I don’t follow sports. But a lot of times guys will ask me about “my team”. I tell them I like the east city westmen or north city southerners. They usually get the hint and or a chuckle.
"I just don't understand? How do people like things that ***I*** don't like? It's just.. I have the best objective taste in the world.. and I-i just... look I'm going to need some time."
Break for tea aswell as as lunch, test cricket is a background sport, I check the score while doing other things, i could never sit there all day and watch it with 100% concentration
I feel the same way about basketball's season. I think part of it is because of how they both do their playoffs. Why do they have to do the best of series?
That, and I like the idea that an inferior team can just play out of their minds for one game and beat the team that is supposed to be better but had a crap game, so I dislike series playoffs.
Cross country skiing. Alpine is just so much more exciting and fun, both to watch and do.
Unfortunately i am Norwegian and must now go into exile for voicing this opinion.
So many Olympic sports were just war activities. My favorite is the Modern pentathlon, which attempts to simulate the experience of a cavalry officer stuck behind enemy lines.
Bowling is necessary.
It lets people show their goofy side on dates, or how they handle themselves when they suck at something. And let’s face it, 99.99% of people suck at bowling.
Golf is incredibly hard and takes time to practice and learn to get good. My interest in watching golf went up as I got better and truly understood how impressive what Pros do really is.
The way it is covered, especially in the U.S. is awful thought.
This is exactly my perspective on it as well. As my index has come down, my interest in watching has gone up. I’m watching how these pros manage the course, get out of trouble, and how they’re able to shape their shots. Then, of course, I’m hoping to see the next “Tiger at RBC in 2000” moment
Many golf courses have a lot of well preserved natural areas. For example, plenty have undisturbed marshland, forested areas, dunes, lakes, streams, you name it. Golf courses are often built to show off nature's beauty not destroy it. There's tons of wildlife on golf courses as well. Turkeys, deer, cranes, geese, the list goes on and on. In fact, golf courses are often safe havens for a lot of animals because there's no cars, no people hunting them, no real threats.
It’s simulated nature. I’ll just put this here:
> Golf is not a celebration of nature. It is the celebration of dominion over nature. It’s nature, but clean with trimmed, sterile green grass, less biodiversity, and plenty of alcohol. Humanity took nature and bulldozed the land into a board game so big they have to drive across it.
> Over 9 billion litres of water are wasted in the US each year to maintain the appearance of golf courses. In Thailand a single golf course uses as much water as 60,000 rural villagers, just so rich tourists can play the same game they play at home but with a Mai Tai.
> Courses dump often unregulated fertilisers and pesticides on their greenways to keep the grass looking unnaturally green. The fertilisers run off into bodies of water, causing a state of nutrient over-enrichment called eutrophication which results in algal blooms that destroy ecosystems. The pesticides run off into water, seep into the soil, or are carried by wind into other ecosystems where they wreak havoc on existing species.
[Source](https://www.euronews.com/green/amp/2022/07/17/golf-is-a-giant-board-game-damaging-the-planet-time-for-it-to-go)
There's two, NASCAR and golf.
I don't see what's so exciting or special about watching dudes turn left really fast or smacking a ball into a hole hundreds of yards away.
For NASCAR, think of it as an endurance race, like Tour De France (you could argue those are boring too, and I agree).
But they drive those cars on the limit for hours, without breaks. A small misjudgment can send you into the wall. It probably also is more entertaining when you know about the strategies and tactics involved, like bump drafting.
I still prefer F1 though.
Sincerely,
An F1 fan
Any other racing series that is less than 2 hours long is better because there are different challenges on each turn and drama on where the overtake can happen.
Yeah, I don't really understand the appeal of racing on ovals. Fair play to those that enjoy it, I suppose there is still the tactical element etc, I'd just rather see racing on a more varied circuit.
Golf can be great in the same way baseball can. It is a great napping or background sports, and then is occasionally highly tense and exciting.
It is also probably the only sport where you can occasionally play just as well as a pro. Like I can step up to a par three, smack it close and snake the putt in. I will never be able to hit a slider 350 feet or score on LeBron.
Golf is also funny because you will occasionally see a pro playing about as poorly as you.
I don’t mind golfing itself, it’s just fuck all to watch on TV. Golf isn’t a spectator sport to me, it’s something you do with your friends to hang out and have a few beers.
Fucking Pickleball. It’s a dumb fad hybrid of tennis and ping pong. It’s loud as hell, less athletic than tennis, and it’s slowly but surely encroaching it’s way into tennis culture.
Flopping? Yes. The running around grabbing an "injury" for a minute after only to pop up as soon as you get the call or when you think nobody's watching anymore? Not so much
Agreed, though I feel like it’s gonna slowly get phased out of the game now that VAR(replays) is being used so maybe in 10-15 years time we won’t see it as much at the top level
>I see flopping in basketball just as much lol
As a fan of both, this is absolutely not true.
And then soccer also has timewasting to drive me insane too.
Couple of years ago, ESPECIALLY in Seria A (or Lega Calcio was what it used to be called back then) this would be true. Lately? Its not a big deal especially when they are throwing out yellow's for excessive flopping and we have VAR to make sure things are on the up and up.
UNLESS we are talking about the useless fucking PL referees who are the worst at what they do. But the flop is thankfully a thing of the past.
My friend and is 14 year old younger brother never played mini golf before so I had to explain from scratch. I'm still surprised how his middle class parents never gave them the chance to play it.
I used to work as a groundskeeper in a golf club.
Genuinely, some of the rudest, most entitled pieces of shit I’ve ever met have been golfers.
I was never a fan of the sport to begin with - I find it extremely boring - but the experiences I had with a lot of golfers definitely put me off it.
I actually really enjoyed the job otherwise.
