Phil Taylor is a legend

semi-pro waster said:
Any game that I can play in a pub and my skill level may be improved by drinking a pint I just cannot countenance calling a sport. It's a very skilled game, there is no doubt about that, but these men are not athletes in the conventional sense.

Phil Taylor is an amazing darts player, a collossus of his game (at one point both physically and metaphorically) but I simply can't see him as a sportsman.
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That's what i meant.
 
Kev_19 said:
Also discounting darts as a sport due to the size of the players is invalid. We could spend all day posting photos of sumo wrestlers, golfers, baseball players, american footballers etc who all could do with a gastric band inserted!
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Golf could be called a sport because to be good, you need some level of strength and / or fitness. Tiger Woods is a sportsman.

And shirley you can see the difference between a fat sumo wrestler and Andy Fordham?!

It's all very subjective and the above is only my opinion. If you want to keep calling darts players 'sportsmen', then so be it.
 
I think people need to get past the idea that in order to be a sportsman you must be in peak physical condition.
 
Kev_19 said:
I think people need to get past the idea that in order to be a sportsman you must be in peak physical condition.
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Who said that in this thread? A sportsman is simply anyone that plays a sport, of which darts is not one.

If Andy Fordham was waddling around a football field, I'd still call him a sportsman at that time (albeit hesitantly :p).
 
The guy is epic, such an awesome darts player...one thing i like about darts is the atmosphere within the arena...sounds like a footie match at times:p...plus some of those women that accompany the dart players to the stage are quite yum yum:p

Anyhow possibly his best shot ever???

 
Kev_19 said:
I think people need to get past the idea that in order to be a sportsman you must be in peak physical condition.
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moawan said:
Sport is defined as an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature
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Moawan was defining sport, not sportsmen. Moawan made no reference to its participators needing to be 'in peak physical condition'.
 
Holy **** that guy really in unreal. He'd done (6)? televised 9-darters before last night and does 2 in a single night - simply amazing.

What annoys me is the same people as ever wading (wade.. wading.. harhar) in here banging on about darts not being a sport. It gets tiresome, but if this was posted in GD it'd be moved to the SPORTS Arena no doubt.
 
Lol at getting annoyed by internet people.

If it was in GD then you are right to say it would probably be moved to the sports section, but I don't understand your point. Are you saying that OcUK mods speak for the entire world when classifying activities as sports or not?
 
Professional darts is a sport, therefore the darts players are professional sportsmen. Is that a fair assumption to make?
 
Kev_19 said:
Professional darts is a sport, therefore the darts players are professional sportsmen. Is that a fair assumption to make?
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If you accept that professional darts is a sport then the people who do it at that level would be professional sportsmen. I don't accept the premise that darts is a sport therefore I can't accede the point that they are professional sportsmen - they're engaged in playing darts professionally or they are professionals at the game if you prefer it that way but there are lots of things that people do professionally which require a high degree of skill yet I can't contemplate them as sports.
 
Spawn said:
The guy is epic, such an awesome darts player...one thing i like about darts is the atmosphere within the arena...sounds like a footie match at times:p...plus some of those women that accompany the dart players to the stage are quite yum yum:p

Anyhow possibly his best shot ever???

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Burloody hell. :eek:
 
My god, people like Wade, Barney, Fordham etc have had their days over the years, but Taylor seems to be carving himself out a legacy that will last until Darts is completely forgotten.
 
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