Anybody else NOT a sports fan?

adventurepants_ · Post by **adventurepants_** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:30 pm

Tone Deft wrote:if you're going to watch anything on TV it might as well be REAL as opposed to bullshit sitcoms where the drama comes up and is resolved in a tidy FAKE resolution in 30 minutes and a laugh track to guide you to what's funny.

hard to explain, once you're into it, you're into it. you get to know one team, then their rival, then a few others, then some players. it's real drama, real struggles, real cause and effect played out by people who have been honing their skills their entire lives.

/fuck the Patriots. Tom Brady's a tool, but a great Q-Back. Eli to choke, Pats win 49-12.

i was taken to see the Oz open Tennis recently for a couple of days. I could really appreciate the athleticism and skill and power of the players. but i just cant seem to get emotionally attached to the outcome of a game,and thats for any sport. i guess different people are just wired differently.

hacktheplanet · Post by **hacktheplanet** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:31 pm

If you mean team sports, hell no. If you mean individual sports, hell yes.
There is nothing more boring than watching football or baseball on TV. However, I love love love biking and snowboarding!

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:32 pm

adventurepants_ wrote:I have almost no small talk to make witht the average guy at a backyard bbq.

"so what do you think of the new Autechre?"

*cough*

the funny thing is that sports nerds dont realise theyre nerds.

That was actually one thing that was a bit so so with me in high school. I mean people were really into this football crap, blabbering about their football stars. Luckily I was able to turn many of the conversations to another subject but such chats just bores the crap out of me

LDT · Post by **LDT** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:36 pm

It sickens me to see how much space sports get in the media. To me it is a sign of a society gone wrong somehow.
I have my own sport that keeps me happy and fit, but jeezzuuzz do I want to hear about sports all the bloody time in the media? Hell no! Sorry for swearing, but it just pisses me off.

laird · Post by **laird** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:38 pm

thefool wrote:
the funny thing is that sports nerds dont realise theyre nerds.

OMG, who was it that pointed out that fantasy football.baseball leagues was just dungeons and dragons being played by the adults who beat us up as kids for playing dungeons and dragons.

roby · Post by **roby** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:52 pm

beats me wrote:I've tried to make the sports and music comparison myself but I don't think they match exactly. Going to a club or concert might be comparible to going to a sporting event for some people but at the same time if my favorite DJs and bands were doing a live gig on TV 3 or 4 nights a week I wouldn't be watching it every damn night it was on or looking for other performers on TV when my favorites weren't on. I think people deeply involved in music spend more timing writing, practicing, and performing it than watching and listening to other people do it.

The world's favorite sport soccer (sorry football) is the one I get the least, hours of play with nobody ever scoring. American football can be ok if it wasn't 7 seconds of actual play followed by 10 minutes of analysis, replays, and commercials.

Well TV is to sports as iPod is to music

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:54 pm

I jus saw The Science Of Sport on National Geographic Channel for the first time. Some of it made me... somewhat weirdly excited about sport! :-S

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:58 pm

laird wrote:
thefool wrote:
the funny thing is that sports nerds dont realise theyre nerds.
OMG, who was it that pointed out that fantasy football.baseball leagues was just dungeons and dragons being played by the adults who beat us up as kids for playing dungeons and dragons.

I didn't play dungeons and dragons and nobody beat me up, rather otherwise

Actually never had a class with physical violence or anything, but we did have fights-for-fun in between the lessons

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:58 pm

LDT wrote:It sickens me to see how much space sports get in the media. To me it is a sign of a society gone wrong somehow.
I have my own sport that keeps me happy and fit, but jeezzuuzz do I want to hear about sports all the bloody time in the media? Hell no! Sorry for swearing, but it just pisses me off.

hey vag-squirt - if it's not sports in the media, it's politics or Britney Spears. wtf do you want?

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:00 pm

Machinate wrote:I jus saw The Science Of Sport on National Geographic Channel for the first time. Some of it made me... somewhat weirdly excited about sport! :-S

I'll have to look for that. Does it explain why some people go absolutely ape shit over sports? In some cases driven to kill?

dcease · Post by **dcease** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:02 pm

LDT wrote:It sickens me to see how much space sports get in the media. To me it is a sign of a society gone wrong somehow.
I have my own sport that keeps me happy and fit, but jeezzuuzz do I want to hear about sports all the bloody time in the media? Hell no! Sorry for swearing, but it just pisses me off.

i agree. don't worry about cussin... besides, hell ain't no fuckin cuss word. now cunt on the other hand...

he might be friends with timur...

i do like watching golf, however... weird, i know...
and a little tennis...

laird · Post by **laird** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:04 pm

[homer voice] ohhh Marge, I've been watching women's volleyball [/homer voice]

dcease · Post by **dcease** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:09 pm

laird wrote:[homer voice] ohhh Marge, I've been watching women's volleyball [/homer voice]

oh yeah! i forgot about that! i love womens beach volleyball! what hetero man wouldn't? plus they got skillz... very impressive athleticism.

sparklepuff · Post by **sparklepuff** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:12 pm

I don't get people who go to concerts but don't play in bands.

dcease · Post by **dcease** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:14 pm

sparklepuff wrote:I don't get people who go to concerts but don't play in bands.

i don't get myself, either...

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