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In some of the most devastating news I’ve heard in 2015, The International Olympic Committee is officially recognizing Ultimate Frisbee as a sport.
Per New York Magazine:
The World Flying Disc Federation, which also governs disc golf and Guts Frisbee, called the moment an “incredible milestone” on its 30th anniversary. “We are looking forward to continuing to work with the IOC as our partner in promoting Flying Disc sports around the globe.”
I can’t even sugarcoat it. Frisbee sports disgust me. Frisbee sports are the Guy Fieri of sports. Frisbee sports are like if Ed Hardy and Oakley did a collaboration and promoted it exclusively through the Monster Energy Drink website with Puddle of Mudd playing in the background.
But what’s even more disgusting than frisbee sports themselves are the people who blindly promote these sports as if they’re legitimate. I once heard an avid frisbee golf player refer to golf, which was been around since 15th-century Scotland, as “ball golf.” Just no, dude. No. Don’t tarnish the sport of golf by associating it with your flying discs and insinuating that frisbee golf is relevant enough that my golf needs a clarifier in front of it so people don’t mix it up with the choice sport youth groups and Magic: The Gathering enthusiasts.
Nothing is sacred anymore. I fear that William Fritz deFries III and Steve Yzerman deFries will grow up in a world where football has been so tainted by concussions that frisbees will replace footballs in the schoolyard, and my wife will have to yell at me for shaming my kids when they tell me they’re going to play some “pick-up Ultimate in the park” on a warm summer’s night.
Maybe I just need to accept that I’ll be the old crotchety dude who talks about what America used to be while watching Tiger Woods and Tom Brady highlights on a device that hasn’t even been invented yet while oldies like “Trap Queen” and “Blank Space” play softly in the background so no one can hear me sobbing alone in my den. Dammit. .
[via New York Magazine]
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Ultimate Frisbee is the JayTas of sports
Those are some strong future children names.
The Guy Fieri of Food Photography, the Guy Fieri of Sports…Will, do you have some sort of strange obsession with Guy Fieri?
Yes.
Like everything else, frisbee was once cool, but not enough to become an Olympic sport. Also, we’ll all be lucky if kids generally go to the park and play
I never understood what the hatred of frisbee was all about but I’ll go with it. I mean at the end of the your trying to get a disc or ball or whatever beyond a line or into a hole.
That’s like saying the only point of reading a book is to look at all the words in order.
Which also may be one of the best descriptions of reading I’ve ever heard of.
A simple thought from a simple mind.
Better than Gymnastics. Don’t get me wrong, I love looking at gymnasts as much as the next guy, but any event where you lose points because your bra strap is showing is not a sport anymore, it is a beauty pageant.
I’m surprised that this site hates Frisbee. I thought frat dudes loved Frisbee. It’s one of those useless pastimes that is kept alive solely by white dudes in collared shirts that need something to do in between being creepy at bars and talking about fantasy football.
No, no “frat dudes” do not fucking use a frisbee for anything. God Damn GDIs.
Also lacrosse should be an Olympic sport before anything that has to do with fucking frisbee.
To paraphrase, fuck frisbee.