Passing interest over the years, but non of them capture my soul or passions like football does. Football has been in my blood since the day i was born. I find it hard to get excited over any other sport unless there is some sort of national pride involved.
I'm glad I'm English tbh, the sports are junk. Thank fook we follow football over advanced rounders
comment by Manfrombelmonty (U1705)
posted 19 seconds ago
Passing interest over the years, but non of them capture my soul or passions like football does. Football has been in my blood since the day i was born. I find it hard to get excited over any other sport unless there is some sort of national pride involved.
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well, I get your passion about football.. its inbuilt, but I disagree about national pride. I facking hate international football and want the plug to be pulled on it.
when spurs are in Europe I don't have any regard for them "representing England", we represent spurs, no more and no less. same way man city represents themselves and no one else.
I think in some way we compare our football to these sports and they never really make sense to us over here (or not most anyway) as we are connected to our teams in the tribal sense, we go see our local team and feel a connection to them and people get into football because it's actually a great sport to watch in general.
Tried watching all the above, never been able to find them gripping.
comment by Chronic (U3423)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Manfrombelmonty (U1705)
posted 19 seconds ago
Passing interest over the years, but non of them capture my soul or passions like football does. Football has been in my blood since the day i was born. I find it hard to get excited over any other sport unless there is some sort of national pride involved.
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well, I get your passion about football.. its inbuilt, but I disagree about national pride. I facking hate international football and want the plug to be pulled on it.
when spurs are in Europe I don't have any regard for them "representing England", we represent spurs, no more and no less. same way man city represents themselves and no one else.
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Yeah, there's obviously a huge lack of national pride when it comes to the English football team, which as a non englishman, I find quite sad.
Maybe coming from an underdog nation it's different for me, but I could watch an irishman in the world wifecarrying championships and be shouting at the top of my lungs for him to beat that bloody estonian, and even when he ultimately trips and falls face first in the mud 6 feet from the finish line, I'll still give him a pat on the back for representing us.
Been to a Baseball game and an Ice Hockey.
Yankees was dull, waste of time and money. However I believe if you go and watch the Red Sox it's a different experience entirely.
Ice Hockey was fantastic, the only sport (outside of combat) to encourage people to fight. Good humour in the stands, good food and a great sport.
You'll never get an atmosphere like a football game though. Not sure if it's the sports culture or the location but you can't beat the tribalism of football.
Saying that, I do love a day at the cricket these days.
problem is that in my opinion, international football is a threat to spurs. we have players contracted to our club, who are then released to play for a country possibly with no connection to spurs, and if they break their leg, then spurs miss them for the whole season.
its not a thing about England. I don't want any spurs player playing for anyone other than spurs. if they get injured in training then that's one of those things, but at least its acting under the jurisdiction of the club that the player is contracted to.
I appreciate that I am in the minority with this view. but if it were up to me there would be no world cup, no euros, and no friendlies.
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 2 minutes ago
Been to a Baseball game and an Ice Hockey.
Yankees was dull, waste of time and money. However I believe if you go and watch the Red Sox it's a different experience entirely.
Ice Hockey was fantastic, the only sport (outside of combat) to encourage people to fight. Good humour in the stands, good food and a great sport.
You'll never get an atmosphere like a football game though. Not sure if it's the sports culture or the location but you can't beat the tribalism of football.
Saying that, I do love a day at the cricket these days.
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yeah cricket is a good sport
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 1 minute ago
Been to a Baseball game and an Ice Hockey.
Yankees was dull, waste of time and money. However I believe if you go and watch the Red Sox it's a different experience entirely.
Ice Hockey was fantastic, the only sport (outside of combat) to encourage people to fight. Good humour in the stands, good food and a great sport.
You'll never get an atmosphere like a football game though. Not sure if it's the sports culture or the location but you can't beat the tribalism of football.
Saying that, I do love a day at the cricket these days.
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Been to a couple of Sox games myself. If you go with the right people it can be a good day out, but not really for the actual sport. Beers, burgers, more beers, little care for whats going on on the field as it's just 1 game in a 160+ game season.
Ice hockey, I actually thought may be the one sport I could easier relate to as there is a similar dynamic to football. But again, the experience outweighs the love of the sport.
At any US sporting event I always feel like I am one of those Old Trafford football tourist people. Enjoy the atmosphere and experience, but care little for the outcome.
