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I'm not a big fan of hockey. Living where I do probably has something to do with it.

I'll admit that the shootout in the olympic game between US and Russia was fun to watch, but just waiting for someone to score in game 5 of this year's Stanley Cup final was brutal.

I'd never watched a game of soccer until this year's World Cup, but I was able to watch several games this year and it was a lot more exciting than I expected it to be. Defiently something I'll be interested in watching again (in 4 years).

Also, when it comes to the big 3 sports, college is always better.

I love both the NFL and College Football, but I have to give the edge to College Football. Just a better atmosphere.

As for Basketball (my least favorite of the three), I can sit down and watch a college basketball game on my own. But when it comes to NBA, I just keep up with the scores and watch the highlights on Sportscenter to keep up. My friends all love the NBA, so I can watch a game with them, but that's about it.

College Baseball, to me, is the most underrated college sport. If you have a team to follow, it can be an extremely fun ride. I've also really gotten into MLB lately because of Billy Hamilton. It's cool to keep up with someone in the pros that you remeber playing high school ball.

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Golf goes on forever, and is dull. Can't watch it.

Same with baseball for me.

Same with curling.

I watched a bit of World Cup, but don't watch association football otherwise.

Actually about the only sports I do watch are CFL, NFL, and a bit of hockey.

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I'm not a big fan of hockey. Living where I do probably has something to do with it.

I'll admit that the shootout in the olympic game between US and Russia was fun to watch, but just waiting for someone to score in game 7 of this year's Stanley Cup final was brutal.

That's probably because that game didn't happen.

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For me, softball. Now this is going to sound hypocritical given I can actually sit down and watch the world's most poorly designed sport in women's lacrosse, but I cannot for the life of me sit and watch a softball game. In fact I get angry when all my cousins plop on a softball game on the TV instead of anything else that's on. I just don't see the appeal of watching a sport that manages to take even slower to complete than a MLB game, even when the game ends in 7 innings due to the mercy rule (which happens basically every other nationally televised game).

Likewise, due to geographic reasons, I've never been able to get into college baseball as much as I've tried to follow along to it, even with a cousin who played at the D-1 level for three years.

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I'm not a big fan of hockey. Living where I do probably has something to do with it.

I'll admit that the shootout in the olympic game between US and Russia was fun to watch, but just waiting for someone to score in game 7 of this year's Stanley Cup final was brutal.

That's probably because that game didn't happen.

Game 5 then.

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I'm not a big fan of hockey. Living where I do probably has something to do with it.

I'll admit that the shootout in the olympic game between US and Russia was fun to watch, but just waiting for someone to score in game 7 of this year's Stanley Cup final was brutal.

That's probably because that game didn't happen.

Game 5 then.

If a 3-2 double overtime game with the Stanley Cup in the building didn't grab you then I can't help you. It's not for everybody.

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Basketball. If each game was 30 seconds long, it'd be thrilling. But other than those last 30 seconds, watching the rest of any basketball game is completely pointless IMO.

Motor sports, especially NASCAR. No matter how cool fast cars with awesome paint jobs are, they're still just going around an oval for three hours.

I'd mention poker, since it's on ESPN, but it's not a sport. It's a way to lose money.

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I'd mention poker, since it's on ESPN, but it's not a sport. It's a way to lose money.

There are a lot of things on ESPN that aren't exactly sports (poker, bowling, snooker, etc) and then there was this...

If I didn't actually see this on ESPN one day I would have assumed it was a Comedy Central skit. Here is a NY Times article mentioning ESPN's covering of this :censored: in 2007 (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/14/world/americas/14iht-rock.1.5699920.html?_r=0) in case you need evidence of this not being a Saturday Night Live sketch.

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Some sports are better experienced live. I'm not a big hockey or soccer fan, but Seattle T-Birds and Sounders games live are a lot of fun to watch.

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Soccer.

It is a boring ass sport. They should just play 10 minute matches. The first 40 minutes of each half the teams are just kicking the ball around playing keep away. And save the "it's by far the most popular sport in the world" crap. Justin Beiber & Psy are the most popular singers in the world.

It's hilarious watching all these people act so intense about the WC. 99% of them don't give two :censored:s about soccer. Yet it's all people have talked about. In 2-3 months soccer will go back to being completely irrelevant here.

I'm glad the US lost today. Now all of the hipsters can go back to Starbucks & stop crowding my favorite bars to watch freaking soccer.

Thank you

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I don't know where my dislike of watching baseball comes from, since it was one of the two sports I played as a kid (basketball being the other), and I enjoyed it then. Baseball just seems like one of those sports that's fun to play casually with friends or at a low level, but makes for horrible television and not really worth investing in as a major sport. It just seems so dry and lifeless compared to other sports, and it feels like a relic of a bygone era (like boxing).

