Anybody else HATE sports?

[Wcross]

I hate the whole sports scene! I used to play as a kid and I loved it, but it just doesn't seem interesting to watch other people play a game. I work with people that are so into it, they scare me. I have seen near fights over college football. These are people that never went to college, yet adopted a team. WTF? People get so into it and I can't see the thrill.

[Maple]

1. YES!

As someone once told me....'I'm a sportsman, not a sports 'spectator''

[Wcross]

7. Thats it.

It always seems like some kind of toughness display, WTF?? Your ass ain't on the field getting knocked around, its up in the stands drinking a beer and eating Nachos.

[MuseRider]

2. I am a huge tennis fan

but that is all. I am typing this is while watching the womens final in the US Open. The rest of it I refuse to watch. HATE it.

[NightTrain]

3. Me, me, me!

There isn't a single sport that I don't hate, loathe and detest with every fiber of my being. They all suck, IMHO!

[arwalden]

30. You Tell Em... Atta Boy!

Go getem Tiger.

[Droopy]

4. I don't hate them, but

I do not like them as much as I used to and I don't follow them like I used to either. After I got past about twenty, sports started to lose its magic for me. I don't know why. I also don't understand why people get so wrapped up in them. For me it was always just entertainment.

[Skip Intro]

5. its always mystified me as well

And non-sports people seem to be very rare.


who cares who can move some odd ball past some arbitrary point the most times?

I've just never gotten it.

"we're number one"

so effen what?

[Aristus]

6. Used to be a big football fan.

Now I hate all of it; the whole overpromoted, money-soaked mess.

[MoonAndSun]

8. When I was younger I liked sports, but as I got older sports

had no meaning for me, now I love to read, listen to music, go to plays and shows. If I am talking to people, especially men, as soon as the talk turns to sports I stop listening. Sports talk bores me to tears.

[mitchum]

9. Don't hate sports, just indifferent to them...

I enjoyed playing as a kid and I know tons of sports trivia that happened before I was 12 years old, but I don't watch sporting events, attend them, or read the sports section of periodicals. I honestly couldn't tell you who won the Super Bowl last year. In theory, I still respect athletics because you don't stay in the game if you don't have it. Unlike other mass diversions, in sports connections and nepotism won't carry you very far.

[grilled onions]

10. I resent their attitudes

The average person works hard at their job year 'round and for minimal pay. These clowns work only for several months,get a lot of time off for often minor "injuries" yet the average worker often cannot take time off for more serious conditions. They are overpaid yet complain every chance they get and make huge demands every time its contract time. Their greed,along with the owners,keep many from every being able to go to a game. From the time they are considered "pro" material they seem to get away with pranks,poor grades etc. Schools,coaches etc defend them at every turn,make excuses for their behavior etc. The entire scenario turns me off.
:grr

[Blue_Chill]

13. work only for several months

Dude pro athletes have to LIVE the sport they play. Eat sleep and dream about it.

You really don't understand how hard it is too reach that level. You have to use every chance you get to improve your game or you are gone. There is no off season.

BTW - they make a lot because they produce a lot. They get their fair share. It's how all jobs should be, you get a fair chunk of the money you bring in.

[maxanne]

40. horse hockey

We're supposed to allow adults to behave badly and be paid millions, because they can play with balls. They make a lot because our values are screwed up.

Whose job is more important - the teacher who is teaching your kid to read, or Kobe Bryant? Whose job is more important - the Red Sox or the garbage collectors in NY City? If they both stopped working, whose absence would be most keenly felt?

[Don_G]

11. I Like Seeing Any Good Team Play

But I don't care if one wins or lose over another as long as they've tried their best.

It's entertaning but my self-image as a human being will never begin nor end with the distractions tne Media provides.

[Don_G]

12. I Like Seeing Any Good Team Play

But I don't care if one wins or lose over another as long as they've tried their best.

It's entertaning but my self-image as a human being will never begin nor end with the distractions tne Media provides.

[latebloomer]

14. no interest whatsoever!

Always got picked last for the team in gym, would stand in the outfield trying to look invisible. Droning sound of baseball on TV, father in his chair on a dreary Sunday afternoon. Married a man who was totally thankful to find a woman who wasn't obsessed with sports!?! Raising children who are completely uninterested in team sports.

I must admit, though, that while living in Cambridge, Mass in the 70s, my Red Sox-obsessed roommates introduced me to some of the visual pleasures of viewing sports, a series of events that climaxed, so to speak, when I wound up kissing Carlton Fisk, the comely catcher, in the Eliot Lounge.

Other than that, I really do hate sports.

[stopbush]

15. Tennis and Baseball

are the only sports I follow. I play tennis and I follow the Yankees.

Football isn't even really a sport here, while soccer is.

And basketball...what the hell is that? I can't imagine anything more boring to watch than basket-bore.