Played basketball for a team growing up so naturally grew to enjoy it. It's enjoyable to watch but the cheers are thinly spread out rather than a sudden rush of a goal. Better than not cheering for anything when you leave at full time with your team not having scored.
Ice Hockey is one of the best spectator sports out there, even better when you understand what's going on, just pure fast paced action.
Slowly growing into American Football, going to all the London games this year. Enjoy it more because I have a lot of friends who are really into it. Going to a game is much more fun than watching it on TV being bombarded with adverts.
Never cared for baseball.
comment by Chronic (U3423)
posted 3 minutes ago
problem is that in my opinion, international football is a threat to spurs. we have players contracted to our club, who are then released to play for a country possibly with no connection to spurs, and if they break their leg, then spurs miss them for the whole season.
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Whereas when my country play, it can be a threat to the success of Fleetwood Town or hamilton Accies
i lived in the US(Houston,Tx) ages 14-25 and although footy remained my sport, I really got into Basketball and American footy
It helps once you learn the rules
plus in the early 90's houston were the nuts at basketball, the football made it to the game before the superbowl one year and threw away a 30 pt lead, I was off my nut watching that game
" But again, the experience outweighs the love of the sport. "
This goes for almost all sports in fairness. Even football to an extent.
You can be just as passionate about your club from the couch as you can from the stadium.
If anything I get more distracted from the game in the stadium.
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I like to keep myself informed of how things are going at the San Antonio Spurs.
My brother left two West Ham tickets on the dash of his car as he went in to buy a paper this morning. Some dirtbag has smashed his side window in and left two more.
Filth...
I like most sports but took me a real while to get into NFL, but starting to apreciate the concept more.
NBA is fantastic though, the skill and power and ability makes it one of the hardest sports to play, if not the hardest. Can be a 6ft 3 Point guard and when driving to the basket get bumped midair, between two 7 footers and change direction and lay it off the backboard and into the basket making it look easy.
Still football is football for a reason, near 90 minutes of non stop action and some games are just breathtaking, basketball is more one of skill plays that are fantastic.
Probably better atmosphere at basketball games than some footy games too.
comment by The fackin Gaffer (U6283)
posted 4 minutes ago
i lived in the US(Houston,Tx) ages 14-25 and although footy remained my sport, I really got into Basketball and American footy
It helps once you learn the rules
plus in the early 90's houston were the nuts at basketball, the football made it to the game before the superbowl one year and threw away a 30 pt lead, I was off my nut watching that game
----------------------------------------------------------------------I had been up all night in a hilton hotel room in clear lake, houston with a mate and 2 chicks, anyways we keep going and watch the game trashed, oilers up 35-3 early second half and end up losing 41-38
couldn't believe it
I love the NFL. I think I actually prefer watching the NFL than the Premier League.
Having lived in the US for nearly 20 years I really enjoy all US sports, I don't love any of them like I do with Spurs but that's in my upbringing/DNA etc. There are 2 points I would make about US sports.....
1) The competitive balance/salary cap & collegaete development system is something we could learn a lot from. It focuses team's on continued/ rotational coaching & development and stops clubs employing checkbook managers to go out & buy titles. The fact that 90% of the time we are getting different champions in each sport every season makes for refreshing fan optimism at the start of every year that I don't think exists within the PL. On the rare occasion when you see repeat winners.. u know u are watching special/ a Dynasty !!!
On the Flip side they would do with adopting a promotion/ relegation (break up of the one league system), to ensure that more teams have something to play for late in the year. We have expanded play-off participation to increase competition at the top end the same needs to be done at the bottom
As far as the atmosphere goes, as a Londoner, it will never compete with a PL game or a NL Derby but I would really recommend... Yanks/Sox Baseball or any play-off baseball. Original 5 Hockey Cities (NY, Boston, Toronto, Chicago & Montreal) & Tailgating for any NFL game (esp in the Mid-West) is fantastic
comment by Number-Eight (U9729)
posted 15 minutes ago
UFC for me
going from strength to strength and is just so exciting!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Was in Vegas for the Diaz vs Mcgregor fight.
We paid for a UFC fight pass thing to try and get tickets. We were online waiting for an hour. Sold out in seconds and we were gutted.
It was dos Anjos as the point we tried to get tickets. Wound up watching it in an Irish bar, the Yanks do not like McGregor
comment by Diamondlights (U20501)
posted 3 minutes ago
Having lived in the US for nearly 20 years I really enjoy all US sports, I don't love any of them like I do with Spurs but that's in my upbringing/DNA etc. There are 2 points I would make about US sports.....
