“... if a player sets down his drink to take his turn, it’s not a sport.”
A weak response ... if you played defense in football, what did you do when the offence was on the field? I’ll tell you - sucking down Gatoraide until it was your turn to play whereupon you put down your drink to take your turn.
Granted curling is shuffleboard on ice but it takes a lot more to do curling than shuffleboard will ever aspire to. I enjoy watching it also.
They weren’t sipping Gatorade when curling ;-). I doubt many football players are grabbing a whiskey coke between plays.
I was really just pointing out how I teased my brother back then-that’s why I mentioned the sports I played vs curling. It was an ongoing rivalry.
Like I said, I hail from a tiny town that prides itself on its curling tradition. I love the game. It requires skills more than extreme physical effort-even when sweeping like crazy to direct a rock. My brother was a competitive curler and his clothes were never dripping wet with sweat like my son’s football uniform after a game. It’s very different than typical sports.