DCC Appreciation Thread...

[boozeman]

Well I was staying in barracks and eating at the galley so I didn't get any COMRATS (food allowance) or what we called BAQ/VHA (housing allowance), plus I was paying into my GI bill and savings bonds at the time so... mid 80's as an E-1 or E-2 that was my paycheck.

I am sorry you had to eat wool clothes while enlisted.

 

[Cotton]

I am sorry you had to eat wool clothes while enlisted.

Dude...

 

[Irving Cowboy]

I am sorry you had to eat wool clothes while enlisted.

It wasn't wool clothing, but I can honestly say there were times when it tasted like it.

 

[bbgun]

I guess it was a lot because I had just entered the navy and was making $250 a month at the time.

Merrimac or Monitor?

 

[boozeman]

The United States has to be higher than this, especially in certain areas.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

No kidding, I can't believe we aren't #1.

On another note, get your shit together, Cook Islands.

 

[ravidubey]

The United States has to be higher than this, especially in certain areas.

42.7% is a ginormous number, especially when you apply it to our population

 

[data]

Yeah, well, more significant is what % identifies as obese. And stop trying to shame us.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

42.7% is a ginormous number, especially when you apply it to our population

What do you think the percentage is on DCC? 80%?

 

[data]

Is golf a real sport?

Forgot I asked this question.

The determining factor for me about golf is that your opponent has no direct effect on your game. Even in most racing - speed skating, NASCAR - you do directly fight opponents for inside, ie shorter distance/advantageous, position around the track. Can block others, too. Strategy for energy conservation, pack pacing and drifting.

As a real sport, golf is closer to bowling than it is volleyball or tennis.

 

[Genghis Khan]

Yeah, well, more significant is what % identifies as obese. And stop trying to shame us.

I will say though that medically obese is not what most people think of as obese.

 

[Cotton]

Forgot I asked this question.

The determining factor for me about golf is that your opponent has no direct effect on your game. Even in most racing - speed skating, NASCAR - you do directly fight opponents for inside, ie shorter distance/advantageous, position around the track. Can block others, too. Strategy for energy conservation, pack pacing and drifting.

As a real sport, golf is closer to bowling than it is volleyball or tennis.

You have been thinking about this way too damn much, Phil.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

The determining factor for me about golf is that your opponent has no direct effect on your game. Even in most racing - speed skating, NASCAR - you do directly fight opponents for inside, ie shorter distance/advantageous, position around the track. Can block others, too. Strategy for energy conservation, pack pacing and drifting.

What about most track and field events? Or gymnastics or swimming? Or plenty of others.

 

[data]

You have been thinking about this way too damn much, Phil.

Besides football, is there another sport where majority of players typically don’t handle (ie throw, catch, dribble, set) the ball?

 

[Chocolate Lab]

What about them?

They don't have opponents directly affecting them, or jockeying for position, etc. That happens in the longer track events but not in the 100, 200, long jump, discus, etc.

 

[data]

They don't have opponents directly affecting them, or jockeying for position, etc. That happens in the longer track events but not in the 100, 200, long jump, discus, etc.

What about them? Many of those focus on one specific skill/activity.

Michael Phelps can win double digit medals while a Kobe Bryant can only win one per Games. If basketball were broken up into medals for 3-pointer, free-throw and shoot-offs…

For Phelps, how’d he fare applying a medley of his aquatic talents at water polo?

 

[data]

They don't have opponents directly affecting them, or jockeying for position, etc. That happens in the longer track events but not in the 100, 200, long jump, discus, etc.

Golf at least ties several elements together - the drive, putting, hitting from rough/sand/fairway. Plus it’s 18 holes for several hours.

For swimming, track and field, they’re doing the event once, for the most part, under same conditions, relatively speaking, for a few minutes max.

Same as golf, I wouldn’t consider swimming, track field or gymnastics in the same category as football, volleyball, tennis, baseball, hockey, water polo, cricket, hurling, badminton, reluctantly even pickleball. Dodgeball is in the group.

Maybe I draw the line before ping pong. Same with billiards, curling, cornhole, shuffleboard and gameday chatter. Gotta be a higher level of movement.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Golf at least ties several elements together - the drive, putting, hitting from rough/sand/fairway. Plus it’s 18 holes for several hours.

For swimming, track and field, they’re doing the event once, for the most part, under same conditions, relatively speaking, for a few minutes max.

That's a different issue from the point that your opponents don't affect you, though.

But that said, what about the decathlon/heptathlon/pentathlon, etc.? They do different things.

I dunno. I'm a huge golf fan and I think it's more of a game than a sport. I get the argument, it does take athletic ability to hit the ball, but anything that can be played by fat slobs doesn't seem to fit it for me. They tried to act like Tiger made it athletic, but he just bulked up for looks, for the ho action.

 

[data]

That's a different issue from the point that your opponents don't affect you, though.

But that said, what about the decathlon/heptathlon/pentathlon, etc.? They do different things.

I agree with you in that golf, gymnastics, track and field events share the non-affect aspect. Just remarking where you could distinguish golf from others if you wanted to create sub-categories.

I wouldn’t put the -thons in the same category as football, basketball, et al. As long as they events are performed continuously, they’re in the racing group with NASCAR, speed skating. But not the -thons where you perform an activity today, then afternoon, then later tomorrow.

Don’t ask me about potato sack races

 

[data]

I dunno. I'm a huge golf fan and I think it's more of a game than a sport. I get the argument, it does take athletic ability to hit the ball, but anything that can be played by fat slobs doesn't seem to fit it for me. They tried to act like Tiger made it athletic, but he just bulked up for looks, for the ho action.

I’ll say this about golf. When you don’t have to worry about 2.5 seconds before a 250lb linebacker affecting your accuracy, it’s in a different category.

Throwing accurate passes at the Scouting Combine is much different than QBing with Micah Parsons chasing you.