Is Darts a sport?

[derek kelly]

Phil Taylor is annoyed because he hasn't been invited to the BBC sports personality of the year award

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/tm_ob...adline=taylor-blasts-bbc-snobs-name_page.html

So do you think he can be classed as a sportsman or is he just a Dart chucking Bloater with two convictions for sexual assault?

 

[Duck n Dive]

How can you call chucking little pointy sticks at a wall a sport........

 

[chuffmeister]

shouldnt this be a poll ? c7u8

 

[derek kelly]

shouldnt this be a poll ? c7u8

I don't think it would stick in the board, that's why darts have points.

 

[Murt]

How can it NOT be a sport?

You have to stand up.
Throw those huge, heavy projectiles, with accuracy, over a massive distance.
Usually bend down to pick them up off the floor.
Walk all the way to the board.
Heave the darts out of that round thing.
Then walk back to the 'chucking point'.

Have you seen how much liquid those athletes need to consume.

THAT is sport.
d04l1ng
Murt.

 

[Codbasher]

Darts and Snooker are both 'pub' games, both with the reputation of smoke filled rooms etc, snooker has a massive following with people like Steve 'interesting' Davies taking the Sports person title, darts never did get the followers that snooker seemed to get.

Yes it is a Sport, as it is competitive, I used to play for a Pub team (Boars Head, Northop Hall in Wales) and was asked to play for the County, had to turn it down as never had the time to practise as much as I needed to, and at that time I was playing every day....

Guess darts never took off as the players did all come across as pub louts, heavy drinkers and smokers, sweaty not the clean cut cut image that snooker pertrays on the telly..

I could go on............... bl4hbl4h

 

[ianrobbo1]

I could go on............... bl4hbl4h

we know!!! oh boy do we know!!!! :bang:

 

[gypsy]

See what you meen Ian
yes or no would have done

 

[Cronos]

BBC sports personality of the year award

Sports Personality?

An oxymoron if ever I heard one!