Why is it that people regard tennis as a 'wussy' sport, and american football as...

[ZarfotZ]

...a 'manly' spor? This nonsense stereotype has gotten out of hand. I really wish it to just stop. Just because tennis has no physical contact, so noone can break each other's bones, doesn't mean it is wussy.

Tennis requires skill, endurance, mental endurance, power, spin, accuracy, consistency... The incredible rallies they have in the game could leave the most toughest audience rocked and breathless. The endurance is unbelievable, the matches at the top level require so much energy to win...

American footy or rugby, or any of that crap beating each other sport in my opinion has no point to it.. What I see on TV, is all these fat men tackling the daylights out of each other, and the commentator raving on and on about beating up fatties... Seriously... Half the nation is in love with this thing but what's the point of it? Do they just watch it to see people's abdomen's tear off?

Anyway, thoughts please. And help provide ways to prove that tennis is NOT wussy.
Maybe I should just go into the American football section and start raving on and on about this stuff. Show the weeners there our sport is more manly than your armpits will ever be.

Nah, on second thought that'd probably get me kicked out of there and deleted.

 

[Sarah]

Because people are stupid.

 

[Ryan]

I also despise football... I think that it's a preconceived thought, that football is 'cool' or 'manly'. It's just how it is. But lets see a football player hit a serve 130+ mph... Too bad they can only muscle everything.