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- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -2/+81This happened in my glee club last year, about a dozen or so of us came down with herpes fabulouso.
- lupinus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+45In related news: cheerleading team gets banned for genital herpes outbreak!
- UglieJosh, on 10/12/2007, -8/+50Kid: You are so gay for being on the wrestling team (insert a bunch of mount position jokes).
Friend: Wrestling is manly. There is nothing gay about being on the wrestling team.
Kid: Then why did you quit the team?
Friend: I caught herpes from one of the other boys.............. - strohs189, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32@kyoung989
I was a wrestler for four years in high school. I have never had Herpes, Ringworm, Cauliflower ear. I guess if you take care of yourself like you are supposed to then most of these thing are not a problem. It also helps to have good mat-maids, to bleach the crap out of the mats everyday.
@skitzzo
I wrestled in the 189 weight class and ate whatever I wanted if you wrestle at your natural weight you dont have to worry about that stuff.
I know my opinion of wrestling is not the common one here so digg me down if you must. - fishsoda, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18Until today I was not aware that there are a bunch of homophobes on Digg.
Wrestling is one of the most physically demanding sports in high school athletics. If physical contact with another human being automatically makes you homophobic please grow up.
Wrestling, in various styles, is one of the world's oldest sports.
Homophobes, "professional wrestling", and generations of laziness have nearly killed the sport. - dsendecki, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15@sockpuppets: If I could give you 10,000 diggs for that comment, I would. It made me snort milk out of my nose.
- Afrotronics, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Herpes gladiatorum is herpes that you get from the wrestling mat. I just takes one person and one mat. Then BOOM! the whole school has it.
- Skitzzo, on 10/12/2007, -9/+21lol I think you forgot anorexia (to meet weight) and little man's syndrome
- small3687, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I'm just thinking about the confusion that comes from tellilng a girlfriend you have herpes. "No baby, I swear I didn't cheat on you I got it from the mat."
- rlh1, on 10/12/2007, -8/+19You feel that way because everyone knows the wrestlers could kick the basketball players butts......
- Netmindstorm, on 10/12/2007, -17/+28"Proof once again that no one should wrestle.... ever"
What type of crap statement is that? Where's the other proof that makes this "once again"? You've obviously never wrestled or done any type of competitive sport before (and no, submitting digg stories doesn't count as a "competitive sport"). Having competed in most every major high school/college sport (expect baseball, bowling, gymnastics, and golf), wrestling is one the most physically and mentally demanding sports and it is also one the best for building and determining a person's true character. Can diseases such as herpes and staph be easy spread by wrestling? Hell yea; with the close contact, and the gallons of sweat from 20+ wrestlers, it's bound to happen. That's why hygiene is really important: shower before and after your matches/practices and make sure the mats are clean as well. I think the Minnesota State High School League took the right action here, but it is hardly proof that no one should wrestle. - drumline21, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Sorry for the long post, but i feel this is needed.
Having wrestled for 7 years, I always hated when people would diss wrestling and call it a stupid gay sport. Most people who diss wrestling either have never done a competitive sport or just don't understand it.
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In college its not the football players who are most respected, its the wrestlers ( at least from the colleges I know of ). A couple of my friends wrestled in college, one at Michigan State and two others at EMU. 275lb line backers would not to mess with the 125 or 133 lb wrestlers cause they will kick their butts. They knew that wrestlers put in more time and has a mentality to take pain.
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People who say wrestling is gay or stupid because u touch each other is just showing their ignorance. I could call gymnasts tramps for spreading their legs all the time. I could call male swimmers gay for shaving their legs and arms all the time. I could track runners stupid for running in circles for fun. But know what. nobody does cause they understand these sports and don't make stupid claims. Wrestlers get a bad image cause stupid people talk about how touching other men is gay, while once someone does the sport they will never say that again.
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Wrestler don't starve themselves all the time. Cale Sanderson( Olympic gold medalist and 1st undefeated college wrestler) drinks a 6 pack of mountain dew every day and still makes weight. Its the stupid wrestlers who think that in order to be good, they need to wrestle 10 or 20 lbs below their natural weight that starve themselves. I tried this for 3 years in high school and failed to reach my goals. Then senior year, I wrestled my natural weight and kicked ass and never had cut once.
So, for everyone that say bad stuff about wrestling, your just ignorant and don't understand the sport. I don't care if you said that stuff before, but if you are going to say mean things about something you have never done, then screw you and go back to mothers basement. - ski309, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Cauliflower ear isn't a disease. And when I was in high school it was some of the basketball players that were the pricks.
The article says it's simplex 1, which is what gives you cold sores. Correct me if I'm wrong, but last time I heard almost all people have cold sores by the time they're 30.
strohs189 is right about wrestling your natual weight, except that there are a lot of cases where the coach forces the players to lose more weight than they should... not cool. - rlh1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I played football for 4 years, wrestled for 7 years.
8 minutes on a college wrestling mat was like a 2 hour football game compressed into those 8 minutes.
