What Sport Do You Care The Least About

[THUNDER HANDS]

I'm a huge sports fan, but there are some sports that come on tv that I just can't stand.

You?

[jenk]

1. extreme sports, golf, nascar, basketball

in that order

[Stupdworld]

2. badminton sux0rz

id seriously have to say badminton. i mean it has a "shuttlecock"
come on! shuttlecock!

[THUNDER HANDS]

4. badminton rocks

There's a school on Long Island that went 350-0 over the course of two decades I believe.

:)

[LynneSin]

27. At least Badminton is a sport

and not men driving around real fast in their cars in a circle

:eyes:

[supernova]

3. Not the least interested

Sports mostly bores me to tears. I'd much rather spend the time reading a good book, seeing a play, contemplating a painting.

[mac56]

5. Figure skating.

nm

[Javneh]

6. Lemme see...

get in a car and drive in circles really fast... 'sports' more boring to watch than car racing could only be Bowling or Golf (argh, I loathe Golf!)

[OldSoldier]

7. It's soccer for me

I know soccer is "the most popular sport in the world." I don't like it.

[mac56]

9. An old joke:

Do you know why so many Europeans play soccer?

So they won't have to watch it.

:evilgrin:

[Blue_Chill]

8. NASCAR

The races are way too long for me to give a damn.

BTW - can they build a few tracks that are more then just boring ass ovals?

[jmowreader]

24. I wish!

Bruton Smith's fucking the whole thing up. He has put up several tracks in the 1990s. All of them are configured like Charlotte--a mile and a half long and D-shaped. And most of them are flat--Homestead's flat, Chicago's flat, Kansas is flat. California isn't too far from being flat, but it's Roger Penske's track and it's a two-mile speedway.

Someplace like Darlington, which is egg-shaped, would never be built today. Someplace like Daytona, which has super high banks, would never be built.

I'd just like to see someone put up a track with a right turn in the backstretch.

They don't even have to build a new track--Road America doesn't have a race, Road Atlanta doesn't have one. They don't race on temporary courses (like the Grand Prix of Monaco, which is held in the middle of town) anywhere.

[DrGonzoLives]

10. Golf, even though it's not really a sport

n/t

[Blue_Chill]

12. It's a game

And it puts you to sleep faster then a Lieberman speech.

[rjbcar27]

11. I'm a die hard sports fan

If it's competitive, I'll watch it. But I voted for basketball and although I loved playing it, I just don't think it's much of a spectacle on TV. If it's the playoffs and there's 5 mins to go, maybe I'll tune in.

Baseball bores me to tears most of the time, but I appreciate a good matchup more nowadays. Football can be good but the amount of dead time just pisses me off.

Hockey is life. I love hockey.

Soccer I adore.

Golf can be great to watch occasionally as can tennis.

NASCAR is motor racing and therefore part of my life. I eat, sleep, drink and fart motor racing.

[deaniebopper]

13. Curling

I just don't get it.

[CO Liberal]

14. Pro Football

Overpayed jocks playing in taxpayer-funded stadiums for the benefit of fatcat owners.

[VermontDem2004]

26. You play 16 games through injuries

and tell me if they are overpayed. It's funny how you point out football players but why aren't baseball players overpaid, why not Pro Basketball players? Kevin Garnett just got a deal to get $25 million a year for 4 years in which by the end of his contract he just earned 100 million in 4 years, he will get more then that if he continues to play the way he does those next 4 years.

[Cheswick2.0]

15. football, I even hate the sound of the stupid game on TV

even when I am busy doing something else and I hear the game on the TV, it annoys the hell out of me. Soccer is such a better sport as is track and field, baseball and almost any other sport.

[Superfly]

16. Can you even call NASCAR a sport?

I mean, all they do is sit there on their butts and go around in circles.

Weeeee...sounds like fun!

It's like this, you drive 6-hours to an amusement park and all you want to do is ride the go-karts.

[rjbcar27]

20. Of course it's a sport.

And it's far more physically demanding than most people think. What a large majority of people don't realise is that the most demanding thing about motor racing is keeping 100% concentration for a very long time. This is extremely tiring and takes a huge amount of stamina.

After I race, I very rarely drive home as I'm fast asleep within 5 mins of sitting in the car!

[jmowreader]

31. It's a lot more than sitting on your butt

There's teamwork--many races are lost due to bad pit stops or bad pit strategy--or badly-timed cautions.

There's on-track strategy--should you go low? High? With Harvick or with Matt Kenseth?

There's pre-race preparation--the very best chance of winning comes from arriving at the speedway with a car that's close to what it needs to be on race morning. Guys who show up with a car that doesn't perform right off the truck very rarely win.

There's engineering--how good of a car can you build and still stay within the rules?

There's sheer luck--if the 48 car runs into the wall, will he take us out with him?

There's balls--you know you have to pass this guy to win the race. You also know you're on a restrictor plate track, where you need a drafting partner to win, and no one wants to drop out of line to help you. (Mainly because you started that 19-car pileup last weekend, and the 18 cars behind you were all in it.) Do you try to pass the guy? Dale Earnhardt would have; then again, Dale Earnhardt could pull air out of nothing if he needed to, and you're not Dale Earnhardt.