[billbuckhead]

16. If religion is the opium of the masses then sports is the crack cocaine

I say that at least once a month, anywhere, and almost everyone laughs.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

I totally agree!

I can understand watching sports for amusement, since I like skating, gymnastics, swimming, and track and field, but the sort of sports obsession where spectators get emotionally involved with the team or where someone subscribes to six sports channels plus pay-per-view games or can't talk about anything but sports or makes everyone in the house be quiet if a game is on or ignore friends and family to watch a game or writes to the Yale alumni magazine to say that he's ashamed of being a Yalie because of the mediocre football team--man, that's sick.

[Webster Green]

17. I'm pretty indifferent....except for.......

NINERS!!!!!

[gyopsy]

18. Sports are awsome

You people who don't like sports are either females or you just don't get it. It's about competition and excitement. I'm not a fanatic but I must admit I enjoy football and baseball quite a bit.

Even if you don't like watching sports, it pays off to have a sport that you enjoy playing, if only for the sake of getting a workout.

[Wcross]

21. WTF

There goes the "your not a man if your not a fan" stuff. I must be female huh? I have never watched a superbowl in my life, but I don't feel any less masculine for it.

[stopbush]

22. Gyopsy sez

"Even if you don't like watching sports, it pays off to have a sport that you enjoy playing, if only for the sake of getting a workout."

I'd agree. I walk 5 miles a day (without fail...easy to do here in Vegas where it almost never rains etc) and play tennis whenever possible. That's more than the beer-gutted couch potatoes that make up 75% of American TV sports viewers EVER do. They get their sports vicariously through their TV teams, exercising only their mouths and their guts, lifting those 12-ounce weights ad infinitum during the course of endless hours of broadcast crapola! The only "run" they ever partake of is the "run to the drive through beer store" when their swill-o'-choice (ie: Budweiser) runs low.

I don't view life as a competition. While I may be naive to think this in today's America, I tend to appreciate (and spend my leisure hours on) things like the arts where something other than "battlefield heroics"are exalted. As such, the competition/gridiron/battlefield metaphor is lost on me.

Throughout my professional career, I've never felt the need to give in to the "competition as life sport" game and have done very well for myself and my various employers in the process.

Am I missing out? I don't think so.

[TheBigGuy]

19. I find sports totally boring...i mean i really could care less...

....politics works for me the way sports works for other folks, as a form of entertainment.

[latebloomer]

20. do you guys think

that not being into sports is a social disadvantage when you're trying to bond with other men?

My husband thinks it is-- sports just oils the wheels for so much male interaction--a way to connect.

[stopbush]

24. Yes, sports helps in male bonding

with certain types.

My REAL male friends all have lives centered around the arts. Surprisingly, a couple of them are sports-aholics. But when we get together, we almost never talk about sports.

Where not knowing about sports really hurts you is in the male acquaintance department, ie: all of those hubbies you end up meeting at parties only because your wife is friends with THEIR wives due to PTA and other social ties. These are men that I would never gravitate to naturally. As such, I have very little to offer in these sports-obsessed discussions.

However, once it comes out that I don't follow sports and I express my love of the fine arts, travel and liberal politics, I get a lot of the WIVES talking to me for the rest of the evening.

Does that make me a girly man...or a babe magnet?

[durutti]

29. As a man who hates sports culture...

Yes, a bit.

[lcordero]

23. I'm trying to find the transcript to an interview of Henry Rollins a few

years ago. It characterizes somewhat what I feel about "professional sports"

[toddzilla]

25. i've never understood it..

people hooting and hollering about some team or another scoring a touchdown or whatever..

i always ask.. "this affects me how exactly??"

i'm always up for playing whatever.. but watching.. WHY???

life is not a spectator sport..

[TreasonousBastard]

26. Hate sports.

But I'll walk a mile through an art museum, or a few miles miles to an opera house.

And I've worked up a sweat onstage in the past-- acting and building sets.

No, I'm not gay, and I'll wager a trip to the museum gets you laid faster than sitting through a Yankees game.

[ScreamingMeemie]

27. I LOVE Football. And watching my daughter play volleyball, basketball,

softball. It's great to go out and see your kids smile when they do something really good, like the spike Nicole made over the net today.

[Sentath]

32. But thats YOUR kids

Thats not quite what this thread is complaining about here.

What this is about is people who have that kind (or even more violent kinds) of enthusiasm about complete strangers that they'll never meet.

[ScreamingMeemie]

45. Okay then, I really dig the Packers and it's wrecks my whole afternoon

when they lose. That more like it? I LOVE SPORTS!!!

[durutti]

28. Oh yes

I like to play basketball every once in a while, but I hate the whole sports culture these days.

