Anybody else think 'professional sports' are mind numbingly boring?

Yes

Its exciting to me, i love competition and its an excuse to get together with the guys and drink. its a win-win

How can anyone sit around and play videogames and have fun?
How can anyone go to mall to shop and have fun?
How can anyone go to Disneyworld and have fun?
How can anyone play cards and have fun?
How can anyone go sailing and have fun?
How can anyone fish and have fun?
How can anyone collect items and have fun?
How can anyone...

Agreed. It seems to me like a waste of time.

Though, personally I believe those who are sentenced to 40+ years in prison should be able to willingly apply to a "gladiator" competition in which their sentence is cut by 1/4th if they are one of the sole survivors.

The prize could be different, such as increased privilege.

A little sport here and there isn't bad.

Spending money on it every week or allowing it to effect your world view is too much though.

One man's waste of time is another man's kick ass, bone crunching excitement. God bless football

I have really tried to enjoy them but i just don't get anything out of them....Lots of people like them..I just don't understand the thrill of them. :S Cool for other people.

Your problem is that you believe the world revolves around you.

What else allows the average person to experience that kind of all or nothing competition when rooting for their team?

Beyond playing a sport yourself, it is the next best thing.

Prices have gotten outrageous, I will agree with you on that.

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I love competition, but geesus the NFL, NBL, etc is getting so staged. Hell you can even make money betting now it is so staged. Boring is not the word. Watching over paid thugs go through a dance routine.

i will not watch professional sports, period. the only exception would be the love of my life, beach volleyball, but i sure as hell would not make plans to watch it, on tv, although i do enjoy seeing it in person.

football, basketball, baseball, car racing, never.

yes

beach volleyball? that is the most boring thing I've ever seen or played.

B-o-r-i-n-g!

It's just a game, never really ends, just changes players and conditions. Don't get me wrong, I love a good competiton, but this slick jocks and the announcer pricks take all the fun out of it. Rather go see the little league game.

You got THAT right... But we really need to add OVERPAID and DRUG ADDICTED to the description.

In the spirit of trying to portray an accurate image.

Sports gambling keeps it interesting for many. Maybe a bit too interesting.

Last Edited by Gimme Some Truth on 09/03/2009 09:06 PM

I could understand people being fans back when you rooted for the hometown boys, but today they're all just overpaid primadonnas hopping from city to city whoring themselves out for the most money from the corporate owned masters.

It's ridiculous. I'd much rather watch a little league game.

I don't like watching sports on TV. I like participating in sports however.

Its gay as gay can be, just shows you how many men are in denial and like to watch guys in their tighjt clothes and sticking their faces tween each others legs.

White dudes have some seriously latent homosexuality. Why? What are white men’s favorite sports? Football, and professional wrestling. The two GAYEST sports of all time!

Professional wrestling is gay porn for preteens, in fact, I believe that wrestling IS porn, with violence instead of sex. Watch it sometime. The production value is the same, I could be wrong, but I think they have the same writers. Even the outfits are the same! The only difference is the nature of the pounding going on.

Think about it. If these wrestling fans were flipping through the channels and ran across a show where two men were rolling around in their underwear in bed, they’d probably want to puke, but flip it to the very next channel where one wrestler has another wrestler’s head between his legs, his cheek pressed firmly against the bulge in his speedos… now that’s entertainment! They’re enthralled. These are the same kind of guys that read muscle magazines. And they don’t see how gay that is. Flipping through page after page of tanned, oiled, muscle bound men flexing for the camera, I mean, if that’s not some latently gay shit, I don’t know what is.

But football, now that’s a gay sport. And it’s not just white guys who obsess over this, no, this afflicts males of all stripes (although I’ve yet to see these oft-mentioned striped people).

No other sport in the world has positions like these:

Tight End - the virgin of the gridiron.

Fullback - the more experienced member of the team, and finally...

Wide Receiver - the ass-peddling mother whore of the field.

This is a game where 22 men in tights and netted half-shirts repeatedly dive over and over again into large, homo-erotic piles, the goal of all of it being to “penetrate the backfield” with an inexplicably elongated ball, and good plays are rewarded with pats on the behind. After the game, the entire team takes a shower together.

Folks, this is one gay game.

