I am disabled…yes,I have a total lack of interest in sports. Baseball, football, hockey…they all leave me cold!
So, becuase I cannot participate in the emotional highs of a hard-fought game of football, should I be considered “disabled”?
Is there any compensation (under the AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT) that I shouldbe entitiled to?
Shold the gov pay to get me into some kind of psycho-therapeutic program?
Damn…there ought to be SOMETING in this for me!
I’ve thought quite the opposite for a rather long time now.
Not only do I dislike all sports, I’m not completely sold on Anna Kournikova as a hottie.
I love football (he’s football crazy, he’s football mad…etc.) and I don’t mind watching a good cricket test match, but I have to say I just don’t get why American Football and Baseball are so popular in the US, I mean some people accuse test cricket of being a yawnfest, but baseball and American football are just soooooooo dull.
And this is in Great Debates because… ?
That does qualify as a mental disability.
As for American Football being dull…um, cite? Or at least elaborate, I’d be interested to know if it’s just a cultural thang, or if you’re off your rocker too.
I’ll venture that I’ve been treated as some sort of loon (not the first time, mind you) because of my inability to get into a lather over sports related issues. The degree of rejection and isolation in American society that results from such lack of appreciation pretty well justifies this question’s appearance in Great Debates.
Whenever illegal and unethical conduct is justified in the name of furthering a given sports team’s success, this question becomes pertinent.
I enjoy cricket, but let’s face it, when compared with baseball or American football the latter two become the equivalent of…um, something really exciting.
Soccer is all right, I suppose, but I’d rather watch any of the Big 4 American sports.
I like the idea, (I’d be able to get all the good parking spots) but is being a partial social outcast really a disablility?
I love baseball, but I can understand why those who aren’t into it, and especially those who have no reason to be into it (you are British, right?) don’t like it. Baseball is not only an “acquired taste” of sorts. It also is very much based on two things you really can’t get by watching occasionally from afar: atmosphere and statistics. The difference between watching a baseball game on TV and being at the stadium is incredible. It’s not only a game, it’s nearly a culture. As far as statistics, well, it should be pretty obvious what I’m talking about. Baseball is a game of numbers, and as a fan, you grow to appreciate that. You like learning who has the most eighth-inning triples in Wrigley field against left-handed pitchers. Baseball is a game that to like, you have to really like.
Well, Ralph, it’s probably less of a hinderance in day to day life than being left-handed is, and since they don’t consider that to be a disablity, I wouldn’t count on getting any paid services for it. You may find an HMO that would cover it, though.
Moderator’s Note: Moving to IMHO.
Regarding the OP, depends on who you hang out with. I follow sports, especially baseball; read the sports pages first, limit my TV-watching to ESPN and MLB broadcasts, can spout a great deal of information about the sports world… But a lot of the people I know have little or no interest in this stuff. They think I’m the one that’s disabled because my interest in sports takes me away from what REALLY matters…
Sign me up and call me a Gimp. Can’t stand sports. I can tolerate basketball and baseball if I know the players, but football, American football, cricket, rugby, Aussie rules, golf, tennis…bore me to tears.
i also do not like sports.
living in britain and not liking football is alsmot punishable by the state, and if not people think it should be. not liking football automatically qualifies one as “gay”, which is odd because I find myself somehow attracted to females despite my obvious gayness for not liking seeing 22 scantily clad men chase a ball.
The government shoudl subsidise me I think, this is a disability.
sport is the opiate of the masses?
You don’t like sports?!? Sorry, no sympathy here. Basketball, football, hockey, bring it all on.
Have you tried watching the games in a topless bar?
Sign me up for the don’t-like-sports list. I just don’t understand the point. Whether team X or team Y wins has absolutely in impact on my daily life.
Sadly, it is true that this results in much social ostricization.
Sign me up for the don’t-like-sports list. I just don’t understand the point. Whether team X or team Y wins has absolutely in impact on my daily life.
Sadly, it is true that this results in much social ostricization.
Sign me up for the don’t-like-sports list. I just don’t understand the point. Whether team X or team Y wins has absolutely in impact on my daily life.
Sadly, it is true that this results in much social ostricization.
wow, triple post. Sorry about that. Computer was doing weird things.