Guess what's fun???

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

Living in Texas and not being into ANY sports at ALL.

Yep, none. Zip. Zilch. Nada. And I know of almost NO ONE, beyond my own husband, who feels the same way. He's got it worse, he's a GUY and works in a warehouse with guys whose whole lives apparently revolve around ESPN 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10, and 11. He has to fake it all the time. He's gotten quite good at it.

Meanwhile at home, all he watches is the Sci-Fi channel, Discovery, the History Channel, PBS or BBC America.

I can't even fake it. I don't even pretend. And I'm not sure, but I think that's worse, because then you get grilled. Someone will mention a last name and everyone gets all excited and I figure it must be sports related but I don't even know what SPORT it is. So you get the questions and the people looking at you like you are retarded or just grew antennae or something.

It's fun. Yeah.

On edit: found out tonight my best friend, who normally doesn't get into any sports at all, practically wets her pants at the thought of the Olympics. Sigh. And the guy I work for, who is WONDERFUL in every way, including his not watching sports? He's a Tour de France freak. Total freak. It's all he can talk about right now. Which means we don't talk much.

What can I do O Great Gods of DU Lounge?

[WindRavenX]

1. baseball is really the only sport I watch

It's the most intellectual. I know, that sounded very snobbish...but it's true. It's the most non-violent, the most strategy based, and it has the hottest men (see: Derek Jeter, aka, God in tight pants).
Maybe get a radio and listen to baseball, it's fun.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

3. Problem is I also have horrible

connections with sports. My alcoholic stepfather bet money on every sport there was and either watched them on TV or listened on the radio or BOTH at the same time. We got the worst beatings (think broken bones) when the team he bet on lost.

I know that's introducing a whole new dimension to this thread, just trying to explain why I can't stomach watching or listening to sports to this day.

[WindRavenX]

7. oh man, that sucks

Sorry to hear that. I can understand why sports may not be the funniest thing to do.

[JohnKleeb]

16. If Jeter is god, what does make a hot woman like Natalie Portman or

Petra Nemcova? God in a dress perhaps? just teasing. I only exclusively watch baseball but honestly I enjoy listening to it on the radio more, when I was younger we had the best radio broadcasters, Jon Miller who I found out tonight is a dem and Chuck Thompson a great old time aunnocer who was the aunnocer with Maz hit the home run in the 1960 world series to win.

[Kipepeo]

2. I have absolutely zero sports knowledge as well

Neither does my SO. He's worse than I am. The "orange" sports & leisure questions on trivial pursuit will do either of us in.

The closest we get to an appreciation of what it must feel like to "root for a team" or be interested in a sporting event is watching "Iron Chef" on the Food Network. :)

Otherwise, the excitement just eludes me.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

4. OMG

someone else!!!

But do you live somewhere where sports are a big-ass deal?

The orange questions, lol! Those always do us in, too. We just stop before even reading it completely, we know we aren't going to know what the hell the question is talking about, anyway.

[Kipepeo]

6. I live in LA

where there is something called the 'Lakers.' ;) LOL. I do know what they are but I am always oblivious to their schedule until I start to see the purple and yellow flags around.

Once at work I was on the phone with someone from San Fran (?) who made some dig at me about the Dodgers vs. his team...I had no idea what he was talking about. It ended up being something big, like the world series or something, but he had to explain it to me...which pretty much killed his casual-conversation-intro.

I think other than Iron Chef, the only other thing that comes close to an appreciation of what people must feel when rooting for a team is my obsession with politics. I follow it like some people follow sports I guess.

Yes, everyone knows to give us "orange" as the last question on trivial pursuit! :)

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

10. I'm an eighth grade English teacher

and my students come in yelling about Lakers and Spurs. I was INFORMED this past year that they are BASKETBALL teams. They were shaking their heads the entire time in disbelief that they were having to tell me that.

Hey Miss! What about them SPURS???

Uh.....what?

[AngryAmish]

11. I don't get the Iron Chef

If taken as comedy, ok then I get it. However you are supposed to marvel over food that you do not even taste? Well, that is kinda silly.

[Kipepeo]

15. food competition

Well, the food part of it makes me hungry. But I like the play-by-play commentary just as much. Plus I have the ones I "root" for. Morimoto is my favorite...also Sakai. :)

[Nevernose]

8. Orange? That's not even a color on our board

One sixth of all the spaces are imaginary, as far as we're concerned.

What's worse is that I'm a man. You think men talk sports when you're around? It's worse when men are alone.

I grew up in Texas, and was the only one in a fifty mile radius who didn't know and didn't care about sports. Can you say "pariah?"

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

9. Hey

you and my husband would like to talk. He'd love to get a break from the sports nuts he is surrounded by 24/7. We joke our home is a "Sports Free Zone."

[Lucky Luciano]

5. I used to watch sports constantly before college...

Since then, I almost never watch and occasionally check to see where my teams of the past stand, but that is it.

Now, if I am at a friend's house, the closest thing to watching sports is the travel channel where I watch The Texas Hold 'em Poker tournaments...but that is because I play a lot of poker in the casinos....very profitable for me!!

[Aftershock]

12. ESPN

Best. Channel. Ever.

:)

[Nevernose]

13. Sorry, I don't watch the Spanish channel

I don't speak Spanish, so why should ESPN interest me?

[ilovenicepeople]

14. I don't think that you have to understand Spanish for ESPN

you just have to be psychic.

[JohnKleeb]

17. it is indeed great

sportscenter cracks me up, they have a good sense of humor, I remember they had a tape of Ron Burgandy's audition, btw this scene wasnt in anchorman, and Burgandy is like ok whats the name of this network, "E-S-P-N", hes told, he pronounces it as its spelled, and says whats this show, oh its sportscenter, all sports, hes like that will never sell neither will an all music or all food network which as we see with MTV and food tv thats true heh. Plus how they handled the Phil Jackson-Jeannie Buss thing was funny. Its a great network, always been a favorite.

[JohnKleeb]

18. it is indeed great

sportscenter cracks me up, they have a good sense of humor, I remember they had a tape of Ron Burgandy's audition, btw this scene wasnt in anchorman, and Burgandy is like ok whats the name of this network, "E-S-P-N", hes told, he pronounces it as its spelled, and says whats this show, oh its sportscenter, all sports, hes like that will never sell neither will an all music or all food network which as we see with MTV and food tv thats true heh. Plus how they handled the Phil Jackson-Jeannie Buss thing was funny. Its a great network, always been a favorite.