And, of course, there's the most important factor in winning: what Richard Childress calls "cubic dollars." Teams who can afford to spend a lot of money on their car win races. A crew with a $12 million budget will win more races than one with a $5 million budget.

[Emboldened Chimp]

17. Golf, the world's most boring sport to watch

and the least fun to play. I do not understand the fascination with this aggravating and utterly lame "sport".

[Awsi Dooger]

18. Baseball, home of the stupidest argument of all time

"The hardest thing to do in sports is hit a baseball"

Hello? It's 1 on 9, Captain Kirk. Slightly a factor, don't you think? Yank a few of those procrastinating helpers and suddenly a .400 or .500 average would be commonplace. Name another sport in which the manpower odds are so unfairly stacked, or even remotely close. Make hockey 1 on 9 and suddenly scoring a goal is the hardest thing in sports, etc. Yeah, it's a big playing field. More places to spit.

And I love those geniuses who attend baseball games and bring a glove, seemingly regardless of where they sit. Let's see, the next time I sit in the stands at a cow chip throwing contest I reckon I'll bring a plate, fork and bottle of ketchup.

Worst athletes. Lowest level of intensity. Lowest caliber of play. Most games. Same opponent several days in a row= yawn, we win today, then you might as well win tomorrow. Only in baseball is a 2-1 favorite considered huge (equivalent to a 4 point football fave) and a .600 winning percentage somehow remarkable.

I have bolted to Europe many summers to play golf and avoid baseball. Not a peep on the BBC, even if someone hit 300 home runs. Glorious!

It's not a pure individual sport like golf or a pure team sport like football or basketball. The wonderful physical matchups like tackle vs defensive end or point guard vs point guard are basically nonexistent, or at best a few times per game and not dozens and dozens. Primarily, other than an excuse to throw resin bags on the ground nothing happens at all.

It's also hysterical when a line drive heads straight to an outfielder. "He had him played perfectly!," the announcer gushes. The next inning a similar shot will zoom past the same outfielder by several feet. Have you ever, even once, heard a baseball announcer say, "He had him played wrong. Probably should have been 6 or 8 feet farther to the right."

Oh yeah, NASCAR requires a machine. Take them out and it qualifies as a sport.

[VOX]

19. American football. Three announcers in the booth, all screaming...

at the top of their lungs, overanalyzing every muscle twitch. More swooshing graphics than the mind can tolerate. Full-bore commercials that blast at your few remaining brain cells. Down on the field, overpaid steriod cases bash about and clown it up in the end zone. In the boxes, the owners count their multi-millions.

Years ago, I used to enjoy football, until I realized that the NFL was owning too many of my Sundays. I have seen every possible formation, every impossible catch, every possible bounce of the ball, every "gosh-what-a-tremendous" hit.

I find NFL football very depressing to watch now.

[DemExpat]

21. You forgot cycling........

that's my least favorite to watch on TV......
BORING......................

DemEx

[HuckleB]

28. So you say...

I love watching cycling on television and live. Whether it's road racing of any stripe or track racing, which is quite exciting on the tube, in my opinion.

[mitchum]

22. all of them except for cockfighting (the true sport of kings)

[geniph]

23. Wow, so many incredibly boring choices

so few options to vote! I basically only like a very few spectator sports, and they tend to be individual sports like figure skating or gymnastics. Almost any other sport, I'd much rather participate. Watching overpaid steroid cases run around with a ball is not my idea of fun. Neither is watching people ride enclosed rockets round and round a circle. And it completely astounds me that people will actually WATCH golf or bowling. Weird-o-rama. Different strokes, I guess.

I like watching dog agility better than pretty much any human athletic endeavor.

[VermontDem2004]

30. I hope you realize

the league tests for steroid use. You need to go beyond the myths you hear about the sport, have you played 16 games getting hammered by professional athletes? If not how can you pass the judgment they are overpaid, I know quite a few people who work for usto work for Team doctors and they said they earn every penny they get.

[populistmom]

25. I had to say football

Although NASCAR is probably a tie, growing up in Nebraska gave made me OD on football by the time I was 10. I just can't get into anything about it (other than making stupid jokes about the "tight end")

Sarah

[curse10]

29. can we really call nascar a sport?

it's driving a car, real fast. Where's the athletic ability?

[maxanne]

32. there's a joke about this

Something like Non Athletic Sport for Cretins And Rednecks.

[BlueJazz]

33. Don't care for Basketball....To Spastic

Reminds me of watching the people who work at McDonalds.

[Kat45]

34. All of them except hockey.

The rest suck. But right now, with all the hoopla about the Red Sox here in Boston, baseball is on top of my list of sports that suck.

[SmileyBoy]

35. I don't really think golf is a sport.

I don't know why SportsCenter puts it on the same eschelon of football, basketball, hockey, baseball, soccer, etc.

[Exultant Democracy]

36. college football and pro basketball are a dead heat

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