I'd love to get into Soccer/Football, mostly because I find it strange that it's huge nearly everywhere but here, but I just can't. Maybe it's my American need for speed, violence, and adrenaline, but soccer/football is inferior to hockey in every way, imo. (On a side note, though basketball will always be my favorite sport, I think hockey's the greatest game ever created. It blends the best aspects of each major sport together: The physical conflict of football, the flashiness of basketball, the tradition of baseball, and the low-scoring tension of soccer.)

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I'm quickly becoming disillusioned with football. The thing people don't want to realize or admit is that it's basically just as boring as baseball, which I still enjoy. But with football you have a sport that's built up as the ultimate in action and excitement, but it's really plodding and slow with tons of stoppages. Your average incompletion or two-yard run is about as exciting as a groundout to second. The structure of score-commerical-kickoff-commercial-next possession is probably the worst 15 minutes of televised sports there is, and it ruins the fun of that scoring drive.

And then there are the insufferable goobers that plague every telecast, mindlessly spewing the same slop, and never ever saying "the NFL."

WELL IF YOU'RE GONNA BE A RUNNING BACK IN THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE, YOU GOTTA PROTECT THE FOOTBALL.

I'M TALKING ABOUT THE ELITE QUARTERBACKS IN THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE, AND AARON RODGERS IS ONE OF THEM.

THIS IS A TEAM THAT KNOWS HOW TO THROW THE FOOTBALL, AND THEY'RE AS GOOD AS ANYBODY IN THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE AT RUNNING THE FOOTBALL.

But we all have to pretend like it's the perfect sport just because it's ostensibly the most popular. "Hey, a Week 11 Jaguars/Texans matchup got better ratings than the World Series!" Well all that tells me is that the fad is at its peak, and I can't wait for it to come back down.

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Soccer/Football. Watching guys kick a ball around for 90 minutes is just boring.

I also have to say I can't stand Wrestling/MMA stuff. If I want to watch guys beat eachother up, I have the internet for that :P .

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I'm quickly becoming disillusioned with football. The thing people don't want to realize or admit is that it's basically just as boring as baseball, which I still enjoy. But with football you have a sport that's built up as the ultimate in action and excitement, but it's really plodding and slow with tons of stoppages. Your average incompletion or two-yard run is about as exciting as a groundout to second. The structure of score-commerical-kickoff-commercial-next possession is probably the worst 15 minutes of televised sports there is, and it ruins the fun of that scoring drive.

And then there are the insufferable goobers that plague every telecast, mindlessly spewing the same slop, and never ever saying "the NFL."

WELL IF YOU'RE GONNA BE A RUNNING BACK IN THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE, YOU GOTTA PROTECT THE FOOTBALL.

I'M TALKING ABOUT THE ELITE QUARTERBACKS IN THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE, AND AARON RODGERS IS ONE OF THEM.

THIS IS A TEAM THAT KNOWS HOW TO THROW THE FOOTBALL, AND THEY'RE AS GOOD AS ANYBODY IN THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE AT RUNNING THE FOOTBALL.

But we all have to pretend like it's the perfect sport just because it's ostensibly the most popular. "Hey, a Week 11 Jaguars/Texans matchup got better ratings than the World Series!" Well all that tells me is that the fad is at its peak, and I can't wait for it to come back down.

If football is going to drop in popularity it'll only be because the health hazards inherent to the game finally turn most Americans off of it. And that probably won't happen because most NFL fans I've heard (though a minority on these boards, thankfully) tend to take the "HE KNOWS THE RISKS! FOOOOOTBAAAALLLLLLLL!!!!" approach. Not to mention bemoaning efforts to make the game safer. You're right, the action of the game doesn't live up to the hype (watching it live is terribly dull) but the hype and the media machine around the NFL is simply to all-consuming and powerful.

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I think football's popularity directly stems from the fact that it's so short. The anticipation builds up so much, but is only rewarded sparingly. You wait for it to arrive, but before you know it it's gone and you're hungry for more. Look at the hype the Olympics get and the World Cup is getting now, it's the same kind of thing. It's very easy to get burnt out on basketball, hockey, and baseball because there's various parts of the season where you're like, "this doesn't really matter" or "can we skip to the playoffs already?" There are too many meaningless games over the course of those sports' respective seasons. You wait for the season to start, and before the All-Star game arrives, you're about ready for it to end. Football doesn't have that problem, and is, imo, a much better sport and viewing experience because of it.

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I'm reading all these "arguments" against all these sports, and I'm just thinking to myself "_____ is just not for you." That's all there is to it. Personally, I enjoy and find exciting moments in baseball, basketball, football, hockey, soccer, NASCAR, golf, tennis... basically, all of the above.

Now, sports like baseball and NASCAR are much, much better live than on TV. But I find it weird that people can legitimately call any of these sports boring.

MMA, though... meh. I don't hate it, but I just can't get into it.

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