Basketball. Utterly tedious game played by people too tall to do anything else.
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Originally posted by Gangster Octopus View PostBasketball. Utterly tedious game played by people too tall to do anything else.
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The four major US sports, particularly baseball. I'll watch some ice hockey but I can take it or leave it, basketball can be watchable at times but I'm not fussed. I can watch football and get into it but baseball, nope.
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I've only ever been swept up by enthusiasm for ice hockey or basketball when I've been in a crowd in a bar in Europe. The Baltic lads are mad for the former, Lithuania and Greece the latter. Basketball's almost a religion in Vilnius, and Greek clubs like PAOK and Panathinaikos seem better supported for their basketball teams than their soccer ones.
Sports I don't get - 3 day eventing. It always seems sorted out by the dressage on day one, the dull make your horse trot on the spot bit. The only actually exciting bits - the cross country and the show jumping - seem to make no difference whatsoever to the eventual outcome.Last edited by Rogin the Armchair fan; 06-04-2018, 13:20.
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Agreed on basketball, been to NBA games three times to give it another chance but always feel underwhelmed by it. The best time was when I took my still pre-teen children who were swept along by all the whistles and bells. I’ve found Netball a better spectator sport.
I don’t get rugby league (despite again repeatedly trying with it), any motor sport (speedway isn’t one, it just isn’t) or anything reliant on judging (boxing aside - and I am happier when they aren’t needed for the result) like figure skating, diving, dressage or gymnastics (I attended a session of Artistic Gymnastics in the 2014 Commonwealths and one World Cup event since with my daughter and admire their skills but it doesn’t grip me as a sport).Last edited by Ray de Galles; 07-04-2018, 07:39.
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Yet another for basketball, here. It just seems like there's no reason to watch until the last two minutes. You might as well start with a random spread of around 5 points between the two teams and just play those 2 minutes, which are the only interesting ones. Except those 2 minutes might take 10 or 20 minutes given the amount of fouling.
I think that's the one I find hardest of big spectator sports.
And, like Ray, all sports that have subjective scoring don't - to me - seem to be sports as such.
There are loads of sports I'm not a huge fan of - horse racing, or darts, or ice hockey, or rugby (and obviously some of the more obscure things you see at the Olympics are obscure for a reason) - but I mostly get the point of them
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Despite being the second-most popular sport in the world, cricket's appeal has completely passed me by. But then as someone on here once rightly said, why would the Scots bother with a game that you have to stop playing every time it rains?
I'll stick up for basketball though, on the grounds that it's a lot more fun to play than it is to watch.
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Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View PostIsn't "more fun to play than to watch" true of almost every sport doesn't involve getting hit, and that you're fit enough to do?
Basketball probably also has that difficulty element to it, and yet it's great fun to play even as something approaching a novice. And it also breaks down well into mini-games and one-on-ones and so on, which is true of far from every team sport. But then, I'm biased in it's favour as one of the schools I went to was well into Basketball as a sport, unusual enough in Britain and highly so in the very white and suburban area I grew up. So everyone played a lot. There were basketball hoops scattered around the playground, which trumped jumpers for goalposts at break and lunchtimes.
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The ones I don't get the point of doing are Cycling, Swimming and Running. I'll go for about 5 seconds and then stop, feeling completely bored by the idea. I think of myself as an anti-Triathlete.
My guess is that for many people the attraction is that you are mostly competing against yourself. Well, for me, I think that is the drawback. Give me someone else to measure myself against and I'm interested. Self-improvement for it's own sake? Not my cup of tea at all.
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But then, I'm biased in it's favour as one of the schools I went to was well into Basketball as a sport, unusual enough in Britain and highly so in the very white and suburban area I grew up.
Was there any particular reason why your old school is so basketball-focussed? I only ask as I went to an otherwise unremarkable comprehensive in Lanarkshire that had an inexplicably impressive array of field hockey pitches, kit and expertise, despite it being far from Scotland's no.1 participation sport. The mystery was solved when I found out that 2 of our 4 PE teachers were retired Scottish hockey internationals...
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Originally posted by blameless View PostDespite being the second-most popular sport in the world, cricket's appeal has completely passed me by. But then as someone on here once rightly said, why would the Scots bother with a game that you have to stop playing every time it rains?
I'll stick up for basketball though, on the grounds that it's a lot more fun to play than it is to watch.
It must have been some weird wurld when the masses of Glasgow would watch cricket in big numbers. Supposedly it’s the Cathcart Circle amd other suburban lines (and the spec housing built along them) on old fields and meadows that did for cricket. Much easier to play a game of football in the now limited green space. Think fitba’s dominance is really only from 1870s-1880s (and loads of the first football grounds were cricket clubs beforehand).
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Originally posted by Janik View PostBasketball probably also has that difficulty element to it, and yet it's great fun to play even as something approaching a novice. And it also breaks down well into mini-games and one-on-ones and so on, which is true of far from every team sport. But then, I'm biased in it's favour as I'm reasonably tall.
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Originally posted by blameless View PostBut then, I'm biased in it's favour as one of the schools I went to was well into Basketball as a sport, unusual enough in Britain and highly so in the very white and suburban area I grew up.
Was there any particular reason why your old school is so basketball-focussed? I only ask as I went to an otherwise unremarkable comprehensive in Lanarkshire that had an inexplicably impressive array of field hockey pitches, kit and expertise, despite it being far from Scotland's no.1 participation sport. The mystery was solved when I found out that 2 of our 4 PE teachers were retired Scottish hockey internationals...
Our school was an old 60s comp, very mixed in socio economic terms, the vast bulk of boys anyway being football fans and lower middle class at best. But we had no full size football pitch in the grounds, just a handsome rugger pitch with a running track around it in a natural amphitheatre. Had to play football in the school’s horrrible rugby shirts (on shite public park pitches), got twice as much eggball throughout the years. Between the richer parents having the ear of the school and the head of PE being a Kirkcaldy RFC Old Boy, we were fucked.Last edited by Lang Spoon; 06-04-2018, 17:12.
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My secondary school was big into basketball when I joined in 1976 for the same reason, we had no P.E programme and one of the few teachers who cared about organising something for us was an ex Ireland international (we also had a basketball court in the middle of the playground) those of us who couldn't play or didn't want to were loosely organised in Gaelic football teams and sent over to the public pitches across the road.
In the 80s there was a brief period of popularity for basketball and my school actually entered a semi pro side in the top flight complete with American imported players
Sports I don't get, rugby union, motorsport, anything with someone on a horse
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