X-Games WTF

FadeMyPlay · 01-27-13, 09:23 PM

Who?

TwoWays · 01-27-13, 09:24 PM

Fcking crazy white kids with nothing better to do, who else? I don't know there names though.

onacloud · 01-27-13, 09:26 PM

http://xgames.espn.go.com/article/8880731/caleb-moore-treated-heart-contusion-snowmobile-freestyle-crash

FadeMyPlay · 01-27-13, 09:33 PM

Nice, now a stuck throttle on one sends it flying in to the crowd.

SportsPedagogy · 01-27-13, 09:33 PM

I assume the only reason we have them is so that white people feel relevant in sports. Because other than that the only thing the winter Olympics show me is which country has more rich white kids. What's it cost to go skiing -- $900 a day? I can't believe that's not more popular in the inner cities.-Daniel Tosh

sickler · 01-27-13, 09:43 PM

Originally posted by SportsPedagogy

I assume the only reason we have them is so that white people feel relevant in sports. Because other than that the only thing the winter Olympics show me is which country has more rich white kids. What's it cost to go skiing -- $900 a day? I can't believe that's not more popular in the inner cities.-Daniel Tosh

$900 a day

...must be a fancy place in the tropics with artificial snow. Or I don't get out enough and experience the world.

An adult season pass at Camp Fortune is a bit over $500. Yes, ski as often as you want for the season for the flat rate.

Deuce · 01-27-13, 09:45 PM

Skiing for the day is like $40 at really nice places.

TwoWays · 01-27-13, 10:01 PM

I swear, if one of those snow mobile lands plush on one of those fellas, goodbye to life.

opie1988 · 01-27-13, 10:15 PM

Originally posted by Deuce

Skiing for the day is like $40 at really nice places.

Yep. Include Boyne in there. That's what I just paid.

Going to Jackson Hole next Christmas. Lift tickets are only like $65 there, and its super nice.

Skiing is expensive.....but cost hasn't kept the brothers from buying $300 sneakers.

Deuce · 01-31-13, 01:09 PM

Dude died today. Unreal.

sweep · 01-31-13, 01:13 PM

Originally posted by Deuce

Dude died today. Unreal.

extremetirerotators.com

onacloud · 01-31-13, 01:14 PM

Originally posted by Deuce

Dude died today. Unreal.

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http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/caleb-moore-update-x-games-snowmobile-star-dies-days-after-wreck-at-winter-x-games-in-aspen

Crazy shit man was only 25

Dom177 · 01-31-13, 01:17 PM

First ever x-games fatally. Not counting the serious injuries and death of people training for the games. Sad but I bet there won't be any uproar from people.

Deuce · 01-31-13, 01:18 PM

Originally posted by onacloud

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...games-in-aspen

Crazy shit man was only 25

Bet he wouldn't have wanted to go out any other way though.

FadeMyPlay · 01-31-13, 01:47 PM

Originally posted by Dom177

First ever x-games fatally. Not counting the serious injuries and death of people training for the games. Sad but I bet there won't be any uproar from people.

A few years ago a motocross guy died during the games freestyle.

Jeremy Lusk.
Just looked it up, Jeremy did not die at an xgames, was another competition in costa rica.

MrPlow456 · 01-31-13, 03:04 PM

Originally posted by sickler

$900 a day

...must be a fancy place in the tropics with artificial snow. Or I don't get out enough and experience the world.

An adult season pass at Camp Fortune is a bit over $500. Yes, ski as often as you want for the season for the flat rate.

The passes are the cheap part. Travel, Lodging, and Equipment are all much more expensive. Any sport that requires large amounts of space, expensive equipment, or both have been limited to well-off suburban kids, most of which are white.

