Ignorance and Immaturity

Originally posted by Mctayto
You are a one trick pony spouting repitition 🙄🙄🙄

That's two tricks and no different than you showing up with the same whine in two posts!

Originally posted by scacchipazzo
That's two tricks and no different than you showing up with the same whine in two posts!

That post was my first & only use of "One trick pony" but guess you already knew your short comings and assumed it had already been said :p

Originally posted by Mctayto
That post was my first & only use of "One trick pony" but guess you already knew your short comings and assumed it had already been said :p

I'm referring to your whining about USA sports. The dripping envy is manifest from someone from a place with no athletic distinction unless you consider "your" football a national sport. We've at least invented almost every sport popular on earth!

Originally posted by scacchipazzo
I'm referring to your whining about USA sports. The dripping envy is manifest from someone from a place with no athletic distinction unless you consider "your" football a national sport. We've at least invented almost every sport popular on earth!

Basketball? Hockey?

Originally posted by Very Rusty
Basketball? Hockey?

Basketball was invented n Mass by Naismith. Naismith wsa Canadian but invented and popularized the sport in the USA. Hockey is a Canadian invention of European origin. Golf is the only Scottish sport I know of other than the highalnder game stuff, popular only in Scotland.

Originally posted by scacchipazzo
Basketball was invented n Mass by Naismith. Naismith wsa Canadian but invented and popularized the sport in the USA. Hockey is a Canadian invention of European origin. Golf is the only Scottish sport I know of other than the highalnder game stuff, popular only in Scotland.

James Naismith was the Canadian physical education instructor who invented basketball in 1891. James Naismith was born in Almonte, Ontario and educated at McGill University and Presbyterian Cllege in Montreal. He was the physical education teacher at McGill University (1887 to 1890) and at Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts (1890 to 1895). At Springfield College (which was then the Y.M.C.A. training school), James Naismith, under the direction of American phys-ed specialist Luther Halsey Gulick, invented the indoor sport of basketball.

Who Invented Hockey
Hockey – in modern times it become known as the Canadian game and there’s no doubt about it! But where did it begin and who invented hockey?

The origins of hockey are actually shrouded in mystery. It’s rather like the elusive game but we do know that a similar type field game has been dated to 2000 BC and it was played in the village of Beni Hasan in ancient Egypt.

In the excavation of the tomb of Kheti was a painting which depicted 2 men playing a game with a ball and curved sticks. This painting would indicate that this version of hockey was played in the Nile over 40 centuries ago.

There are also records showing a game called Keritizin that was played by the Hellensistic cultures dating from 514 BC. It appeared very similar to modern day field hockey.

But wait, there’s more history! The Romans called the game paganica and similar forms of the game have been found around the work in Persia, Arabia, Ethiopia, and even in pre-Columbian Aztec Mexico. All forms involved two teams, a ball, and a stick.

During the middle ages there were a variety of hockey style games played in different areas throughout Europe. In Scotland it was called shinty, in Ireland hurling, and in France crosse.

The first reference to the word hockey appears to be around 1527 in France where the word hoquet is used to refer to the curved stick. And in 1527 Ireland Statutes provided a list of games that were prohibited which included the term hockie.

It has thus been decided by historians that the actual birth place of hockey is in fact Ireland during the 16th century. Here is where the sport not only found its name but its basic concept.

However some still tend to disagree with this assessment as there were no teams, no reliable data, and it still is not what we know as the modern hockey game.

Similarities to our modern hockey game continue throughout England during the 1600s and 1700s when whole villages would play against each other.

Windsor Nova Scotia and the Micmac Indians played a game with heavy influence from the Irish which was developed during the early 1800s. In fact legend says it was named after a Col. Hockey. So Windsor Nova Scotia claims it is the birthplace of hockey.

Others feel that the British Isles are the birthplace to modern hockey because the Blackhearth hockey club was the first official club founded back in 1849.

What is known is that the fixed set of rules for the game of hockey appeared in 1852 in the English Schools of Harrow. The game of hockey was very popular during the 19th century in British schools and the rules were continuously refined.

So what does all this information really mean? Perhaps there really has been no invention of hockey and no birthplace of hockey. Like almost all sports this is a game which has developed over centuries in many countries, cities, and villages around the world. The NHL was born in 1934 and even the modern game occasionally sees a rule or two refined.

It appears that who invented hockey will continue to remain a mystery into the future just as it has in the past.

Originally posted by scacchipazzo
I'm referring to your whining about USA sports. The dripping envy is manifest from someone from a place with no athletic distinction unless you consider "your" football a national sport. We've at least invented almost every sport popular on earth!

What a load of "B#LL#CKS"

You take a british sport then twist a few rules and rename it - Hardly inventing sports
Golf - Scottish but you change the ball size and refuse to recognise St. Andrews doh
You take rounders, change a few rules and call it baseball
You take rugby change a few rules and call it a crap game

Originally posted by Mctayto
What a load of [b]"B#LL#CKS"

You take a british sport then twist a few rules and rename it - Hardly inventing sports
Golf - Scottish but you change the ball size and refuse to recognise St. Andrews doh
You take rounders, change a few rules and call it baseball
You take rugby change a few rules and call it a crap game[/b]

And we take hagas, eliminate the scrotum casing, eliminate the undesirable things you scots call food and call it hot dogs! Tiresome old blather my man. Pure dripping envy I say! I give you golf. What I do not understand for the world is its appeal. Now its ratings are so bad their main star has to bang a few floozies and get his wife to leave black and blue with a 9 iron to keep the public from yawning to death! And now you're British? Admit you hate the English! England is the only UK country with any athletic merit. What has Scotland won? Nada, niente, nothing! Excuse me while I yawn! Scotland is the sports equivalent of the French in war. Google French Military victories. You'll see!

