Major Sports Events in the U.S.A. that you hate?

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  1. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    First off, NASCAR is not a sport until driving to work is a daily workout. Billiards is more of a sport than turning left for 500 miles.

    I can deal with hockey in person. It is actually exciting to watch and you can catch on real quick. I was actually surprised to find out I enjoyed it. I cannot watch it on TV.

    The only other sport I liked to watch was bowling. Something about the twisting of the ball made me mesmerized at a young age. Plus, I used to bowl pretty good and it helped to improve my game to watch the form and motion. It would be boring as he'll to watch otherwise. Well, except for trick bowling.

    Baseball and football are just made to jam commercials into. My grandfather watches golf and I cannot imagine why. I don't care about any other sports, and even the ones I do watch I don't make much effort to. If they are on and there is nothing else like a law and order episode I have seen a couple hundred times I might leave it on.
  2. The Flashlight

    The Flashlight Contributes nothing worthwhile Cunt Git

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    I've never had any interest in any kind of car racing. Overall, I don't really care much about cars, other than their utility as tools to get me from point A to point B.
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  3. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    Best race ever.

    Too soon?
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    I'll admit it: between naps, I watch NASCAR for the crashes. :blush:

    A number of years ago, I watched the Daytona 500 for the first time in a very, very long time and slept through most of it. I did wake up near the end, though, which involved a huge crash that caused one of the cars to cross the finish line on its roof and on fire. :soma:

    I remember thinking, "That was pretty fucking cool!" :lol:

    I also watch it a little bit out of technical interest for how they shoot the races. Same with golf.

    But I fall asleep every single time. :zzz:
  5. Man Afraid of his Shoes

    Man Afraid of his Shoes كافر

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    Best sport in the world?

    Air Shows.

    I once saw an airplane race against a tractor trailer with giant jet engine strapped to it. It was the coolest thing I've ever seen.

    Even cooler than a hot chick sword fighting the pilot of a bi-plane as it flew by the grandstand.

    Some time after I saw that show, they crashed and she died. :(
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    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    Dinner 2012 & 2014 Master Prognosticator

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    I don't hate any of them. I just don't really care about any of them.
  8. Zombie

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    Indifferent to all college sports. All of them. Could not give one fuck about any of it. Especially college football.

    Tried to watch eSports but there was nothing there. I guess you have to play the various games to really understand what you're watching and I don't play those type of games anyway.

    For the pro sports I'm a bandwagon jumper for Baseball, Basketball, and Hockey if the team I like hits the playoffs. Otherwise the long seasons are just too long.

    Football. It's starting to lose it's luster with all the outside shit going on. We'll see.
  9. oldfella1962

    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    But those aren't random people it's YOUR TEAM! :drama: Apparently that's how many sports fans feel anyway. "I've been a Prairie Dogs fan for twenty years now and we're finally going to the Super Bowl!" :banana: Really now? You are a player on the Prairie Dogs team old timer? :chris:
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  10. oldfella1962

    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    I would watch golf (The Masters is just around the corner BTW) if Tererun was allowed to sneak around with her paint-ball gun and shoot randomly at the players!
    Yes bowling is okay because I can relate to it somewhat as I do bowl very occasionally.
  11. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    I did forget one thing. I hate every college sport. You go to college to learn, not to play a game. If you want then have some pool to pick pros from then make minor leagues. There are people paying good money to go to college to learn things, and they should not be second to some dipshit with a trump level IQ playing with their balls.
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  12. Shirogayne

    Shirogayne Gay™ Formerly Important

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    I'd never seen that attitude until I got to my last who and football was all anyone could talk about in my department. Even the women. :brood: the six months we spent in the Pre-comm building were mind-numbing hell.
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  13. oldfella1962

    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    in the army they get the morning after the Super Bowl (Monday morning of course) off because they assume everyone watches it and will be partying during the duration of the game, thus too hungover to go to PT at zero dark thirty on Monday morning. :dayton: Recently Army beat Navy in a traditional/legendary football game and they had Monday morning off for that. :dayton: Give me a fucking break!
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  14. The Prussian Mafia

    The Prussian Mafia Sex crazed nympho

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    I can't stand basketball. I only do a bracket so that when I'm in a bar or at someone's house, I have some minute interest in what's going on around me. Other than that, I love football and hockey. Golf, tennis and baseball on TV I like if I want to lay on my couch and I need something to put me to sleep.
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    Shirogayne Gay™ Formerly Important

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    They actually did that at my first command, mostly because it was Japan and it aired live at about 6 or 7 in the morning there. Good times. :)
  16. Dayton Kitchens

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    I seem to remember something that when televised hockey games added the glowing puck that ratings shot up dramatically.

    Someone once described baseball as "15 minutes of action crammed into 3 hours".
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