Cuse0323 · 01-31-13, 03:19 PM

that sucks, I enjoy watching some of this stuff but it is insane. sad that he passed, he was talented at what he did, as crazy as it was. RIP

onacloud · 01-31-13, 03:34 PM

Originally posted by Cuse0323

that sucks, I enjoy watching some of this stuff but it is insane. sad that he passed, he was talented at what he did, as crazy as it was. RIP

Fu*k yeah he was I couldn't imagine doing any of that shit on a snowmobile and I ride them all the time they really are the shit nothing like getting a group of buddys and hitting one of the frozen lakes on them shits fun as hell then summer time you got the jet skis boy can't wait 3 months away!

mynameismud · 01-31-13, 03:38 PM

just a freak complication after surgery to control blood around his heart. very sad. caleb was only 25.

rscheckler · 01-31-13, 03:52 PM

RIP

William Walters · 01-31-13, 03:55 PM

Originally posted by rscheckler

RIP

Sheckler.....who's ghost are you pal?

GUMMO77 · 01-31-13, 05:03 PM

Originally posted by SportsPedagogy

I assume the only reason we have them is so that white people feel relevant in sports. Because other than that the only thing the winter Olympics show me is which country has more rich white kids. What's it cost to go skiing -- $900 a day? I can't believe that's not more popular in the inner cities.-Daniel Tosh

Like golf --- It's to keep certain peoples in and certain peoples out.

ThaTopMoron · 01-31-13, 05:23 PM

ban it now per Obama

TwoWays · 01-31-13, 06:26 PM

It really is sad, more so because you knew that shiz was coming with the type of insane stunts those kids were doing.

nosniboR11 · 01-31-13, 06:28 PM

God Bless the family

cankid · 01-31-13, 08:12 PM

crazy stunts, sad ending

FrozenMAN · 01-31-13, 08:30 PM

stupid ass sport...wtf is this shit

Harold Baines · 02-01-13, 12:23 AM

I wonder if ESPN will run this story into the ground since the X-games are their baby. I doubt it. Too busy talking about concussions in the NFL.

innovation · 02-01-13, 12:35 AM

Do they sign a release form for these things? I feel terrible for that family and ESPN better lawyer up. Always pushing the envelope but sadly it's ever enough.

onacloud · 02-01-13, 12:44 AM

Originally posted by innovation

Do they sign a release form for these things? I feel terrible for that family and ESPN better lawyer up. Always pushing the envelope but sadly it's ever enough.

You think the family will be able to sue ESPN?

Of course they sign a release they know the risks

Dutch · 02-01-13, 01:01 AM

Flipping snowmobiles is a fuking sport now?
Xgames are a marketing tool to sell more Mountain Dew and Monster energy drinks.

tto827 · 02-01-13, 01:19 AM

Originally posted by GUMMO77

Like golf --- It's to keep certain peoples in and certain peoples out.

Whatta call a bunch of white guys chasing a black man? The PGA tour (post cheating becoming public)

Condolences to the family of the athlete who died, time to re-evaluate when that happens.

William Walters · 02-01-13, 11:22 AM

Originally posted by onacloud

Of course they sign a release they know the risks

onacloud is correct.........release form is signed during athlete registration

FuzzyDunlop · 02-01-13, 11:35 AM

Originally posted by opie1988

Yep. Include Boyne in there. That's what I just paid.

Going to Jackson Hole next Christmas. Lift tickets are only like $65 there, and its super nice.

Skiing is expensive.....but cost hasn't kept the brothers from buying $300 sneakers.

I don't think you can get a half day in New England for under $50 anymore, really nice ski towns, but conditions on the slope are not western powder nice.

Originally posted by Dom177

First ever x-games fatally. Not counting the serious injuries and death of people training for the games. Sad but I bet there won't be any uproar from people.

There will be less uproar than there was over the luge competitor that died at the last Winter Olympics.

Originally posted by Dutch

Flipping snowmobiles is a fuking sport now?
Xgames are a marketing tool to sell more Mountain Dew and Monster energy drinks.

This is dead on. Pun intended.