ESPN ranking of sports by difficulty

yeah fishing is alot more harder than mx, all we do is sit down and twist a tube. Amazing how many of my relatives and friends are baffled with why i try to train for mx, "what, you need to train for that!?"

blissfully ignorant

why mention a sport they don't televise?

That is surprising that ESPN didn't include motocross.... let them pussies behind the desk go out there!!

A month or so ago Mark Shlereth (sp?) who played for the Broncos got on a bike and crashed 10 feet later!!! Mark is an NFL analyst on ESPN

Billiards? Table Tennis? Fishing?


LMAO..

That is crazy talk! I'm happy to see they got skateboarding in there. But, I bet moto is not in there since they don't televise it. That is the only reason why. Watch if they get moto or supercross back on their network.

Doesn't really matter what ESPN says, does it?

I don't see any need for outside validation of the sport......

[quote="APLMAN":2pmwfc5a]Doesn't really matter what ESPN says, does it?

I don't see any need for outside validation of the sport......[/quote:2pmwfc5a]

Same. Our sport is too tough for those nimrods.

They already have motocross in the X games but I thought they were also getting into sponsoring a summer time supercross race?

you know it's bad when badmitton and steer wrestling beat you.

[quote="BobbyM":120fvmjq]why mention a sport they don't televise?[/quote:120fvmjq]

ESPN only televises something worth watching about 8% of the time, unless you like spelling bee's and Scrabble championships, then it's 9%.

[quote="davis224":11gjhq89]you know it's bad when badmitton and steer wrestling beat you.[/quote:11gjhq89]


I would ride 2 motos on a clapped out 80's YZ before I would Wrestle a steer. The list is stupid.

What if the steer was a Motodrive.com/Storm Lake Honda backed steer?

And that in-depth look at sports is brought to you by the people who think poker is a sport!

Consider the source. They're a bunch of fat golfers or ex-football players...and that's about it.

I sent this to Mark Schlereth (go to his website and you can ask him questions):

[quote:2pqzv95x]I just saw the top 60 ranking of sports, by difficulty, at the following ESPN web page:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/sportSkills

Motocross isn't even on the list. How can that be? Are they trying to tell me that fishing, #60, is tougher than motocross? Are they honestly that friggin stupid? If ESPN had any intelligence whatsoever, MX would be on the list, and it would very likely be in the top 3, if not #1.

MX requires balance, stamina (you go try to run your heart rate at 190 bpm while doing squats three times your body weight for 30 minutes straight), speed (the reflexes of the top mx'ers have to be fast, or they'd be hospitalized), finesse, and mental toughness, not to mention exposure to some of the greatest dangers of any sport.

I remember seeing a short clip of you trying to ride an MX bike. Please don't equate putting around a dirt lot along with riding a full moto, twice in a day, at professional speeds. That'd be like me putting on a helmet, running 20 yards, and saying I know what playing football in the Superbowl is like.

Maybe you can clue in the morons who put that list together. Fishing? I didn't know drinking beer and turning a hand crank required athleticism...maybe changing TV channels should be up on that list, too.



John Tomasik
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espn had no cred

[quote="jtomasik":3gotlhs0]I sent this to Mark Schlereth (go to his website and you can ask him questions):

[quote:3gotlhs0]I just saw the top 60 ranking of sports, by difficulty, at the following ESPN web page:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/sportSkills

Motocross isn't even on the list. How can that be? Are they trying to tell me that fishing, #60, is tougher than motocross? Are they honestly that friggin stupid? If ESPN had any intelligence whatsoever, MX would be on the list, and it would very likely be in the top 3, if not #1.

MX requires balance, stamina (you go try to run your heart rate at 190 bpm while doing squats three times your body weight for 30 minutes straight), speed (the reflexes of the top mx'ers have to be fast, or they'd be hospitalized), finesse, and mental toughness, not to mention exposure to some of the greatest dangers of any sport.

I remember seeing a short clip of you trying to ride an MX bike. Please don't equate putting around a dirt lot along with riding a full moto, twice in a day, at professional speeds. That'd be like me putting on a helmet, running 20 yards, and saying I know what playing football in the Superbowl is like.