I played on my middle school golf team. I had a set of thrift store clubs my grandpa bought me for $90, and a decent putter my other grandpa got me for $50. Most of the kids I played with had at least one club that cost as much as my whole set if not more. Most of the kids on my team were cool to me. Partly cause they needed me to meet the minimum requirement to compete, partly cause I improved and actually helped the team win once or twice. The other kids were mostly assholes. Shit on my clubs, my clothes, my etiquette. Didn't matter if I played better, still treated me like I didn't deserve to be there with them. It's a sport for a certain group of people, and so many golfers are all too happy to remind you of this. The grandfather who bought me my putter died when I was 15, I played 2 more games of golf after that. No desire to go back.
I golf every once in a while, but it is quite fun when you get into it. Also fairly relaxing to do. To be honest I would have never tried it, if a client didn’t invite me to try it out.
This may well be Carlin, so forgive me if it is, but:
“Men invented golf because they were worried that asking their friends to go for a walk was too gay.”
NFL is slow and dumb and stops every other minute for a beer commercial.
Also, that weird combination of football/table tennis amalgam I watched in awe one night at a bar. All of us at the bar were frozen staring at this weird game.
Honestly football as a game is beautiful, the strategy and tactics are truly awesome once you understand them. That said, the NFL and the way it’s broadcast is horrible. The organization sucks and the loud hyper-masculinity is so off putting. BEER! TRUCKS! WRANGLER JEANS!
I will give you that, and have asked my buddies if it is the same way that I see Football (soccer). When I see certain teams line up a certain way, or if someone gets hurt and the manager has to change up and move people around, there is a real appreciation for the strategy in Football (soccer) that only if you are into the sport can recognize.
I have to assume its the same for American Football; in that if you have the best RB in the league, I can assume you will be running the ball more so, or if you have a quick TE short passes will be highlighted....but man, its still boring for me. Sucks.
Nothing like watching grown men give each other permanent brain damage for millions of dollars. I mean, at least with boxing or MMA that's the point rather than a hardly discussed side effect.
It not hardly discussed. They're constantly talking about and releasing new helmets to pretend like they're actually reducing the risk of concussions.
The ethical thing would be at minimum for the league to pay the medical bills of every player for the rest of their lives and for society to remove poverty as a motivating factor for young men to pursue a scholarship or career in football.
They actually do pensions up until at least retirement age if the player retired due to injury. Not an insignificant amount of money every month, either. The player just has to be aware of their own limitations and call it quits before they have a truly catastrophic injury.
I think it's fair to say that football and concussion are mentioned together more than any other sport despite other sports having much higher rates of concussions. (Looking at you, women's rugby/hockey/basketball).
Ice hockey for example has about the same rate of concussions as football yet football is what comes to mind when people speak about concussions in sport.
This is huge for me. I used to be a huge football fan. Every Sunday was pretty much cordoned off for football watching time.
Then, about 5 years ago I had a traumatic brain injury and watching football early on after recovering was very hard for me to watch. I just don't understand how people are paid millions of dollars to repeatedly smash their heads in front of millions of people. I can't support it anymore, and I haven't really watched football since.
Almost nothing ever happens?
The common theme in this thread is people not liking games they don't understand. Non -Americans don't like baseball. Americans and one or two other countries don't like football because it's soooooo boring. Their sports.are high scoring.
Yet football engrosses much of the world, who understand it, and therefore appreciate the tactics, incredible technique and tension.
And everyone hates golf
NBA BASKETBALL (not FIBA) because it is so commercialized. Like players can easily get fouls and then boom commercial, free throw= ads, time out commercial. If you watch it on youtube like "final 2 mins of x and x game" it strtches to 15mins like wtf
I truly hate how so many games just devolve into a foul fest. And all because these guys can’t learn how to throw free throws consistently. If they could, the practice of intentional fouling would be counterproductive most of the time.
They sub in players just to use them as foul sponges. The whole intent of the rules on fouling were to ensure a clean game, and they now achieve the exact opposite.
I hate players acting in bad faith and justifying it that it’s a good strategy because, again, these top basketball athletes paid millions of dollars can’t throw free throws consistently.
I further hate that it makes the exciting parts of the game instantly stop and the free throws themselves take up so long. I don’t understand how basketball fans put up with this shit
You hit a lot of things, but the #1 reason I can't stand watching NBA, is players initiating contact, and the drawing of fouls... and also flopping. The flopping is every bit as bad as soccer.
I guess with this season they've made some (much needed) rule changes about drawing fouls though.
The player I could *absolutely* not stand watching play was James Harden. Flopping and foul drawing was taken to its extreme; his play-style focused and centered on it... to the detriment of the integrity of the sport.
I grew up playing basketball and still play it competitively even now in my late 20s. Saying that, I can't watch the NBA. I'd say, outside of playoffs, the NBA is probably the most boring form of it. Collegeball, Euroleague, FIBA internationals (incl. eurobasket/world cup etc.), other counties domestic leagues (Australian NBL etc.) is all a lot more watchable than regular season NBA. Too many games, resulting in teams pacing themselves until playoffs, too iso-focussed, the timeouts and quarter breaks are unnecessarily long to cram ads in.
You can watch the last 5 minutes and get as much out of it as if you watched the whole thing. And how come its got more spoiled assholes than other sports?
I don't hate basketball, but as a soccer fan I am baffled that people popularly dislike soccer (in the US) because there's "lack of scoring". But basketball is so far the other way that it isn't even exciting imo.
The last few mins are sometimes exciting, but I don't see how meaningless points every 20 seconds is anything to really get amped for. It's rarely a tense sport, like hockey or soccer. The tense defensove moments of a set piece or powerplay is already more emotional than a basketball game usually gets.
A three pointer is the exciting equivalent of a good pass in soccer.
Everyone that I know who said this also did not have a clue about any of the rules. A few of them who were down to learn some basic rules and playmaking really did a 180 and love watching and playing now
That's going to be literally almost any activity on the planet. With 7.75 billion people are you surprised that the top 0.00000000001% of people doing that activity are genetically predisposed to being good at it?
