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What's your favorite sport to watch vs. your favorite to play

watch - NFL

play - Lacrosse

I find it hard to watch soccer but I had fun playing it growing up.

Only played one year of baseball as Lacrosse and baseball seasons are at the same time
 
Wolfmans_BrothEr said:
IMO the most boring sport to watch is soccer. They just run back and fourth across the field for 2 hours to score like 2 goals
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Well, yeah... That is, in general, what they do. What is the minimum number of goals that need to be scored for a sport to be exciting to watch?
I could just as easily say that ice hockey is just guys skating back and forth to score like 3 goals.

I love watching both, although I prefer ice hockey for its faster tempo, as well as its lack of thespians falling over like they've taken a buckshot to the leg - the plague of modern football.

Edit: if you enjoy watching soccer (football), where are you from? I've found that most Americans don't enjoy watching soccer, but the same doesn't hold true for other parts of the world
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I'm from Finland. The same doesn't hold true for just about every other part of the world - most people worldwide prefer watching football (soccer) to anything else. That's not to say that it's somehow objectively better, because lots of people like it.


I think one of the most boring sports to watch, however, is American football. For one simple reason: the stop-start nature of the game. Every few seconds the guys stop running, line up again and set up a new play. All these set plays and specific maneuvers, yet no flow. Rugby is fast-paced, highly physical, yet much less fragmented.

Obviously tastes differ, and I'm not trying to say it's somehow ludicrous that so many people enjoy American football, as it's clearly very popular. It's just... So different to what I want from team sports.


It is also significant that I play both rugby and (association) football. I love watching those two sports, but for some reason, like watching ice hockey and boxing (which I've never done) even more - not by much, though. I didn't think of this before, but I now realize that Finland is terrible at football and rugby, but pretty formidable at ice hockey, and have had some good boxers (incl. current WBA & WBO Intercontinental champion, Robert Helenius).

Basketball is another sport I enjoy playing, but watching it is fucking boring - probably because you rarely see dramatic turnarounds on the tables (except if it's a dramatically close affair throughout) - so many points are scored that whether one team is running away with it or the other staging a late comeback, you can see it start to happen gradually, so it's less exciting - a single goal in football or hockey, or a try scored in rugby, usually changes the game dramatically unless the other team is already in a dominant position.
 
Out of all the sports I've played, rugby is by far the most demanding on aggregate, mentally and physically. In amongst getting spear tackled in the gut and taking boots to the head during a ruck, you have to know to the metre where each of your teammates is, and where you are in relation to them - half a metre off from where you should be on defence allows even pee wee league rugby players to score on you almost every single time. Spatial awareness both in relation to the field, your own teammate, the opposition, and the ball is crucial, and there's really no time for breathers or hesitation. Also, teams move up and down pretty much as a flat line, meaning everyone is offense and defense - and everyone stands to run the length of the pitch whenever possession is overturned.
It's also a little dangerous; I've got a couple of concussions, a broken collarbone and a dislocated arm. But it's fucking fun. The satisfaction of spearing someone in the ribs is something else, as is unexpectedly running with the ball into a huge opposing player and ploughing right into his belly, instead of trying to skip past him, as you feinted a split-second before.

God damn, I'm all excited again; I wish I still played. My 17-year old self could whoop the shit out of me today - I was a lot bigger then. Now I'm an anorexic junkie.

Also, Jesus Christ takes steroids and plays rugby:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-J3JfNtjHw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO-H0qRj1Ek
 
My favourite sport to watch is Football (soccer) and my favourite sports to play are badminton and squash.
 
Watch - Football, Hurling, Rugby Union, Rugby League, Golf, Cricket, NFL, Basketball.

Play - Football, Hurling, Rugby Union, Tennis, Golf.


shimazu said:
I find it hard to watch soccer but I had fun playing it growing up
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That explains your EADD football trolling then!

Psychonauticunt said:
Also, Jesus Christ takes steroids and plays rugby:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-J3JfNtjHw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO-H0qRj1Ek
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Its amazing how when Chabal was clean shaven with short hair nobody realised he was even playing! Then he grows his hair and beard like a neanderthal and all of a sudden people can't stop raving about him.

Good player at club level but massively overrated. Hides when the chips are down, gives away far too many penalties, doesn't impose himself enough on games and his ball carrying is questionable. Not good traits for a top backrow player. This is why he's been omitted time and time again by France.
 
i like to watch golf, all other sports(baseball,nfl, ncaa football and ncaa hoops) i only like watching teams i have an emotional attachment to, they are not very good and not on tv often

i hate eye black, chewing tobacco, baseball pants and pine tar but i'm a baseball player from a baseball family....my great uncle played with the yankees in the 50's, joe collins, first baseman, sounds made up but it's true

other sports i play and consider fun cause i'm good at them or they are just flat out therapeutic: basketball, golf, 4wall racquetball, pickleball, badminton, volleyball....and then there are gray area sports like table tennis and horse shoes

i'm awful at soccer, football(still can't throw a spiral, too bad cause i've got a canon), and hockey....in high school i hated the track and field team and still think the sport is for athletes who have no skills, abilities, or hand eye coordination...they can just run, cool
 
suburu said:
Its amazing how when Chabal was clean shaven with short hair nobody realised he was even playing! Then he grows his hair and beard like a neanderthal and all of a sudden people can't stop raving about him.

