I am not much of a fan of modified versions of popular sports. I love rugby and played it myself but I dislike Sevens matches. I like American Football but don’t care for the indoor arena version. I like soccer but again the MISL was lost on me; my late BIL was a major fan but I never got into it at all. Can’t say why I dislike the newer adaptations but its been a constant in my life for like 40 years.
I am a sports fan and will watch just about anything if it’s a big evebt like the Olympics. I like the top level physical competition. Having said that, the only sport I actively look for on TV (and I have season tickets) is College Basketball. I love the game of golf but only watch the Majors or International Cup competitions. I watched it in the Olympics. I’ll watch College Football but only my local team and my Alma Mater.
The only sport I actively dislike is NFL football on TV. It’s barely a sport anymore but a made for TV event. There’s (literally) sunup to sundown coverage of 12 minutes of actual sporting activity. “The View” has more intelligence and interesting subject matter than the average NFL Pre-Game show by a factor of five. NFL coverage is most like an entertainment TV show with it’s own celebrities, has-beens, never were- and big breasted blondes. Don’t get me started about the game itself with it’s constant stoppages for huddles, Official consultations, replays, injuries, and TV time outs. It’s unwatchable to me.
I like a lot of sports.
I’ll watch baseball, hockey, soccer, rugby (union and league), Australian rules football, and cricket whenever the opportunity presents itself. I like watching American football, although i’ve just gone two full seasons without watching a single game because i was pissed off with various aspects of the NFL. I’ve signed up for a Fantasy Football league this year, though, so i’ll probably start watching some games again.
Like quite a few others here, i’m not really into basketball, at least in part because of the high scoring. It’s also because, when i first came to the US, i watched pro basketball players getting away with shit that i used to get called for in under-13s: stuff like traveling, and rolling the hand over the ball while dribbling. I also hate the late-game intentional fouling that mars so many games.
It’s a shame, because i find the skills and the athleticism of basketball players incredibly impressive, and as a kid i really enjoyed playing the game. As a spectator sport, though, i just can’t get interested.
When i watch tennis, i enjoy it, especially women’s tennis, which often seems to have longer rallies and rely less on the big serve. I’m not interested enough, though, to watch with any regularity. Same with golf, which i will usually sit down and watch for maybe two or three days a year, usually the final rounds of the US Masters and/or the British Open.
The NFL is so far and away the most dominant form of entertainment in the United States. It’s on a completely different level than anything else.
As for the OP, love college football and hockey. I’ve been boycotting the NBA since the Seattle Supersonics were stolen (Seattle drafted Durant!). Never gotten into tennis or basically any of the individual sports really.
I don’t think I can say there are sports I dislike. That seems a different concept to me than “just not interested in.”
I don’t really care about golf, for instance (as a fan; I like playing it.) I couldn’t care less who wins the Masters. But that’s not “Dislike.” I have a buddy who holds a poker day every Masters Sunday, and he puts the Masters up on a big screen while we play, and I don’t mind that it’s on.
I watch baseball, tennis, American Ninja Warrior (if that’s a sport), and volleyball, curling, and other things that are hard to find generally except in the Olympics like cross country skiing and my beloved biathlon.
I can enjoy hockey, though I won’t seek it out. Same with golf and things like bike racing and foot racing. I admire the athleticism of basketball but don’t find it appealing. I used to watch NFL football, but I no longer do. Horse racing makes me too anxious after I saw a bad accident years ago and two horses destroyed.
I won’t watch combat sports, car races (except rough truck, which is the best sport in the whole world!), rodeo, or NCAA sports.
Baseball, I can watch and enjoy any two teams compete. I can also enjoy watching minor league baseball and other levels of competition (I just spent some time at the Little League World Series this past weekend).
Tennis, I can also watch and enjoy just about any level of competition, though it’s hard to find anything but the highest level being broadcast on TV (I’ll occasionally watch college tennis). The same applies to professional and college bowling—I will basically watch anything they put on TV.
Football, I can watch most professional games, though I rarely sit and watch a game from beginning to end. I am easily bored by college football.
I am a somewhat recent convert to hockey and have a hard time watching a game that doesn’t involve the Kings (the only team I root for). But I think the sport is interesting.
I used to watch basketball a lot growing up, but as an adult, I find it really boring (pros and college). I will only watch a game if I happen to run across it in the last five minutes or so.
Olympic sports (summer and winter) tend to be interesting to me for short periods of time, at least, with the exception of the long-distance ones (of all variety, including running, swimming and cycling). Golf, darts and billiards competitions can also be interesting to me in short bursts.
I’ve tried to watch football/soccer and just can’t seem to get into it. I used to feel that way about hockey until I went to my first games in person, so it’s possible my views will change if I ever attend a live soccer match.
The only sports I seem to have an active dislike for are boxing/MMA and auto racing. Not only do I find them boring, but they seem to be actively engaging the audience’s hopes for the destruction of someone or something, and it’s hard for me to get behind that.
I watch baseball, football (prefer Big Ten football), and hockey. Don’t care much for basketball, to me the refs have far too much influence on the game. I like World Cup soccer, will glance at a Premier League game once in a while but don’t have the time to watch complete games or learn the teams or players. Aussie football is cool but don’t get much chance to watch.
Don’t care for the individual sports (tennis, golf). I like the Olympics except for the modern crap added like snowboarding. I don’t have any use for motorsports. I like to watch the horsies run but have to record the Triple Crown races so I can cut past all the endless crap and get to the race.
