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Which sports do you detest watching?

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  1. redwhiteandermblue

    redwhiteandermblue Well-Known Member

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    Yes, it's just an intimidation tactic that should be banned. Of course, being reasonable, someone might grunt every fifty shots for some reason. But every shot is a deliberate effort at intimidation. And it will either distract you or get you so angry you play better, in my experience.

    I'm an avid player and used to be a big tennis fan. Now I really only watch the big four men's finals. I'd actually much rather watch players I know play, for some reason. Now that's interesting.
     
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  2. redwhiteandermblue

    redwhiteandermblue Well-Known Member

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    Agreed. It's a f**ing difficult game, that, like the proverbial Japanese bicycle, requires great peace of mind. In golf you hit a stationary ball with what amounts to one and a half strokes with variation. In tennis, you hit a ball that may be moving 100 mph with five quite different strokes with variations.


    I'm trying to sell my nation on the idea of "Hunter's Season" where everybody who wants to can head out to the woods and see if they can bag anybody who's also headed out to the woods. They talk about needing to thin the herd of deer. Thinning the herd of gun toting Americans really ought to take priority.

    And it would make a great Olympic event. A game of every man for himself paintball with live ammo.

    I actually watched shooting for the first time at the last Olympics and enjoyed it--essentially because I was ready to puke from all the American Olympic human interest stories--which resemble really cheesy docudramas except they're much crappier.

    Then they had a half hour of shooting. It was intriguing and dramatic.

    Plus Americans always win. Having 100 million gun owners does have one benefit.
     
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  3. Spurm

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    Yeah, but a golf doodah has a much smaller head than a tennis stick
     
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  4. redwhiteandermblue

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    It's the size of the moon compared to the useful hitting surface of a baseball bat, which is used to hit a 95 mph curving ball.
     
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  5. totsfan

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    I enjoy U.S. sports, except basketball,i,like gridiron and follow Washington Redskins,and Baseball i follow Toronto Bluejays,i used to play baseball in the British league,for Croydon Bluejays,and ice hockey i follow Ottawa Senators
     
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  6. The Mighty Thor

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    Cycling ie Tour de France, boring, boring, boring. I don't mind it in the Olympic Games when it's around a few laps but that's it.

    Sumo wrestling. TOTALLY disgusting and over in a moment.

    Ordinary hockey.
     
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  7. humanbeingincroydon

    humanbeingincroydon Well-Known Member

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    Whenever I'm in Japan, I find sumo to be strangely addictive viewing - especially the one bout that was deadlocked, so the ref ordered a water break, and when they had their water he had to literally re-arrange them into the exact position they were in before he called time out.
     
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  8. littleDinosaurLuke

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    WWE - but it's not sport is it?
     
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  9. Spurf

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    We are designed to hit a moving target the stationary golf ball is the hardest to hit.

    Golf is the most difficult technical game I have ever played and it is now the game I have played longest.
     
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    Men's beach volleyball, which solely exists to justify the term "equal opportunities gone mad"
     
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  11. NSIS

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    I fear that the gay lobby, of which I am not one, may beg to differ, old boy....
     
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  12. humanbeingincroydon

    humanbeingincroydon Well-Known Member

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    Surely even they see beach volleyball in the programme guide, switch on, and go "Oh great, some ugly blokes from Canada"
     
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  13. NSIS

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    As I say, not being of that persuasion, I really don't know. Whatever turns you on, as they say....
     
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  14. goonercymraeg

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    I've been to the Rogers Centre twice to see the Blue Jays play <ok>
     
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  15. humanbeingincroydon

    humanbeingincroydon Well-Known Member

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    You're not allowed to follow the Washington redskins until they change their name, because middle class white people are telling the American Indians that the name is offensive.

    Somehow this manages to be more cringeworthy than the vendettas that Peter Herbert and David Baddiel have against us.
     
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  16. NSIS

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    Ah yes!. Nothing like a couple of middle class white people on a crusade against....er..middle class white people!...
     
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  17. humanbeingincroydon

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    They need to eat more red meat, as they have a crippling irony deficiency.
     
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  18. NSIS

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    Really?? And there was I thinking they were just a couple of pretentious tossers!...
     
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    agree with a few people.

    Cricket. - Yawn. the fact that sky sports can show 3-4mins of adverts every 10 mins or so, shows how nothing important ever happens.

    Golf. - unless it's pitch 'n' putt or crazy golf, it's predominantly walking. Watching that? no thanks.

    American football. - seen it live. Worst sport ever invented, IMO. just utterly pathetic. More of an entertainment show than a sport.
     
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  20. weararedbonnet

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    WWF, brilliant choreography, but the verbal acting is dreadful. All the hype before the match is acting at its lowest form, and on a par with Crossroads and Cell Block H. Both of which were axed due to the lack of interest. WWF should go the same way.
     
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