The "I don't really give a fuck about sports" thread

[Veg_Athei_Socialist]

The title explains itself. Honestly, I don't have interest in playing sports and watching it on tv is boring. So really I guess I don't really give a fuck about sports. Anyone else feel the same?

[Invincible Summer]

I don't give a fuck about most sports, but I do like watching track cycling and road cycling... don't really follow it to the point where I cheer for specific people, but I love watching it. Probably because I'm a cyclist myself.

So yeah, I hate watching most sports, but I participate in some... if you can call skimboarding, ultimate frisbee and frisbee golf sports. I'm not even any good.

[ChrisK]

I don't really give a fuck about non-contact sports. Does that count?

[Sam_b]

A popular thread it seems.

[Chambered Word]

I can't stand people who talk about AFL and nothing else. Get a fucking life.

[Stand Your Ground]

I only sport I like is football (the American kind). Anything else is rubbish.

[leftace53]

I don't give a fuck about baseball and basketball. Does that count?

[Sir Comradical]

That's because you've never watched test-match cricket!

[jake williams]

http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2010/7/6/are_sports_boring_arun_gupta_debates_dave_zirin

[Pawn Power]

http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2010/7/6/are_sports_boring_arun_gupta_debates_dave_zirin

just about to post that...

[mollymae]

I grew up watching baseball, but the older I get, the less I care about it. At the beginning of every season I always tell myself that I'll keep myself up to date with it this year, but at this time of year I don't even know what teams are ahead.

[ChrisK]

http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2010/7/6/are_sports_boring_arun_gupta_debates_dave_zirin

Dave kicked ass in that debate.

[ContrarianLemming]

Not only do I not give a fuck about sports, but I like to interject in sports fans conversations to tell them how much I don't give a fuck.

[ChrisK]

Speaking of not giving a fuck about sports, anyone else watch Cyborgs last fight? She's a fucking monster! She could kick ass in the male 145 division too.

[Mumbles]

I live in the south. I am supposed to swear allegiance to a college football team just ahead of god. So I guess I'm fucked since I don't care about either. Don't make a point to tell anyone because most people I know don't care either. 'merican football games are just an excuse to get drunk (down here at least) and have something non-challenging to discuss with your friends. I like challenging conversation.

[Weezer]

Fuck sports and overpaid athletes.

[Sir Comradical]

Not only do I not give a fuck about sports, but I like to interject in sports fans conversations to tell them how much I don't give a fuck.

Cricket. That's the sport for you.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

I've never been sports oriented. Unfortunately for me the US is a very sports oriented culture.In the Boston area where I used to live if one is not a rabid Red Sox fan (goes for men and women) one is looked on as a weirdo. I have friends of mine who are big sports fans, well more power to them.For me who wins or loses a game has no relevancy to my life at all. In college I tried very hard to follow baseball three different times. It didn't work. The sport for me was so unutterably boring and devoid of meaning I couldn't get myself to watch a game. I did try very hard several times.

I used to watch the Superbowl with friends. It was an excuse to have a pitcher of beer at a hotel bar someplace. I'd jump up and down and cheer when every body else did. I never had much of a clue what was happening. I went though the same thing at a few hockey games I attended. I had friends who would have been happy to answer any questions I had but my ignorance of these sports was so total I didn't know what to ask in the first place.

Maybe I have the wrong attitude but after a while I stopped pretending and starting rebelling. I tell people I have no interest if the Red Sox/the Pats win. It seems to me to be the product of meaningless corporate media hype.

Europe is more tolerant .Football is big of course but if one isn't a football fan people will respect you.In the US if one doesn't like sports people will think you're strange and you literally won't have anyone to talk to for a good part of the year.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

Despite or maybe because of what I said above, I actually do get into soccer somewhat. Yep, I have taken somewhat of an interest in cricket-an Indian friend explained some of it to me and I've watched part of an Indo-Pak game last year.

My anti-sports feeling is partly related to my anti-Americanism.

[jake williams]

Dave kicked ass in that debate.
Yeah he did.

[NGNM85]

I think Chomsky simmed it up best when he said professional athletics is really just 'a training course in irrational jingoism.' I've never understood the fascination.

[jake williams]

I think Chomsky simmed it up best when he said professional athletics is really just 'a training course in irrational jingoism.' I've never understood the fascination.
Have you (and has anyone else who doesn't understand the "fascination") ever played a sport seriously at all?

[Honggweilo]

Have you (and has anyone else who doesn't understand the "fascination") ever played a sport seriously at all?

qft

[Lenina Rosenweg]

Have you (and has anyone else who doesn't understand the "fascination") ever played a sport seriously at all?

Outside of volleyball and occasionally ultimate frisbee, I've never played any sport seriously. I'm not good at sports.I also don't seem to have a competitive drive that a lot of other people do. If I were good at sports I probably would have taken an interest in them, identified with athletes, and I would have been a fan of some sort.I didn't grow up sports oriented, I resisted enculturation, and to me all sports just amount to people (who I don't know and I'll probably never meet) running around on a TV screen, chasing after a ball for obscure reasons, usually watched by groups of people, mostly but not entirely male, who drink a lot of beer and get wildly excited, again for what seem to me obscure reasons.

I don't know, or see any reason to care, who wins the World Series, the Superbowl, the NBA playoffs, or any other sports events.

Sorry. Some people are just like that.

