Is there anything duller than auto racing?

[BeyondGeography]

Just asking.

[Dookus]

1. yes

Golf.

At least Auto Racing has the potential for grievous bodily harm.

[BeyondGeography]

3. LOL!

Another good one, Dook.

[tridim]

2. Pro Bowling

by a longshot.

[BeyondGeography]

4. I don't know,

at least I got to marvel at Earl Anthony's haircut watching pro bowling. And how about those pants?

[Deja Q]

5. Hey, racing is cool! (read on as to why)

I love it when one of the drivers has to sneeze or scratch his crotch (glad it's a men-only sport I suppose) and they swerve and kill themselves and wreck their cars and others in the process.

THAT is why people love NASCAR and auto racing in general. Not to get even dizzier by watching people drive around in circles 500 times, but to pray and hope for massive carnage and accidents.

Actually, I deplore racing, the crass advertisement, the risk to human life (both drivers and the idiots who have front row seats, even if Bush* happens to be in the front row), and the utter waste of irreplaceable resources.

However, THERE IS NO OTHER REASON WHY anybody would sit in front of a television set to watch people drive in circles at 250MPH for 3 hours. :eyes:

[teach1st]

14. I was raised around racing...

My father raced. If one doesn't understand racing it may be boring. It isn't to me. Maybe spectators do like the crashes...I don't. I like the racing and all the strategies involved.

I love baseball and surfing, too, because I've been involved with both and understand them. I find basketball dull because I didn't play it much. But I can accept that others like it. Are all basketball fans waiting around for a collision near the basket?

[frylock]

18. don't waste your breath..

evidently racing isn't progressive enough for these elitest motherfuckers. You would be better served to spend your afternoon watching Star Trek, or Survivor, or some krap. :eyes:

[teach1st]

21. What if I told everybody..

...I read Malayalam literature while watching racing?

[youngred]

23. Oh please

just because the majority here don't find it entertaining doesn't mean that we're "elitest(sic) motherfuckers".

I'd rather spend my afternoon reading, posting or listening to music than watching NASCAR or Survivor (the New American Gladiators).

[teach1st]

29. It doesn't bother me at all what people like or don't like...

It is rather funny to read this:

THAT is why people love NASCAR and auto racing in general. Not to get even dizzier by watching people drive around in circles 500 times, but to pray and hope for massive carnage and accidents.

Unless of course the poster has studied racing fans and would be willing to share the results. As a fan of racing, I might find that insulting, but I'm too busy reading Malayalam literature.

It would be kind of like me saying to your reply: Here is why people read and listen to music: because they're too dull and mentally deficient to produce their own art.

I will admit that since I became a fan of racing, in the early sixties, the crowds have become increasingly rowdy and rude and more disinterested in the actual race. Many racegoers seem to be using races simply as another excuse to party. I don't necessarily consider everybody at a race a racing fan. It's also going to be hard to defend racing as peak oil approaches, except that the technologies for fuel efficiency and safety are a part of the many advances that auto racing has brought the public, along with Dale Earnhardt mugs and tight t-shirts on fat men.

Well, I gotta go. Professional wrestling is on.

[youngred]

32. lol, I concur

the view of racing and racing fans has become rather stereotypical in the last few years, because as you mention a lot of them have lent a decidely unappealing air to the sport.

That doesn't mean that all are that way by any means.

[Hand]

6. Cricket... n/t

[BeyondGeography]

7. These guys are excited

I don't know why, though.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

10. I agree with you 100%

absolutely the most boring sport in the whole world. The most exciting sport to watch IMHO is hurling. Ancient game of Ireland.

[FlashHarry]

8. than NASCAR racing... No. However...

...open-wheel road racing (Formula One, CART) is one of the most exciting things on the planet.

[catmandu57]

9. People don't go to see the race

They go in anticipation of a spectacular crash or two, if the driver and a dozen or so spectators get killed, especially by flying auto parts all the better.
Myself I'd rather watch paint dry.

[frylock]

17. yeah.. that's what they do

:eyes:

[DS1]

11. Online IQ Tests

Grovelling
Cooking something you know is gonna suck
Patching Windows

[youngred]

12. While Watching paint dry, pro bowling and golf on the radio

give it a run for its money, I'd have to say no.

round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and where they stop only a firey crash of death knows

[yowzayowzayowza]

20. Three hours...

turning left yet never getting anywhere... BOOOOOORING.

[youngred]

22. all that wasted Gas and pollution too

*sigh*

I wouldn't deny it to anyone else, but it just seems silly to me

[madrchsod]

13. watching paint dry

waiting for water to boil
waiting in a doctors office
watching chick flicks
500 mile races are very boring ,give me a 30 lap a-main feature on a dirt track anyday of the week.

[frylock]

15. opera

[Goldberg]

16. I don't think so.

Auto racing is about as dull as it comes.

[Kamika]

19. Baseball!!!!!

There I said it, baseball is so dull I am just amazed how popular it is

[camero]

24. Where else can you see a 30 car pile-up

without actually being in one? :)

[Skittles]

25. GOLF

I can feel my hair growing when I watch golf.

[catmandu57]

26. Yes but in golf

you've got wood and strokes and scoring huh huh huh huh.

[camero]

27. and little balls going into little holes n/t

[Skittles]

35. yeah, but no chance of an explosion

which is too f***ing bad

[bobthedrummer]

28. Fishing.

Great to do , dulling and even numbing to watch.

[marigold20]

30. Do you remember when Hal took the boys

to the races on "Malcom in the Middle"? After the first lap, Dewey shouted "Hurray!" and was so disappointed when Hal told him there were still 99 laps to go. I used to take wonderful naps with bowling on TV in the background - baseball was good too. I never tried Nascar.

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[buckeye1]

33. Ya.

Golf.

[hippiechick]

34. Golf, Bowling, Baseball, Cards, Running, Diving ...,

shall I go on ?

:hippie:

[Supply Side Jesus]

36. watching an apple brown....oh wait

nevermind, that could be fun!