any other guys not like sports?

runmikeyrun · #1 11-05-2011, 10:51 PM

Idk, maybe I'm weird. I was never good at them, hated being forced to play them as a kid, and got beat up by jocks in high school. Plus I'm from Cleveland and there's no point being a Cleveland sports fan. I don't really enjoy anything competitive.

Kwesi · #2 11-05-2011, 11:09 PM

Sports suck. Well professional sports do

I'm not good at them by any means but if you hand me a ball I'll be able to do something with it. The only benefit I see to sports is exercise but usually that benefit is negated by the sheer amount of testosterone on the field/court. It seems like everyone wants to be the alpha dog to the point of just being giant douchebags. It always goes way beyond healthy competition and I'm not hyper competitive. So yeah, team sports aren't my thing at all these days. I'll stick to hitting the gym and playing video games.

Skiing, however, is quite possibly the funnest physical activity EVER.

C.Linton · #3 11-06-2011, 12:12 AM

I'm with ya, never cared for sports. Don't know why, I just don't. I find them boring.

dullsilver_mike · #4 11-06-2011, 03:22 AM

I can understand the thrill and joy of athleticism and bodies in motion. I can even understand the culture of fanhood--being able to immediately share a whole bunch with strangers you've never met just because you have the same team as a common point of reference and interest.

All that said, it's not my thing. Probably just because I didn't grow up with it. Sometimes I think it's silly the way most of my state seems to live vicariously through a group of 20-22 year old men playing a game once a week, but I'm sure that's not really the case, just the appearance to an outside observer.

Jim Nazium · #5 11-06-2011, 04:36 AM

Bass players who don't care about sports club! Member #5!

Whenever this subject comes up, I remember a conversation I had with a coworker a few years ago. He asked me which was "my" football team. I said I don't really watch football. He looked at me like I had three heads, then asked me "What do you do on Sunday?" Totally baffled. "What do you DO on Sundays?"

We live in the capital city of the richest country in the world, and he can't think of one thing to do on a Sunday except sit on the couch, drink beer, and watch someone else play a game.

Relic · #6 11-06-2011, 04:44 AM

member #6!

JoeyO · #7 11-06-2011, 04:53 AM

Lucky number 7 here!

Rob22315 · #8 11-06-2011, 05:00 AM

I love playing sports. I played club soccer growing up, then discovered roller hockey in my late 20's. Played for 10+ years before having to give up most sports and hobbies for kids.

Don't care much for jocks and meatheads though.

Jimbob Jones · #9 11-06-2011, 05:21 AM

I'm really not into sprots at all...I cycle everywhere, which is fun, but the second it gets competetive I'm out.

jabsys · #10 11-06-2011, 05:25 AM

I've never been interested in traditional sports like football & rugby, hated them in school, alternative sports like roller hockey, skateboarding, mtb etc were always much more fun to me.

hrodbert696 · #11 11-06-2011, 05:32 AM

I'm not much into sports. I'm all in favor of participating in them, I coached a kids' soccer team for a while and it was great. Never played in high school or anything. I played in the high school marching band and the whole football game experience can be a lot of fun, and I started following Notre Dame football when I was out there because, well, you kind of have to. Still tune in on a game now and then.

But the whole sports fan thing, obsessing over statistics, sitting on front of the TV watching games hour after hour, putting some variation of "SOXFAN" on your license plate like everyone does around here.... not for me. I don't usually even know who's playing in the Super Bowl or World Series.

6jase5 · #12 11-06-2011, 08:19 AM

As said before, Sunday is get out of the house day, not sit on your butt day. Today wife and I will be hiking. I can't even tell you who was in the last Superbowl, but I watched it at a party. I just got tickets for UCLA and USC football, but only because 30 of us are taking a bus to celebrate a friend's birthday and graduation from USC MBA.

I don't hate sports, but a changed world without professional or college sports would have little impact on me. It's a good friend bonding activity so for that, I'm open.

onosson · #13 11-06-2011, 08:22 AM

Sign me up too. I'm Canadian, and I don't know how to skate, and have never watched one hockey game in my entire life - enough said.

giacomini · #14 11-06-2011, 08:44 AM

pie_man_25 · #15 11-06-2011, 09:01 AM

I've never really been into sports either, especially watching sports - it just seems stupid to me. However, I do generally enjoy playing american football, and a couple others, but primarily american football, even then it's not that frequent it's just something I do occaisionally.

fjadams · #16 11-06-2011, 09:04 AM

Not a big watch it on tv, or go to a game fan.
Basketball, been to one game in my life and it was the most boring thing I've probably ever done. It was free and couldn't be paid enough to go to another one.
Haven't watched a pro football game in years, still like to hear if the Raiders do well, but don't watch. College football, I'll watch Nebraska if I think they have a chance to lose (yesterday was a GREAT game), but other than that, none.
Like the Yankees, but haven't seen them in person in years, and not in tv for a long time.
Soccer, really?
Will watch some auto racing as I grew up in a racing family, and some of the family is still involved. Grew up on the East coast and it was all pavement racing. Out here it's all dirt, so not as interesting. Pavement is for cars, dirt is for tractors.

Georynn · #17 11-06-2011, 09:05 AM

If I'm playing sports... Ok, if I gotta. watching sports... no way.

kanonfodr · #18 11-06-2011, 09:14 AM

IMO, if you're not getting shot at or have asphalt slipping past your skull at 100+ mph it's not a sport. Which means I totally don't get everyone I work with and their slavish devotion to the Pro Sports machine, and have nothing to talk with them about.

Peace,
Greg

El Beardo · #19 11-06-2011, 09:15 AM

Watching sports is mind numbing. The three other guys in my band are all into sports so I never see them on Sunday if it's football season.

Papa Dangerous · #20 11-06-2011, 09:23 AM

I think watching sports and playing sports are two very different fields. I can put on a football game and I can really dig the plays by both teams, and usually only care if a team I like is actually playing (Giants or Steelers). I do not care to know the names of all the people, I know the positions and pretty much their role on the field.

Playing sports is very different. I had the biggest urge the other day to get completely padded up a play a real game of football with people. I used to play in a league when I was 11-13. For a young age, there was some real high impact moments and I still have the injuries that remind me of those days!

I never went to a school where jocks were the dominant force, nor was I ever really picked up on (which is especially interesting considering I was the way over weight kid who listened to metal.) I was also accepted by many "guidos" meanwhile I was a "freak" kid hahaha Oh my youth...

I understand not having an interest in sports in general but I also would not knock it until tried ya know? (Not saying that people have no and did not like it). I definitely think the dopemine rush is always the best aspect of any physical workout