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

psycho78 said:
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.
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I hear ya Psycho78. Love MMA - and do some too. I'd rather be doing something than just watching. Kick the ball around, skateboard, grapple, spar, driving range, bike, etc...
 
Like an above poster said... Fighting is the sweet science. 2 guys against each other, having to act, react and strategize within mere seconds, exerting every bit of energy in their bodies.

Thats sport.
 
munk said:
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
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DITTO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I'm only into one sport. Football. I think its healthy. Its physical, its competitive, and its full of underdog stories, comebacks, and triumph. I know there are many people who aren't into sports. More power to you. But don't go labeling it as a bad thing. People look down on me because I'm a knife enthusiast. Lets not jump onto their bandwagon.
 
Me? I just watch my kids' sports.

My daughter rows - in the rowing club, they've got a poster that says Real athletes row. The others just play games.
 
TomFetter said:
Me? I just watch my kids' sports.

My daughter rows - in the rowing club, they've got a poster that says Real athletes row. The others just play games.
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Heck yeah, Tom!:D I was a rower in college. In high school i was a football player, a wrestler, and a track sprinter. NONE of them hold a candle to the physical and metail drain that is rowing. You gotta tough girl there;)

Also, I agree with Andy. You can't lump all football together. Hell, even the players don't matter that much if you look at it the principles that guide the game play. Lotta tactics playing the ol' pigskin.

jake
 
Yeah Jake. She might look like a slim, blonde bobblehead ... but I'm not too worried 'bout boyfriends taking advantage.:D So long as they're not rowers too ...
 
I have never been interested in competitive sports watching but I enjoy watching politics so I guess it's kinda the same in a way.
 
Rowing. Whodathunkit. I wrestled, and can't imagine anything taking as much from me. But, I take Jake at his word. Every time.
 
Anybody who isn't a fan sure finds it easy to get things done during the season. I know people who love superbowl sunday as shopping malls and the like are like ghost towns.
To each his own I guess.
 
aproy1101 said:
I'm only into one sport. Football. I think its healthy. Its physical, its competitive, and its full of underdog stories, comebacks, and triumph. I know there are many people who aren't into sports. More power to you. But don't go labeling it as a bad thing. People look down on me because I'm a knife enthusiast. Lets not jump onto their bandwagon.
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I agree exactly. Watching baseball, tennis, golf, fishing, poker, etc. is the same to me as watching paint dry:jerkit: . Pro football, frought as it is with the common evils of our corporate oligarchy, is the greatest sports spectacle of modern times. A great strategic, tactical contest, played by some the best athletes in the world. Talk about martial arts! It is also perhaps the greatest metaphor for American culture.
Anyway...:rolleyes: Got no time for any of the rest of ESPN. Maybe NBA playoffs, if I'm at a friend's house...:yawn:
aproy1101, respect from a long suffering Niner fan, not too hard to watch football in ATL this season so far.:)
I burn calories and stay sane in a variety of useful ways. At times I also suffer the sin of Sloth...
 
No sports for me. I'd rather go do something. Fishing, reading, carving, play guitar, too many hobbies I guess. Don't like all the pomp and circumstance or the trash talking (on the field, in the locker room, between fans) either.
 
I love watching sports. I know people who don't. I don't look down on them for not liking the same things I like.
 
aproy1101 said:
Rowing. Whodathunkit. I wrestled, and can't imagine anything taking as much from me. But, I take Jake at his word. Every time.
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You know, it's a different kind of "tired", Andy. It's not tired like a 3rd period grind out where it feels like you are breathing glass and you're having a stroke. It's total body exhaustion, but maybe not as acute. In wrestling, if you get sloppy when you get tired you either make up for it with strength or you get pinned. In rowing, you simply cannot get sloppy. If you lose step with everyone else, the boat slows down. The team suffers because of YOU. Also, you can "catch a crab" which means that your oar blade is swept under the boat causing the handle to rocket toward your face and knock the ever lovin spit out of you;)
If you ever did squat-thrusts in gym class or what my football coach called burpies, then you get an idea of what rowing is like. Just imagine doing squat-thursts on a place with high gravity. push off with your legs, lean back with your back, pull your arms in, feather your oar, push out with your arms, lean all the way in with your back, slide up and spring load your legs.....repeat for 5000 meters;)
Oh did i mention the power 10's?;) that's where when you get along side some one and want to pass them, the coxswain gives the command, "Power 10 in two! Ready...One...Two!" Then you give 10 perfect stokes at full power. You might do that 5 or 6 times, usually after rowing a couple thousand meters. man, it is draining. It is not a sport for meat head jocks. I like to think of myself as a so-fist-a-ma-kated guy, but i was litterally one of the least intelligent guys on the crew.
I really wish i could have done it all through college, but i decided to transfer to a school that didn't have a rowing crew. I'll never be in shape like that again;)

Jake
 
Thats awesome Jake. I'm always learning here.

As for football, I love it all. The teams working together to produce results from complicated strategies. The endurance, and watching a team loose the endurance battle. The hard hits with that bonecrushing noise that accompanies it. I love when a running back breaks a tackle and jigs toward the end zone. The trash talking. I love the trash talking (dang coonasses). The tailgaiting and drinking. The cheerleaders..... I love it all, in person, or on TV. I even love the short season. It gives me lots of time for the rest of the year to do other stuff, and also something to look forward to all year.
 
Jake, the only time my angelic daughter looks bloodthirsty is when she says the word "coxwain."

Her coach is trying to groom the crew for the Canada Games in 2009 ... the coach has been to the Worlds twice with Canada's national team, and gives no quarter. She's got this ragtag group of 14 and 15 year olds doing what you've described for 2 hours/day 4 days/week ... year round. Come December, they'll double up their time on the rowing machines (ergometers) and add in weight training till the river thaws.

The coach has warned them that training regimen will probably double in the year just before the Canada Games ... because winning there will send them to the Worlds.
 
If the motorcycle races aren't considered sports, and I can be forgiven for the suerbowl than I don't care much for telivised sports.

I tried to watch a ice hockey on tv once, turned out what I thought was the puck, was a speck of dirt on the screen, I watched it for 20 minutes.:yawn: .
 
If I have to watch football at least it's big men in tight pants. I always take the side of the ball. 3 points for incomplete passes, 6 points for all fumbles (one more if the carrying team picks it up and 2 more if the defending teams steals it), and 10 points for all interceptions. I always win............:D

As for car racing, what a waste of natural resources..........and I''m not even a tree hugger.
 
Not strictly true of course . I worked with a pro football player . I have nothing but respect for their abilities . I don,t watch much that I don,t participate in .

Baseball ? Same thing . I can watch it for a while . There is just no great connection to it .

Archery , darts , knife throwing , fire making . Now thats the start of an Olympics that I would watch .:D :D :
 
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