Originally posted by Very Rusty
James Naismith was the Canadian physical education instructor who invented basketball in 1891. James Naismith was born in Almonte, Ontario and educated at McGill University and Presbyterian Cllege in Montreal. He was the physical education teacher at McGill University (1887 to 1890) and at Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts (1890 to 1895). ...[text shortened]... ho invented hockey will continue to remain a mystery into the future just as it has in the past.

So what? Who likes hockey anyway? Can't see the puck even if you're on the ice, surely can't see the damn thing on TV! Bunch of guys whacking at each other. Strategy: whack harder! Backup strategy: whack harder still! I would not be terribly proud of claiming the sorry sport. As for Naismith as you can see from my post I give him full credit for being a Canadian, but the sport was invented and popularized in the USA! WE named one of the sport's highest awards for the much admired man! We embraced and claimed him as our own as we do any immigrant of merit and even those who are simple folk who work hard! BTW, I was in your great nation for the first time last summer. Lovely bunch of friendly people!

Originally posted by scacchipazzo
So what? Who likes hockey anyway? Can't see the puck even if you're on the ice, surely can't see the damn thing on TV! Bunch of guys whacking at each other. Strategy: whack harder! Backup strategy: whack harder still! I would not be terribly proud of claiming the sorry sport. As for Naismith as you can see from my post I give him full credit for being a I was in your great nation for the first time last summer. Lovely bunch of friendly people!

See opening post. Read the thread title. Think about it.

Originally posted by scacchipazzo
And we take hagas, eliminate the scrotum casing, eliminate the undesirable things you scots call food and call it hot dogs! Tiresome old blather my man. Pure dripping envy I say! I give you golf. What I do not understand for the world is its appeal. Now its ratings are so bad their main star has to bang a few floozies and get his wife to leave black and ...[text shortened]... d is the sports equivalent of the French in war. Google French Military victories. You'll see!

You digress 🙄🙄🙄 at no time have I suggested that Scotland is more than 5 million folk going about their daily chores, I never suggested we are good at sports etc.
I guess in the states they fail to properly teach you to read and by your spelling of haggis I guess this extends to writing & spelling - not shocked.
Yes england is my first hate but at no time did I say I was english - again your brain power lets you down
I said British which is no different from a Texas man, calafornian man etc saying they are american. 😛
I am a highlander first, Scottish second and british by law 😛

Originally posted by Mctayto
You digress 🙄🙄🙄 at no time have I suggested that Scotland is more than 5 million folk going about their daily chores, I never suggested we are good at sports etc.
I guess in the states they fail to properly teach you to read and by your spelling of haggis I guess this extends to writing & spelling - not shocked.
Yes england is my first hate but at no ti ...[text shortened]... etc saying they are american. 😛
I am a highlander first, Scottish second and british by law 😛

Haggis schmaggis. Inedible crap is my point. You correct my spelling of an obscure sausage then misspell Californian? Typical Brit! I never suggested anything but your ongoing dripping envy of America and everything American. Regrettably you will stay British by law because your sorry little nation was unable to withstand English power. Now for that the rest of the world has to be reminded through your whiney rants of how inferior the rest of us are educationally all the while misspelling substantially more important words than haggis? I feel for you. Feeling inferior must be really hard on you. Offering the world nauseating little scrotum encased sausage and a screechy windbag intrument and skirts for men must really rankle your national pride being there is truly nothing else Scottish of any merit. Being really bad at a sport (soccer) invented by the English must also be a source of rancor.

Originally posted by scacchipazzo
Haggis schmaggis. Inedible crap is my point. You correct my spelling of an obscure sausage then misspell Californian? Typical Brit! I never suggested anything but your ongoing dripping envy of America and everything American. Regrettably you will stay British by law because your sorry little nation was unable to withstand English power. Now for that the ...[text shortened]... t. Being really bad at a sport (soccer) invented by the English must also be a source of rancor.

You really are an a$$ beyond measure.

Originally posted by scacchipazzo
So what? Who likes hockey anyway? Can't see the puck even if you're on the ice, surely can't see the damn thing on TV! Bunch of guys whacking at each other. Strategy: whack harder! Backup strategy: whack harder still! I would not be terribly proud of claiming the sorry sport. As for Naismith as you can see from my post I give him full credit for being a I was in your great nation for the first time last summer. Lovely bunch of friendly people!

You said the U.S. had invented the game, which was not true.

Now you tell me no one in the U.S. likes hockey Why are there 24 NHL teams in the U.S.? Obviously someone likes hockey down south.

Personally you don't understand the game so it is a bunch of guys whacking at each other. Too bad you don't see the game, and the skill level needed to play it.

You really don't have any good arguments about U.S. inventing most sports and are in fact wrong.

Originally posted by Mctayto
You really are an a$$ beyond measure.

I take that as a compliment coming from the silly likes of you! Regrettably your IQ shortcomings are very measurable indeed as in MR by about five points! While I'm at it let me me advice you about something. Don't go around correcting other's English. After all it is not even the original language of your land and evidently have yet to master it. Go back to Gaelic nostalgia and cry tears of envy over your scrotum cased haggis while you feel sorry for yourself and your zero to the left land!