Does anybody else here not give a d*mn about watching sports?

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soupah

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Maybe I'm crazy, got a wire loose somewhere, or I'm just not a red-blooded American, but I couldn't care less about following professional sports teams. Often, other men who must think that I'm normal ask me if I watched so-and-so pitch that last inning in yesterday's game against the whosits, and I mumble some vague excuse that I didn't catch the game and quickly make my exit. I live in Chicago, so this happens year-round mind you, be it baseball, b-ball, or football. My co-workers probably wonder what I do with my time since I miss so many games...eventually, they stop asking altogether, which is a shame since it's such a common context for conversation.

I can't really give a reason why...I guess I simply cannot give a damn about the performance of individuals that in no way necessarily have any relationship to me, or indeed even the city I live in. And I find them boring to watch! Give me an action flick or the History channel, or better yet time to tinker on projects, and I'm right as rain.

Now, don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with those who like sports, and I really enjoy playing sports- played football in high school, wrestled too, love to play softball or touch football. I also like attending sporting events in-person sometimes (I was at the Indianapolis Speedway for Sunday's NASCAR Brickyard 400), but I mostly go for the atmosphere and comraderie (and drinking), not the team/event. I just can't get into television sports. Confessions, anyone?
 
Same here Soupah! My ONE "monkey" is Formula One. I am a big Ferrari fan, and always have been. Probably as much because of Enzo himself, a guy who was passionate about what he did. The product and the man were inseperable.
 
After the baseball strike....and the football felonies..and the testosterone statistics....I mostly gave up.

If a team stayed in one place, and worked together as a team, if their efforts were natural and not enhanced, well, then I might take a look. But I've more important things to do. I watch the rare sports event. Even the heaviweight titles are all confused these days... It's depressing and I never liked "Wrestling", which is pure entertainment and fraud, and where things are heading.




munk
 
I don't have the time(or the cable!) to watch, but I love to listen while i am engraving at night. It brings back memories of growing up, pulling weeds in the garden on a saturday, and hearing Richie Ashburn call a Phillies game on the radio.

I get disillusioned too, but I am a sucker for the stories, the underdogs, the guys trying to redeem themselves, etc.

I like playing too, but listening is easier on the body, at this point!

Tom
 
munk said:
If a team stayed in one place, and worked together as a team, if their efforts were natural and not enhanced, well, then I might take a look.
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Yeah, it's probably naive of me to think this way, but I guess I'd be more interested in sports teams if "my" team from "my" city was actually culled from people who lived here awhile and were more representative of the cityfolk, rather then some kid from Miami or someplace who did well his senior year.

Again, I know things don't work that way to make a winning team...but currently, it seems as if you could trade names between teams and it wouldn't make any difference.
 
I watch my home town team for football and some racing...but it's weak compared to being there.

I hit the local races fairly often...both auto and cycle.
 
Same here, Soupah.

What practicle purpose does it serve?

In time of agression is somebody going to go deep and snag the hand grenade?

Now, being able to hit your target and survive are skills with a useful purpose. But that isn't put on TV.

The gun club I belong to won't allow the use of any variation of a human looking paper target. Only bullseye targets. It's a private club, who will be offended by a sihlouette?

I feel better now.
 
I'm not a sports nut by any means. Couldn't tell you one team's stats..heck, couldn't remember more than 3 or 4 players of any one team that I actually liked. That said, I do enjoy watching the NFL on some occations. Mostly the Colts as Manning as a QB really harkens back to the day of Johny U. He's not a hulking brute, but he has a better grip of team dynamics and real time tactics than I have seen in the NFL for some time.
That said, you really are living in an area where football is football. The Bears are my team. They are always a defensive based ball club which usually means there will be some exciting hits (Face, it you guys know you watch NASCAR for the crashes not the left turns;)). Also, they went from great (22 years ago) to crappy and are starting to re-invent themselves. They actually have a head coach that knows how to use the best qualities of his players. Finally, watching any match up between two teams of the Black & Blue (Chicago, Detroit, GB, MN) will result in an unpredictable game where real heart will decide the outcome.


Other than that, I'm not much of a sports guy. Baseball puts me to sleep and I find basketball dull. For some real out there kind of stuff, check out one of the ESPNs that have the weirder games from around the world.

