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Old 07-07-2006, 10:27 AM
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Least favorite sport to watch?
For me it's a four-way tie between:

NHL: The most irrelevant sport in America today. If (apparently) one of the most exciting Stanley Cup Finals EVER took place, and no one watched it and no one cared, did it really even happen? You know that a sport is struggling when the Finals can't beat Spongebob Squarepants in the ratings, and a major city's NBC afflilate decided to air a tape-delayed MLS soccer match instead of Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals. Could you ever imagine that happening during Game 6 of the World Series, the SuperBowl, or the Final Four? Never. Hell, that would never even happen during the WNBA Finals or the Scripps Spelling Bee. It's an utterly uninteresting sport that will continue to only be watched by the few hardcore fans that exist, but will continue to remain off the radar of mainstream American sports fans.

NASCAR: I'll never understand why watching people drive around in circles for 2-3 hours is fascinating. I've tried to be open-minded and watch a race or two, but it's like watching paint dry. I could truly feel my IQ drop with each lap completed.

WNBA: Women that look like horses playing basketball at 4th grade Special Ed level. Nuff said.

Bowling: Any sport where you get better the more drunk that you get, shouldn't be considered a sport. Don't get me wrong - it's fun to play, but who watches this stuff?
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Old 07-07-2006, 10:28 AM
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I pretty much agree with this list although I do like watching the trick bowling (where they do stunts and crap) lol
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Old 07-07-2006, 10:30 AM
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Soccer for me.
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NFL : +3
MLB : +53
NBA : -20
WNBA : +23
Aussie NBL Hoops : +96
Cricket : +69
Golf : -5
Rugby union and rugby league : +126
Soccer : -5
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Old 07-07-2006, 11:02 AM
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Old 07-07-2006, 11:18 AM
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Old 07-07-2006, 11:39 AM
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Old 07-07-2006, 11:40 AM
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NHL tied with bowling and WNBA

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Old 07-07-2006, 11:53 AM
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Old 07-07-2006, 11:59 AM
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Old 07-07-2006, 12:02 PM
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I would put WNBA with NBA tie
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Old 07-07-2006, 12:04 PM
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Old 07-07-2006, 12:09 PM
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You guys know u are hurting HooiserCatDaddys feelings ?
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NHL : +161 (units)
NFL : +3
MLB : +53
NBA : -20
WNBA : +23
Aussie NBL Hoops : +96
Cricket : +69
Golf : -5
Rugby union and rugby league : +126
Soccer : -5
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Old 07-07-2006, 05:48 PM
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horses, if thats a sport
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Old 07-07-2006, 07:24 PM
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I honestly can't understand why anyone wouldn't like the NHL. Seriously...
But for me it would have to be SOCCER, golf, and Billiards. - I'd rather watch flies f*ck.
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Old 07-07-2006, 08:15 PM
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Hahaha...

Guys, guess what sport is the most boring for an European who lives for 5 years in the USA, and spent prior to that (a longer time ago ) 2 years in Canada, and likes the most soccer, and second comes the NHL... ??

Of course the NFL...

Basketball I knew before, and the NBA is shown lots of times as highlights in Europe's main TV channels.
Baseball... never saw before in Europe, not even on TV...well until I did not watched a world series on TV, rooting for Toronto (obvious, because I was living in TO than for 2 years, and that happened in '92 I guess...) I found it the most boring sport in the world.
But since, it comes 3-rd place tied with basketball (NBA) after "soccer" as you call fotball here, and hockey.

But football, I mean for me "american" football...never baby... boring...boring.. I enjoyed a lot though the atmosphere, the crowd, etc, but not the games...
...Altough I had a friend back 3-4 years ago, who took me to a few college games in North Carolina -"Greenville Pirates", about 7-8 games at home, and 2 of their road games in the state. Poor guy did everything, explained everything to me (he was good, he was a teacher in a high school, and was doing stadion announcing (that is the right name??) calling the play...etc, at his high school's championship home games.

I guess that's why american fotball will never become popular, not even remote in Europe, probably I have a typical European view on sports in general, and specially on American sports.

Beside "soccer", if somebody needs something else, in Europe there is rugby, played at great level (for ex, the 6 Nation's Tournament), so American football, or baseball is not needed over there.
A lots of countries have very high level basketball (Italy, Spain, the Serbs, French, maybe Germans, Latvians, etc), and even more countries very good handball, sport which is virtually inexistent in USA or Canada. Also volleyball is very powerful, which also is hard to find around here...
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