Thursday, May 12, 2011

Darts "The Most Entertaining Sport to Watch"


If you have not heard of Phil "The Power" Taylor, you do not love sports. Let me tell you that the sport of Darts is at an all-time high in popularity.  Some have suggested that Darts is the most entertaining sport to watch (after the bars have closed and you can't shake your 10pm triple shot mocha coffee buzz).  The key component for dart-excitement is the dart "thrower."  The most exciting "thrower" is Phil "The Power" Taylor, four time winner of the PDC Player of the Year and two time nominee for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year.  Phil, The Power, has been compared to Tiger Woods and Michael Schumacher.  Here are some key facts that make Phil the "Power" that he is: "The Power" was born to Elizabeth Taylor in 1960.  Despite his glorious success in "international" sports, his beginning were humble.  He dropped out of school at the age of 16 to make ceramic toilet roll handles.  When he picked up a sponsorship for dart playing in 1988, he abandoned his toilet-paper-handle-engineering career to play darts professionally.  To learn more, check out his autobiography "The Power."


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