Poll: Favorite Sport

[Aur0ra145]

Collegiate wrestling. Best sport out there.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

I don't enjoy any of the normal sports but I love Skiing. I don't even like watching sports, but then I don't like pretty much anything on TV.

 

[RedDeadFred]

As a Canadian it is pretty much mandatory for me to love hockey. I enjoy playing and watching.

Go Flames Go!!!

Also, go team Chara!

Edit: Also, nothing really beats flying down a ski hill at almost suicidal speeds.

 

[Jodah]

Ya know...the second I saw this thread title I knew there would be someone yelling about calling it soccer.

Anywho, for me it is easily Football (American football). I'm a huge Steelers fan and never miss a game. Have a couple traditions for football season. I don't shave until the Steelers are eliminated from the playoffs (whether that means mathematically eliminated, loss in the playoffs, or Superbowl win), it was getting pretty epic this year, and I have a buddy that I go to a sports bar every week to watch the game.

 

[Fatboy_41]

Australian Rules Football.

100% manly

Spoiler

Dont argue with Dustin Martin

Let's see him to that to a pies player. Carn the magpies!

Go back to the dentist you dirty Collingwood supporter, or ill unleash Cameron Ling upon you.

Good old Collingwood forever!

Carn the pies!

COME ON YOU MAGPIES

I love my AFL. Try to fly down to Melbourne at least a few times a year to watch the Maggies play, and will definitely be at the Gabba game this year. Being a digger though, I am always on duty on ANZAC day, which is obviously one of the biggest games of the year apart from the Grand Final. So proud to be a part of the 72,728 strong Collingwood Family.

But, of course, there is always the off season. During the summer, my attention turns to the Dakar. The toughest race in the world. Those men and women truly are gods on 2 wheels.

 

[Torrasque]

Baseball is boring to play, even more boring to watch.
American Football is really dull and I can only watch Canadian Football (CFL) when it is super important games.
Soccer is fun to play, but omg so god damned boring to watch...
Basketball is neither fun to play nor fun to watch.
Tennis is one of those rare things that I completely understand and love to play. I blame years of Mario Tennis.
Cricket just baffles me, I have no idea what the fuck is going on.
Hockey is both fun to play and very fun to watch. I enjoy watching almost any game of hockey and try to watch every game my Bruins play this season.

Y no curling? Curling is very hard to play, but very entertaining to watch.

American Football/Football/Basketball is boring or no fun to watch, but curling is entertaining? If I ever make a dictionary, I know what I'll be putting under irony.

Anyway, don't you think the boring or fun factor goes hand in hand with how much you know about the sport in question? You know a lot about tennis and like to watch it. Same goes for me with football. That's probably also the reason I can't watch American Football on TV, I just don't know enough about the rules and tactics involved. I'm not saying it's some sort of causality, but it certainly plays a big part.

Its true I don't know all the details of football/baseball/soccer/basketball, but I also don't know every detail to curling.
I can make more detailed explanations that should help clarify that I don't dislike them based solely on my knowledge of the game.

Baseball: baseball is boring because at any given time, half the team is sitting on their asses doing nothing. When a play is finally made (someone hits the ball), only a few players on the field have to do anything to actually finish the play. Baseball reminds me of what a gentleman's form of football would be; each team takes their turn to play, there is little to no contact, and only 1 team defends at a time.
Football: I can't enjoy football because I have watched rugby. American football strikes me as a pansy version of rugby. I also don't like how every single play has a line of guys running into another line of guys. Yes I know that is the defensive line protecting the QB from the offensive line that wants to down him, but there should be a better way of doing that.
Basketball: any sport that condemns any kind of roughness or physical contact makes me think every player is afraid to get hit or something. I also don't like how the game is so insanely high scoring. I probably also hate basketball because my gym teachers would usually rather bring out a bunch of basketballs and let us do whatever instead of set up the nets and equipment required for hockey.
Soccer: if soccer allowed physicality or the fields weren't so insanely big, then I would probably enjoy it.

Any of these games would be more entertaining if they were more physical. In the case of football, they should just take off their pads and play rugby.

 

[Pjotr84]

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Ok, I see what you mean a bit better now. If you like watching physically intense sports, I can imagine most of what you summed up isn't exactly you cup of tea.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I like Badminton because I used to be good playing that game (well except the fast speed version. I don't watch the sport itself thought.

 

[Colour Scientist]

I'm not a huge sports person but rugby is probably my favourity to watch.

Our rugby teams have the sexiest men in Irish sport and our provincial and national teams are actually pretty good.

[sub]Curse you, New Zealand[/sub]

It's such a good sport to watch, none of that protective gear American football has.

 

[Taham]

It's not on there, but rugby is a great sport. Shame it's not big in the USA. Anything that involves a bat is difficult for me, though cricket is decent. I guess it goes with the territory.(I'm British)

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Canadian, so yeah, hockey >

But seriously it's gotta be the most fast paced, action intense sport I know of. It really is exciting to watch a good game.

Also:

GO CANUCKS GO!

Ooh, a Canucks fan. Hello, NEW FRIEND.

 

[esperandote]

I like to play basketball but i don't watch profesional games. I watch local baseball games, national soccer games and box fights.

Best basketballist, Michael Jordan, duh.

 

[Palfreyfish]

I don't enjoy any of the normal sports but I love Skiing. I don't even like watching sports, but then I don't like pretty much anything on TV.

Yeah I'm pretty much exactly the same.

 

[13thforswarn]

Hockey, hands down. I'm Canadian, so that may explain why.

I root for all the Canadian teams in the NHL, but my favorite is Toronto.

 

[ShaqLevick]

Baseball is definitely my favorite sport, although I do watch just about everything else. But baseball was the only one I played for over a decade so it has a special place in my heart.

My all time favorite team is the Blue Jays, and my favorite player is Joe Carter because he won me two championships back to back. Sure it's all been downhill for my Jays since then, but we'll always have 1993!

 

[Guffe]

As your poll suggests, just as research, Football, or in your case "soccer", is the most followed sport today, and also my choice.
There should be a "other" option according to me...

My Favorite team is Liverpool FC from the Barclays Premiere League and my reason is that when I was 10 my favorite player and biggest idol Sami Hyypiä (I'm a Finn) transfered to the club and had a very good coming 10 years there. There was also something about the Scous that kept me there. Now we're heading towards the league cup and that would make our manager the first ever to have won all English trohpies as a player and manager, which wouldn't be too shabby

Biggest name in Football history is a though one, the game changes every 8 years with new big names and styles of play. In their day Maradona and Pelé were the greates but in todays football no one knows how they would manage. Today great names are Messi, Ronaldo (Brazil, yeah he doesn't play anymore but I still count him for today), Ronaldhino, Gerrard, Hart etc... Sorry but I can't make up my mind.

 

[Diddy_Mao]

Although "I don't much care for sports" is a far more accurate choice I did choose Hockey because it's pretty much the only team sport that I'm likely to watch and enjoy. Sure I make a habit of hanging out with friends on Sunday to watch Football but I tend to spend more of my time fucking around on my phone, helping out in the kitchen and drinking beer than actually watching the game.
Because I just want to hang out with my friends and I find Football to be boring as hell.

On the other hand 3 or four times out of the year a smaller group of friends and I will get together to watch a Hockey match and although I still spend a significant portion of that time drinking I do actually watch and enjoy the game.
Still I don't actually follow it as a sport, I don't know who the rising stars or who the big names are. I never bothered to learn about the various conferences or really when the season begins or ends.