1) The competitive balance/salary cap & collegaete development system is something we could learn a lot from. It focuses team's on continued/ rotational coaching & development and stops clubs employing checkbook managers to go out & buy titles. The fact that 90% of the time we are getting different champions in each sport every season makes for refreshing fan optimism at the start of every year that I don't think exists within the PL. On the rare occasion when you see repeat winners.. u know u are watching special/ a Dynasty !!!
On the Flip side they would do with adopting a promotion/ relegation (break up of the one league system), to ensure that more teams have something to play for late in the year. We have expanded play-off participation to increase competition at the top end the same needs to be done at the bottom
As far as the atmosphere goes, as a Londoner, it will never compete with a PL game or a NL Derby but I would really recommend... Yanks/Sox Baseball or any play-off baseball. Original 5 Hockey Cities (NY, Boston, Toronto, Chicago & Montreal) & Tailgating for any NFL game (esp in the Mid-West) is fantastic
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The salary cap and draft simply wouldn't work in football, it's played too world wide with too many leagues, it works for America because they are by far the strongest leagues in the sports.
A salary cap in the UK would be detrimental to their competitiveness in Europe and lose tv viewings, eventually people would lose interest when the top players depart for a non capped league. It would have to be across the board.
Don't do it for me at all any of the american sports. Have tried to watch the odd NFL game but bores the s** out of me like rugby. Can't stand UFC either. Just a bunch of thugs kicking and bashing eachother to a pulp. Atleast with Boxing there's a degree of safety measures in place. UFC just consists of shoving 2 brutes in the ring and seeing who beats the f** out of someone quicker. I will sit and watch the odd huge boxing game and will watch Wimbledon. I don't live to far from Wimbledon either so take an interest when Wimbledon is on but nothing really floats my boat like football does. Football is by far the greatest sport in the world.
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posted on 11/10/16
Passing interest over the years, but non of them capture my soul or passions like football does. Football has been in my blood since the day i was born. I find it hard to get excited over any other sport unless there is some sort of national pride involved.
posted on 11/10/16
I'm glad I'm English tbh, the sports are junk. Thank fook we follow football over advanced rounders
posted on 11/10/16
comment by Manfrombelmonty (U1705)
posted 19 seconds ago
Passing interest over the years, but non of them capture my soul or passions like football does. Football has been in my blood since the day i was born. I find it hard to get excited over any other sport unless there is some sort of national pride involved.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
well, I get your passion about football.. its inbuilt, but I disagree about national pride. I facking hate international football and want the plug to be pulled on it.
when spurs are in Europe I don't have any regard for them "representing England", we represent spurs, no more and no less. same way man city represents themselves and no one else.
posted on 11/10/16
I think in some way we compare our football to these sports and they never really make sense to us over here (or not most anyway) as we are connected to our teams in the tribal sense, we go see our local team and feel a connection to them and people get into football because it's actually a great sport to watch in general.
Tried watching all the above, never been able to find them gripping.
posted on 11/10/16
Don't like any of them.
posted on 11/10/16
comment by Chronic (U3423)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Manfrombelmonty (U1705)
posted 19 seconds ago
Passing interest over the years, but non of them capture my soul or passions like football does. Football has been in my blood since the day i was born. I find it hard to get excited over any other sport unless there is some sort of national pride involved.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
well, I get your passion about football.. its inbuilt, but I disagree about national pride. I facking hate international football and want the plug to be pulled on it.
when spurs are in Europe I don't have any regard for them "representing England", we represent spurs, no more and no less. same way man city represents themselves and no one else.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yeah, there's obviously a huge lack of national pride when it comes to the English football team, which as a non englishman, I find quite sad.
Maybe coming from an underdog nation it's different for me, but I could watch an irishman in the world wifecarrying championships and be shouting at the top of my lungs for him to beat that bloody estonian, and even when he ultimately trips and falls face first in the mud 6 feet from the finish line, I'll still give him a pat on the back for representing us.
posted on 11/10/16
Been to a Baseball game and an Ice Hockey.
Yankees was dull, waste of time and money. However I believe if you go and watch the Red Sox it's a different experience entirely.
Ice Hockey was fantastic, the only sport (outside of combat) to encourage people to fight. Good humour in the stands, good food and a great sport.
You'll never get an atmosphere like a football game though. Not sure if it's the sports culture or the location but you can't beat the tribalism of football.