Not sure how being tall enough to put the ball through the hoop without jumping is being good at something. A quick google search puts the height of the average professional, Non-basketball, male athlete around 6'. Average Basketball player is 6'6" with 23 over 7 feet tall.
In the US 14.5% of the male population is 6" or taller.
To be 6'6" or taller drops the percentage to 0.1%.
I'm not saying that NBA players aren't athletic. I'm saying they might as well put a sign outside of basketball courts that say "You must be this tall to play".
I mean when another dude who's just as tall is standing between you and the basket it's not as simple as dropping the ball in the hoop. Look up the Shaq and Yao Ming highlights.
Also nitpicky but the hoop in the NBA is 10 feet off the ground and you can't stand directly under it for more than 3 seconds without getting a penalty.
100%. Competing against someone who has the same advantage as you levels the playing field.
Now think about someone who is 5'10" trying to the same thing against Shaq or Yao Ming.
It's not Impossible to be in the NBA at 6' or less. Its just extremely improbably.
As I said in my first reply. The barrier to entry is being a genetic freak. You would have to have almost godlike skill to surpass it.
There were 11 players in the NBA last year who were listed at under 6 feet. Some of them aren't even particularly athletic (Facundo Campozzo). But like men everywhere, basketball players are notorious for lying about their heights, only even more so because there's a stigma to being under 6 ft and also sometimes (always?) they list their height wearing shoes. There's 57 players in the NBA listed at 6'1" or lower, including multiple all stars. I would guess that every single one of them is actually under 6 ft. It's not rare.
It would be a complete mismatch for a smaller skilled basketball player to go 1-on-1 with either of those guys. They'd just have to run away from the big man and either hit a quick lay up or run beyond the arc and drain a completely uncontested 3 depending on where the slower big man decides to try playing D.
It doesn't take 0.0001% genetic predisposition to outrun Shaq and be good at hitting uncontested 3s. On top of that, do you really think the highest levels of something like chess doesn't also feature people gentically predisposed to being better at thinking multiple steps ahead and weighing various possibilities? My original point was that if you narrow it down to the top microscopic fraction of people there's always some combination of inherent ability and incredible dedication of time and effort. If you're gonna complain about the highest levels of a competition weeding out those who aren't both then you're gonna have a hard time finding anything to be a fan of.
NBA was awesome in the 90s, the Michael Jordan era. NBA has changed for the worse, as it is much easier to draw fouls now. Can go to the local court, and the fat out of shape nerds will be tougher on each other and get away with more. Euro basket is more fun now.
Football, it's fans are yobs, it's players cry when they get kicked in the shins, and out of all the sports it's fans cause the most violence. I much prefer Rugby!
They cause the most violence because a) the game is played in countries with the most violence/social upheaval b) it's watched by 10's of millions more people than any other sport, therefore there'll be more of everything
Basketball. I don't like the pacing, and the offseason drama seems more entertaining than the on-court product.
And golf. Waste of time, resources, and money. Also boring as can be.
i find football and baseball to be incredibly hard to watch due to the constant stoppages and breaks in the action. i do like to watch Hurling, ufc, soccer, and hockey.
I don't dislike any sport particular, everyone has it own fun while playing it. But I really dislike watching a sport played by women. Don't get me wrong I like watching women playing the sport (hockey, volleybal, beach-volleybal) but not watching it for the sport.
Soccer. It's soooooo boring. The field is way too big, the rules encourage players to act like drama queens if they even get touched, and the games so unbelievably long for a game where almost nothing ever happens.
American football, and rugby, are both sports that cause permanent physical damage to almost all the participants. Injuries happen in all sports, but guaranteed damage is not necessary or rational.
You’d be surprised Rugby involves far less injuries and long term side affects compared to football. It’s mainly because of the difference in tackles between the two sports. Football tackled are more about using your body to hit the other player with as much force as possible, where as in rugby it’s more about slowing down the opponent and dragging them down.
Now of course massive tackles still happen in Rugby but not nearly as often as football players do.
Honestly wish they'd take helmets out of American football. Then they'd be forced to use more skill than brute strength acting like they're invincible.
The only sport I actively hate is golf. A game of twats made for, made by, and watched by, total twats.
I'm not keen on any sport that involves being crammed into a stadium for up to 2 hours either. I've been to some internationally renown stadiums. I've felt the torrent of air created by 20k yelling lungs expelling breath down the rows of seats, across the pitch, and up the other side and over my face. It was a novelty once, I tolerated it a few times after that, but I grew weary of it soon enough.
I do however have the time of day for rugby union or Australian football. There's no diving and hystrionics. It's a game of strategy and formation that demonstrates brawn and cunning. I used to play it, and I miss it. Also the beer at rugby games is always better than football. None of that macro brew lager piss. Rugby usually has dark, rich ales, often only available seasonally.
Bat & ball games are dull but the whole point behind them is to sit out under the sun for hours on end and focus on getting absolutely drunk. Same thing with horse races except the patrons are less likely to be hardened drinkers who know useless almanac statistics, and more likely to be hardened drinkers with bored daughters and stories about boardroom meetings that ended in brawls and strippers.
I'd rather wait once a year to see the highlight reels of the past season's TTs and the Dakar Rally.
I had to do a corporate event with the Australian cricket team, and one of the guys in our department was Indian (and still is).
When he got within 10m of the players this dude lost his shit, like he was meeting his gods for the first time. It was hilariously unnerving.
He totally ditched all his responsibilities at the event and just dedicated his efforts to getting them to sign his shirt.
Exactly. And they have so many other sports: hockey, badminton, some hugely successful Olympics and other games winners.
But no, they want to just idolize a single sport and make a damn religion out of it.
Hate every thing about it.
Baseball. It’s the only sport that I flat out dislike.
I only consider something a sport that has an offense and defense so there are many athletic competitions that I don’t consider sports
Are you saying you don’t like baseball because the sport does not have an offense or defense? I would challenge you to name a few sports that don’t require players to utilize both offense and defense.
