As I said above, I do like sports. I like playing them. I get nothing at all out of watching other people play them.
I am not too thrilled about sports too. For some guys, it is the only they could talk about - basketball, soceer, wrestling etc. However to me they are just ‘meh’.
It may be because since young I was sickly and clumsly and just don’t like to exhbit my less-than-average coordination and dexterity. Plus asthma attacks. Of course eventually, I pick up the habit (or rather, I need to re-pick up) of execrising, but I just don’t get sports
ETA: Okay, there’s one which I would watch when it’s on, but not follow religiously - badminton.
I know what you mean, but to be fair, I do know a bunch of flaming gay guys who are really, seriously into ultimate fighting (one works PR on events). And the few women I know who like it like it mostly for the guy-on-guy aspect, a la Foxy Boxing (but with blood). So while there may not be many out homosexual MMAers, that is one aspect of the sport’s appeal.
Fair enough. Got any suggestions for a dismissive characterization of MMA that you would find clever?
MMA is auto-dismissive by its very nature.
Describes me perfectly. I spent an entire year in Zion National Park. I’ve done every trail in the Park and a lot of the major canyoneering routes. I wouldn’t touch Everest with a 29,035-foot pole, but I would do Denali or Aconcagua if I had the chance. I love to play baseball. Golf is fun too, but I suck at it. Ditto with surfing. But watch this crap on TV? You gotta be kidding. I’d rather watch paint dry. Besides, I don’t even know all the rules to basketball or football. I have a general idea what’s going on, but that’s about it. For the record, I’m a 48-year-old white male who has never in his entire life watched any sporting event from start to finish. Fifteen minutes is about all I can tolerate, and then I go all ADHD and wander off looking for something interesting to do.
You misspelled erotic 
Glad someone was on the ball. I figured that one would have been over the head of some posters.
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Be careful with them thar words…my dar is startin to ping…
Someone asks the meaning of an acronym. Your answer involves a different acronym that the questioner may or may not know. This could go on forever.
I generally hate sports. I used to fake it when somebody asked me if I watched “The game,” by saying “That was something/crazy, wasn’t it?” It carried me for about 80 percent of the time, then I realized that nobody cared what I thought, and if I told them that I didn’t care for sports, they sort of went and talked with somebody that did. Win/win.
I like bicycling, karate, etc… but not really watching, and not really teamsports.
I was rarely interested in my youth, and the schism became irreparable when I realized that if I was in a singles bar with one of these sports stars, and we had an interest in the same woman, they would happily beat me to death in order to get laid.
Of course, if I was in a bar with Geddy Lee or Alex Lifeson, I wouldn’t be surprised if they would cheerfully beat me to death to get laid themselves, but I like music, so…
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I will watch a World Series game if the Red Sox are playing.
I will watch the Superbowl if the Patriots are playing.
Other than that if someone is talking about sports, I usually ask “is that the game with the round ball, the pointy ball or the sharp pointed sticks?”.
Too much to do in life without watching all that crap.
63 year old male here.
The joy of watching sports is
-watching people do incredible things I can’t
-the ebb and flow of competition
-suspense, who is going to win is like a good mystery
-identifying with a team and making them a proxy for yourself
Sure it’s stupid from the outside. If you’re just watching random games then no, it’s probably not that exciting. But if you care then it makes all the difference. Imagine your kid is on a team, you want him or her to do well. The other team is trying to stop it from happening. Voila, instant emotional attachment. Being a fan is like having a kid on the team, you pick a team and make it your own.
If you’d rather do other things, great. For example, music creates no emotional attachment for me so i’m not interested. why would i want to watch people drag a bow across strings to make noises? But that doesnt mean i think it’s stupid, like many people have said about watching sports here, it’s just not my thing.
Disclaimer, I rarely sit and watch an entire game of anything, and when i do it’s usually in a social setting (bar, party, live event) with friends. It’s something to discuss. So i’m not a fanatic in any way, just defending the other side.
Neither my boyfriend nor I enjoy sports. My family watches the Superbowl, but other than that aren’t terribly excited about them (though I’m pretty sure my mother would disown me if I ever became/dated someone who was a Dallas Cowboys fan).
The interesting thing is that I’m from Minnesota, while my boyfriend is from Wisconsin. For those not in the loop, the Vikings and the Packers are arch-rivals. Just recently, Brett Favre, the Packers’ former star player, came to play for the Vikings. A brouhaha ensued, mostly from Wisconsin (though Minnesota was a bit thrown by it as well). I see a lot of Minnesotans with Favre Vikings jerseys, and the last time I was in Wisconsin, I saw a lot of announcements for Favre jersey burning festivals. Even the boyfriend thinks he’s kind of a bastard. I just find it amusing. We’ve not yet gotten flak for being…er…star-crossed, or anything, but I’m sure it’ll happen someday.
So I guess my point is that even though I have very little interest of any kind in sports, it still affects me. But no, I do not find it weird or wrong that you dislike them.