Maybe you can clue in the morons who put that list together. Fishing? I didn't know drinking beer and turning a hand crank required athleticism...maybe changing TV channels should be up on that list, too.



John Tomasik
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Calling the people at ESPN names is really the right way to handle this. Good job!

Haha look what else we lost to, Cheerleading


And curling? Come one.

a guy could throw his back out fishing you know!

They did one of these lists a couple years back, and we all cried foul. And the guy that wrote that one posted something to the effect of "motocross will never be on this list- the bike does all the work." We all flipped, but they couldn't care less.
Funny thing was, at the time ESPN was broadcasting moto!

It's funny that some people bitch about our sport growing, and they don't like the fact that it's growing, but then they get pissed off at a list like that.

[quote="zookrider62":24t3mc0c]Haha look what else we lost to, Cheerleading


And curling? Come one.[/quote:24t3mc0c]


"We" didn't "lose" to anyone.

The experience you get from riding/racing won't change one bit based on a silly list by ESPN......

Baseball harder than soccer? THATS a riot.

Defense? Standing around the outfield and/or bases scratching yer nuts and spitting is really, really tough. Whew.

Offense? Those guys busting ass sitting in the dugout warming the bench are frickin ironmen! How DO they do it?

[quote="Racer92":2xxv3dio]Baseball harder than soccer? THATS a riot.

Defense? Standing around the outfield and/or bases scratching yer nuts and spitting is really, really tough. Whew.

Offense? Those guys busting ass sitting in the dugout warming the bench are frickin ironmen! How DO they do it?[/quote:2xxv3dio]

Ha, ha!!! No foolin'. That alone should tell you something about that "List".
Is says it was compiled by a grand total of 8 "Panelists". Wow, 8 washed up, never was's decided the atheletisism it takes to play 60 sports. Pure science I tell you.

For those 8, running 60' to 1st base in a softball game probably is pretty tough.

[quote="SEEMEFIRST":ak57jrz9][quote="Racer92":ak57jrz9]Baseball harder than soccer? THATS a riot.

Defense? Standing around the outfield and/or bases scratching yer nuts and spitting is really, really tough. Whew.

Offense? Those guys busting ass sitting in the dugout warming the bench are frickin ironmen! How DO they do it?[/quote:ak57jrz9]

Ha, ha!!! No foolin'. That alone should tell you something about that "List".
Is says it was compiled by a grand total of 8 "Panelists". Wow, 8 washed up, never was's decided the atheletisism it takes to play 60 sports. Pure science I tell you.

For those 8, running 60' to 1st base in a softball game probably is pretty tough.[/quote:ak57jrz9]


I don't think the list is about deciding which sport requires the most "athleticism".....

I would like to poll the people that came up with this list and ask how many of them have actaully riden a dirtbike? You can't judge something you have never done. Kind of like referees that have never actually played the game they officiate (sp?). I think Water polo should be higher on the list also. It may be boring to watch, but if you stop swimming, you drown!

[quote="APLMAN":37kr6jzu][quote="zookrider62":37kr6jzu]Haha look what else we lost to, Cheerleading


And curling? Come one.[/quote:37kr6jzu]


"We" didn't "lose" to anyone.

The experience you get from riding/racing won't change one bit based on a silly list by ESPN......[/quote:37kr6jzu]
I think you took lost to literally. I was just saying out of the 60 sports they considered difficult Curling and cheerleading were one of them.

The only credibilty they have is that it says difficult not athletic. Which is no excuse for leaving off moto, but it would explain fishing and baseball. While not that demanding it does take dedication to learn it.

[quote="APLMAN":orhjonu8]

I don't think the list is about deciding which sport requires the most "athleticism".....[/quote:orhjonu8]

OK, it says "Most difficult". The list is still garbage.

Schlereth emailed me back and conceded that the ESPN guys are clowns.

Hey hey now, don't dis Curling!

I tried that shit when I went to Canada, and its damn hard to throw that rock straight down the ice, especially after 6 or 7 Mooseheads.

Why would anyone take that list seriously anyway, it's from a network that features Poker as a "sport".