Jake
 
I'm not crazy about team sports, but I do enjoy yelling and beer. Therefore I will occasionally go to a pro sporting event if I can get in for free.

I like watching wrestling, boxing, etc., but don't take time out of my schedule to do so. I will, however, take time out of my schedule to watch the Scottish Highland or lumberjack games. ;)
 
college sports kick ass-
div1a basketball tourny is just great every year-

div1a football -is good till the bowl fiasco's start-then i wont watch
 
Da Bears.

How can you NOT love a team when the heir-apparent, Mike McCaskey (a TRUE horse's patooie), got FIRED by his mother? McCaskey married well and did every thing else with arrogance and a natural inability to think. They could have powered Phoenix with the energy from George Halas spinning in his grave.

Dunno. I got lucky. Payton years, Jordan years...and of course, that magnificent annual event of the Cubs fading in August or September.

I think I must get caught up by some phenomenal talent to take an interest: Tiger Woods, for instance. I don't follow, but will watch from time-to-time.
 
The only team sports I like watching are gymnastics and boxing.
If you can call boxing a team sport.....

I can enjoy something like basketball if I am at the game itself, but not on TV. I can't get into football at all. It seems weird to me - the guys should really have Khukuris if they want to play war.

Boxing is one sport that is better on TV than live. I can ignore much of the blood and guts on TV, but live - the blood flying everywhere is a bit much for me.
 
I can't even fake liking professional sports! I could care less for alot of different reasons. To each his own, but the sports memorabilia cracks me up. Allright, sure I collect knives and spend quite a bit on knives that I'll never use. If society failed they would still have some use, become more usefull even. A rare baseball card would hardly be good to start a fire with.
 
CapnJake said:
I can't even fake liking professional sports! I could care less for alot of different reasons. To each his own, but the sports memorabilia cracks me up. Allright, sure I collect knives and spend quite a bit on knives that I'll never use. If society failed they would still have some use, become more usefull even. A rare baseball card would hardly be good to start a fire with.
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How about if you shaved it into a small pile of tinder with your really sharp knife?:D
 
I'm 6'3, 260lbs and a fairly muscular young man. I've heard this line my entire life:

"Dang...you a big ol' boy....you play football?"

They all kind of deflate and walk away when I tell them no, and that I have no interest in most popular sports whatsoever except fight sports. I just cannot for the life of me understand the game of professional football or the allure of it.

I think that I'm like most people here. I hate to watch the stuff, and do not follow sports teams whatsoever....but I like to occasionally get out with friends and swing a bat, throw a ball, or tackle the hell out of a buddy into a mud puddle. I like to participate.

As far as any televised professional sports, I love the UFC and mixed martial arts, kickboxing, boxing, and strongman competitions. I also actively participate in those things too.
 
I don't really care for team sporrts. Always been more interested in individual achievement myself. I guess that is why the only 'sport' I watch at all is boxing, as it is the effort of two men, each one trying to outthink and out punch the other. The Sweet Science.
 
I always chalked it up to me being a big nerd but I have no interest in sports. Unless hurling rocks from a sling is a sport, which I like very much.

Frank
 
Even as a kid, I was bored with team sports,and wanted to be in the woods with bow or .22......Nearly 6' in seventh grade, all the adults anywhere in my immediate vicinity decided I should be involved in basketball. I hated it, but over my protestations, they kept me involved until 9th grade. At that point, they let me ghost away into the woods.

Halfway thru my junior year in high school, I was recruited by the local college for the fencing team, which I enjoyed for the next 5 years. If you screwed up, it was all on you....no excuses allowed. Hunting was (still is) my passion....especially deer and (!) groundhogs, along with accurate rifles and handloads. When I got into DEA, I particularly enjoyed ferreting out drug lab operators, and fugitives other guys gave up on. The following quote is a favorite......

"Their is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter."
Ernest Hemingway

That pretty well sums up my position.
 
IMHO, organized sports is like any other staged entertainment, only usually not air conditioned and the boxes of popcorn are really small.
 
I have no great passion for professional sports, though I like watching a good race now and then. If I'm going to watch football, I'd rather watch high-school or college. I'll watch my kids play soccer, thank you very much.
 
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