twee-est major professional sport (US)

Arturo Muffaletta had a good run in the 60's, I think.

haha, I never even actually really registered that you said Hoagie Carmichael. Are you thinking of Ben Hogan? Because he was one of yours.

Swedish pro Anders Smörgås?

reuben po'boy

Actually it's part Canadian if you include his place of birth.

And both parets were Scots.

Patrizio 'Pa' Nino was another classic golfer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om_yq4L3M_I

well, that settles it.

carlin otm
r.i.p.

Voted the one that most resembles a Morrissey song.

two years ago, the NFL used a cover version of "everyday is like sunday" in one of its TV promo ads over here in the USA.

can't find a video of it anywhere on the Interweb, sadly.

none of these sports seem twee... Maybe I don't even know what the term means anymore. Foosball, if it were a professional sport, would be the most twee sport. therefore, my vote is with soccer.

yeah, when you think about it a sport that involves hurling a spinning projectile with all of yer might at another human being who's carrying a big heavy stick with the intent to strike the projectile and send it hurtling towards other human beings (which is what baseball essentially is) is anything BUT twee.

pretty lightweight projectile, you wanna try cricket.

aren't you supposed to send it away from other human beings?

Yeah, plus once the ball is in the air it basically turns into a game of tag.

The literature associated with the game of baseball is extremely twee. Pete Hammill made a fool out of himself in the New York Times last week in a review of the new Willie Mays book.

Unlike soccer, there's very few compound fractures in baseball.

Moises Alou would beg to differ.

As would Jason Kendall and Cesar Cedeno.

Also in baseball, you dont get guys who act like they just got mowed down by sniper fire when they are barely touched, like soccer players who are trying to draw penalties. That kind of wimpiness totally turns me off to the sport.

That kind of shit is creeping into basketball thanks to the likes of Manu Ginobili, who probably played a lot of soccer as a kid.

Not wimpiness, deviousness

Ergo not twee

Diving isn't wimpiness, Bill, it's just cheating. The same soccer player who's rolling on the pitch in the 'throes of agony' one minute is whistling happily to himself the next minute after breaking someone's ankle.

society is lying in the gutter, with a compound fracture, inflicted by a youth

Still think it was creepy for Wenger to put Eduardo in the game after Ramsey's leg got broken.

the youth is then given a medal, as society is taken behind a wall and shot

this is ridic soccer should not be in this poll

Surely you know there's no more society worth talking about, dear boy.

this is ridic soccer should not be in this poll

― call all destroyer, Thursday, March 4, 2010 10:33 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

You're right, no one in his right mind would call this a major sport.

Not wimpiness, deviousness

― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, March 4, 2010 10:27 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Looks like a pussy move from where I sit. Therefore, twee.

Bill Magill, arbiter elegantiae.

He's all-man, that Bill Magill

crying after breaking someone's leg is pretty twee

^^^true

http://www.espnstar.com/servlet/file/405035_33_preview.jpg?ITEM_ENT_ID=405035&COLLSPEC_ENT_ID=10&FILE_SERVICE_CONF_ID=33

Who, Shawcross? I thought he was maybe crying about his England chances being imperilled. THAT would be pretty twee.

In fact, it had the opposite effect, Capello said "I must have that legbreaker in my team" (in Italian)

Pour encourager les autres

I find it hard to believe that macho, sports-type American males actually approve of baseball with all the guys in tight pants and little caps scampering about.
Have you actually seen baseball pants recently? More often than not they're baggy like pajamas. It's football pants that are skin tight.

American football has been the victim of ever-increasing creeping tweeness since the late '70s when they changed the rules to make it almost impossible to defend against the pass - to the point where a defender even looking like he might have brushed against the pass receiver will draw a backbreaking penalty flag. And offensive blocking got much easier to do. And they really cracked down on late hits & any move that might frighten the quarterback. Still, concussions do happen, and the persistent low level impact intrinsic to the sport still rattles players' brains, so it's not all bad. (See the recent TIME magazine cover story). I acknowledge that the concussions threaten to take the word "twee" out of consideration, but the sport is relatively dainty compared to the '50s, '60s version.

American football has been the victim of ever-increasing creeping tweeness since the late '70s when they changed the rules to make it almost impossible to defend against the pass - to the point where a defender even looking like he might have brushed against the pass receiver will draw a backbreaking penalty flag.

yup. the West Coast Offense is kinda twee, when you really think about it.

aside from how cutesy or kooky a sport is, sporting tweeness = the mystical privileging of sport as great healer and scale of justice - NFL does this more than any other imho

aside from how cutesy or kooky a sport is, sporting tweeness = the mystical privileging of sport as great healer and scale of justice - NFL does this more than any other imho

typing that and coming to the conclusion that football does this more than baseball really proves my point re: "people who aren't voting baseball do not understand American sports"

tbf i haven't seen a huge deal of either but i reckon i've got more of a handle on nfl so maybe baseball is like that but with brass knobs on

nfl is just a hilarious 5+ month soap opera imo

ha!

and really what i mean by that is it is not really romanticized in the same way baseball is. it is also still an evolving sport and baseball has more or less been the same for a long time.

The popular narrative of baseball in U.S. history, especially wrt 'simpler times' and racial integration is amongst the most saccharine things in an already cloying American context.

i think a big difference between football and baseball is, yeah, the way writers romanticize the geometry of baseball, the history, the statistics, to the point where writers/announcers of baseball games are sometimes talking about almost abstract stuff. football doesn't have any of that. (except for those slo mo NFL films)

Otoh, no sport has even come close to self-aggrandizing and romanticizing itself than the NFL with NFL films. It is a genre unto itself; sui generis.