It is a very physical demanding sport. - plarp, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15so you wear tights?
i wear the required uniform.
tights? - dman24752, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9you know, if you're wrestling and you get herpes. I think you're doing it wrong...
- wahooka, on 10/12/2007, -7/+16"proof once again why no one should wrestle" ok...
wrestling is the most difficult sport there is. nothing else is close. it is physically and mentally demanding. practices consist of running 2-3 miles. then you actually start practice which includes drills, calisthenics and wrestling. most people can't make it thru practices nevermind matches and tournaments.
anyways poster it's a good thing you didn't wrestle. you would have been stuck in seconds, usually a bit embarrassing with the large crowds. - JD52, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Herpes.... The gift that keeps on giving.
- ubuwalker31, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8From wikipedia page on Herpesviridae family of viruses:
* HHV-1 = HSV-1 (herpes simplex virus 1): causes oral and/or genital herpes (predominantly orofacial)
* HHV-2 = HSV-2 (herpes simplex virus 2): causes oral and/or genital herpes (predominantly genital)
* HHV-3 = VZV (varicella zoster virus): causes chickenpox and shingles
* HHV-4 = EBV (Epstein-Barr virus), lymphocryptovirus: causes infectious mononucleosis, Burkitt's lymphoma, CNS lymphoma in AIDS, PTLD or
Post-transplant lymphoproliferative syndrome, and nasopharyngeal carcinoma
* HHV-5 = CMV (cytomegalovirus): causes infectious mononucleosis, retinitis, etc.
* HHV-6 = Roseolovirus: causes "sixth disease" (known as roseola infantum or exanthem subitum)
* HHV-7 = closely related to HHV-6; causes roughly the same symptoms
* HHV-8 = a type of rhadinovirus = KSHV = Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus: causes Kaposi's sarcoma, primary effusion lymphoma and some
types of multicentric Castleman's disease
B virus (Cercopithecine herpesvirus-1, herpesvirus simiae) is a simplexvirus endemic in macaque monkeys. Human zoonotic infection with this virus
results in severe pathogenesis and often death in untreated individuals. - wrestlingnrj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@strohs189: Wrestling 189's was the advantage that you had for being in one of the larger weight classes. Being down at 125's it is extremely difficult to wrestle people you're own natural weight because they're cutting down from 2 weight classes above you. It's a viscous cycle.
- wrestlingnrj, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Sorry, but wrestling is the greatest sport ever, not just a great sport.
- RyanChappell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Wrestling is the best sport.
From a participant POV, strategy, countering moves, allowed me to defeat opponents that were much stronger, even ones on steroids.
Watching it is as close to boxing as you can get in HS, unless your school has a hockey team. The guys on my team would basically work moves so painful, they were submission holds, in that the opponent would put their shoulders down to end their pain. - whiledo, on 03/25/2009, -1/+7@mklebel
"And ***** all you wrestling haters. The people who diss wrestling are usually the ones getting their asses kicked in a cage match at some bar, because their opponent has wrestling experience."
This story was worth it just for this totally bizarre quote. I'm going to use it in other situations:
"And ***** all you Nintendo haters. The people who diss Nintendo are usually the ones getting their asses kicked in a cage match at some bar, because their opponent has Nintendo experience."
"And ***** all you Windows haters. The people who diss Microsoft are usually the ones getting their asses kicked in a cage match at some bar, because their opponent has PC experience."
"And ***** all you soymilk haters. The people who diss soymilk are usually the ones getting their asses kicked in a cage match at some bar, because their opponent has ...err... soymilk experience." - bparkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6If you want to know why wrestlers are so defensive look at some of the posts on here. Basketball players, football players, hockey players and baseball players certainly don't have to deal with their sport being called "gay" by people who have no concept of what the sport is like. Couple with that with the sport naturally attracting more aggressive people and it is easy to see why they don't just let the comments go.
- anonyjames, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9I'd say wrestling is the least gay of all sports. Here's why:
Hypothetically, if you were rolling around on a mat with a hot chick in spandex, wouldn't you probably have a bit of a growth problem? Those singlets don't hide erections in the slightest.
It seems like gay wrestlers would be easy to spot.
And, homophobia is wrong anyway, mmkay? - Kyocon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10***** off
Wrestling is great - theblueprint, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Wrestling is as close to school-sponsored fighting as you will ever get.
Then again, if you want to insist that wrestling is gay, I would suggest telling this former high school and college wrestler first: http://www.icemanmma.com/ - Thuktun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@Roche
Calling a virus "alive" is like saying the Amish Friendship Bread recipe is alive. It can't reproduce on its own, but it tricks the host into duplicating it and spreading it around. - 83457, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Digg worthy story but lame trolling in description.
- futureb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@mklebel
"The people who diss wrestling are usually the ones getting their asses kicked in a cage match at some bar.."
huh? - annonimality, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Maybe because of statements like - "Proof once again, no one should wrestle... ever...".
