What's your least favorite sport?
- Thread starter ScrewDuke1
- Start date
Baseball used to be my favorite sport (I would watch Cubs spring training games and I never cared about the Cubs, I just had cable ). Then they canceled the World Series because of a strike. Then they told the players to go on the juice and then moved the fences in so a warning track fly ball was a homer. (Trivia question here for some-Which marginal player messed up baseball for you ((it was Brady Anderson hitting 50 home run))?
Don't get me started about Brady Anderson hitting 50 home runs.
And you're not cerebral enough to understand why golf is so good.
Don't get me started about Brady Anderson hitting 50 home runs.
And you're not cerebral enough to understand why golf is so good.
NASCAR. I'll proceed to turn in my man card.
Last edited:
No question soccer isn't a real sport.
Never been a big racing fan. I live in Indy and have been to a few Indy 500 practices/qualifiers which was kinda cool I guess...but boring as hell. Boring to watch too in my opinion.
Least favorite is Soccer. I just can't handle watching a grown *** man get touched on the shoulder then throw himself to the ground and roll around in fake agonizing pain, acting as if he had been shot. Then after a couple minutes of pretending, he's back up and doing just fine. After watching that embarrassing display six more times during a match, it ends in a 1-1 draw. Hard pass!
A close second for least favorite is baseball.
A close second for least favorite is baseball.
Soccer by far. The only soccer I ever watch at all is maybe when USA is in the WC.
Hockey has gown on me the last 4-5 yrs. I don’t watch a lot of reg season but the playoffs are awesome.
Hockey has gown on me the last 4-5 yrs. I don’t watch a lot of reg season but the playoffs are awesome.
Last edited:
I went to my first game in Columbus a few years ago and watching in person blows away what you see on TV.
Kentucky football
The point is it's boring. 1 of 3-4 drivers wins every race & there' like to zero in race passing. Yes, great technology. That doesn't make it entertaining. BTW, soccer is the most popular in the world.
Being old, I grew up when baseball was truly the national pastime. Practically every small community would have their own amateur baseball team. A lot of smaller cities had minor league teams. With the advent of TV, many of the small minor leagues went out of business. People started staying home to watch TV instead of going to a game.
I believe it was more a matter of the Major Leagues taking over and making these teams affiliates and running the others out. Have you seen the movie "Battered Bastards of Baseball"? It provides an interesting look at this during the 70's focusing primarily on the team owned by Bing Russell (Portland Mavericks). Kurt Russell actually played SS for his dad's team at one time.
Last edited:
I love NASCAR and follow F1 a little bit, but IndyCar does nothing for me. Really can’t explain it. The 500 is good drama, though.
To be perfectly honest, a lot of sports are background noise while I’m doing other things, outside of UK basketball and football. (For better or for worse)
To be perfectly honest, a lot of sports are background noise while I’m doing other things, outside of UK basketball and football. (For better or for worse)
Winter Olympics. Other than about two events, e.g., the downhill (NOTE: I am a skier), it bores me to tears. Lets watch some . . . . LUGE!!!! Or how about the ice skating/dancing events that last about two weeks, every night for two hours? Just not my thing, at all.
Possibly some, but as an example the old KITTY league: a guy who's name I can't recall, wrote a book about it and the cities that were members. A city like Paducah could attract enough people to make a profit till TV came into the area. It folded for good in the mid fifties as TV came in the area and crowds dwindled. Cities as small as Mayfield, Fulton, and Cairo IL had teams.HOF Red Schoendist played for Union City Tn. If you go back far enough, there were local hero's who turned down MLB offers because they could make more money in the minors. Ie the crowd passing the hat for you after you hit the game winning homer.
And you know that pre-WW2, there were just three significant sports in the US: baseball, boxing, and horse racing. NFL started catching on in late-50's. Boxing & horse racing started fading.
The downhill is spectacular, both sexes. The leg power required is off the charts & turning with the edges vertical freaks me out. I skied out West for 30 or so winters till my (non-skiing) injured knee stopped me in late-20 teens. Had it replaced last winter. Thinking of giving Perfect North a shot this winter just to see if I can stay upright, LOL.
BTW, I like the X-country racing, particularly with the shooting stops.
I watch more soccer than anything these days. The skills required to accurately move the ball amaze me.
I recall pass the hat games/leagues in NKy as a kid. And the Reds weren't very far away.
Sometimes I think those downhill skiers have a death wish
Skier : "I'm suicidal"
Red Bull: "You're hired!!"