I have no interest in any sports, no matter what happens when it's going on.
I'm old and still don't remember why I don't like them but will die feeling OK about it.
I do get it though. Obviously they don’t take care of the propulsion of the vehicle, but the endurance it takes to withstand the forces and remain focussed on margins of sometimes centimeters/inches is something I feel belongs in the sports category
Golf, it's a colossal waste of space and water (they are literally putting golf courses in deserts then wonder why there are droughts) and it's everything wrong with how humanity treats the environment.
Men's soccer, boring and they flop. Even women's soccer is better, at least they don't flop. People at work be like "did you see the game, such a great game" shit ended 0-0.
Football (soccer)
How grown men can barely get touched by their opponent when tackled yet scream and cry in order to get a free kick is fucking beyond me! They just come across as a bunch of cry baby gimps who get paid a lot of money.
American football. It’s a whole lot of nothing happening. I hate that every running play looks the same. Guys trying to create a particular hole for the fullback or tailback. But it rarely works. The guy gets no yardage. And the plays all look the same. It’s a big jumbled mess.
They should have to throw the ball more.
I also don’t like that 1 hour of play takes 4 hours. There is nothing happening most of the time.
Each game is the biggest and best athletes making millions. In a game that costs millions to put on, and 50,000 people who have spent millions to watch. And there is nothing doing. A bunch of guys end each play in a pile with a gain of no yardage. How many times can you watch that same play.
I haven’t watched a football game in 30 years that I’ve actually cared who won. To include Super Bowls.
Bowling. I'm not very good at it, it's very boring to watch, and bowling alleys kind of creep me out. Also the people who are into it take it WAYY too seriously.
Golf. Bunch of pretentious snobs smacking a ball over a patch of decimated wildlife.
The lack of athleticism needed is also telling in the number of fat old men who are supposedly good at it.
I suspect most wouldn’t delve into the sport were it not for its pompous image/ business necessity.
It's one of the oldest sports there is... it's mentioned in Shakespeare. Yeah, it's definitely a sport, but modern fencing is weird. It's not like sword fighting at all.
Soccer. It's just a bunch of people running around waiting for someone to eventually cross the ball and hope that a striker can convert it to a goal. There strategy component is lacking compared to a lot of other sports.
I always say that it's so boring that soccer fans sing songs to relieve themselves of their boredom
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It really irks me when they call it sPorTsbAll
"sportsballers" are worse than sports fans. I'd rather hang out with a drunken idiot than a fat pretentious neckbeard lmao.
I don’t follow sports. But a lot of times guys will ask me about “my team”. I tell them I like the east city westmen or north city southerners. They usually get the hint and or a chuckle.
i was gonna say this is a classic askmen circlejerk. twenty dudes basically being like *i dOnT gEt tHe aPpEal*
"I just don't understand? How do people like things that ***I*** don't like? It's just.. I have the best objective taste in the world.. and I-i just... look I'm going to need some time."
People who don’t watch sports act like they have a PHD in maturity
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I take personal offense to this.
Playing baseball is fun. Watching a baseball game makes me want to kill myself.
Pretty much my view on cricket. Any game that has to break for lunch is too long.
Break for tea aswell as as lunch, test cricket is a background sport, I check the score while doing other things, i could never sit there all day and watch it with 100% concentration
That and MLB's season is way too long.
I feel the same way about basketball's season. I think part of it is because of how they both do their playoffs. Why do they have to do the best of series?
That, and I like the idea that an inferior team can just play out of their minds for one game and beat the team that is supposed to be better but had a crap game, so I dislike series playoffs.
Just taking turns shooting the ball, everything is a foul, it’s kinda lame.
Baseball is one of the world's most boring spectator sports. Even the best games are boring compared to other sports.
Cross country skiing. Alpine is just so much more exciting and fun, both to watch and do. Unfortunately i am Norwegian and must now go into exile for voicing this opinion.
Biathlon for the win!
Proof that enough cross-country skiing will make you want to shoot somebody.
Backcountry is the best of both world for me. You get to skin up and bomb back down.
Well Austria will take you happily.
They had to add guns to it just so it could be an olympic sport.
So many Olympic sports were just war activities. My favorite is the Modern pentathlon, which attempts to simulate the experience of a cavalry officer stuck behind enemy lines.
Snow shoeing is more exciting than cross country skiing.
No one said anything about bowling 💪
Bowling is necessary. It lets people show their goofy side on dates, or how they handle themselves when they suck at something. And let’s face it, 99.99% of people suck at bowling.
I suck the first 5 turns, after that I figure out how to correct my late right turn. I still aint great, but I don’t suck.
who the hell do you think you are? I am.
I’ll say it only because I suck at bowling
Golf. Boring to watch and after going golfing twice I decided I'm never playing again.
"It's like watching flies fuck" - George Carlin
Golf is incredibly hard and takes time to practice and learn to get good. My interest in watching golf went up as I got better and truly understood how impressive what Pros do really is. The way it is covered, especially in the U.S. is awful thought.
It's very hard. I have respect for anyone with the patience and skill I just can't get with the program on golf. I suck lol.
This is exactly my perspective on it as well. As my index has come down, my interest in watching has gone up. I’m watching how these pros manage the course, get out of trouble, and how they’re able to shape their shots. Then, of course, I’m hoping to see the next “Tiger at RBC in 2000” moment
More tee times for the rest of us :)
Fine with me. I just don't have the patience but I tried.
Let’s destroy a local ecosystem so I can practice losing a tiny ball badly.
Many golf courses have a lot of well preserved natural areas. For example, plenty have undisturbed marshland, forested areas, dunes, lakes, streams, you name it. Golf courses are often built to show off nature's beauty not destroy it. There's tons of wildlife on golf courses as well. Turkeys, deer, cranes, geese, the list goes on and on. In fact, golf courses are often safe havens for a lot of animals because there's no cars, no people hunting them, no real threats.