- rlh1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I wrestled 3 years in college, Title 9 killed our program.
They should have just made it a co-ed sport instead of axing it. - octowussy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You guys do know that just "rolling around" on a wrestling mat won't win you very many matches, right? Because that's actually just "rolling" as opposed to - you know - wrestling.
- Skitzzo, on 10/12/2007, -15/+20I'm sure the fact that it's called "herpes gladiatorum" (as in the same latin root as gladiator) is pure coincidence...
I wonder if we'll finally get the "Wrestling is Wrong" tv commercials that are IMO years late lol. - austindkelly, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9I don't think its homophobia.
I'm gay, and to me, two guys in tights on a mat "holding" each other is a little gay. Plus when they all get herpes, that just makes it funny.
I will give it respect for it being a physically demanding sport... but uh, it still looks pretty gay! - kyoung989, on 10/12/2007, -11/+15Wrestlers contract with regularity a surprising number of otherwise uncommon...uh...not cool things.
Herpes...ringworm...cauliflower ear...a false sense of entitlement. (Sorry, I played basketball and our wrestlers were pricks.) - btgoss, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I am sure there is a small amount of homophobia here.... it is mostly young men here so that would follow... but you have to see the comedic value in two guys rolling around with one another and getting herpes... traditionally that would be the description for a gay event of one sort or another...
- Palladian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Related to the iceman link, I don't think many people would call UFC gay. the UFC incorporates alot of wrestling techniques. As a former wrestler, I had to defend my sport all through high school, but interestingly enough, we had the respect of the most of the other student athletes at my high school. It was mostly the non-athletes that liked to make fun. I always thought they were a little jealous.
- curlyman500, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm a college wrestler and right now working on competing in National Greco-Roman (a different form of wrestling that allows upper body only) I'm not going to comment on what lots of these ignorant people above me said. Thank you too the people above me that have tried to show that wrestling is truly the worlds oldest and greatest sport. I hope the above people have opened a few peoples eyes to the sport. The out break is most likely cause by kids leaving with out showering or poor mat cleaning. This sucks and people will try and use it to get rid of wrestling because it's "dirty" The actual problem is usually poor funding from schools leaving the HS wrestling coach without the money to get the proper sanitizing material for his team.
- lordsandwich, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Err, you don't have to be homophobic find the idea of watching two sweaty dudes grappling to be unsettling. Just saying.
- brundlefly76, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I remember having freshman gym class once and we were wrestling, and for some god-forsaken reason my friend, whos got huge junk, decided not to wear any briefs. (THANK GOD I wasn't his opponent)
Well, he got into an extended lockup match with this other guy, and basically his massive junk was flying all over the place *completely* out of his shorts, with like 30 girls watching - this went on for what seemed like *forever*, with neither wrestler noticing because they were so locked up. The gym teacher was so incredulous he just decided to pretend it wasn't happening and read his clipboard.
The girls had a look of shock and intrigue on their faces, it was actually kinda funny - it was like the Austin Powers urinal scene - it just went on forever and got funnier and funnier. - octowussy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5What does the fact that their overweight now have to do with anything? If they don't still wrestle, or if they are no longer physically active, of course they're going to be out of shape. That goes for any other sport, as well. Take a look at former professional baseball and football players that now host or co-host television shows - the overwhelming majority of them are out of shape.
- octowussy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Not only could Lidell kick anyone on Digg's ass, but he's also sleeping with Willa Ford, who I would imagine is a much hotter piece of tail than anyone on Digg could ever score.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Anybody can be gay in any sport. I wrestled for 4 years in high school and was gay. I just wasn't attracted to kids my age so there never was a problem. Not all gays are flamers. I actually love my atv, love to wrestle still, am dreaming about getting a Dodge Cummins and also like to pound butt so there!
- diggfinity, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6im in ur matz givin u herpez
- 83457, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This infection is transfered through direct contact. Sounds like they just want a suspension for enough time so that the existing infection become visible. Then they'll know who to suspend/treat and not allow to practice directly with others.
- RyanChappell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Best comment yet!
If you are getting smeared against the mat, you are a fish! (poor wrestlers are called fish, because of the similarity to a fish flopping around on the mat) You probably also need sunglasses to keep the lights out of your eyes when you are on your back the entire match. - TheUngod, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7What the hell is wrong with you homophobes who think wrestling is so gay? Are you scared you might get a hardon seeing all the guys in tights and rolling with them? Touching a member of the same sex doesn't make you gay! Getting a rash sucks, but it doesn't make you gay! When you're in a wrestling match the LAST thing you're thinking about is anything sexual, trust me.
- strohs189, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3True wrestling 189 is a higher weight class but at 6'2" its not always a easy weight to keep, and we still had people who should be at 215 or more wrestling at 189. It happens in every class (except 275 for the most part) . It is disapointing that the coaches would push kids to do that.
- TheKillDoctor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3and then she wants to know Matts last name...
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