Just caught the end of the darts Premier League on the Evil Empire. Phil Taylor was playing somebody called Michael van Gerwen. Darts is one of those sports that I don’t watch yet I forced myself to watch the conclusion of this. It ended 6-6 for those that are interested.
What did catch my eye was at the end of the game it looked as if MVG (that’s what the commentators call him) was going to throw his darts into the crowd. Was this customary at darts? You know, just like the golfers that throw the golf ball to the spectators at the end of the Open. I waited for the carnage. Thankfully, for the punters, he was just kind of a punching the air with his darts.
If you ask me I’d say chucking missiles at the audience would make the sport a lot more exciting.
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We watched some world championship or other over new year, there was literally nothing else on, we’d even watched all the ‘2012 highlights’ more than once!
What struck me was the crowd! They can see nothing of the actual throws ‘cept what’s thrown up on the big screens before them, surely you could get the same effect with a few mates at home for a lot less money?
Don’t quite see the attraction, no voluptuous cheerleaders complete with tassels and pom-poms, just a dingy hall with rows and rows of tables full of (drunk?) screaming blokes!
The tournament we watched had the ‘9 dart finish’ in it. I mentioned how easy it would be to fix that sort of thing, no problem having the dartist (darter, dartee?) chuck three darts in the vicinity of trip 20 but for the producer to show us an early throw (ONE HUNDRED AND A–TEY the announcer shouts) The audience are so far away they have no idea, so a conspiracy wouldn’t be that hard to manufacture, would it?
As for chucking the missiles into the crowd, I quite like the idea but I’d advocate for it to be done after every throw, that way more of the ‘fans’ would go home happy 😉
Probably as high as a kite like all the other ‘athletes’!
Presumably spear chucking and pint lifting qualifies as athleticism these days?
One seriously wonders whatever happened to all their hair, I had no idea frontal lobotomies rendered morons hairless!
JW, very intriguing – a 6-all draw. Didn’t they have a penalty shoot-out – first one to maim the ref wins?
PS Darts is of course a pub and club game designed for fatties who can’t reach the cribbage board. It became a spectator sport before the telly arrived. Later the big screen telly became the show. That’s what the modern ‘live’ spectator watches from a safe distance.
I prefer darts games like this
They were playing darts at the seminary. A monk was at the oche, throwing a treble twenty and then a twenty, but the last dart bounced back off the wire and hit the Mother Superior in the forehead..
The scorer called out, “One nun dead and eiiiiggghhhtty!”
Taxi? For me?
OZ
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Great comments/video all round. Cheers! Make mine a double!
OZ, I’m 100% confident that your joke will go down well at the Rangers game today.
Special mention to Mrs O. I’ve just noticed that the “score shouter” is as billiard ball-headed as MVG.