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I used to watch a lot of sport back in the day.  However, after the second or third baseball strike I simply stopped watching most sports all together. 

Be that as it may, I can see why people continue to watch sports.  However, when it comes to watching sports/competitions, are there any you simply don't get?  Keep in mind this is a matter of personal opinion and not meant to hurt feelings.  My top five;

1.) Soccer -  Yes I'm American (where not getting soccer is in some places is a requirement)  but regardless, I really don't get it.  It seems like the ball floats around the field for numerous minutes and nothing, or at least nothing I can tell, ever happens much.  Goals are seldom and shots on goal seem to come every 10 minutes. 

2.) Nascar - I'm not even sure why this is considered a sport.  Watching a bunch of cars go in a circle hundreds of times is not my form of entertainment.  Unless, guns and missiles are added that is.

3.) Baseball - Ok calm down, I know it can be entertaining.  I only don't get why it has to be 9 innings.  I'd say knock it down to 6 innings and call it a day.

4.) Golf - Good for falling asleep to, other than that I don't watch. 

5.) Poker - Playing it is one thing.  Waiting in anticipation to see if a guy raises or folds doesn't make sense to me.

Theres more on my mind but I've written enough for now.  Your turn.

As a Brit, for whom soccer (or football if you like) is out national sport, I have to say, in response to the above statement, that I don't get it either. You forgot to mention the players' tendencies to kick the ball from player to player on their team in lieu of actually making progress to the other team's goal.

I don't watch much sport to be honest. I watch WWE on occasion, Gladiators, Ninja Warrior and Dodgeball. That's about as close as I come.

Ooh - this is my 100th post  :teddyr:

1) American Football - Yes, I'm British. What's the point ? It's like rugby only with armour because they're a bunch of girls  :wink:

2) Cricket - I love listening to cricket on the radio but only because I have no idea what they're saying. No one has ever explained the rules to me.

3) Male Beach Volleyball - Take a wild guess...

Cricket, for rich people who don't like to sweat.

Oh and they now consider darts a sport. No wonder kids are getting fatter, if a sportsman is now deemed a 30st alcoholic in a Hawaiian shirt.

That's 40% of people on this site  :wink:

Kidding, folks.

I hate rugby, but I do love American football I feel it's far superior.

Why?

I find motorsports to be particularly dull to watch too. The only entertaining part are the crashes and they don't happen nearly as often as one expects.

Basketball - I find it completely boring.  I couldn't even tell you the name of my state's team.  Oh!  Timberwolves.  Took me about two minutes to think of that.

Baseball - You're being entertained by a pair of announcers talking.  Other than that it's just guys standing around.  I've got several friends who watch baseball on TV and I just can't understand it. 

Soccer - yup, I'm American and I don't get soccer  :teddyr:

Basketball - I get that it's supposed to be fast paced and exciting for fans, but watching two teams run back and forth down the court for more than 10 minutes bores me to tears. The only time I'd ever want to watch a game is if I came in at the last 3 minutes and the score was close enough to make it interesting.

Baseball - My girlfriend hates me for this, being a lifelong Yankees fan, but I find baseball to be the opposite of basketball (baseball is much slower paced) yet still just as boring. I always enjoyed physically going to a game, but again, unless it's a close one and the last few innings are really interesting ones, my enjoyment usually craps out quickly.

Soccer - add me to the "What's the deal with that?!" column. :wink:

I'm also amongst the naysayers of NASCAR or any other auto racing (pity for me, growing up in a racing family no less), but I put forth the following: to those who don't consider auto racing a sport, do you feel the same way about horse racing, or is there a "class bias" when it comes to the ponies? Far as I'm concerned they're one and the same: both require conditioned drivers, both require well maintained mounts, both result in going around in circles for periods of time. Though horse racing could be considering more entertaining (few laps = less time to get bored), I don't think either should be considered a "sport" to be honest.

Most sports I can take or leave, , most of them leave. I used to watch baseball some, but not any more. American football completely sucks, but rugby still sucks a little worse (rugby players don't need pads or helmets, the game is about as rough as patty-cakes). Although I'm a gearhead, I HATE Nascar, It's not even racing, it's a contest to see who can comply with a bunch of lop-sided rules. No wonder cheating happens so often. I do watch Drag Racing, to me it's more interesting that any other sport. If you take the fastest two dragsters and the fastest two funny cars at the Sunday drags, they together produce more horsepower than the entire field in Nascar. Formula1/IRL comes in a close second. Back to football though: I've turned on Drag Racing, only to see a football game running into overtime, with 9 and a half minutes left. . .So, an hour later they're finishing up this stupid game, what with all the time-outs and running out of bounds. It just sucked. Hockey is cool, but I don't watch it much, and I really don't know the rules. I also like Sumo wrestling, between it and Drag Racing, I think their appeal to me is because they satisfy my A.D.D. since they last just seconds.

