Jews & Sports

What's this then?

I never heard of Gabe Kapler

I only know Gabe Kaplan

Read up, bubala

Oy vey!

Bang the ( ) slowly

It's not a bad question. There's a difference between athletic ability and coaching athletes who play college or professional sports. It's child abuse, at least from this jew's perspective. To develop a professional athlete, it often requires a parent who believes the sport and the child's development of skill is the most important thing on the planet. Every waking moment outside of schooling is geared towards training the skill and developing the body. If an adult wants to do this to themselves outside of their job, fine. But to do that to a child? It's abusive. Middle america and texas specifically haven't caught up to this concept.

It also requires a lot of parental involvement and obsession. Jews don't think its worth abusing your child, possibly destroying their brains and bodies, so that they could be the 1 in 10,000 who has a professional sports career (that can be ended with a single injury that is not the kid's fault).

I knew a girl who trained for the olympics in ice skating. She gave it up after high school and hasn't been on the ice in years--and that's a recreational activity. She wasn't forced by her parents, she wanted to do it at the time, but maybe her parents lack of insanity and refusal to abuse their child is why she didn't succeed.

Read about Jackie Chan's development as a martial artist. He was abused with a rigorous training regimen that started around age 3. Forced to do repetitive motions thousands of times with great physical pain involved. That's how he can do such crazy stunts--his entire conscious life, he has been getting hurt. His brain knows how to turn off pain.

I'm r7 and I forgot to mention that to develop a child athlete, the parents need to be obsessed as well. The cost is often very high and the time commitment it takes on behalf of the parent to create a professional athlete is all consuming. It is more important than their own careers or social lives. Just like the child, it is all they are focused on.

The girl I knew who ice skated--she wasn't driving herself to the ice rink so she could be skating by 5am. And she then wasn't driving herself to school two hours later. Think of what it does to your life when you need to be out of the house by 4:30 am and then sit in a freezing cold ice arena (or in your car in better weather months). By the time you get to work at 8am, you've been going for 4 hours. You'll probably be asleep by 8pm. Imagine what that does to the social life of the average suburbanite. Imagine what it does to this adult's own career advancement. And the cost is up to tens of thousands of dollars per year. For what? Im glad this (now woman) realized she didn't want to pursue pro or olympic skating. Think of what her parents gave up in terms of time and money to entertain this when she was young.

There are plenty of Jewish athletes OP

There just aren't all that many pro athletes in general.

Basketball is largely a height game--if you're 5'8" there's not much you can do.

Football is largely a weight game - easy to be a linebacker if you weigh 300lbs

Which leaves baseball, soccer and hockey for average sized men (not just Jews) with lots of athletic ability.

And the Israeli National Baseball team, which is comprised mostly of former American Jewish college players. came in fifth place at the 2021 Olympics

There's also the Maccabiah Games which are sort of like the Jewish Olympics.

My cousin was on the

I, a Jew, had a Catholic friend who didn’t understand why I seemed to take a greater interest in Jewish athletes. He would point out that he didn’t take any particular notice of Catholic athletes. He didn’t seem to appreciate how rare the successful Jew in sports was.

R12- Do you have anything light?

How about this leaflet Famous Jewish Sports Legends.

LOL, R13, that was the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread’s title

14 posts and no mention of this guy?

Max Kellerman (born August 6, 1973) is an American sports television personality and boxing commentator. He is currently the host of This Just In with Max Kellerman on ESPN. Kellerman is active in Jewish cultural activities and, according to The Forward and the Yiddish Book Center, speaks Yiddish.[

Who can forget... Howard, "Look at that monkey go", Cosell?

David Beckham is Jewishish.

r13 it's better to have the clip

R7 Incredible insight my friend. It does take a certain obsession to develop an athlete. There are definitely parents that take it way too far…def abuse. It also depends on the environment you grow up in.. ie Texas. I have a jewish friend that played hockey from age 5-20. Lol - missing teeth etc. He grew up in Minnesota.

R7 Interesting perspective and I'm inclined to agree. One very odd thing I have noticed about people who go 100 percent into competitive sports ( swimming. Lacrosse, gymnastics) from an early age and stick to it is that they seem to have either a strange blandness or arrested development later on.

Because we have so many other talents to rely on. Why do sports when we can just as easily become brain surgeons and CEOs?

From a Jewish perspective, there’s a very small chance you’ll be successful as an athlete. But a very good chance you’ll be successful as doctor, lawyer, etc etc.

Jews don't like to sweat, which is why they hire someone else to do it for them.

I'm not sure what Gabe Kapler is doing at R1 if he's not sweating at least a little.

Sweating is not the problem. It’s standing a field with a bunch of guys with whistles barking orders at us.

What am I, chopped liver?

For the most part, Jews are moving on with business, whatever the business may be. They don't plan to make sports a career...or they don't consider it a career. There are exceptions, but as I said--for the most part.

Who needs the aggravation?

[quote] Jews don't like to sweat

If that were the case why move to Florida?

R30. The Jews aren't digging ditches in Florida. There are escaping the winters of the Northeast and New England.

The Jews are sitting in air-conditioned delis having lunch and complaining about traffic and their monthly condo association fees.

Sports are dangerous- Just let one kid fall down and seven mothers faint.

[quote] The Jews are sitting in air-conditioned delis having lunch and complaining about traffic and their monthly condo association fees.

It’s like an oven in here!

[quote] Jews don't like to sweat

WRONG. Jews love a good shvitz!

A Jew in Miami: "You need an air conditioner? I can get it for you wholesale."

A rugby teammate of mine made the US team for the Maccabi games. He is so hot. One of the most beautiful men I’ve ever seen. And he wrestled in college. Such a beautiful hairy chest and ass.

Actually, before World War Two boxing was a "Jewish Sport" ; both boxers and fans. For the immigrant generation Andrews, their newly born American children, it was a way to earn money and get out of tough inner city neighborhoods. Google Barney Ross (also a war hero) and Benny Leonard.

I love a sexy hot hairy Jewish man, Tony Dokoupil, Oliver Jackson Cohen.

I am sure many DLers jerked off to this Jewish gymnast

Olympian Aly Raisman did her winning floor routine to the tune of "Have Nagila"

Barry did JV tennis his sophomore year at Horace Mann.

I assume most Jews are too smart for sports.

Either way, they’re hot as hell. Second only to Brits and other Northern Europeans. I love a gorgeous Jew with a thick piece of meat between his legs. Oh god do I love the Jews.

[quote] Jews don't like to sweat

Why not? They can just take a shower.

I wrote r7 but just a reminder, that you might see someone with incredible natural ability, but any of these sports is a SKILL that requires the athlete's entire life to center around playing the sport. Their sleep schedule, diet, every moment outside of legally required schooling/studying, is about training. They often have few close relationships because they practically spend more time at the training facility than they do at home (including hours of sleep). And you're not talking about adults, you're talking about teenagers and pre-teens most of the time. We now recognize this as child abuse. No child should even have the right to commit to a life schedule like that.

Black athletes don't want Jews as team mates.