Sports?

[Logan1986]

i love watching sports. doesn't really matter what. baseball and american football are slow, but rugby, cricket, soccer/football and wnba basketball are my favorites. grew up in a house where if you didn't route for the right team it was threatened that you'd have to go live somewhere else.
girlfriend and i try to take in as many different teams/levels as we can whether it's college or professional. it's amazing how supporting a team can bring people of all different races, religions, sexes, and locations together for a common purpose.

"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that."  Bill Shankly

[justmeinoz]

Since I discovered Ice Hockey I have less interest in watching most other contact sports. The standard of violence is much better!!   I like to ice skate, but would have no hope carrying a stick as well. I can fall over without help!

I prefer Rubgy League to Aussie Rules, Rugby Union, or soccer now. Cricket is good, especially Test matches, you can come back an hour or a day later, and it is still going on.

How Americans can call their game "football" is a puzzle though when nobody kicks the ball.  And a "touchdown" when they don't ? Baseball and basket ball leave me cold too, they are just too complicated.

[Lachlann]

Since I discovered Ice Hockey I have less interest in watching most other contact sports. The standard of violence is much better!!   I like to ice skate, but would have no hope carrying a stick as well. I can fall over without help!

I prefer Rubgy League to Aussie Rules, Rugby Union, or soccer now. Cricket is good, especially Test matches, you can come back an hour or a day later, and it is still going on.

How Americans can call their game "football" is a puzzle though when nobody kicks the ball.  And a "touchdown" when they don't ? Baseball and basket ball leave me cold too, they are just too complicated.

Actually they do something called kick-offs. So they do indeed kick the ball.

I have to agree with you on Hockey. It's really brutal even with the equipment.

[Robert Scott]

I love love love sports....there are some sports I do not enjoy watching on TV but mainly b/c I don't know what is going on - like golf.


I played sports in high school & college --- swimming, basketball, lacrosse

I love watching college sports -- not so much pro but will watch them.  My all time favorite thing to watch is Kansas Basketball - rock chalk!

[Rock_chick]

The only sports I'm interested in involving a steep hill, gravity and one of these



everything else can go hang.

[Kohitsu]

I'm not a fan of watching sports. I'd rather be playing sports (Wii Sports that is... that counts, right? LOL) or going to the gym to do some weightlifting or jogging or cycling.

[Sharky]

I used to play both indoor and outdoor soccer, hockey, basketball, and volleyball. In middle school I played soccer. In high school I played basketball. Now in college I don't play anything, not even intramural , from what I hear the school teams aren't even worth playing on. I never religiously watched any games. I will sometimes catch a game or go see one.

[Nikolai_S]

I love hockey, I've been a fan since I was 7. It's fast, violent, and exciting. I've never played it though, I can't even skate. Equestrian sports are also fun, both watching and participating in. Eventing, particularly. Actually, that's the only sport I've pursued,  though I don't compete. Team sports sound like hell on earth to me, and most of them are boring to watch.

[seanstartrunning]

The only sport that I've done is TaeKwonDo -- used to compete nationally with sparring and forms. Used to do demonstration competitions as well. I love watching sparring live. I can't watch through a television set -- it just doesn't give me the full effect.

As for skateboarding or snowboarding, I love watching it.

Any sports involving balls, save soccer, I can't really sit through.

[jmaxley]

I don't like watching or playing team sports, except for maybe playing the occasional game of baseball when I have the chance (which is almost never).  Some things I do really like to do--swimming, skating, martial arts, hiking, canoeing.  The only sports I've ever been able to tolerate watching are the Olympics and American Gladiators. 

[Tad]

oy playing.. frogot to add that in..

I was one of those kids who did everything in intramurals/school teams. I did badminton, basketball, volleyball, futsal, soccer, floor hockey, swimmining and I donno what else.

I love doing things like backpacking, horseback riding, mountaineering, mountain biking of all forms; Dirt jumping through Downhill, bmxing in the skatepark, rock climbing, white water rafting, taekwando, weight lifting, etc.

Was racing at a national level in Down Hill MTB pre transition.

I'll give pretty much anything a go at least once.. the only sports that I really hate doing are Tele Skiing, Golf, and Tennis.

[Shang]

I like to swim and practice archery, but I dislike watching swimming or archery (both are incredibly boring in my book).  I've participated in swim meets, but never got a chance to shoot in an archery contest because I moved to an area with no place to practice let alone been in a contest.

I like to watch rugby, though, and the occasional football game (though I don't have cable or satellite so I don't watch anything lately).

[Cindy]

Tad,
What's Tele Skiing?
Cindy

[jmaxley]

I've participated in swim meets, but never got a chance to shoot in an archery contest because I moved to an area with no place to practice let alone been in a contest.

<Cary Elwes voice>  An archery contest?! </voice>    That's something I'd love to get into.  That, and sword fighting.  Makes me want to get back into SCA.

[Shang]

<Cary Elwes voice>  An archery contest?! </voice>    That's something I'd love to get into.  That, and sword fighting.  Makes me want to get back into SCA.

Archery is so much fun!  I love it so much, but I haven't been able to practice in years.  I also want to do fencing, but there's nowhere to do that here either.

[jet3]

I love everything about sports. I love to play pretty much any sport. I like to watch football, basketball, hockey, and pretty much any type of MMA. I like to watch baseball if I actually go to the game. Honestly, when my TV is on, it's on sports 90% of the time.

[Tad]

tele skiiers are those crazy people that have a combination of downhill/xc skis that ski up the mountain, and then ski back down.

[Cindy]

tele skiiers are those crazy people that have a combination of downhill/xc skis that ski up the mountain, and then ski back down.

Sorry Blonde moment,
How do you ski up a mountain? I've been towed onto big waves that you can't swim out to, and then surf them is it similar to that?

Cindy