sports you just can't get into

[day_for_night]

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interesting side fact :

the PBA (bowling assoc) was bought out by 2 former Microsoft programmers who retired at the ripe age of 30, they ripped apart the rule book and encouraged "personalities" for the bowlers, and got sponsors on. they are now making cash hand over fist.

ya i couldn't believe it on my last trip to the states, when i turned on espn and saw bowling commercials! thought i'd had one too many virgin pina coladas

[Jenks]

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St. Louis, home of the World Champion Cardinals... and the Bowling Hall of Fame.

[threehills]

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ya i couldn't believe it on my last trip to the states, when i turned on espn and saw bowling commercials! thought i'd had one too many virgin pina coladas

Yeah, you see a comercial for bowling and you're just waiting for the punch line, like for the Geico lizard to come out and say something witty..

[day_for_night]

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St. Louis, home of the World Champion Cardinals... and the Bowling Hall of Fame.

now *that* is going on my list of things to see before i die...

[Jenks]

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thought of another one...

Track and Field. "OH OH LOOK, HE'S GOING TO OUT RUN THAT OTHER GUY...GO GO GO...YAAAAAAY HE WON BY .23094 SECONDS!!!"

I can get into summer olympic games like the field stuff, but the running stuff, whoop dee doo.

[threehills]

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thought of another one...

Track and Field. "OH OH LOOK, HE'S GOING TO OUT RUN THAT OTHER GUY...GO GO GO...YAAAAAAY HE WON BY .23094 SECONDS!!!"

I can get into summer olympic games like the field stuff, but the running stuff, whoop dee doo.

I dunno, the 100 meters is exciting I think...knowing who the fastest man in the world is seems kinda neat to see. now watching a marathon....SNORE.

[subterFUSE]

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I don't like watching sports.... I like playing them.

I hate baseball, soccer, basketball and football. Baseball, Soccer and Football are too slow. And Basketball I was never any good at, so I just don't care about it.

Football is the most spectator friendly of all those sports, but I still don't like it. I don't even watch the Super Bowl.


I play lacrosse, ice hockey, and golf.... but snow skiing is my favorite thing in the world.

[kningl]

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Heard a quote somewhere..."It isn't a sport unless there's defense"...

...separating sports like football, baseball, basketball, hockey, etc., from athletic activities, like track, nascar, figure skating, golf, etc. Sports require a form of interpersonal competition, something more than solely braving the elements(or extremely subjective scoring methods)...

A classic movie, "BaseKetBall," might have introduced to people the purest form of competition known to man.

I could never see how people got excited for curling...

[toasty]

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Heard a quote somewhere..."It isn't a sport unless there's defense"...

...separating sports like football, baseball, basketball, hockey, etc., from athletic activities, like track, nascar, figure skating, golf, etc.

I hate it, and I can't believe I'm actually defending any component of NASCAR, but there is definitely defense in auto racing. They box each other out, tap each other, etc. It still blows, don't get me wrong, but I wouldn't put it in the same category as figure skating or gold where it really is just you out there. Anything that you can have just as much fun by yourself as you can with competitors probably shouldn't be considered a sport.

I do love playing golf, though...

[mnbvcxz]

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i love how ppl outside of the americas and asia say baseball is slow, yet, like soccer. soccer is beyond slow. passing is not action, im sorry. nothing happens in soccer outside of a rare goal. i mean, comon, one person guarding a net 30 feet wide by 9 feet high..... there should be a ton more goals.

You're probably watching Seria A or even Spanish football... Bundesliga isn't too bad, but at the end of the day nothing is more entertaining than Premier League. So if you watch that and you can't say it's slow or not enough goals

[apollo_1444]

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beisball and basketball,

but I think those two sports don't have any passion at all it's just a game where people pays a high price ticket and stares on their asses watching all this repetitive stuff.. it has no passion really I've seen images from espn and fox sports of fans literally yawning at the finals... and i'm not kidding.. seriously "yawning"

I actually like the NFL

[Lorn]

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I don't like basketball much either.

[algy]

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As you will see, I honor the sports that have the least record of players pending legal infractions and jail time.

A MUST
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Soccer - DC United (I'm a fucking Season Box Ticket Holder)
Winter Sports that involve SNOW not ICE (skating/hockey)

TOLERATE
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NFL Playoffs
NCAA Bowl Games


CAN'T DO
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Baseball (I'd rather watch Cricket)
Basketball
NASCAR (not even a sport)
Bowling
Golf!!! omfg

[subterFUSE]

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Baseball is NOT a sport. It's an activity.

Soccer is a sport, but it's hard to watch because there is not enough scoring. Posession also switches sides too often.

Basketball is a sport, but it's hard to watch because there is too much scoring.

Football is a sport, but I have a hard time watching it because of the breaks in the action. However, it is the breaks in the action which make football such a great spectator sport. You can watch the 5 second play, and then have 30 seconds to talk to friends, laugh, run to the kitchen, etc... and not miss the next play.

Golf.... I am torn on this one. I am an avid golfer, and low-handicap player. So I enjoy watching golf, both in-person and on TV. But I completely understand how people who don't play don't like it. I also can understand how people might not classify it as a sport. But.... let me tell you this.... Tiger Woods is one serious athlete.

Hockey. Defintly a sport. I love to play it.... hate to watch it. I don't really understand why. I think it's similar to soccer... not enough scoring, and too many posession changes.

Lacrosse. This is my favorite team sport. It's the perfect combination of fast-paced action and scoring. There's enough goals to keep you interested, but not so many that goals lose their excitement. Posession changes often, but not too much like soccer or hockey. There's lots of settled offense/defense situations, where the teams take care of the ball. Offense is a lot like basketball, except with 6 on 6 and you can go behind the goal. It is a very rough sport, too.

[Jenks]

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Baseball is NOT a sport. It's an activity.

care to elaborate on that one?