Favorite sport to watch of these 10

[mvd]

Poll question: Favorite sport to watch of these 10

I enjoy the action and weekly event-ness of professional football the most.

[tjwmason]

1. Cricket and Rugby

I voted for boxing out of the options. But nothing beats Rugby for action (it's like American football, but for real men who don't need armour and ten minute calculations on what scores to award); and Cricket for the sheer hell of a 5-day long event which is still likely to end in a draw.

[fluffernutter]

2. what? no golf?

but it's so riveting

[Bok_Tukalo]

6. Riveting is much more interesting to watch than golf

Golf (bowling for the affluent) is about as interesting as boiled gravel.

[democracyindanger]

7. Well, regular golf. Riveting isn't more interesting than crazy golf.

Crazy golf>riveting>regular golf

[Bok_Tukalo]

10. What's crazy golf?

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[democracyindanger]

19. Putt putt

[ET Awful]

3. I'm not a huge sports fan, but I'd have to say basketball, since the

action is more continuous.

I find football a bit boring because of all the waiting around. Same for baseball, I don't find pitching exciting, and with a decent pitcher, you see more pitching than you do anything else . . . very boring.

I'm not much of a fan of any of the others just because they don't really interest me.

If not for the antics of some of the players in the past decade or so, I'd probably actually watch basketball regularly, but it's turned into a bigger ego trip than anything else. It was bad, but not this bad in the 80's/early 90's.

[mvd]

4. See for me the breaks in football are nice respites

All the offense in basketball gets a little numbing for me. To each his own. :hi:

[cruadin]

5. I voted for professional baseball. I enjoy an occasional...

football game, and I'll probably be watching the Pats tomorrow afternoon, but I prefer baseball.

I like the everyday-ness of baseball. I like the 162 game schedule. I like the fact that you really get to know the team and the players by the end of the season; you know their limitations and their struggles.

I know that some people think baseball is boring because it often moves slowly, but I like that aspect of the game as well. You can easily follow a game on the radio. You can read a book or grill a steak or cut the grass and still follow a game. I like the way they play baseball in the long summer evenings that stretch into seemingly endless twilights. I like the sounds of baseball. I like going to Fenway and drinking in the atmosphere of the game.

There's nothing wrong with other sports, but I like baseball.

[Jeebo]

8. Baseball is more than just a game, it's a work of art...

...it's a vision of loveliness. Most of those other sports -- football, soccer, basketball, hockey -- are essentially the same game. Think about it! Team No. 1 gets the ball/pigskin/puck/whatever and tries to move it against Team No. 2's resistance toward Team No. 2's goal/goalposts/net/whatever, and then Team No. 2 gets the ball and tries to do the same thing to Team No. 1. Baseball is truly an ORIGINAL team sport. Unlike those other sports, in baseball the scoring happens where the ball ISN'T, instead of where the ball/pigskin/puck/whatever IS. Tennis and golf are also original, but they're individual sports. Team sports are more of a microcosm of the real world, and that's why they are much more interesting to me. Although I do like tennis, especially when Wimbledon and the U.S. Open come around. And why didn't you include tennis and golf in your list of options? They are much more popular than some of the other ones you listed.

Ron

[mvd]

9. Baseball would be my #3

I really like the strategy and it's the game that's most fun to focus on individual players.

[intheflow]

12. All games the same has been my argument in favor of baseball for years.

It always shuts up the rabid football/hockey/basketball/volleyball/soccer fans. Who can argue with it's simple logic?

[intheflow]

11. I assume you're talking about TV sports?

The only team sport I can stand to watch on TV is baseball. Sometimes I'll watch swimming or ice skating. All other televised sports suck.

But in a live setting, I like watching everything. Top five live sporting events would probably be baseball, horse racing, hockey, figure skating, and basketball, in that order.

[mvd]

16. Well no, it can be overall (at the stadiums too)

I understand what people are saying about sports being similar, but I sure like the way they get there in football. ;-)

[cestpaspossible]

13. Minor league baseball is professional baseball.

[mvd]

17. Technically true, but I believe poll takers will..

know what I mean.

[flamingyouth]

14. Soccer with Fenris!

We enjoyed the Chelsea/Liverpool game we watched together a couple of weeks ago. :D

[Kire]

15. English League Soccer

Probably soccer in the Spanish language too, but unfortunately, i don't speak it.

American soccer is just so, American. (I say this because I watched Manchester United slaughter some other team and the commentators were saying nice things about the losers, but in America at a similarly one sided game, they were just mean.)

[Telly Savalas]

20. How about Italian soccer?

In addition to seeing the best in the world on the pitch, you get treated to quite a show from the crowd as well:



(Sorry the pic is kind of big.)

[Tweed]

21. Ah Parma

[Telly Savalas]

23. Seems to be Parma fans...

but supposedly the pic was taken at the San Siro. It was just the first decent pic of Calcio Craziness I could find with a quick search.

[Kire]

30. Pretty much any kind of soccer.

as long as it's not American.

what's that movie with the tiny country from the Caribbean and the tiny country in the Himalayas competing against each other in a soccer match? It was on Sundance channel or something like that just recently.

I actually have a fear of saying anything bad against American sports because some Freeper might get the idea DUers really do hate America. But, shit, they are so hung up on competition and the marketplace, they should understand that I, as a consumer, have the right to decide which product I choose, dammit. I want to like American soccer because it's American, but that's not going to make me like it if it sucks, is it?

[u4ic]

18. Horse racing, showjumping and dressage

are the only sports I'll watch, live or televised.

[Tweed]

22. You should have put Men's Volleyball

Men's Volleyball is SO much fun to watch. The back and forth action is truly amazing and the athleticism of the athletes in undeniable. It's a pure show to see these guys play. Women's volleyball is a joke however. The game is slow, the women can't spike or block as often as the guys do and there is little trickery to the game. The fact that the majority of volleyball games in the US are played by women is a shame. It ruins the image of the sport.

[ProgressiveConn]

24. NFL followed by Mets games.

NFL, MLB, College Football, College Basketball, NBA in that order.

NFL by far as I can watch any two NFL teams play and enjoy myself even in a horrible game. I can ONLY watch Mets games or the playoffs. In college sports I can only watch UCONN or March Madness/Bowl games. I can watch hockey live but on TV it is horrible.

Watching the Steelers and Jets go at it right now. =)

[Osamasux]

27. Then you should have a blast this summer.

Martinez, Wright, Reyes, Glavine, Benson, Carlos and (hopefully) Carlos.

This is getting interesting.
:headbang:

[catbert836]

25. The Olympics

I always root for the teams from other countries, because the USA is such a poor, impovershed nation, that there's no way any of our athletes can win. :eyes:

[Pushed To The Left]

26. Mixed martial arts

I picked "wrestling and boxing" because MMA includes both of these things together!

[rockymountaindem]

28. Baseball first, with football a close second.

With baseball, it's not about the play so much as it is the anticipation. Those moments when you know the game hangs on the line and this next pitch could make it or break it... oh man that's sweet. I also find that baseball is rich in history, trivia and cool superstitions (such as the Bambino curse and the Billy Goat Curse).

Football is much the same way, with the consistant breaks in the action, but the plays are much different, obviously. While I definately enjoy a good game of football, I'd rather watch the Sox play than the Broncos.

[bigwillq]

29. College basketball, especially March madness

My second choice would be pro football