A sport you can't be bothered to watch

I enjoy American Football. A lot more exiting than either form of Rugby.

Tennis sticks out like a sore thumb in the OP. It's a terrific sport to watch.

I've tried to get into cricket but struggle. I see the appeal with playing golf; watching it, on the other hand... Rugby League is more entertaining than Rugby Union.

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 10 hours, 21 minutes ago
I won't watch any 'sport' that includes exploits animals.
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You mean footballers aren't still kicking a pig's bladder around?

comment by Clockwork Red: Jadon and the Argonauts (U4892)
posted 9 seconds ago
Tennis sticks out like a sore thumb in the OP. It's a terrific sport to watch.

I've tried to get into cricket but struggle. I see the appeal with playing golf; watching it, on the other hand... Rugby League is more entertaining than Rugby Union.
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The NRL finals start next weekend so get on it.

comment by Robb Stifler (U22716)
posted 27 minutes ago

with soccer (sorry) you could just chuck a random game on at 3am with nothing but a pot noodle in your hand and enjoy the thrill of the actual game
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I largely agree. But this weekend I sat down and flicked through the channels, and the only football on the TV was the Canadian league. Have to say I didn't experience the thrill of the game.

comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Robb Stifler (U22716)
posted 27 minutes ago

with soccer (sorry) you could just chuck a random game on at 3am with nothing but a pot noodle in your hand and enjoy the thrill of the actual game
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I largely agree. But this weekend I sat down and flicked through the channels, and the only football on the TV was the Canadian league. Have to say I didn't experience the thrill of the game.
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Should have had a Pot Noodle.

comment by Robb Stifler (U22716)
posted 4 hours, 14 minutes ago
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by Robb Stifler (U22716)
posted 11 minutes ago
Most American sports. Basketball is just about bearable.
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I got invited to a MLB match when I was on a business trip in Houston. It's such a boring sport. But the stadium experience - the constant consumption of food, the socialising, and to me as a European looking in from the outside) the cultural anthropology - was enjoyable. I've switched it on a couple of times on TV since then and couldn't last more than five minutes.
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Yeah, sounds about right. All style and no substance whereas with soccer (sorry) you could just chuck a random game on at 3am with nothing but a pot noodle in your hand and enjoy the thrill of the actual game in ways the baseball fans will surely never
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BS
Baseball is a very complex n nuanced game that u cannot aporeciate bye!🖐 watchin 5 minits of

I think that's true, and I know smart people who are obsessed with it. There are layers of tactical complexity. I think appreciating baseball fully means a lot of the appreciation comes from the invisible intellectual layers and the actual plays are kind of the tip of the iceberg. Which is also to say that, a bit like chess, although the tactical elements are very absorbing if you appreciate them properly, it doesn't deliver on the level of real-time spectacle the way football regularly does. Of course you can also get more out of football the more you understand tactics, the better you can read the game, but it still delivers as a spectacle if you don't.

comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 21 seconds ago
I think that's true, and I know smart people who are obsessed with it. There are layers of tactical complexity. I think appreciating baseball fully means a lot of the appreciation comes from the invisible intellectual layers and the actual plays are kind of the tip of the iceberg. Which is also to say that, a bit like chess, although the tactical elements are very absorbing if you appreciate them properly, it doesn't deliver on the level of real-time spectacle the way football regularly does. Of course you can also get more out of football the more you understand tactics, the better you can read the game, but it still delivers as a spectacle if you don't.
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Yup
Soccer apeels 2 the masses as u dont need too no anything about it 2 get sum enjoymennet.
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Present company excepted, eh 4za?

Have to say, I saw a hell of a lot of morbidly obese Texans at the Astros game I attended, and they seemed to be enjoying themselves and I didn't overhear any complex discussions about tactics.