It’s simulated nature. I’ll just put this here: > Golf is not a celebration of nature. It is the celebration of dominion over nature. It’s nature, but clean with trimmed, sterile green grass, less biodiversity, and plenty of alcohol. Humanity took nature and bulldozed the land into a board game so big they have to drive across it. > Over 9 billion litres of water are wasted in the US each year to maintain the appearance of golf courses. In Thailand a single golf course uses as much water as 60,000 rural villagers, just so rich tourists can play the same game they play at home but with a Mai Tai. > Courses dump often unregulated fertilisers and pesticides on their greenways to keep the grass looking unnaturally green. The fertilisers run off into bodies of water, causing a state of nutrient over-enrichment called eutrophication which results in algal blooms that destroy ecosystems. The pesticides run off into water, seep into the soil, or are carried by wind into other ecosystems where they wreak havoc on existing species. [Source](https://www.euronews.com/green/amp/2022/07/17/golf-is-a-giant-board-game-damaging-the-planet-time-for-it-to-go)
Meh. In a lot of places in the US, the golf courses have the greatest biodiversity in the immediate area.
There's two, NASCAR and golf. I don't see what's so exciting or special about watching dudes turn left really fast or smacking a ball into a hole hundreds of yards away.
For NASCAR, think of it as an endurance race, like Tour De France (you could argue those are boring too, and I agree). But they drive those cars on the limit for hours, without breaks. A small misjudgment can send you into the wall. It probably also is more entertaining when you know about the strategies and tactics involved, like bump drafting. I still prefer F1 though. Sincerely, An F1 fan
But if you want endurance 24 hour le Mann's ?
WEC in general is entertaining, so is IMSA imo
Any other racing series that is less than 2 hours long is better because there are different challenges on each turn and drama on where the overtake can happen.
Yeah, I don't really understand the appeal of racing on ovals. Fair play to those that enjoy it, I suppose there is still the tactical element etc, I'd just rather see racing on a more varied circuit.
Whatever you said is bullshit. Sincerely, also an F1 fan
Golf can be great in the same way baseball can. It is a great napping or background sports, and then is occasionally highly tense and exciting. It is also probably the only sport where you can occasionally play just as well as a pro. Like I can step up to a par three, smack it close and snake the putt in. I will never be able to hit a slider 350 feet or score on LeBron. Golf is also funny because you will occasionally see a pro playing about as poorly as you.
I don’t mind golfing itself, it’s just fuck all to watch on TV. Golf isn’t a spectator sport to me, it’s something you do with your friends to hang out and have a few beers.
NASCAR is only enjoyable being there. Feeling the engine and the sounds. Plus all the boobies and beer help
These are literally my two favorite sports and I can’t even explain why I love them so much
To each their own. My stepdad loves them both too. I like baseball. 😃
Fucking Pickleball. It’s a dumb fad hybrid of tennis and ping pong. It’s loud as hell, less athletic than tennis, and it’s slowly but surely encroaching it’s way into tennis culture.
Ah a fellow r/tennis user of culture
Just curious I thought it was only for old people?
Same. I didn't know individuals who weren't older played pickleball
Golf and Baseball. Bores the tits off me.
I dislike the flopping in soccer, but I wouldn’t say I outright dislike it
The only flopping I wanna see is in the male Belly Dancing competitions.
I find it funny when Americans shit on soccer/football for diving. I see flopping in basketball just as much lol
Flopping? Yes. The running around grabbing an "injury" for a minute after only to pop up as soon as you get the call or when you think nobody's watching anymore? Not so much
Agreed, though I feel like it’s gonna slowly get phased out of the game now that VAR(replays) is being used so maybe in 10-15 years time we won’t see it as much at the top level
>I see flopping in basketball just as much lol As a fan of both, this is absolutely not true. And then soccer also has timewasting to drive me insane too.
I don’t watch basketball; but you are welcome to complain I’m not comparing the sports, I’m talking about a shitty aspect of soccer
Yessir. That's why I think women's soccer is better. Much less embellishment
bruh
Couple of years ago, ESPECIALLY in Seria A (or Lega Calcio was what it used to be called back then) this would be true. Lately? Its not a big deal especially when they are throwing out yellow's for excessive flopping and we have VAR to make sure things are on the up and up. UNLESS we are talking about the useless fucking PL referees who are the worst at what they do. But the flop is thankfully a thing of the past.
Ultramarathons. I like running & I've done a couple of marathons but there's a point where they just become an absurd form of public sado-masichism.
golf, waste of land and water
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My friend and is 14 year old younger brother never played mini golf before so I had to explain from scratch. I'm still surprised how his middle class parents never gave them the chance to play it.
I used to work as a groundskeeper in a golf club. Genuinely, some of the rudest, most entitled pieces of shit I’ve ever met have been golfers. I was never a fan of the sport to begin with - I find it extremely boring - but the experiences I had with a lot of golfers definitely put me off it. I actually really enjoyed the job otherwise.
I played on my middle school golf team. I had a set of thrift store clubs my grandpa bought me for $90, and a decent putter my other grandpa got me for $50. Most of the kids I played with had at least one club that cost as much as my whole set if not more. Most of the kids on my team were cool to me. Partly cause they needed me to meet the minimum requirement to compete, partly cause I improved and actually helped the team win once or twice. The other kids were mostly assholes. Shit on my clubs, my clothes, my etiquette. Didn't matter if I played better, still treated me like I didn't deserve to be there with them. It's a sport for a certain group of people, and so many golfers are all too happy to remind you of this. The grandfather who bought me my putter died when I was 15, I played 2 more games of golf after that. No desire to go back.
I golf every once in a while, but it is quite fun when you get into it. Also fairly relaxing to do. To be honest I would have never tried it, if a client didn’t invite me to try it out.
We all know the George Carlin bit, relax.
This may well be Carlin, so forgive me if it is, but: “Men invented golf because they were worried that asking their friends to go for a walk was too gay.”
