What Sport Do You Like To Watch?

[Halo]

We're lucky to live in a world where most of us can watch the best athletes in our favorite sport as never before.  Sometimes the coverage makes the sport more understandable than ever, e.g., football with closeups infinitely better than the old days of shivering in the rain far up in the stands watching a throng of muddy uniforms where you couldn't tell much what was going on.

So with all this modern marvelous coverage, what sport do you now most enjoy watching on television?

If you name more than one, put them in order with your favorite first.

Mine?  Easy.  It's:

NFL football

[ramzey]

bikini mud wrestling:aok

[Mark Luper]

NASCAR racing. I don't care to watch the other sports. They dont interest me anymore with their spoiled brat players.

Mark

[namvet]

In fact, I have the habit when I'm driving of turning on these radio call-in programs, and it's striking when you hear the ones about sports. They have these groups of sports reporters, or some kind of experts on a panel, and people call in and have discussions with them. First of all, the audience obviously is devoting an enormous amount of time to it all. But the more striking fact is, the callers have a tremendous amount of expertise, they have detailed knowledge of all kinds of things, they carry on these extremely complex discussions...
...And when you look at the structure of them, they seem like a kind of mathematics. It's as though people want to work out mathematical problems, and it they don't have calculus and arithmetic, they work them out with other structures...And what all these things look like is that people just want to use their intelligence somehow...

Well, in our society we have things that you might use your intelligence on, like politics, but people really can't get involved in them in a very serious way -- so what they do is put their minds to other things, such as sports. You're trained to be obedient; you don't have an interesting job; there's no work around for you that's creative; in the cultural environment you're a passive observer of usually pretty tawdry stuff...So what's left?

...And I suppose that's also one of the basic functions it serves society in general: it occupies the populations, and it keeps them from trying to get involved with things that really matter. In fact, I presume that's part of the reason why spectator sports are supported to the degree they are by the dominant institutions.

Chomsky

[DiabloTX]

I love watching comedians drive million dollar cars during "practice" laps, smash the cars into a concrete barrier totalling them, and then getting out and talking about themselves in the third person.



Seriously,
NFL
NASCAR
MLB

In that order.

[Hoarach]

My order:

NFL
NHL
if you count it as a sport WWE
MLB

[lasersailor184]

Sailing.  Unfortunately, it's filled with boring commentators.  But I have a solution.


Hire Cotton and Pepper from Dodgeball.  And then mandate that for every regatta, a certain percentage of people on the boat need to wear a helmet mounted camera.

Sailing would become a fun sport to watch when you're on the boat with the crew as you're dodging million dollar boats within inches.

Or when your crashing $30 grand boats at 25-30 miles an hour.

[Wolf14]

Motorsports
Baseball/ Softball
*Archery
Womens Beach Volleyball

*I would list archery as my first choice because that is what I am into as a hobby, but there isnt alot of regular televising of tournaments.

[doobs]

NHL Playoffs
NHL
NFL
MLB
PGA

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

None.

NASCAR now bores me to tears most of the time, ESPN just plain SUCKS at covering drag racing, and none of the open wheel stuff is worth a damn except for sprint cars, and it gets lousy coverage.

The stick and ball leagues have become so infested with loser scumbag thugs and spoiled punks I haven't watched them in years. The local NFL team, the Titans, put up with that piece of human garbage known as "Pac Man Jones" no matter what he did. It seems the state of Nevada is going to prosecute him for being the thug he is, and MAYBE, just MAYBE, the NFL will also step in. He should thank them. One of the local drug dealers will kill him if they don't get him out of here. He's a PRIME example of why I don't watch any stick and ball sports. Hell, they put up with crap like that at the COLLEGE level, look at UT. Half the team has a record with either the city of Knoxville or the Knox county sheriff's department. And the government, state AND local, robs the taxpayers blind to fund them. And then the stupid taxpayers spend millions to watch the scum "play ball". If EVER there was a statement on the state of society, THERE IT IS.


And yeah, I PLAYED sports up until I was in my twenties, and loved it. I USED to be a big fan of pro sports. But pro sports is neither professional OR sports.

[TinmanX]

Football, the version where the ball move around the pitch by the use of feet.

[Reschke]

Football from youth all the way to professional.

[moot]

To be honest, I don't like watching sports.  It's like watching animal documentaries or porn: the only attraction is of being there.. but you're not.

The ones that don't bore me are those with lots of tactical play, where the players can excel if they have a good sense of warfare.
Motorcycle racing is the only one that I always enjoy following.  I'd follow air racing if it was on tv.

[storch]

^^^^^

pretty well sums it up for me.

[sgt203]

1. Football (all ages)

2. Wrestling (youth, high school, College)

3. NHL (especially playoffs)

4. X-Games (Winter)