I’m not a big fan of viewing sports. Pretty much the only sport I follow at all is pro golf, as I have enjoyed playing golf all my life.
I was aware that there was a PGA tournament this past weekend - pretty much the only pro sports event going on. I had considered taping the final round, but forgot. I rarely pay much attention to the newspaper’s sports section, but today I looked to see the PGA results. The entire sports section consisted of 2 sides of one page of newsprint. There were long articles about “personality” stuff - I think one was about the ESPN McGwire/Sosa show. At the bottom of the second page, there was a small “sports roundup” section. There was one small paragraph about soccer in Europe (Real Madrid?), and a smaller one about the golf tourney.
Sorta surprised me that there wasn’t more of a to-do made of the limited sport that was actually being played.
I rode bikes this a.m. w/ my sister. Her husband is a HUGE fan of televised sport, and a HUGE baseball fan. He has been playing golf w/ me regularly (he isn’t very good.) I was surprised to hear my sister say that he had not paid any attention to the golf tourney. Instead, he was watching re-runs of baseball games from a few years back, from when his team (White Sox) won the world series.
For any sports fans out there - are you watching live broadcasts of sports other than your favorites? Are you watching re-run games or documentaries? Or something else?
I miss getting to watch live MLB games, though I’m not nearly as big of a baseball fan as I used to be. And, honestly, the ongoing pissing match between the teams and the players about the details of starting the season is dampening my enthusiasm even further.
I’ve watched a few KBO games, and while the games themselves are fine, the announcers on ESPN are terrible. They spend far too much time talking about other topics, and not enough time talking about the game at hand.
I’ve also watched a few replays of old MLB games. Beyond that, I’m just doing other things: reading, playing computer games, and even playing a few games of Strat-o-Matic Baseball.
Where I think it’ll hit me harder, as far as changing viewing habits, is this fall, if football is signficantly affected. On the other hand, I’ve realized over the past few years that my interest in football has been waning, so maybe not having much football to watch won’t be a bad thing for me.
I’ve watched an occasional soccer game, mostly to remind myself of what it was like when sports were on TV. But I don’t “follow” European soccer in any meaningful way; it would be hard for me to do that without exposure to the talking heads and daily newspaper coverage that envelop American sports. I’m sure if I sought it out I could find English-language Bundesliga chatter, but it wouldn’t be worth it because by the time I got up to speed American sports would be coming back.
NASCAR and golf don’t work for me because I don’t understand them. And I will not watch old sports–it’s too depressing.
Nope, the sports currently happening don’t interest me.
At least there’s pro wrestling. That’s close enough to a sport for me.
(I’m not watching much of that either, though.)
F1 ain’t back on just yet and that’s the only thing I care to go out of my way to watch.