I’m a bit like that even with regular old ESPN Sports Center. A half-hour show was being constantly taken up with about 25 minutes of college basketball, and all the other sports crammed into the other five minutes.
I played basketball at school, and loved it, even though i wasn’t very good. I just don’t find it especially interesting to watch. I appreciate the amazing speed and athleticism of the players, and the strategies and the moves they use, but there’s just something about the structure of the game i don’t like.
Part of it might be the incessant back-and-forth scoring. I’ve heard plenty of Americans say they don’t like soccer because there’s not enough scoring; i have a similar feeling for basketball, only it’s because there’s too much scoring for my liking.
I also get extremely frustrated by a sport in which a deliberate foul can actually serve as a strategic device for helping a team overcome a deficit. The fact that the rules seem to encourage this is bizarre to me.
And finally, i just really can’t get into college sports on any level anyway. I’m not into college football or baseball either. About the only time i have any emotion at all over college sports is a sort of vague sense of well-being when Notre Dame loses in football, and when Duke loses in basketball. And i’m not even sure why i feel that way.
Hey, believe me, I’d love to care. I used to follow the Rockets when Olajuwan played and enjoyed it immensely. If I followed and enjoyed college hoops I’d have one more thing in my life to get excited about, but as it is I’m just a blank stare when conversations turn to the topic. I just can’t seem to get into most sports nowadays, except boxing and MMA. So when I say I don’t care, it isn’t like I don’t care that I don’t care.
I dunno, but for me it’s not bragging, and it’s certainly not some sort of holier-than-thou anti-sport attitude.
I’m a HUGE sports fan. I love baseball, football, and hockey, and as far as i’m able, i also follow Premier League soccer, Australian Rules football, and international rugby and cricket. I just don’t really get into basketball, nor do i care very much about American college sports. Part of that is, no doubt, due to the fact that i didn’t grow up in America, and didn’t do my undergrad degree here, so i never developed the rabid school pride that seems so much a part of college sports.
Also, the main reason i opened and participated in this thread is precisely because you can barely turn on the TV, open a newspaper, or have a conversation with an undergraduate during the month of March without having college basketball talk rain down on you. I assumed the OP started the thread in the spirit of acknowledging the deluge, and finding out if other people were similarly immune to it.
I actually don’t know what the NCAA is. I think that means I win. I assume it’s something to do with basketball, because it seems that I’ve heard that this ‘march madness’ is a basketball thing.
ETA - after reading the rest of the thread I should qualify that. I think I’m the American winner. The people from across the pond shouldn’t be even expected to know or care about it.
