Poll: How many escapists like sports??

[zehydra]

Competitive sports tend to have a far worse user base than even Call of Duty!

I enjoy throwing the frisbee. I enjoy shooting hoops. I enjoy kicking the ball.

I do not however, enjoy any of the games associated with these things.

Edit: Also, I find watching sports to be incredibly boring, and often times its a bit like watching somebody do a 1000th run-through of a game.

 

[almostgold]

Sports are awesome. I seriously have a hard time understanding people who don't enjoy them at all. No one can tell me that a cook out is the same without either getting drunk while watching football, or being drunk and playing football. Manliness is in short supply these days.

 

[Vern]

I'll watch a football game for a bit if I catch one, but I'm not a huge fan. I do miss having cable though, because Rugby and Hockey are fun to watch. I don't have any favorite teams, but watching a bunch of 200 pound men skate around and punch each other is funny. As for rugby, it's like football without all the pussy padding, time outs, and downs. It's just a bunch of guys running around, crashing into each other, and generally hurting each other while chasing after a ball. It's amusing, and satisfying. Not saying I'm better than them, but watching grown men kick the shit out of each other over a ball is hilarious.

captcha: ticath conveying

 

[General Ken8]

Well, I'm not really a big fan, but I like to watch hockey on occasion, and I love the olympics

 

[rutger5000]

Owh were talking about watching sport. Yeah that's kinda dumb. Doing sports I love, watching not so much.

 

[Angerwing]

I only enjoy watching Aussie Rules. Playing, I'm fine with whatever. I was never that co-ordinated as a kid, but I went to one of the finest rugby schools in the country, so I played sports weekly.

 

[Euhan01]

Like playing cricket, love the fact the season has just started. Also enjoy watching rugby.

 

[similar.squirrel]

I like to watch soccer occasionally, but the whole 'supporter' aspect of team sports is one step below fascism, in my opinion.
I also enjoy watching boardsports and martial arts. I'm saving up for a longboard at the moment, because I still haven't managed to land a kickflip after five years on a normal deck. And I'll probably take up Aikido when I get back to college.

 

[Mr.Squishy]

I enjoy playing sports. PLAYING. Not watching. And certainly not going batshit crazy over.

 

[Retronana]

I play football competitively and play soccer, badminton and basketball casually. Sport is ridiculously fun when you're playing with your friends/teammates and that's the biggest part of the appeal. Some of the funniest things I've ever seen have happened whilst playing sport and it's honestly one of the best regular activities you can engage in in your life.

 

[Gudrests]

I don't really watch sports but I fence. Does that count?

same here but with wrestling. and it should. You like a sport just dont like watching sports.

OH P.S.....We used to practice in the same room as the fencing guys.....don't practice near wrestlers, They are all hungry, angry, and with all that beeping your machines make.....you make them quite annoyed. Don't annoy a guy who is that hungry lol.

 

[Laxman9292]

I love rugby, and I like American Hand-Egg and football.

Don't start with that nonsense. It is called football. Deal with it.

Take a joke to heart more.

Please, do.

Kinda hard when the "joke" is repeated ad nauseum every time the topic is brought up.

I think people get so mad about this joke because it straight up makes sense, the only times you use feet in football are for kickoff, field goal, PAT, and punts. The time the ball is on a foot during a game is about 1:99999 compared to it being in contact with hands. How about we just use futbol for football, and let yall keep the nonsensical football.

I don't see why people can't just, know you, ignore it if you don't like it. It just comes off as being snarky to Americans.

I'm American too and I love handegg, at least college, I'm not following the draft as much as I should but that's what being a busy college student gets you. I also love football too, so it's frustrating when I start talking about football then someone's like "huh?" and I have to go "*sigh* soccer, the real football, ya know the one that uses feet and a ball?"

Lets end this while we are both civil. Not like the draft matters. Odds are there won't be a season this year, anyway. The NFL is already appealing that judge's decision to a pro-business court.

Ugh tell me about it. Although no matter what college football is gonna happen! I'm so pumped about that, even though the NCAA are taking pages out of the NFL playbook and being gigantic douchers.

 

[sergnb]

I like sports. I enjoy meeting with friends and having fun while watching whatever it is those muscular big men are doing in the field. It's just really an excuse to meet up with people.

Practicing, in the other hand, is much more fun, specially basketball (imo). It's just too much fun to miss it. You guys should practice an sport even if you don't like watching it, you'd be surprised how much fun you will have

 

[Nimcha]

I've never seen anyone on the escapist express fondness for motorsports so far... I love everything on two and four wheels that you can race with. I'm also quite good at karting myself (for a girl, anyway >.< ).

Then again most other motorsports enthousiasts I know are low-brow middle aged men >.>

 

[teebeeohh]

i really do like sports
not the most important thing in my life but a good enough reason a hit a bar with friends an yell at a TV and those cheap Italians.

 

[LuckyClover95]

Ok, so you don't like watching them... what about playing them?

I enjoy sports, not just for the enjoyment of playing them, but the social side - watching with friends and even better playing with friends is the tits.

 

[Quesa]

I love healthy competition, I love watching esports, I loved playing sports. I played baseball for about fourteen years, including one entire calendar year in Florida when I was 14 or so, and I never enjoyed watching it. I utterly loathe playing softball. I played football my senior year of high school, I never cared to watch it beforehand but after playing it I fell in love with it.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

I used to play a fair amount of softball and volleyball.
On school teams as well. But I don't really like watching sports being played.

Personally, I think playing is fun,... but watching is boring.