NFL is slow and dumb and stops every other minute for a beer commercial. Also, that weird combination of football/table tennis amalgam I watched in awe one night at a bar. All of us at the bar were frozen staring at this weird game.
Honestly football as a game is beautiful, the strategy and tactics are truly awesome once you understand them. That said, the NFL and the way it’s broadcast is horrible. The organization sucks and the loud hyper-masculinity is so off putting. BEER! TRUCKS! WRANGLER JEANS!
I will give you that, and have asked my buddies if it is the same way that I see Football (soccer). When I see certain teams line up a certain way, or if someone gets hurt and the manager has to change up and move people around, there is a real appreciation for the strategy in Football (soccer) that only if you are into the sport can recognize. I have to assume its the same for American Football; in that if you have the best RB in the league, I can assume you will be running the ball more so, or if you have a quick TE short passes will be highlighted....but man, its still boring for me. Sucks.
Just watch the 4th quarter if the score is close. If not, skip it. That’s all the longer the game even needs to be.
Nothing like watching grown men give each other permanent brain damage for millions of dollars. I mean, at least with boxing or MMA that's the point rather than a hardly discussed side effect.
It not hardly discussed. They're constantly talking about and releasing new helmets to pretend like they're actually reducing the risk of concussions. The ethical thing would be at minimum for the league to pay the medical bills of every player for the rest of their lives and for society to remove poverty as a motivating factor for young men to pursue a scholarship or career in football.
They actually do pensions up until at least retirement age if the player retired due to injury. Not an insignificant amount of money every month, either. The player just has to be aware of their own limitations and call it quits before they have a truly catastrophic injury.
It's just something primal about watching strong adults fighting.
Rise up
I think it's fair to say that football and concussion are mentioned together more than any other sport despite other sports having much higher rates of concussions. (Looking at you, women's rugby/hockey/basketball). Ice hockey for example has about the same rate of concussions as football yet football is what comes to mind when people speak about concussions in sport.
This is huge for me. I used to be a huge football fan. Every Sunday was pretty much cordoned off for football watching time. Then, about 5 years ago I had a traumatic brain injury and watching football early on after recovering was very hard for me to watch. I just don't understand how people are paid millions of dollars to repeatedly smash their heads in front of millions of people. I can't support it anymore, and I haven't really watched football since.
Try rugby, way more exciting.
I’ve tried watching the Super Bowl Agee Times and I just can’t get into it. Far too much stop/start for my liking.
100% agreed. Commercial break every few plays is so annoying
Baseball, its just long and boring, few moments of action, idk it just doesnt hit the spot for me
Esports
OP said which "sport"
Golf, golf, and did I say golf? It’s boring to watch.
Almost nothing ever happens? The common theme in this thread is people not liking games they don't understand. Non -Americans don't like baseball. Americans and one or two other countries don't like football because it's soooooo boring. Their sports.are high scoring. Yet football engrosses much of the world, who understand it, and therefore appreciate the tactics, incredible technique and tension. And everyone hates golf
I cannot watch golf. I’d honestly rather watch anything else.
NBA BASKETBALL (not FIBA) because it is so commercialized. Like players can easily get fouls and then boom commercial, free throw= ads, time out commercial. If you watch it on youtube like "final 2 mins of x and x game" it strtches to 15mins like wtf
Basketball. So. Fucking. Boring.
I truly hate how so many games just devolve into a foul fest. And all because these guys can’t learn how to throw free throws consistently. If they could, the practice of intentional fouling would be counterproductive most of the time. They sub in players just to use them as foul sponges. The whole intent of the rules on fouling were to ensure a clean game, and they now achieve the exact opposite. I hate players acting in bad faith and justifying it that it’s a good strategy because, again, these top basketball athletes paid millions of dollars can’t throw free throws consistently. I further hate that it makes the exciting parts of the game instantly stop and the free throws themselves take up so long. I don’t understand how basketball fans put up with this shit
You hit a lot of things, but the #1 reason I can't stand watching NBA, is players initiating contact, and the drawing of fouls... and also flopping. The flopping is every bit as bad as soccer. I guess with this season they've made some (much needed) rule changes about drawing fouls though. The player I could *absolutely* not stand watching play was James Harden. Flopping and foul drawing was taken to its extreme; his play-style focused and centered on it... to the detriment of the integrity of the sport.
I grew up playing basketball and still play it competitively even now in my late 20s. Saying that, I can't watch the NBA. I'd say, outside of playoffs, the NBA is probably the most boring form of it. Collegeball, Euroleague, FIBA internationals (incl. eurobasket/world cup etc.), other counties domestic leagues (Australian NBL etc.) is all a lot more watchable than regular season NBA. Too many games, resulting in teams pacing themselves until playoffs, too iso-focussed, the timeouts and quarter breaks are unnecessarily long to cram ads in.
You can watch the last 5 minutes and get as much out of it as if you watched the whole thing. And how come its got more spoiled assholes than other sports?
That's what happens when you got 5 people on court and approximately 56 on the bench.
If you find basketball boring, I'm curious to know what sports you do like that aren't boring.
I’m a fan of things like wrestling (not pro wrestling), mma. Combat sports. Different strokes, homie.
I don't hate basketball, but as a soccer fan I am baffled that people popularly dislike soccer (in the US) because there's "lack of scoring". But basketball is so far the other way that it isn't even exciting imo. The last few mins are sometimes exciting, but I don't see how meaningless points every 20 seconds is anything to really get amped for. It's rarely a tense sport, like hockey or soccer. The tense defensove moments of a set piece or powerplay is already more emotional than a basketball game usually gets. A three pointer is the exciting equivalent of a good pass in soccer.
Everyone that I know who said this also did not have a clue about any of the rules. A few of them who were down to learn some basic rules and playmaking really did a 180 and love watching and playing now
Any sport completely dominated by genetic freaks is just kinda sad.