BUT, my favorite sport: MMA (mixed martial arts). I used to watch boxing, back when they really boxed, not this jab, clinch, hug, ref breaks it up, rinse, repeat for what seems like forever. In MMA  there are occasional boring fights, but if they are, it's only 15 minutes, unless it's a championship fight, and then it's only 25 minutes (In UFC, other organizations differ). I like it particularly because there are many ways to win, and I've seen some vary one-sided fights do a 180 real quick. Where in most combat sports fighters are very similar with only relatively small style differences, MMA fighters run the gamut from wrestlers/GnP fighters, strikers including boxing, kickboxing, Mauy Thai, Judo, Jui Jitsu, but any successful fighter is a combination of several or all of those. These guys are generally much smarter that the average boxer also, many of them having college degrees, and not basket-weaving 101. One of the biggest turn-offs in boxing is just how stupid some of them are. There are SO many retired boxers that have nothing because they let some idiot con them out of money. I saw interviews with Holyfield he seemed like he had an IQ of about 70. Also, when he was champ and making millions, he had several kids by different mothers that he refused to pay child support for. Talk about classless.

Anything where you need an animal or an engine between your legs is not a sport.  :tongueout:

* SOCCER (aka "football" or "futebol" outside the U.S.) - Any game that frequently ends in scores like "Nil - Nil" or "One - Nil" should be avoided.  Also, any game where the chance of someone being killed by a fanatical fan is greater than the chance of someone scoring a goal should be avoided.

* PROFESSIONAL BULL RIDING - I took my nephews last year.  They should shorten the name to "Professional Bull$*#t."

* MONSTER TRUCKS - Similar to Professional Bull Riding (see above).

* WWE WRESTLING - I have taken my nephews a couple times because they like it.  The only part worth watching is when the women come out and drop-kick each other.  But you can often see this for free on a Saturday night at your local tavern.  Damn you, Ray Mysterio!

* Any competition that involves the largest or best-looking LIVESTOCK, FISH or VEGETABLES.

* Any competition where the participants wear flourescent orange hats, hip-waders, or flannel shirts.

* POLO - Unless someone gets trampled by a polo pony.

* "Who can eat the most?" competitions (such as hot dogs or pie).  I just need to look in the mirror to see someone eating like a pig.

* ARM WRESTLING - Unless someone's wrist snaps under the strain.

* CROSS COUNTRY SKIING - Zzzzzzzzzzzzz

On the other hand, I love American Football and Baseball.  Hockey and Basketball are okay, but I can take them or leave them.

–noun
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.

Many if not most forms of racing require more athleticism that those listed, and all require skill, also more than some of those listed. If golf is a sport, then most forms of racing surely is.

That's okay then, as I don't consider golf a sport. It's like darts or pool.

I agree . . . golf is more of a "game" than a "sport."  If they let the guys wear pads and helmets and hit each other with their clubs, THEN it would be a sport.

Here's my question: Look at one of the holes at a golf course. Now, I know most people that would be on a golf course can hit that ball a couple hundred yards. Where it lands, you hit it another couple hundred yards. SO, , from about 10 feet from where you start to 150 or so yards out, the ball NEVER lands there. THEN , another dead area after THAT, where the ball never lands. So the question is, why all the wasted space? Sounds to me like a perfect place for a landfill or a cemetery.  :drink:

I feel the opposite.
US Football stops and starts, it gets really irritating  :thumbdown:
I had to switch off the Superbowl as is was incredibly dull.

Nobody plays polo.

It's just an excuse for the super rich to show off their wealth.

The starting and stopping would be OK if they got started in a reasonable amount of time. I see what they were going for when the game was first played, , but it's not now what it was supposed to be. I find it much like boxing: decades ago it was exciting, but, it's been 'solved', so it's no longer a contest, it's a mathematical formula, and the formula seems to be the safe route so to speak. Football has succumbed to something that resembles boxing's "jab HUG, , ref separates.....jab jab HUG, ref separates,. ..  circle circle jab HUG. . .". Yawn.