Still don’t think so? Each play begins with a guy walking up behind not just one man bent over in front of him with his ass up in the air, but an entire line of men bent over with their asses in the air. This player picks one lucky little bitch and walks up behind him, proceeding to put his hands into the other player’s crotch, gently cradling the other player’s balls with the back of his hand.

There’s a game in Brazil where men lick bananas and shove gourds up each other’s asses, that game looks like a Southern Baptist Convention next to football.

(The Idiot’s favorite game, you might be wondering? Tennis. Where the two players stand on completely opposite sides of the court, as far apart from each other as they can get, and as if that wasn’t enough, they put a net between them.)

And white men are OBSESSED with this game! It’s practically a religion. Fortunes are made or lost betting on these games. If their favorite team loses, their entire week is ruined. They actually come to HATE people from another city if they don’t like that city’s team. And they say “we” all the time. “We” won, “we” lost, what the hell is “we?” They played a game. They made a million dollars today. You ate Chee-tos. And it’s all they talk about when they get together, football, football, football. Who’s got a shot this year, how do you think “we’re” gonna do? Does the new guy have what it takes? And man, do they consume. Football mugs, football caps, football shirts, football jackets, football plates, football posters, they wear their favorite player’s jersey like they’re the high school slut and they’re blowing him.

But that’s only on Sunday and Monday nights, no, no, that’s not enough, so they turn to college football, which is even more disturbing. I still can’t get over the fact that these guys on TV playing college football are 10 years younger than me. When I was graduating high school, these kids barely had control of their bladders and were the reason the school hallway smelled like sawdust all the time. Why should I care about their stupid game? Then I look at some men ten years older than me, and they worship these kids. They follow every play, every game, every bowl, all in nervous anticipation for that Christmas Morning for football fans, the draft picks! And most of these guys never even went to college, much less actually went to this school they swear allegiance to, or even took a class there, or could even find it on a map, for that matter.

And even worse is those people that watch high school football. HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL! Because the only thing better than grown men running around in tights is 15 year old kids running around in tights. Grown men going to high school football games. And they’re not even watching the cheerleaders! This is seriously deranged. I mean, I understand if your kid is playing, but 60 year old men on Friday nights going down to the high school stadium, their lives revolving around whether these pimply teenagers win or not... Sad. So very sad.

Now, up until a few years ago, the off-season provided a time for the football-crazed public to actually contribute in some way to society, by working and being productive. Having a life of some kind. But no need for that anymore. Now there’s Arena Football! Now the football fanatic can get his homoerotic fix year round, this time watching teams that he doesn’t give a shit about! Who’s playing? I don’t know? Who cares? It’s May and there’s football on TV! Finally, the world the way it should be, year round football.

But it gets worse! Now there’s Fantasy Football.

Fantasy Football...

Fantasy Football?

FANTASY FOOTBALL!!!

Now they’re not even trying to hide its gayness!

It’s not enough to have year-round, 4 days a week football in reality, now sweaty men can overtake your fantasies, too. Why limit yourself to only obsessing over teams that actually exist? Now grown men get into arguments and fights over players and teams that aren’t even real!

Lunacy. Utter lunacy.

And guys, if you really don’t think you’ve gone off the deep end, try this… Ask your wife, girlfriend, sister, or any close female when was the last time she went to the mall and bought a pair of fantasy shoes?

Guys, you officially obsess about football more than women obsess about shoes. Getting the picture?

tvtech3, that was brilliant.
+100

Agreed...but there's nothing like going old school. Sitting on the deck on a warm summer night, with a few cold beers and listening to a Yankee or a Phillie game on the radio.
The crickets and critters in the woods make good backround sound while you draw a picture in your mind of the game from the words of the announcer.
Reading the box scores in the papers the next day. Talking about the game last night with friends... It's pure gold OP. If ya don't like sports than that's OK...but no...I don't find it boring at all.
I also remember when I was a kid back in Arizona listening to the Indy 500 on the radio with my grandfather early on Sunday morning and eating a big bacon and egg breakfast.

Most sports on tv is quite boring to me, I see motogp from time to time and thats about it. TV as a whole is quite boring imo, obsolete too.

Oh hell yes!!!! And the the fans are usually cro-mags as well. Gimme a skate demo anyday.

def

cro-mags

funny !

OP got owned.

used to love sports - now they seem so unimportant

no but I think you are