Good player at club level but massively overrated. Hides when the chips are down, gives away far too many penalties, doesn't impose himself enough on games and his ball carrying is questionable. Not good traits for a top backrow player. This is why he's been omitted time and time again by France.
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Well yeah, he's a bit of a gimmick player - the Dennis Rodman of rugby. His game is pretty one-dimensional as well, but people remember him going in for impressive tackles (which are only more impressive than the other Frenchies because, well, he looks like Goliath).

What position do you play? Being of a more slender build and having both speed and agility, I typically play the wing, although about maybe a third of my game time I played fullback - great fun, lots of tackles. I was occasionally fielded as a utility player as outside centre, and I was also a stand-in fly-half if he got injured. Liked playing centre, wasn't really confident playing fly-half.
 
I played Inside Center but had to give it up as i got older due to Hurling commitments which was always my first sport. Cant play both sports. Too much time and stress on the body.

Psychonauticunt said:
Well yeah, he's a bit of a gimmick player - the Dennis Rodman of rugby. His game is pretty one-dimensional as well, but people remember him going in for impressive tackles (which are only more impressive than the other Frenchies because, well, he looks like Goliath)
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Are we talking about the same player! I think you're doing a huge disservice to Dennis Rodman. Rodman was a Five-time NBA Champion, Two-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year, Two-time NBA All Star, and is in the Basketball Hall of Fame. He might be a complete nutcase but he was an incredible basketball player.

Sebastien Chabal is a mug with an overgrown beard, who possibly won the Egg and Spoon race as a child but i highly doubt it. I'd say the only thing he ever finished in his life was his dinner.

Pelous, Thion, Betsen, Martin, Bonnaire, Dusautoir, Harinordoquy. He isnt fit to lace the boots of these players
 
suburu said:
Sebastien Chabal is a mug with an overgrown beard, who possibly won the Egg and Spoon race as a child but i highly doubt it. I'd say the only thing he ever finished in his life was his dinner.
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no clue and don't care who that guy is

but that's some 10/10 smack talk, well done
 
^Bit of a shame that the race is only 9 days old and its practically all but over. Wiggins can relax for the mountains with a great team around him and then blitz everyone again on the next time trial. Evans wont be able to make up the time unless Wiggins pulls out of the race.
 
suburu said:
Pelous, Thion, Betsen, Martin, Bonnaire, Dusautoir, Harinordoquy. He isnt fit to lace the boots of these players
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I would also throw in Olivier Magne, although that cunt tried to kill me one match. He was gibbering something in French at me, something about no place for a boy and that I should be home with my mamma (he assume because I was playing for an Italian club I was Italian). So I told him in English to shut his fucking mouth and that as a member of Greenpeace I had unfinished business with his mother. Needless to say he tried to split me in half the very next time I received the ball. He did seek me out at the end of the match and gave me a condescending hug.


If I could still feel the fingers in my left hand I would play rugby until I die. Unfortunately even in my dreams I can only tackle with my right shoulder. Growing up I played everything from cricket, league, Gaelic, soccer, squash, hockey, volleyball, softball, wrestling, snooker, you name it I was usually asked to play in a team. I even sailed competitively. 20 years later I still hold a school swimming record (and this is from a school that has produced many olympic and surfing champions)

As my poor long suffering girlfriend can attest to I will watch pretty much any sport except baseball and swimming.
 
competitive sailing eh?

seriously how does the rest of the world talk shit on baseball cor being boring when sailing is a sport?
 
Anyone for cricket? If Americans think football is dry, I can only imagine what they think of a 5-day Test match.
 
Nah Aussie rules is something else again. American football does seem pretty wonderful, very strategic and centralised, like a game of chess between the two coaches. If it were ever on a pub TV, I'd watch it.
 
I can tell you for a fact that cricket is not even thought about in America unless its on a sports blooper video or something

seems way too complicated compared to baseball, and baseball is pretty. omplicated sometimes
 
It's definitely cerebral, and I've only recently become interested in it, I'd always seen it as boring. The Twenty20 format is more accessible, a match lasts about three hours, and it's the game at it's simplest and most immediately engaging. I started watching the Indian Premier League last year, but it didn't take very long for me to realise that Test cricket is the highest level of the game. It's a gruelling, exhausting, intense event in which the two sides are really at war with each other. I know I'm not going to convince America to pay attention, but I feel the need to defend the sport. I really think it's something special, all the countries of the Commonwealth play cricket, I think it's one of Britain's great legacies and one that should be weighed up in any historical evaluation of the Empire.
 
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