[ChrisK]

Tell me this is boring

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly5_fcIHhY8

[Franz Fanonipants]

inability to ever connect to the American working class itt

[gorillafuck]

I don't like watching any sports but I like playing badminton and wiffleball.


I think Chomsky simmed it up best when he said professional athletics is really just 'a training course in irrational jingoism.' I've never understood the fascination.
That's a load of crap.

[Crimson Commissar]

I hate how some people tend to obsess over a certain sport or sports team, but other than that I don't see why there's any reason to hate sports.

[Mumbles]

Have you (and has anyone else who doesn't understand the "fascination") ever played a sport seriously at all?

To be honest, yes. And I still didn't find it all that intriguing. I did football for two years in high school. I tried to get into it pretty far, because, hey, knocking the fuck out of someone with a nice tackle or diving after a grounded ball is fun; but just watching it happen and thinking its amazing? That's what I find pretty dumb.

But then again, I do have a thing for local college hockey. Don't follow it or anything, but every once in a while, maybe 2 or 3 times a year, I'll go and take out the rage in me on the refs. Apparently living in a land that panics and buys beer and bread whenever it starts snowing means that the officials aren't exactly primed in a subject matter that involves frozen water.

[jake williams]

inability to ever connect to the working class itt
Fixed.

Sports is just people chasing balls like string quartets are people just plucking strings and Monet is just a bunch of splotches on paper.

[RedRise]

I don't give a fuck about team sports, that's a given. Its not really that I don't enjoy being athletic but I've more or less been an outcast since kindergarten so the idea of playing team sports (especially at school) is pretty comparable to being informed I'm due for a trip to the dentist. And watching sport is just plain boring.

[I.Drink.Your.Milkshake]

Im increasingly less interested in sport as i get older. i still watched the world cup because i love the colour and vibrancy of it, same with the olympics. i also watly ch Boxing whenever its on, as its really the only sport which in any way deserves to take itself at all seriously - theres a genuine danger involved in boxing, and fighters are generally deserving of respect. Although none of this respect excuses me for being too chickenshit to get involved myself. Last year was the first year of my life where i dont think i sat through an entire Match of the Day.

I hate the way that grown men cry at football, and the idea that is pushed onto people by the press that this is acceptable; to love "the lads" more than life itself. The "importance" of football is generated by the press as its pretty much the major selling point for a lot of newspapers. The more "important" football is percieved to be, the more money the football writers can make. I hate the way it defines so many people. Theres a fucking horrible advert on tv at tthe moment featuring various "blokey" scenes (bloke at pub, bloke in chippy, bloke at work - bloke work, car mechanic etc)banging on about how important "the game" is; theres one particularly shitty scene where this bloke is walking along with, presumably, his girlfriend, and says something along the lines of "the other love of my life". I understand the attraction in professional sports in kids, in adults its just childish. Football is NOT an art form.

Vicarious achievement is no achievement at all.


Edit: That said, if youve a group of mates that go down the 5-a-side once a week for a knockabout togetherm then thats great. Its living youre OWN life, not being defines by 11 strangers that couldnt give a fuck about you.

[Wanted Man]

There is nothing wrong with not giving a fuck about sports. It's up to everyone's taste, obviously, and some people find neither playing nor watching interesting. That's all well and good.

What annoys me is people, especially leftists, who are really smug about how they don't watch sports because sports are somehow more "capitalist". I'm not saying that Chomsky and the people who quoted him here are necessarily smug, but they also don't really seem to get it. With some people, this attitude really does "develop" into an elitist one.

I really think it's largely a matter of taste. Some people like a beautiful classical piece, others like a brutal kick boxing match, and I personally find this the most beautiful thing in the world:

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[I.Drink.Your.Milkshake]

Naomi Watts is the most beautiful thing in the world, but i take your point.

i always preferred Van Bastens goal in the euro 88 cup final

[bailey_187]

lol at you fatty

[Adi Shankara]

lol at you fatty

look at my page. he's obviously posting while drunk, judging from the ramblings he left there. even called me racist for asking if he was drunk :lol:

[samofshs]

i play rugby, american football, football, basketball, baseball, and pingpong regularly with my mates and i'm on a swim racing team. but watching other people partake in sports on t.v. is just plain dull.:thumbup1:

[Mumbles]

Football is NOT an art form.

Vicarious achievement is no achievement at all.


According to Southern logic, these statements don't make sense.
Are you saying that Jesus wasn't behind that kick that won that game one time?
Are you a Satanist because you don't enjoy people getting emotional over football?
What's wrong with society these days when a man can't have a good cry over their inability to yell inspiration into the quarterback at the most important time possible?
Just, what the fuck, man?

[Mumbles]

look at my page. he's obviously posting while drunk, judging from the ramblings he left there. even called me racist for asking if he was drunk :lol:

We should have something like that google email thing supposedly did where you have to answer simple mathematical questions so as to see if you're drunk as shit. Not to discriminate against the mathematically impaired, of course. :D

[Il Medico]

I actually really like sports, though I am pretty fucking shit at them. The only sport I don't really like is the bastardization of rugby we call 'football' here in the states.

[Adi Shankara]

We should have something like that google email thing supposedly did where you have to answer simple mathematical questions so as to see if you're drunk as shit. Not to discriminate against the mathematically impaired, of course. :D

Ha who'd know if that would work, when I was younger I once got drunk and woke up in my bed naked and a girl in my kitchen reading a copy of "the onion" so I'm guessing I got laid. I don't remember, but if I could spit out game while drunk, maybe I can do math problems? :P