Agreed.  And please: that includes sports that involve riding a horse.  :tongueout:

It would be easier to name the sports I like to watch.... Actually, no it wouldn't. There was a time when I could have said professional wrestling, even if it isn't a real sport. But I haven't really enjoyed that since the late 80s.

I've been able to watch bodybuilding, because it's mainly an aesthetic thing. Then again, that kind of makes it closer to art than sport.

I used to like when a few of us would get together and watch the occasional Ultimate Fighting event on pay-per-view, but it's not something I ever watch on my own.

The only baseball game I can recall really getting into was the last time Toronto won the World Series, and then it only interested me toward the end of the game.

There are times I really do wish I could get into sports, if only to join in on the fun other people seem to be having. Super Bowl parties seem like they'd be a blast except that football, to me, is like watching paint dry. Hard to get into a game in which nobody's doing anything three quarters of the time.

Hockey is another one, being such a big part of Canadian culture. Looking at how seriously fans take the sport, I kind of envy them at the same time I'm rolling my eyes and thanking God I'm not like that.

I used to love hockey back when I lived in CA, but now that im in NM its hard to keep up with the games, so Ive been sticking with football.
I dont consider Nascar a sport at all.

MMA I can watch in moderation.  I like a good fisticuff fight but rather dislike it when the fight goes to the ground.  I feel at that point it should be broken up after one  minute if no submission hold is applied. 

Hockey is sliding, no pun intended,  in the states big time.  I do enjoy watching it but prefer seeing it live.  You just don't get the magnitude of a check against the board unless you're there. 

I dig rugby and find it tough as nails.  However I'll be damned if I can follow it. 

Another thing with Nascar...what the hell is with all the sponsors?  I mean imagine if football players slapped one hundred logos on themselves. 

I'm sure it's at least somewhat like NHRA where the sponsors pay ALL the bills. The payout for winning a race is not very much compared to how much it costs to run. John Force Racing has 3 or 4 cars and several dozen employees to pay. I know Crew Chief Alan Johnson gets paid over $3 mil a year, I don't think you can collect that much in winnings if you win every race that year. Sponsors put in the big bucks, so they get their name wherever they want, as big as they want, in whatever color they want it in. Race Teams are basically specialized marketing companies.

Except riding horses, , 'cuz horses remind me of moose, and a moose assassinated my Pimpmobile.  :teddyr:

Sports I'd ranther not watch :

Golf : Never had a desire to watch people chase a little white ball across a cow pasture

NASCAR : the whole race can be summed up as "He's turning left!!"

Basketball : Like watching someone running laps in a gym while playing with a ball to me

Figure Skating : ARGH!!! Man Batch!!!!

Faux Sports like Cheerleading, Scrabble, Poker, etc.... : These are not sports to me. If they are then we should include panic shopping as well. At least panic shopping has the violence of ice hockey with the fast pace of track.

1.) Poker- I'm not even a fan of playing it, so I really don't understand the appeal of WATCHING it on TELEVISION.  Do we really need a poker competition.

2.) Pool- I don't mind playing it at a bar, but really, I don't wanna watch it on tv.

3.) Bowling- Again, fun to play, but not for watching.

4.) NASCAR- No offense to fans of the sport, but I really don't understand the appeal.  If anyone says "The crashes", then that speaks volumes of you. :buggedout:

5.) Soccer- It's not bad, but the net is a mile long, with one goalie.  No wonder the announcer screams "GOALLLLLL!".  The game lasts a day and a half and it ends with a score of 1-0.

Only US commentators scream GOAL....

Even though I'm a pretty decent martial artists I actually do not like MMA that much at all.  To me it's really a legal street fight.  That's why I like kickboxing better than MMA.

Many people that are into traditional martial arts don't care for MMA. Could it be because nobody that has studied any pure and single martial art has been successful? The "legalized street fight" always makes me laugh because boxing and kickboxing revolve only around bashing someone in the head, any street punk can do that.

Curling.  It's a wonder anyone survives the excitement.  :lookingup:

I'm not in a traditional art, and I've studied several styles in my life time.  I just don't like it because not everyone is skilled in grappling arts (I did study judo for a while but I was never that good at it) so it really singles out those who are not as good at grappling.  I wouldn't say that you just bash people in the head in kickboxing and boxing since they do people to hit to not just the head but the body as well.

