What is your favorite Major Professional Sport

[VermontDem2004]

Poll question: What is your favorite Major Professional Sport

[VermontDem2004]

1. Football

[Shrek]

4. Trying rabidnerd's stunt, eh?

[VermontDem2004]

5. What are you talking about?

Lol, I was doing it to see if it works, appearantly not for me.

[Dookus]

14. a humble suggestion:

today is NOT the day to try to replicate RabidNerd's stunt.

[trigz]

28. There are a few things I'll never understand about you lot...

1. Baseball
2. American Football
3. The stuff you pour over your popcorn.

;)

[Shrek]

2. What, no PGA Tour?

Why not?

[VermontDem2004]

3. PGA is the 5th most hated sport

according to a Fox Survey.

[HEyHEY]

6. Hockey

The best thing in the world!

[tridim]

12. I didn't know a thing about hockey

until I moved to Denver. It only took one season to become my favourite sport hands down. Nothing else comes close. Watching the players manipulate the puck is like watching an artist paint.

[Richardo]

7. God help me, I still like baseball...

...overpaid players and greedy owners notwithstanding.

[DODI]

8. If by favorite you mean what major sport to you watch.

I used to LOVE NHL -- then my Whalers went away. I used to LOVE the NBA, up until the 1990's when it stopped being a team sport. There was nothing better than watching the Lakers and the Celts.

[LoneStarLiberal]

9. Cricket.

Good times, good times.

Impossible to catch on TV here in the States, though.

[Braden]

10. you only need Digital Cable and Fox Sports World

Its about $3.95 per month and you get Premier League, Serie A, Cricket, F1 and more.

[DBoon]

11. "Battle Bots"

Wait...what do you mean that's not a major sport?

[elcondor]

13. Baseball!

Welcome to October! :evilgrin:

[Cadfael]

15. Baseball

is life!

[Lefty48197]

16. Football

The other sports are just there to fill the time between football seasons. Go Packers!

[Qutzupalotl]

17. Golf.

Not playing, just watching. :shrug:

[Spider Jerusalem]

23. Not only is golf not a major sport...

it's not a sport at all. It's a game. There IS a difference.

[Awsi Dooger]

31. Golf is a sport by every sensible measure

A physical activity and competition, not some true game like chess in which the movement of the object is entirely mental, and could physically be done by someone not even involved.

Golf has proper aparatus, including a ball much more sophisticated than in any other sport, and a designated (and varied) field of play that is greatly influenced by environmental factors.

If golf does not meet your requirement of a "sport", then may I ask how you would define things like the shot put, javelin or discus throw from track and field? Surely they can't be "games", involving hulking men or women chucking objects a large distance of ground. Like golf, they begin at a designated area and involve the launch of a specific item over a defined territory including boundaries. If the club disqualifies golf as a sport, then I suppose tennis and hockey are eliminated also.

And would those activities be reduced to a "game" if the object (shot, discus, javelin) were subsequently picked up from its original landing area, and then aimed at some arbitrary (and movable) hole or hoop? Don't make me laugh.

Or, using the reverse application, perhaps golf would ascend to the level of a sport if it were merely a long driving contest -- similar to the objective in the shot, discus or javelin -- and merely involved one colossal swing for distance. Well, that would finally get golf in the Olympics, anyway.

[Shrek]

32. You've got it backwards.

Golf is definitely a sport.

But it can't be a game because there's no way to play defense.

Same thing with track & field, gymnastics, etc.

[frylock]

18. hoops.

[newyawker99]

34. Congrats frylock!! 900 posts

:toast:

[Section_43]

19. Motocross

all "ball" related pro sports make me ill, I cannot watch.

[Lars39]

20. Soccer

What can I say, I'm a soccer mom. :silly:

[trigz]

29. Good on you mrs.

Of course, being a European, nothing can ever beat The Beautiful Game.

[Syn_Dem]

21. Football

As in "soccer" here in the states. But I love my Premiership soccer, go Chelsea!

[Forkboy]

22. Guess

<------------ here's a hint

[shanti]

24. lakers fan here!

since 1970

[SmileyBoy]

25. NFL Football, baby. America's Pasttime.

Baseball is BORING, but I usually catch the playoffs. I don't have the ability to pay attention to 162 boring-ass games per team.

[Rich Hunt]

36. no, it's America's *male* pastime

Most women I know can't stand it.

I wonder why.

:eyes:

[Awsi Dooger]

26. Football first, golf second

Football is marvelously complex, the man-to-man physical matchups on every play with any number of permutations. I have to watch replays several times before truly understanding what happened on a given play, looking at every lineman individually then as a group.

Even the most avid and knowledgable football fans have no clue about the sport and its intricacies. If any of us were placed in an NFL camp tomorrow and sat thru the breakdown of the defensive gameplan for the coming game -- blitz packages and coverage schemes,etc. -- it would be a dizzying blur and much more appreciation for the sport. It's so antiseptic on TV, almost no true sense of the brutal collisions or the instant decisions and their consequence.

Baseball, conversely, is a triumph of simplistic loitering. Pitching a guy hard and inside to set him up for a sweeping outside breaking ball. Wow, breathtaking. No wonder it's the automatic choice for dimwit Republicans like George Will. Ninety percent of that sport is two guys playing catch. I can never figure out why one guy throws it hard and the other merely lobs it back.

Golf, of course, is not a sport. As defined by the typical neighborhood jock who takes it up then can't break 110 even with brisk cheating on a muni. To them it is therefore denounced as a game, and the ineptitude excused as irrelevant.

Golf reveals the competitor and his traits unlike any other sport, and we are treated to the physical and mental travails or triumphs for four straight days, none mirroring the other. Saturday's stiffed six iron is Sunday's shank. Even the best pros are exposed, especially during a major or the Ryder Cup. And with the ball just sitting there, not much of an excuse other than the maddening nature of the best individual sport.

[Rich Hunt]

35. really.

Baseball, conversely, is a triumph of simplistic loitering. Pitching a guy hard and inside to set him up for a sweeping outside breaking ball. Wow, breathtaking. No wonder it's the automatic choice for dimwit Republicans like George Will. Ninety percent of that sport is two guys playing catch. I can never figure out why one guy throws it hard and the other merely lobs it back.

Actually the sport of choice for misogynists, homophobes and other insufferably macho types is football. Football fandom is absolutely a deal-breaker for me.

I don't give a damn how many men lord over me the fact that football is so complex that I won't ever "understand" it - I don't want to.

When I walk down the street and see a football fan wearing a sweatshirt that says "Green Gay Fudge-Packers" (as I did earlier this week), I am reminded of why I have never been and never will be a football fan.

Y'all need to clean up your own house before you expect us morons to appreciate "your" sport, which is just a metaphor for war anyway.

It's fine if you prefer football, but don't you dare drag politics into it - that is just a laugh for, like, more than half the population.

At least George Will doesn't look like someone who might beat the crap out of me.

[rjbcar27]

27. Motor Racing

Doesn't get much more major than F1. The worlds most watched (TV audience) sport.

World Rally Championship
Moto GP
World Superbikes
IRL
CART
NASCAR etc...

If it's got an engine and it's racing, I'll watch it!

[Kamika]

30. WOMENS SOCCER

Now shame on you for not having it on your list

[Zero Gravitas]

33. Formula One

I LOVE F1 racing (also like WRC, CART, Aussie V8s, & just about anything on a road course, I'm not so interested in oval racin')

Second would be the NFL.