I have never placed a bet, but the same goes for those who study the statistics of betting on those horses; they understand race conditions, and how to “wheel”, for example, to increase the likelihood of a payout.
There will always be those who are ignorant of what they are seeing and don't want to spend the time to find out. Others may know about it but still don't like it. That is their choice. OTOH, visiting a discussion thread of fans to scoff a sport is something else entirely. And it seems to happen too often on FR.
How many people play golf? How many people own and race AC72-class yachts? There's your answer.
I don’t own a nascar quality auto either.
Yours was among the most vacuous comments.
In the most vacuous of vanity posts.
The author displayed his bias...big time. I would have thought the Sox comeback against the Yankees the following year would have been considered a bigger comeback, as the Red Sox overcame a 3-0 deficit. IIRC, that's the only time that's happened in baseball history.
Yes, as you said, AWESOME!
Were you close enough to hear the boats fly by?
Yeah, you’re right about the baseball comparison, but Bill Cushing was right about ESPN/golf/America’s Cup.
Before the first race, I was wondering about the starts. It was smart to modify typical regatta rules so as to avoid 75+ mph closure rates.
You are so wrong - I desuscribe to all things he doesn’t care about - I want to know everything that he thinks I shouldn’t know about so I can jump off-board properly.
To hear them? Probably not over our engine noise but both of them tacked at the boundary line in front of us. I got to see many of the races and it was really exciting.
Yes, they were smart, the crossings were sometimes close enough to pass the Grey Poupon.
Not my vanity, but it was apparently good enough for you to read a few dozen comments and give it a bump. Thanks.
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