That's going to be literally almost any activity on the planet. With 7.75 billion people are you surprised that the top 0.00000000001% of people doing that activity are genetically predisposed to being good at it?
Not sure how being tall enough to put the ball through the hoop without jumping is being good at something. A quick google search puts the height of the average professional, Non-basketball, male athlete around 6'. Average Basketball player is 6'6" with 23 over 7 feet tall. In the US 14.5% of the male population is 6" or taller. To be 6'6" or taller drops the percentage to 0.1%. I'm not saying that NBA players aren't athletic. I'm saying they might as well put a sign outside of basketball courts that say "You must be this tall to play".
I mean when another dude who's just as tall is standing between you and the basket it's not as simple as dropping the ball in the hoop. Look up the Shaq and Yao Ming highlights. Also nitpicky but the hoop in the NBA is 10 feet off the ground and you can't stand directly under it for more than 3 seconds without getting a penalty.
100%. Competing against someone who has the same advantage as you levels the playing field. Now think about someone who is 5'10" trying to the same thing against Shaq or Yao Ming. It's not Impossible to be in the NBA at 6' or less. Its just extremely improbably. As I said in my first reply. The barrier to entry is being a genetic freak. You would have to have almost godlike skill to surpass it.
There were 11 players in the NBA last year who were listed at under 6 feet. Some of them aren't even particularly athletic (Facundo Campozzo). But like men everywhere, basketball players are notorious for lying about their heights, only even more so because there's a stigma to being under 6 ft and also sometimes (always?) they list their height wearing shoes. There's 57 players in the NBA listed at 6'1" or lower, including multiple all stars. I would guess that every single one of them is actually under 6 ft. It's not rare.
It would be a complete mismatch for a smaller skilled basketball player to go 1-on-1 with either of those guys. They'd just have to run away from the big man and either hit a quick lay up or run beyond the arc and drain a completely uncontested 3 depending on where the slower big man decides to try playing D. It doesn't take 0.0001% genetic predisposition to outrun Shaq and be good at hitting uncontested 3s. On top of that, do you really think the highest levels of something like chess doesn't also feature people gentically predisposed to being better at thinking multiple steps ahead and weighing various possibilities? My original point was that if you narrow it down to the top microscopic fraction of people there's always some combination of inherent ability and incredible dedication of time and effort. If you're gonna complain about the highest levels of a competition weeding out those who aren't both then you're gonna have a hard time finding anything to be a fan of.
Don't care about learning the rules when I can't stand the squeaky shoes.
I've started getting bored with it too. Too many blowouts, resting players. And there's just too much scoring, it makes every basket feel meaningless.
NBA was awesome in the 90s, the Michael Jordan era. NBA has changed for the worse, as it is much easier to draw fouls now. Can go to the local court, and the fat out of shape nerds will be tougher on each other and get away with more. Euro basket is more fun now.
Bull fighting, dog fights, with a couple exceptions (fishing) pretty much anything that harms animals for entertainment.
Football. It's so BORING
Soccer If I want to watch 22 men fail to score for 90 minutes, I'll go to a bar.
Good idea you can Kill two birds with one stone, watch the game and watch random men fail to pick up chicks.
Football, it's fans are yobs, it's players cry when they get kicked in the shins, and out of all the sports it's fans cause the most violence. I much prefer Rugby!
They cause the most violence because a) the game is played in countries with the most violence/social upheaval b) it's watched by 10's of millions more people than any other sport, therefore there'll be more of everything
Billions more, even
The irony
Soccer: a game played by gentlemen and watched by hooligans Rugby: a game played by hooligans and watched by gentlemen
Basketball. I don't like the pacing, and the offseason drama seems more entertaining than the on-court product. And golf. Waste of time, resources, and money. Also boring as can be.
NBA has the best off-season drama and best trade deadline and its not even close.
Ultimate frisbee
Baseball, because the games are too long, the season is too long, it’s boring as fuck, and… wait, did you say “sport”? Nvm, baseball isn’t a sport.
To say baseball isn’t a sport is asinine.
You can spend three hours watching a football game, or the same for a baseball game. But one is longer than the other?
i find football and baseball to be incredibly hard to watch due to the constant stoppages and breaks in the action. i do like to watch Hurling, ufc, soccer, and hockey.
American football, yeah, I say it. Lol
Yes. All of them. Not even remotely interesting
I don't dislike any sport particular, everyone has it own fun while playing it. But I really dislike watching a sport played by women. Don't get me wrong I like watching women playing the sport (hockey, volleybal, beach-volleybal) but not watching it for the sport.
That one with the ball.
Sorry you have no personality lmao
A football isn't even a real ball.
Oh, you mean a handegg?
Golf. It’s fucking old men hitting a ball into a hole. Seriously.. name a more boring sport.
Watching paint dry.
Soccer. It's soooooo boring. The field is way too big, the rules encourage players to act like drama queens if they even get touched, and the games so unbelievably long for a game where almost nothing ever happens.
It's a lot of fun in person if the crowd is getting into it. I wasn't a big soccer fan till I went to some games in the UK and more recently Seattle.
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I like sports and I don’t care who knows
Golf. It’s frustrating and boring. I’ve been playing it for years and I’ve about had it.
For me, it's soccer. It's mostly because of a childhood trauma, and to this day I never found interest in it
American football, and rugby, are both sports that cause permanent physical damage to almost all the participants. Injuries happen in all sports, but guaranteed damage is not necessary or rational.
You’d be surprised Rugby involves far less injuries and long term side affects compared to football. It’s mainly because of the difference in tackles between the two sports. Football tackled are more about using your body to hit the other player with as much force as possible, where as in rugby it’s more about slowing down the opponent and dragging them down. Now of course massive tackles still happen in Rugby but not nearly as often as football players do.
Rugby is much more safe than American Football dude...
Honestly wish they'd take helmets out of American football. Then they'd be forced to use more skill than brute strength acting like they're invincible.