Saying that, I do love a day at the cricket these days.
posted on 11/10/16
problem is that in my opinion, international football is a threat to spurs. we have players contracted to our club, who are then released to play for a country possibly with no connection to spurs, and if they break their leg, then spurs miss them for the whole season.
its not a thing about England. I don't want any spurs player playing for anyone other than spurs. if they get injured in training then that's one of those things, but at least its acting under the jurisdiction of the club that the player is contracted to.
I appreciate that I am in the minority with this view. but if it were up to me there would be no world cup, no euros, and no friendlies.
posted on 11/10/16
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 2 minutes ago
Been to a Baseball game and an Ice Hockey.
Yankees was dull, waste of time and money. However I believe if you go and watch the Red Sox it's a different experience entirely.
Ice Hockey was fantastic, the only sport (outside of combat) to encourage people to fight. Good humour in the stands, good food and a great sport.
You'll never get an atmosphere like a football game though. Not sure if it's the sports culture or the location but you can't beat the tribalism of football.
Saying that, I do love a day at the cricket these days.
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yeah cricket is a good sport
posted on 11/10/16
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 1 minute ago
Been to a Baseball game and an Ice Hockey.
Yankees was dull, waste of time and money. However I believe if you go and watch the Red Sox it's a different experience entirely.
Ice Hockey was fantastic, the only sport (outside of combat) to encourage people to fight. Good humour in the stands, good food and a great sport.
You'll never get an atmosphere like a football game though. Not sure if it's the sports culture or the location but you can't beat the tribalism of football.
Saying that, I do love a day at the cricket these days.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Been to a couple of Sox games myself. If you go with the right people it can be a good day out, but not really for the actual sport. Beers, burgers, more beers, little care for whats going on on the field as it's just 1 game in a 160+ game season.
Ice hockey, I actually thought may be the one sport I could easier relate to as there is a similar dynamic to football. But again, the experience outweighs the love of the sport.
At any US sporting event I always feel like I am one of those Old Trafford football tourist people. Enjoy the atmosphere and experience, but care little for the outcome.
posted on 11/10/16
Played basketball for a team growing up so naturally grew to enjoy it. It's enjoyable to watch but the cheers are thinly spread out rather than a sudden rush of a goal. Better than not cheering for anything when you leave at full time with your team not having scored.
Ice Hockey is one of the best spectator sports out there, even better when you understand what's going on, just pure fast paced action.
Slowly growing into American Football, going to all the London games this year. Enjoy it more because I have a lot of friends who are really into it. Going to a game is much more fun than watching it on TV being bombarded with adverts.
Never cared for baseball.
posted on 11/10/16
comment by Chronic (U3423)
posted 3 minutes ago
problem is that in my opinion, international football is a threat to spurs. we have players contracted to our club, who are then released to play for a country possibly with no connection to spurs, and if they break their leg, then spurs miss them for the whole season.
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Whereas when my country play, it can be a threat to the success of Fleetwood Town or hamilton Accies
posted on 11/10/16
i lived in the US(Houston,Tx) ages 14-25 and although footy remained my sport, I really got into Basketball and American footy
It helps once you learn the rules
plus in the early 90's houston were the nuts at basketball, the football made it to the game before the superbowl one year and threw away a 30 pt lead, I was off my nut watching that game
posted on 11/10/16
NFL is a wicked game tbh
posted on 11/10/16
" But again, the experience outweighs the love of the sport. "
This goes for almost all sports in fairness. Even football to an extent.
You can be just as passionate about your club from the couch as you can from the stadium.
If anything I get more distracted from the game in the stadium.
posted on 11/10/16
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posted on 11/10/16
I like to keep myself informed of how things are going at the San Antonio Spurs.
posted on 11/10/16
My brother left two West Ham tickets on the dash of his car as he went in to buy a paper this morning. Some dirtbag has smashed his side window in and left two more.
Filth...
posted on 11/10/16
I like most sports but took me a real while to get into NFL, but starting to apreciate the concept more.
NBA is fantastic though, the skill and power and ability makes it one of the hardest sports to play, if not the hardest. Can be a 6ft 3 Point guard and when driving to the basket get bumped midair, between two 7 footers and change direction and lay it off the backboard and into the basket making it look easy.
Still football is football for a reason, near 90 minutes of non stop action and some games are just breathtaking, basketball is more one of skill plays that are fantastic.
