Posted on 01/22/2010 9:03:26 AM PST by SonnyBubba
There was a proposal for a height-limited professional basketball league some years back. I think Bob Cousy was pushing the idea. IIRC, the height limit was 6’4” or something like that. Would have been interesting. I might have watched.
Well, in the first place, this sounds like a hoax, so it’s all a moot point.
However, I seem to remember a couple recent US Olympic teams full of “African Americans” who got their a$$e$ handed to them by European teams.
As far as the “baskets at 8 feet” crack, I’m not buying it—but just curious—do you make similar blanket statements about, say, black people’s intellect, literacy, or work ethic?
Are you saying white men can't jump??? ;)
I wasn’t thinking that at the time . . . but now that you’ve mentioned it ....lol.
It would be a lot more entertaining then the current crap called the NBA.
Plus there are a lot of fantastic players that are shorter than 6’6.
You wrote:
” There was much less pushing and shoving....”
And fewer shootings, stabbings and arrests... but I’m sure that’s just a conincidence.
All I have to say on this is “LARRY BIRD”!
Thank you, have a good day.
To get more whites in basketball there needs to be some rule changes, like a basket by a white should be worth at least 4 or 5 points.
Let me give you a hint-IT WAS HUMOR!
well how about this idea: the coed basketball league
“The schmuck that proposed this gets what he deserves.”
a long thread on FR?
Infamy.
SnakeDoc
Because freedom of association is only guaranteed if you meet politically correct ideology apparently... I mean heaven forbid folks fundamental rights conflict with someone elses view of how they SHOULD behave.
I do not think it is raciest at all... if this is raciest maybe we need affirmative action ON sport teams so the players look like the community they represent..
It's impossible to tell what's satire anymore.
C: Bill Walton, George Mikan, Dave Cowens (C/PF)
PF: Bob Pettit, Kevin McHale
SF: Larry Bird, Rick Barry, John Havlicek (SF/SG)
SG: Jerry West, Pete Maravich
PG: John Stockton, Bob Cousy
Maybe this team would not engage in rampant traveling and palming the ball. No tattoos, hanging on the rim, or trash-talking, either.
Only if we're lucky. The shot clock ruined Pro ball first, then College.
I loved basketball when brains and discipline were valuable.
If this was real, I’d have no problem with it just as I have no problem with dwarf basketball, women’s basketball, wheelchair basketball, mentally retarded basketball (Special Olympics), kids basketball and seniors basketball.
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