Whoever tries to exhibit "intellectual superiority" by dismissing popular sporting events...

..fails automatically.

That will be all. Have a nice day and excuse me while I go all giddy with Formula One preseason tests and gear up for soccer State League playoffs here in Rio.

:-)

Every now and then, my non-nativeness bleeds through.

just being a goof

:hi:

Really.

Wrong reply

I don't like chocolate ice cream either. I guess I'm a real egghead.

I agree.

I liked the early days, it's gotten worse and worse.

Sometimes I'll watch a college game.

:toast:

If not you have no reason to be so defensive.

Here's a hint: it's the only sport involving music as a core component. Most sports fans do not call this a sport, but the participants' bodies are often under the same stresses as those of Olympic athletes.

There are actually two hints there. One could be a pun.

except for sports that I don't like. Only dunderheads care about those...

I don't dismiss them in order to exhibit intellectual superiority. I dismiss them because they're of no interest to me.

there is a huge difference between that, and those who belittle football (doubly plus bad because it's an american sport, unlike the oh so enlightened soccer) as the domain of neanderthal grunting idiots and clueless dumb americans etc etc

the elitism is so thick i could cut it with a ladle

and i say that as somebody who doesn't particularly care about football (although i did want the saints to win)

give me a UFC match or a surfing contest any day of the week.

watching track and field, specially the hammer, javelin, and pole vault is tops too

The same for baseball.

Soccer and rugby are both a bit more interesting, or at any rate less boring. That may be because I was brought in the part of the world where those sports are the big ones. But I have no interest in watching those, either.

A lot of sports can be interesting for a few minutes, but that's as far as it goes for me. The only ones that hold my interest do so on the artistic level, not the competitive one: figure skating, gymnastics. I don't watch those to see who wins.

sports are more interestimng when

1) you truly understand them
2) you participate (or at least have in the past) in them

i find highland games, strongman, and weightlifting interesting because i have and still do compete in them.

ditto for hammer throwing, javelin, etc.

i find football and basketball boring, but i have never played either, and don't understand the subtleties.

i've rolled a lot, so jiu jitsu, MMA, etc. is interesting to me. if you don't understand the ground game, i can see it being boring.

the exception for me is soccer. i played a lot of soccer, i understand it thoroughly, and i find it obscenely boring to watch

i love to surf, so when i watch surfing, iunderstand the subtleties and "feel" the wave, so it's totally interesting

It makes me morally superior.

Important distinction.

(disclaimer: I have absolutely no interest in sports)

It's true that disliking sports does nor make one intellectually superior. However, it does not make one morally superior either...and suggesting that it does shows a questionable understanding of "morality".

I always Tivo them so that I can fast forward through a slow match. Generally speaking, I am one of those people that is interested in doing but not interested in watching. I have no desire to watch sports that I even used to spend 15-20 hours per week playing (back at my peak).

This probably makes me a weird American.

It isn't self evident, despite you saying so.

I don't consider my self superior. I JUST DON'T LIKE FOOTBALL. AND I don't watch it, and I think people are so wrought up over nothing.

and maybe modern professional sports was partially contrived by the PTB to distract the masses from their repeated fleecing.

That said there is a time and place for sports and it lies more in being a participant than a spectator. Physical exercise is good for your health, and pressing the remote and lifting the beer can doesn't count.

...it's not really a matter of trying, if you know what I mean.

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but I just can't fathom how they can be IMPORTANT to anyone who doesn't have a bet down on it.

Watching 500 football games is exactly as important at playing 500 games of Centipede.

:shrug:

did I miss something from another thread?

i don't really watch sports, other than an occasional hockey game.

to each their own.

The fact that the teams don't give a shit about you, even if you worship them

The money-grubbing nature of it all; ungodly sums payed for doing what the players should love doing

The price of seats; ungodly sums to people like Jerry Jones

The hero worship

The endless yacking of the commentary


All these things seem stupid, from the fan side of the equation.


The actual games, I kinda *get* that (obviously not as much as the average person, or I'd shut-up, pick a team, and join the rest of the world of fandom)

I cannot stand pro 'Murkin team sports

Hilarious self-justification. Carry on, brave tv warrior.