Sports athlete into metal

[Badbird]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1015989/index.htm


A good article I readed just now. I can only think of one athelte that listen to metal.

I always see guys like 85 Bears, Deion Sanders, and Shaq rapping but not playing some metal.

 

[Blind Guardian]

As much as I can enjoy sports, athletes are the last people I'd ever want to spend time with. I'm sure there are some exceptions, but most of them are empty. Seriously diving into the arts or anything with aspirations towards some form of spirituality just doesn't combine with that kind of mindless existence. At most I guess you can find a Metallica fan here or there, something to get them "pumped up" before whatever they're doing.

 

[Dak]

Several members of the Dallas Cowboys started a heavy metal band. I think it's called "Free Reign" or something. I know 2 of the offensive linemen are in it (Leonard Davis and Marc Columbo)

 

[Badbird]

I have heard of that band Dakryn. I read that once on a sports news site.

 

[Badbird]

As much as I can enjoy sports, athletes are the last people I'd ever want to spend time with. I'm sure there are some exceptions, but most of them are empty. Seriously diving into the arts or anything with aspirations towards some form of spirituality just doesn't combine with that kind of mindless existence. At most I guess you can find a Metallica fan here or there, something to get them "pumped up" before whatever they're doing.

What is empty about them Runk?

 

[Blind Guardian]

What is empty about them Runk?

Tom Brady, they've dedicated a large amount of their lives training their bodies and perfecting bizarre skills, like slapping with a stick on a piece of rubber for instance. Because of this, they've had to sacrifice the sowing of any other serious cultural interests (because their sport demands total dedication), and thus they will eventually leave their sports behind as rich but empty shells, their single "forte" as human beings already used up at the age of 35.

 

[Badbird]

Athletes do other things like be in movies and music as well Runk.

 

[Hail The Wizard!]

I have heard of that band Dakryn. I readed that once on a sports news site.

Oh yeah I readed some stuff the other day too.

 

[Blind Guardian]

Athletes do other things like be in movies and music as well Runk.

But listen (read) here Tom Brady, these kinds of appearances rarely reach an artistic level higher than Shaq assuming the role of hard hitting Marvel hero Steel. They are allowed to do it because they're famous, and they do it because they get money. These are not cultural deeds which demand a character of skill, substance or integrity!

 

[RedFox742]

From an objective standpoint, there's nothing that makes the performance of athletes any different than the performance of actors or painters. It's all performance entertainment. A great play can live as long as a great work of art.

Also, athletes give much to the world after retirement. Most become coaches for kids, the same way many underground musicians who don't make enough from their bands to have a living supplant their income by giving music lessons.

 

[Badbird]

Oh yeah I readed some stuff the other day too.

I just fixed my post.

 

[Chimaera]

Is it really worth explaining something to someone who thinks readed is an actual word.

 

[Badbird]

But listen (read) here Tom Brady, these kinds of appearances rarely reach an artistic level higher than Shaq assuming the role of hard hitting Marvel hero Steel. They are allowed to do it because they're famous, and they do it because they get money. These are not cultural deeds which demand a character of skill, substance or integrity!

Lots of athletes do great charity work all the time.

 

[Hail The Wizard!]

Is it really worth explaining something to someone who thinks readed is an actual word.

Good point :zombie:

 

[Blind Guardian]

From an objective standpoint, there's nothing that makes the performance of athletes any different than the performance of actors or painters. It's all performance entertainment. A great play can live as long as a great work of art.

Also, athletes give much to the world after retirement. Most become coaches for kids, the same way many underground musicians who don't make enough from their bands to have a living supplant their income by giving music lessons.

In a way, that's a valid point. However, I disagree that "It's all performance entertainment". A 100m track & field race, or the movie Steel, is performance entertainment. An Atheist song or a Bergman movie is art. That is, you watch the two first examples and get what you see, while you listen/watch the two latter ones and interpret, imagine and learn from them.

 

[Badbird]

Any sports or Shaq movies and music is entertainment. Stanley Kubrick movie or a Darkthrone song is art.

 

[Blind Guardian]

Yes Tom Brady. You could of course argue that, when Nicole Kidman teases you with her sexy tits and look-through linen in Eyes Wide Shut, or when Fenriz sings about hiking like a metal punk in some fucking forest, they too are conducting performance entertainment. However, on the whole you are of course right about Stanley Kubrick and Darkthrone being art.

 

[Badbird]

I think having Genesis(Peter Garbriel era)would be a better explan than Darkthrone as music. I haven't seen Eyes Wide Shut yet but his other movies look like art.

 

[Badbird]

Also what do you people think of that article? I like the facts in it I didn't know like Bob Marly injured from playing football.

 

[Blind Guardian]

I think having Genesis(Peter Garbriel era)would be a better explan than Darkthrone as music. I haven't seen Eyes Wide Shut yet but his other movies look like art.

Ok, maybe that would also be a good explan.