Why frisbee isnt a sport

Does the field hockey team fight for time on the basketball court? Certainly not. Unfortunately, Frisbee is not a real sport and therefore it has no field.

In fact, Fletcher should be reserved for nothing at all. It is the one Tufts athletic field that you do not have to be on a team to use. And what happens when we get there? The most unbelievable thing is that the Frisbee people have convinced some administrators in the athletic department that it is a sport I shudder at the thought that my tuition money might be used to pay for ultimate Frisbee jerseys or cones.

So when we logically tell the Frisbee people that we were using the field first, they take out their laminated paper saying that they have been given the right to the field. On a softball field! I do not understand how they can set up their cones in the outfield and then get upset when they have to dodge fly balls. That is like going to sunbathe on the discus field during a track meet and then getting pissed because people keep throwing discuses at you. Can anyone really take seriously the idea that these Frisbee people are more entitled to the field than an IM softball team?

Naturally, we try to be rude to them. The funny thing is that the Frisbee people are the only ones that we have issues with. If two softball teams want to use the diamond, one waits its turn for the other to finish, or they play together in a spirit of camaraderie.

Everyone shares, compromises, and make room for one another. I admit that they try to be polite about it, but they set up their cones and courteously try to kick everyone off just the same. Enough of this quasi-sport stuff.

The athletic department needs to come to its senses and realize that playing Frisbee is not a real sport and stop giving the Frisbee people the right to use up Fletcher. Either that, or it needs to recognize ultimate Frisbee as a sport I know it is ridiculous, but bear with me and give them a field of their own. While cleats are certainly helpful, they are far from required, and there are no expensive pads, sticks, rackets, bats, clubs or helmets that might otherwise create a barrier of entry for the sport.

Ultimate also has one other massive advantage over most other popular team sports: relatively straightforward rules. Hockey and soccer both have their own version of offsides, neither of which make much sense at first glance. There are, of course, more detailed rules to ultimate, but most of them are rarely relevant, and they are still for the most part common sense, understandable to a casual viewer or player, even if the minutiae go unknown.

Ultimate is often played in informal or low-level competitive settings with no referees or observers, the referee-lite equivalent used for some competitive ultimate matches. Thus, players must discuss among themselves on rule-related disputes making self-explanatory rules must be necessary, so that new players can participate in these deliberations. Nearly continuous play during points avoids the infinite breaks and marathon games that disrupt baseball or football.

The International Olympic Committee created a new policy in their strategic roadmap that would allow for the addition of five new sports for each games, without replacing existing Olympic sports. For example, the organizers of the Tokyo Games won approval for their proposal to add baseball, softball, karate, skateboard, sports climbing and surfing to the list of Olympic sports next year.

The catch? The new additions should appeal to youth viewers and should promote female athletes. Ultimate is often a mixed sport, meaning that men and women play together on the field. This mixed-gender event is something that the International Olympic Committee is interested in featuring, Rauch said. Ultimate players and fans have voiced concerns online in regards to ultimate's involvement with the Olympics, as some believe that a more competitive environment might destroy the Spirit of the Game, which is ultimate's tradition of using no referees.

Instead, players are expected to to display honest, fair judgment in regards to rule-following and calling foul plays.

And we've proven that it's still highly entertaining on TV.