NASCAR racing is the only sport I watch on a regular basis. I might watch a little home team football or baseball. Don’t care for tennis, hockey or soccer, I would rather find some mind numbing activity rather that watch those sports.
Not to attack your stat there, which I’m sure is quite accurate, but a counterpoint:
The Phillies won the WS in 2008 and made it back, only to lose, in 2009. In 2010 I did several days’ worth of political campaigning in Philadelphia (city proper) on behalf of a Senate candidate and gubernatorial hopeful, and the Phillies were in the playoffs again with another great team.
I don’t live in PA or in Philadelphia sports territory, so one thing I picked up on very quickly was the enormous Phillies-excitement in the neighborhoods I canvassed. No exaggeration, I’d say every third house had a Phillies flag flying, a Phillies poster (courtesy of the local paper) hanging in the window, a Phillies bumper sticker on the car out front, or a Phillies hat or sweatshirt on the person answering the door.
That was great for me with my baseball background, as it allowed easy conversation (“Hi, I’m Ulf, with the ____ campaign, but first things first: you think they’re gonna win tonight?” “That’s some pitching staff, isn’t it, Halliday and Hamels and Oswalt?..Speaking of great, I sure hope we can count on your vote for _____…”). In fact, after I completed my first set of houses I bought myself a Phillies shirt at a local sporting goods store so I’d look truly “official,” and wore it for the rest of the canvassing.
Anyway, there was certainly plenty of Eagles stuff floating around these neighborhoods too, but during the time I was there it was dwarfed by the enthusiasm for the Phillies.
I’m a pretty huge and diverse sports fan - I love the Olympics because of all the random track and field, archery, and whatever else I can watch. Big into the Big 4 American pro leagues, both MLS and Euro soccer, and all sorts of stuff.
Don’t care at all about college football or NASCAR. I don’t love golf, either, but I usually end up watching a tournament or two each year (usually the US Open). But you could count how many college football games I’ve watched even five minutes of the last couple of years on one hand that was missing a few fingers. This always shocks people for some reason (since they know I follow sports closely otherwise, including pro football).
(Not that unusual a combo for someone who grew up in CT, though, as UConn wasn’t a D1 program until after I graduated college, and college basketball is the big sport to follow.)
I’ll watch pretty much anything - baseball and soccer are tops, pro football next. Hockey, golf, NASCAR, tennis I follow somewhat and will watch if I have the time. The last couple of years I’ve gotten more into Aussie Rules Football as well.
Like a lot of others, I was more into basketball when I was younger. I keep up with what is going on, but I hardly watch either college or pro anymore. Same for college football.
The one sport I wish I knew enough about to watch and enjoy is rugby. Every time I’ve watched some on TV I’ve felt lost - all the nuance in the game is beyond me. Let along the difference between rugby and union 
MMA and boxing are the two main sports I don’t follow at all and won’t watch.
I follow baseball closely. I follow hockey pretty much, too. I’m willing to watch football, but I find NFL games not terribly interesting, I really find basketball boring.
What I love to watch though are odd (to my standards) sports. I used to regularly watch Aussie Football back when ESPN carried it. Gaelic hurling and football were also very interesting. To my mind, Gaelic football and Aussie footy are soccer done right.
Car racing and professional racing. Golf is right up there, too. I’d rather watch Australian rules football.
Watching sports hardly interests me at all. I’ll watch Olympic hockey, though, so long as the Canadian teams are still in the running.
I’m a little bewildered by some forms of sports fandom, to be honest. I can see how you would enjoy watching something like basketball or football if you really follow it for a while. You’d get an eye for the game, you’d become familiar with various players and have your favorites, and generally get invested in the game. But during these past Olympics, they televised kayaking. Who enjoys watching kayaking? I don’t think very many people have an eye for the sport or are familiar enough to have their favorite kayakers to root for.
I’m a non-sport watcher who gets trapped like a moth in front of the TV every Olympics. One sport I’ve come to really enjoy is diving, especially pairs. The reason is that it’s transparent - pretty easy to tell the difference between dives of varying difficulty and how they are executed versus, say, gymnastics where I’m baffled why someone gets 8.6 while another has 7.7.
Also the scoring is usually pretty tight and the lead can change with each dive, so anyone can blow their chances with a belly-buster or can nail a quadruple up-down-around with twists and tucks to jump to the lead (despite watching I have not picked up the jargon quite yet).
There are no sports but baseball. I actively loathe football in all its forms. To the point of signing petitions calling for the banning of football in public schools.
After ‘cutting the cable’ my sports watching options are down to broadcast TV, which leaves me with a handful of baseball games, football, major tournaments and the Olympics. I’m a sports fan, and actively dislike very few sports. For a short period of time, I’ll watch just about anything, tennis, golf, NASCAR, curling, biathlon, rowing, water polo, you name it I’ll watch it.
Except short track speed skating. Any sport where a guy can be in last place on the last lap and win because everybody else fell down, is bullshit.
I don’t know if I actively dislike any sport. There are some I just don’t care about but I don’t dislike them. The three sports I follow, in order, are baseball, football and hockey. I used to follow basketball and tennis but I don’t care about them any more.
Remember that this was the Phillies first playoff spot in a long time, and a Sunday night where I think baseball in general has a tough time competing with football. The team only showed promise that year, and I don’t think even won one playoff game. By 2008 they looked like they could get further, and to the surprise of many, including this long time Phillies fan they ended up taking it all that year.