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Of these major professional sports in the USofA, which is the MOST boring sport to watch on TV?
Feel free to explain why.
(poll in the making)
Of these major professional sports in the USofA, which is the MOST boring sport to watch on TV?
Feel free to explain why.
Soccer by a wide margin!!
Bunch of running,no scoring-just dont get the appeal.
To be fair anymore Nascar is getting boring for the most part.
NBA does nothing for me either.
Basketball. Most of the time you can see the whole game reflected in the last 10 minutes.
to be perfectly honest, i don't really enjoy watching any of them. i tried to get into it over and over as a kid. i even played most of them, with some limited success. however, i spend pretty much zero hours per week watching ball throwing / ball hitting. when ball throwing preempts the nightly news, it annoys the **** out of me. i like playing golf, though.
i watch one sporting event each year, and that's the superbowl. i do it as an excuse to order pizza and swill beer. also, watching the superbowl is the minimum requirement for a guy card. if you don't at least do that, they knock on your door, take the card back, and remove your testicles.
i have been an extra in two popular sports movies, though. THAT was fun and entertaining.
to be perfectly honest, i don't really enjoy watching any of them. i tried to get into it over and over as a kid. i even played most of them, with some limited success. however, i spend pretty much zero hours per week watching ball throwing / ball hitting. when ball throwing preempts the nightly news, it annoys the **** out of me. i like playing golf, though.
i watch one sporting event each year, and that's the superbowl. i do it as an excuse to order pizza and swill beer. also, watching the superbowl is the minimum requirement for a guy card. if you don't at least do that, they knock on your door, take the card back, and remove your testicles.
i have been an extra in two popular sports movies, though. THAT was fun and entertaining.
OK, that's it...turn in your man card!
In answer to the poll, it is a 3 way tie between basketball, NASCAR and soccer.
But the last ten minutes of actual basketball time can take up to an hour to complete.
That's what kills me.
I voted Baseball because I've been taken to Baseball games and have almost chewed my foot off to get out of there. What's going on in the stands is always more interesting than what's going on on the field. Mind you, it's a close-run thing with NASCAR. Going round and round and round doesn't seem to me to test anyone's real driving ability. I guess that's why no NASCAR driver has ever made it at a higher level in F1.
Do you brits enjoy watching cricket? I despise baseball myself, but find cricket generally too confusing to form much of an opinion on it.
Some do. I don't. It has a small but very passionate following. Most people take no interest except when we play the Aussies. Watching cricket and watching Baseball are very similar experiences. The only exception can be 20/20 Cricket, which is very fast and much more entertaining.
In terms of spectator appeal, in the UK I think you'd say that the order of importance goes:
Football
Rugby (Union and League)
Horse racing
Motorsports (bikes, cars, both track and rally)
Cricket
I understand cricket is popular in the UK, it was more just wondering if there was a trend between the interest in the two. Though I'm surprised you listed it as number 5. Going by that, it seems like it's more popular in South Asia now than it is in the UK
PS that american sprinter plays in the Rugby Fives league, right?
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