Sport or Hobby?
 

Comrads:

By a show of posts, how many of you consider Miniature Football:

a) A sport
b) A hobby
c) both

Carpe Diem,
Paul L. Gardner

P.S. - If there is no point on the ball, what is the point to the game.

If there is not a buzzing sound coming from your driveway on any given weekend or weekday in the Fall, then you are not having fun.

Both

Sport or hobby?
 

I guess I consider it a hobby first since a hobby is defined as an auxiliary activity, a favourite pursuit or spare-time pursuit practiced for interest and enjoyment.

This is how Webster's defines and explains a hobby: Hobbies are practiced for interest and enjoyment, rather than as paid work. Engaging in a hobby can lead to acquiring substantial skill, knowledge, and experience. However, personal fulfillment is the aim. Pursuit of a hobby often has calming or helpful therapeutic side effects. In some cases, however, (for example in collecting) the line between a hobby and an obsession can become blurred.

How many of us have crossed that line?

Sport on the other hand is defined as an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition.

Some interesting synonyms for sport: amusement, entertainment, recreation, fun, game, fun and games; diversion, divertissement; reaction, solace; pastime.

So in that respect, I quess it is a hobby and a sport for me.

Hobby
 

Hobby ! ppcrn

definitely....
 

a hobby.


Benster from north of the border

The hobby part I believe is painting and building. The game part is playing. This is not aa sport.

Sport
 

EF is not something that you just play with and just enjoy doing. There is competition involved, and that makes it a sport to me.

I think it s a hobby. A sport involves some sort of physical exertion, like in the bedroom. ;) I guess that would explain why my wife always says I'm a poor sport. :rtfl: :rtfl: :rtfl:

Its a sport, its a hobby and makes 100's of julienne fries...and THATS NOT ALL...buy now and you get two times the fun with our special offer, but you must act NOW to recieve your free gift of a Sham Wow field cleaner!

Yeah, that Sham Wow comes in real handy to wipe up Jimbo's tears when he loses. :rtfl: :rtfl: :nhnh: :nhnh: :nhnh: :nhnh:

Game and Hobby
 

I think we had this exact same question posed a short while back.

I would fundamentally call "electric football" a GAME, like chess, checkers, or any other kind of table top game. Yet with all that goes into the game (painting, customized figures, tweaking bases, board making, stadiums, etc)...I call that a HOBBY.

hobby!!!!!!!!!! but what a great hobby it is!!!!!!!!!!thmbsp$ thmbsp$ thmbsp$

Sport or Hobby
 

It's a hobby to me because it's way more than just competition! If all you do in the hooby is compete, than it's a sport to you. If you do more than compete, ie. tweek, paint, create, etc., than it's a hobby!

Smitty

i want one
 

:rtfl: by the the way its a great hobby, and the same exertion as a game of chess and, does that make it a sport or just a hobby, to me its both.:nhnh: :nhnh: :nhnh: :nhnh: :nhnh: stop drewling al , jimbo left.:rtfl: :rtfl: :rtfl: :rtfl: :rtfl: :rtfl: :rtfl: :rtfl: :rtfl: :rtfl:

As per the (dictionary) definition of sport....

1. an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
2. a particular form of this, esp. in the out of doors.

So, the answer to your question is simple. MF is a hobby and yet another form of table top gaming. Warhammer, Battletech, Risk, etc., all fall under the same category. MF is not a sport. Nor is Electric Baseball. Rod Hockey, Air Hockey, Foosball and the like are quite a bit closer to the "sport" category but are still not considered as sports. They do require some sort of skill and "physical prowess", however slight on the physical part, that MF lacks.

MF = Table Top Gaming & Hobby.

-Mike Pratt

Familiar?
 

Mike is right, this is a HOBBY! I love it as much as the next guy but it is what it is. On the other hand, it's a free country so you can call it what you want.

(Didn't we have this conversation earlier this year?)

Peace ~

it is a sports-hobby.


now if you play in my new tournament (name forth-coming) where there will be no chairs..... you play on your feet for timed 1 hour 30mins first half with a 2 min period.... get a 15 min break.... play the 2nd half same as the first.

this way, you are in the game, your QB will be tired when going to pass the ball.... mental mistakes will happen when you are tired....etc.


in interest??

It is a hobby that has manifested into a "Sportobby" or a "Hobbort"
 

..for me it was a hobby as a child, it went hand in hand with racing slot cars. Now it is indeed a hobby when I am collecting teams and trading for EF stuff. The sport aspect manifested when I begun to join leagues and play competitively. The hobby aspect is what I do when not in competition....tweak, build team, boards...etc. The sport is what drives me to travel and fellowship with fellow EF coaches. The hobby aspect is when we tweak, trade bases, sell EF items etc....thmbsp$