The only sport I watch on TV is professional bowling, and then only when they've got the competitors doing crazy trick shots while downing beer and nachos. 

I do enjoy watching hockey live.  My university is one of the few without a football team in my state, but we have a hockey team that's pretty good (current season notwithstanding), and I enjoy going out to cheer them on. 

I also watch our Women's Rugby team, but less for the sport and more because a lot of the girls on our team are pretty good-looking, and most of them aren't butch lesbians. 

I would, the point of body kicks are take their wind and get them to drop their hands, , , so you can bash them in the head.

You must not really understand the importance of curling. Pick up "Santa's Slay" and you'll see the fate of the universe is decided by curling.  :teddyr:

That's what I'm saying, though.

Target shooting. It would help if they were shooting at something more interesting.

NASCAR is boring.

NFL I won't watch.  Not only do I not like the sport but it was one of the major reasons Futurama was cancelled.  UNFORGIVABLE!

I don't really like sports at all, so I don't care to watch any of them really.  To paraphrase George Carlin on auto racing, "I don't want to see a bunch of redneck jerkoffs driving a hundred miles an hour in a circle.  I want to see someone who's on fire and he's punching his own head to put it out!"

There are a FEW sports I like to watch.. mainly women's beach volleyball.  I don't even really know how they keep score...

Sports are a funny thing.  Generally I can watch any sport, though there are some I'm just not interested in/exposed to.

Soccer [Football] is generally a love/hate one.  I've seen some games which were terrible, and some which were really exciting, it's just luck of the draw really.  Last World Cup got really into it since our country didn't do too badly, but watched an exhibition match leading up to the cup and I could have saved my money and bought a slab [whilst drinking it responsibly of course.]  It still wasn't bad but meh, I could have done without it.


What I find more interesting is how some sports are great to watch and not so much to play, whereas others are great to play, but crap to watch.

Cricket is a good example.  I really don't get a kick out of playing proper cricket [unless it's the backyard, with your family/friends variety] but it's great to watch, especially in the background whilst you're doing something else.  Sure sitting down and watching a five day test match non-stop is pretty boring, and it's gotta be for the players too, but if you've got it on tv and you're keeping an eye on it, it can be quite fun.

I also love playing basketball, but quite often don't enjoy watching it, except for maybe in appreciation of certain games/players.

I'm generally not too interested in motor sports, though I'll generally watch the start and the end of a race rather than sit through the whole thing.

At the 2000 Olympics I saw some rowing and equestrian.  Not that interesting to watch... The rowing wasn't that bad, but in person equestrian is pretty frustrating, since you can't follow an entire rider the whole way, since you're stuck in one spot and can't see all of the jumps and bits that they do.


I enjoy NFL but gotta say I wish they'd speed it up a bit on the breaks.  Rugby doesn't do it for me, but that's more of a cultural thing, since AFL, or Aussie Rules Footy, reigns supreme in the winter months.  Now that's something that's easy to watch.

Here's two clips.  The first is a promo from last year talking about how AFL has changed not only this country, but the world [its a nice parody ad]

The second is a promo for the 2005 season which I put in there mainly because it is such a bogan song, and that pretty much sums up footy.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsaxSpv9lmU




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzCWiXW0nCM

Really? I didn't know that, and can't quite fathom how the two relate. Then again, it's hard to find anything that relates to Futurama, it's kinda in a world of it's own.

I didn't know anything about that either. A little bit of googling turned up this link:

http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/futuramavol2.php

with this paragraph that may be what WingedSerpent is talking about

Yep, I remember that. It affected at least some of Canada as well. It was bad enough that all but the last five minutes of the season premiere of Futurama could get pre-empted (the freaking season premiere!), but they kept showing promos for the premiere as it was happening. Drove me nuts. The game could be over by 7:00 and they'd run into Futurama's slot with the pointless after-game yammering, or they'd switch to another, completely different game somewhere else. I just gave up trying to watch the show, because it was so seldom on.

Aside from finding football slow and boring (the athletic equivalent of toppling dominoes - lots of tedious setup and cleanup for a brief bit of excitement), I got to hate it from a very early age because it is the most strictly timed sport, and yet seemingly impossible to fit into a TV schedule. How can anyone watch a sport that can take three hours or more for exactly one hour of actual playing? Doesn't matter so much these days, since the shows I like usually don't have to coexist with sports on the same channel. But back in the days of 20 channels and three networks, it was maddening.