[QUOTE=Ellis Dee]
I could make a case that I have everyone beat. Two of my favorite shows to watch (or listen to) are Pardon the Interruption and Mike & Mike in the Morning. They’ve been very little other than March Madness for the last few weeks, so I’ve been doing a lot of fast forwarding and tuning out. The end result is that it’s like two of my favorite shows are on strike.
So I’m actively annoyed by March Madness, and grew more and more antagonistic to its coverage on a daily basis.
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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.
[QUOTE=Miller]
I’m so not interested, I didn’t even open this thread.
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I was neither aware there was a condition called “madness,” nor a month named “March.”
[QUOTE=Darth Sensitive]
Is there anything else on the Dope where people actively trumpet/brag about their ignorance of certain things?
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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.
[QUOTE=Darth Sensitive]
Is there anything else on the Dope where people actively trumpet/brag about their ignorance of certain things?
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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.
[QUOTE=mhendo]
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.
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Same here on all counts.
I win.
Kidding. I do know what the NCAA is. I just don’t care.
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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.
