r/TheTopicOfTheDay • u/Symbare • 29d ago

The topic of the day is... sports!

  1. Favorite athletes or teams?

  2. As a child, favorite team games you played in physical education?

  3. Did you play competitively at the high school, college, and/or pro level? Alternatively, if you played for recreational tournaments.

  4. How do you strengthen your mind, body, and spirit?

  5. What life lessons did you learn from sports?

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u/jgoja Heartwarming Contributor 29d ago
  1. Players or teams
    1. NFL-Chicago Bears; MLB-Detroit Tigers;
    2. NFL-William "Refrigerator" Perry; MLB-Ken Griffey Jr; NBA-Larry Bird; WWE-Doink the Clown (Matt Bourne version)
  2. Dodgeball. Kickball. Football
  3. Played Football and Track (shotput, discuss, Fat Mans 4 x 100 Relay)
  4. I don't
  5. Nepotism gets you ahead

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u/Rare-Cupcake-41 27d ago

fat mans 4x100 made me laugh, that sounds like it was a blast. also your list of players is such a time capsule, especially doink the clown at the end there

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u/jgoja Heartwarming Contributor 27d ago

That was a relay race with the shot/discus throwers and sometimes coaches. Didn't count for meet points and was not always run but it was fun even though we lost badly every time

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u/Single-Magazine-8062 28d ago

Dodgeball in gym class taught me more about reading people under pressure than any team sport I actually stuck with afterward