Probably better atmosphere at basketball games than some footy games too.
posted on 11/10/16
comment by The fackin Gaffer (U6283)
posted 4 minutes ago
i lived in the US(Houston,Tx) ages 14-25 and although footy remained my sport, I really got into Basketball and American footy
It helps once you learn the rules
plus in the early 90's houston were the nuts at basketball, the football made it to the game before the superbowl one year and threw away a 30 pt lead, I was off my nut watching that game
----------------------------------------------------------------------I had been up all night in a hilton hotel room in clear lake, houston with a mate and 2 chicks, anyways we keep going and watch the game trashed, oilers up 35-3 early second half and end up losing 41-38
couldn't believe it
posted on 11/10/16
I love the NFL. I think I actually prefer watching the NFL than the Premier League.
posted on 11/10/16
Having lived in the US for nearly 20 years I really enjoy all US sports, I don't love any of them like I do with Spurs but that's in my upbringing/DNA etc. There are 2 points I would make about US sports.....
1) The competitive balance/salary cap & collegaete development system is something we could learn a lot from. It focuses team's on continued/ rotational coaching & development and stops clubs employing checkbook managers to go out & buy titles. The fact that 90% of the time we are getting different champions in each sport every season makes for refreshing fan optimism at the start of every year that I don't think exists within the PL. On the rare occasion when you see repeat winners.. u know u are watching special/ a Dynasty !!!
On the Flip side they would do with adopting a promotion/ relegation (break up of the one league system), to ensure that more teams have something to play for late in the year. We have expanded play-off participation to increase competition at the top end the same needs to be done at the bottom
As far as the atmosphere goes, as a Londoner, it will never compete with a PL game or a NL Derby but I would really recommend... Yanks/Sox Baseball or any play-off baseball. Original 5 Hockey Cities (NY, Boston, Toronto, Chicago & Montreal) & Tailgating for any NFL game (esp in the Mid-West) is fantastic
posted on 11/10/16
comment by Number-Eight (U9729)
posted 15 minutes ago
UFC for me
going from strength to strength and is just so exciting!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Was in Vegas for the Diaz vs Mcgregor fight.
We paid for a UFC fight pass thing to try and get tickets. We were online waiting for an hour. Sold out in seconds and we were gutted.
It was dos Anjos as the point we tried to get tickets. Wound up watching it in an Irish bar, the Yanks do not like McGregor
posted on 11/10/16
comment by Diamondlights (U20501)
posted 3 minutes ago
Having lived in the US for nearly 20 years I really enjoy all US sports, I don't love any of them like I do with Spurs but that's in my upbringing/DNA etc. There are 2 points I would make about US sports.....
1) The competitive balance/salary cap & collegaete development system is something we could learn a lot from. It focuses team's on continued/ rotational coaching & development and stops clubs employing checkbook managers to go out & buy titles. The fact that 90% of the time we are getting different champions in each sport every season makes for refreshing fan optimism at the start of every year that I don't think exists within the PL. On the rare occasion when you see repeat winners.. u know u are watching special/ a Dynasty !!!
On the Flip side they would do with adopting a promotion/ relegation (break up of the one league system), to ensure that more teams have something to play for late in the year. We have expanded play-off participation to increase competition at the top end the same needs to be done at the bottom
As far as the atmosphere goes, as a Londoner, it will never compete with a PL game or a NL Derby but I would really recommend... Yanks/Sox Baseball or any play-off baseball. Original 5 Hockey Cities (NY, Boston, Toronto, Chicago & Montreal) & Tailgating for any NFL game (esp in the Mid-West) is fantastic
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The salary cap and draft simply wouldn't work in football, it's played too world wide with too many leagues, it works for America because they are by far the strongest leagues in the sports.
A salary cap in the UK would be detrimental to their competitiveness in Europe and lose tv viewings, eventually people would lose interest when the top players depart for a non capped league. It would have to be across the board.
posted on 11/10/16
Don't do it for me at all any of the american sports. Have tried to watch the odd NFL game but bores the s** out of me like rugby. Can't stand UFC either. Just a bunch of thugs kicking and bashing eachother to a pulp. Atleast with Boxing there's a degree of safety measures in place. UFC just consists of shoving 2 brutes in the ring and seeing who beats the f** out of someone quicker. I will sit and watch the odd huge boxing game and will watch Wimbledon. I don't live to far from Wimbledon either so take an interest when Wimbledon is on but nothing really floats my boat like football does. Football is by far the greatest sport in the world.
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