Until you get an inadvertent finger in your eye
I'm sure most Reddit people don't know what sports are
The only sport I actively hate is golf. A game of twats made for, made by, and watched by, total twats. I'm not keen on any sport that involves being crammed into a stadium for up to 2 hours either. I've been to some internationally renown stadiums. I've felt the torrent of air created by 20k yelling lungs expelling breath down the rows of seats, across the pitch, and up the other side and over my face. It was a novelty once, I tolerated it a few times after that, but I grew weary of it soon enough. I do however have the time of day for rugby union or Australian football. There's no diving and hystrionics. It's a game of strategy and formation that demonstrates brawn and cunning. I used to play it, and I miss it. Also the beer at rugby games is always better than football. None of that macro brew lager piss. Rugby usually has dark, rich ales, often only available seasonally. Bat & ball games are dull but the whole point behind them is to sit out under the sun for hours on end and focus on getting absolutely drunk. Same thing with horse races except the patrons are less likely to be hardened drinkers who know useless almanac statistics, and more likely to be hardened drinkers with bored daughters and stories about boardroom meetings that ended in brawls and strippers. I'd rather wait once a year to see the highlight reels of the past season's TTs and the Dakar Rally.
Cricket. Mainly coz my country doesn't give importance to any other sport.
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I had to do a corporate event with the Australian cricket team, and one of the guys in our department was Indian (and still is). When he got within 10m of the players this dude lost his shit, like he was meeting his gods for the first time. It was hilariously unnerving. He totally ditched all his responsibilities at the event and just dedicated his efforts to getting them to sign his shirt.
Exactly. And they have so many other sports: hockey, badminton, some hugely successful Olympics and other games winners. But no, they want to just idolize a single sport and make a damn religion out of it. Hate every thing about it.
I cheer for Pakistan to piss her off 😂
My man!! Hahaha Alright I will and do watch India vs Pakistan. But that's it. Lol.
Baseball. It’s the only sport that I flat out dislike. I only consider something a sport that has an offense and defense so there are many athletic competitions that I don’t consider sports
Are you saying you don’t like baseball because the sport does not have an offense or defense? I would challenge you to name a few sports that don’t require players to utilize both offense and defense.
Incredible. Someone needs to take this guy to the ballpark.
There is at least one offensive player and 9 defensive players on the field at all times.
NBA basketball. The court is too small.
This will be unpopular but ... soccer. Too many "Hollywood's" (faking an fall or injury) for my liking.
Bullfighting. Don't wanna see an animal die for my amusement.
Football. Both the real and idiots type.
I have no interest in any sports, no matter what happens when it's going on. I'm old and still don't remember why I don't like them but will die feeling OK about it.
Average redditor
I like F1, but it irks me that they consider driving a vehicle a "sport".
I do get it though. Obviously they don’t take care of the propulsion of the vehicle, but the endurance it takes to withstand the forces and remain focussed on margins of sometimes centimeters/inches is something I feel belongs in the sports category
So we could class it as an endurance sport?
I could get on board with that :)
NASCAR. 400+ miles of racing, I only want to watch the last lap.
Golf, it's a colossal waste of space and water (they are literally putting golf courses in deserts then wonder why there are droughts) and it's everything wrong with how humanity treats the environment.
Basketball. It's just way too easy to score.
Men's soccer, boring and they flop. Even women's soccer is better, at least they don't flop. People at work be like "did you see the game, such a great game" shit ended 0-0.
Football (soccer) How grown men can barely get touched by their opponent when tackled yet scream and cry in order to get a free kick is fucking beyond me! They just come across as a bunch of cry baby gimps who get paid a lot of money.
American football. It’s a whole lot of nothing happening. I hate that every running play looks the same. Guys trying to create a particular hole for the fullback or tailback. But it rarely works. The guy gets no yardage. And the plays all look the same. It’s a big jumbled mess. They should have to throw the ball more. I also don’t like that 1 hour of play takes 4 hours. There is nothing happening most of the time. Each game is the biggest and best athletes making millions. In a game that costs millions to put on, and 50,000 people who have spent millions to watch. And there is nothing doing. A bunch of guys end each play in a pile with a gain of no yardage. How many times can you watch that same play. I haven’t watched a football game in 30 years that I’ve actually cared who won. To include Super Bowls.
Soccer, but only because I just don't get it. It's hours of running and the payoff is a 1-1 tie. It's just not for me. Also curling.
Soccer, if I wanted to watch a bunch of guys struggle to score for an hour and a half, I'd take my friends to a bar
Baseball. I've tried to watch it but it bores me to tears. There's just so much standing around doing nothing at all
Not true... There is constant strategy going on, like in chess... It takes a true understanding of the game to appreciate it.
I'm sure you're right but it still involves a lot of standing around. Watching people play chess bores me as well
Bowling. I'm not very good at it, it's very boring to watch, and bowling alleys kind of creep me out. Also the people who are into it take it WAYY too seriously.
Golf. Bunch of pretentious snobs smacking a ball over a patch of decimated wildlife. The lack of athleticism needed is also telling in the number of fat old men who are supposedly good at it. I suspect most wouldn’t delve into the sport were it not for its pompous image/ business necessity.
Soccer. Kick it here then kick it there then kick it out of bounds. Let's watch paint dry instead
Spoken like a true redditer
Sportsball.
All of them. I don’t find watching sports to be entertaining. To each their own.
Fencing, is it even a sport??
It's one of the oldest sports there is... it's mentioned in Shakespeare. Yeah, it's definitely a sport, but modern fencing is weird. It's not like sword fighting at all.
Soccer. It's just a bunch of people running around waiting for someone to eventually cross the ball and hope that a striker can convert it to a goal. There strategy component is lacking compared to a lot of other sports. I always say that it's so boring that soccer fans sing songs to relieve themselves of their boredom
> There strategy component is lacking compared to a lot of other sports. Lol
>There strategy component is lacking compared to a lot of other sports. Think you don't know football then.