I don’t understand the appeal of watching sports. I understand that for some people there is an appeal, but I don’t get it. Within 5 minutes of a game of any type being on, I want to cry I’m so bored. Not only bored, but irritated. Sports announcers have to be the most grating people on the planet.
The only sports I enjoy watching are the ones where I know some of the players. I liked seeing my cousin play soccer for UofA. I liked going to my 5y/o brother’s soccer game. Professional sports? Well in theory I guess I know ONE person, from high school, who is in professional football. But I didn’t know him that well and I don’t even remember what team he is on, so there ya go.
I also dislike it when a sporting event preempts my favorite show. say if a block of time (say from 2-6pm est as an example) is slated for the sporting event, fine, let them play their games but when 6 rolls around it is time for regular programing to resume. If the game runs long, to bad, tell them next time to cut down on the time outs or in the case of baseball, try running a little faster to get to position.
now that the ncaa playoffs are comming up, lots of show (good or bad) will be preempted due to it. I thought that going to colledge was for learning not playing some kids game. along the line of kids playing games, the local station up here preempted the national news for hs hockey. was not a good move on their part.
while I am venting, what is up with the announcers on the golf shows…always whispering even if they are in a soundproof booth miles from the action. its not like they will disturbe the players.
Sports figures aren’t the only ones who get elected to political office for no apparent reason. Think of movie stars and other entertainers. What was Sonny Bono’s qualification to become Representative, other than a lot of good feelings engendered by a few hit records with an ex-wife a few years before?
Returning for a moment to the OP…a few years back Newsweek gave space to a news anchor who bemoaned the fact that the networks were no longer offering any gavel-to-gavel coverage of the political conventions. He argued that if they could show a game between two lousy basketball teams going nowhere, they could show a few longwinded political speeches: the good of the country, an informed populace, etc. They got lots of letters, the one I remember best pointing out that unlike the convention, there was a strong possibility that something interesting, different, and unscripted actually would happen in the b-ball game. Goes along with some things people have said before. As life becomes more and more predictable, the unscripted and uncertain becomes more compelling: that even extends to televised events that (horrors) MAY NOT FIT NEATLY INTO HALF HOUR TIME SLOTS!
Personally, I think it’s kind of nice to throw a few monkey wrenches into the works. But that’s just my opinion…
Alibey, please. Just because you don’t appreciate sports, does that mean you would leave all the people who do to wonder what happened in extra time? How very understanding of you…
Do you play much sport? If you don’t, you have to understand that other people may well be interested in it. That you don’t like it, doesn’t make it ‘for kids’. And, to be fair, if you want to read the news, you could probably get a paper, or watch the news later. Where does it say that tv schedules are rigid? If you plan your whole day around your favourite program, then you may be dissapointed if it’s on an hour later. If you lighten up about it, then maybe you’ll cope admirably. And golf commentators talk quietly because it’s in keeping with the tone of the game. Formula One commentators shout, golf commentators talk quietly.
Cheers.
Since hockey is a team sport that requires putting an object into a small hole from a distance. I guess that makes hockey analogous to hunting deer in the middle of a war?
This shows a bit of ignorance about how network television programming works. The block of time allotted to the game is the period from the beginning of the pregame to the end of the postgame. If that takes longer than the 1pm-4pm or 4pm-7pm noted in your TV Guide, them’s the breaks.
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Ditto this. The reasons players take that long at innings and half innings is because that’s how much time the networks have asked for to run commercials. That’s why the plate umpire stands there with a stopwatch and calls “Play ball!” when the scheduled TV break is supposed to be over.