[tarkus]

31. I think that sports foster bad things like competition and prejudice.

[Skittles]

33. ME, ME

I find the whole scene very juvenile.

[FloridaJudy]

34. Boring!!!

What *is* the big deal with football? A buncha guys all run around for a few seconds, then someone blows a whistle, and they all mill around scratching their butts while the coach yells at the whistle blower.

To me that looks uncomfortably like coitus interruptus.

I've got to be careful here; this is a college town, and Football is King. Most of my colleagues care more about how the 'Gators did in the last game than who is Attorney General.

Of course, nothing is more disgusting than boxing. Aliens who tune into ESPN must conclude that we earthlings are hopeless. "These people pay to watch dis-enfranchized males batter each other into brain damage. Forget about inviting them into the Federation: vaporize them now, before they have a chance to spread..."

[Art_from_Ark]

35. People in states like Arkansas that don't have pro teams

will often cheer for the state's college teams, since that's the "next best thing". It's a matter of pride to these people to see their state seen in a good light on national TV, even if it is just for a sporting event.

For me personally, I have learned to live without US pro sports, which has been made easier due to the current situation of "musical teams" and whiny, overpaid players.

[TheBigGuy]

42. Yeah, thats the case in Kentucky...

...the famous obsession with the Kentucky Wildcats basketball and the lesser, but still strong fanship in Louisville for the UL Cardinals basketball team

[Sick of Bullshit]

46. I guess that might explain why, when I was at MU

(University of Missouri), no one gave a rat's ass about the football team*, because there were pro teams in both St. Louis and Kansas City. But, lots of people did go gaga over Tiger basketball.


*except for some fraternity guys who went up to Madison and dumped a shitload of manure on the steps of the UW student union.

[Deja Q]

36. If it's professional, and/or the players bully others and are cruel to win

Then I positively HATE IT.

[Blue_Chill]

38. cruel to win?

lol.

[Amaya]

37. I hate watching sports on TV

Yawn.... I don't mind napping to sports though :boring:

[Bombero1956]

39. I may get flamed here but

Everybody can't be into everything, so you folks hate sports, okay fine,don't watch. Don't condemn those who do, it's probably the only way to escape the miserable lives Herr.Bush is making them live. Now before I'm accused of being a sportsaholic, let me say that I don't watch football,basketball,hockey,golf,tennis,the Olympics or baseball. I could care less about them. I lead a full enough life without them. I do watch racing because I'm a car buff and that's what I enjoy. My wife and I also enjoy going to musicals on Broadway. Just look at it this way, you find sports boring, just imagine how boring most folks find the opera or museums.

On edit: Remember what George Carlin said about sports, "if you play a sport, go ahead".

[PurityOfEssence]

41. Absolutely

Complete waste of time, brings out the worst in people and is of no value whatsoever. It feeds more of the hero worship that is a continuing bugaboo of society, and sucks up endless resources that could and should be used elsewhere.

Like most other vices, it's okay in moderation, and I'll concede that it can have some reasonable effects in very limited dosages.

Don't say it in public though, unless you want to get derided, marginalized or physically threatened. Shhhh...

[VOX]

43. I hate what's been done to sports...

The big money, the hype, the posturing, the over-analysis, the non-stop graphics and banter, etc. I don't want the NFL owning my Sundays.

But, once in awhile, on the rare occasion that I have enough time to look at TV, I'll run across, say, a rugby match from New Zealand, or some cowtown college football game, and the purity of the contest will shine through.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

44. I'm sorry but I hate football

What is the point?!

[TrogL]

47. it's some sort of social thing

ignore it but vote against its funding until arts funding reaches the same level

[RandomKoolzip]

48. Organized sports events have always reminded me of Nazi rallies.

I hate competitive sports. I just can't see caring about that bullshit. It's amazing to me that people can listen to sports radio shows and not want to kill.

I lift weights and workout and walk to stay fit, so it's not a matter of being lazy or anything. It's just that sports turn me off in the worst way and they seem to bring out the worst in people, as well as being the official entertainment of the masses (ever notice how many fucking sports channels are on cable compared to the number of arts or history channels?).

Another amazing thing to me is that human beings, being the most intelligent and advanced species in the universe so far discovered, use that astounding brain power not to improve life on earth and relieve suffering, but to memorize the statistics of their favorite teams. I mean, really! Read a fuckin' book, man! Ever listen to sports radio? These people who call in are hard-wired to think about the stupidest possible shit, and clog up the airwaves with their idiocy. These radio shows could be used to discuss politics or music or other intelligent topics, and instead, all you hear is phrases like "standing free safety" and "american league east" and "tight end" and "first round draft pick." Fuck sports; they're as useless as fashion. Imagine if we took the money spent in the sports and fashion industries and used them to feed, clothe, and educate ourselves. Just imagine, 'cuz it'll never fucking happen.