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What is the worst sport to watch on TV? (1 Viewer)
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BobbyLayne
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I love the sport of baseball. I played for nine years, every summer age 9-17. Devoted thousands of hours devouring books and statistics of baseball. Probably the chief reason I became a CPA is it was an extension of what I spent time on in my youth - crunching numbers and analyzing data.
I’ll go to the ball park. Any game, even Class A minor league, is super fun for me. I love the sights the smells the sounds, running into friends, taking in the rhythm of the game.
MLB on tv is absolute dreck though. Would rather stick straight pins in my eyeballs.
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Dickies
Footballguy
I feel the same way. I’ll occasionally tune into playoff NBA and I’ll watch some of the NCAA tournament, but basketball to me just feels like hours of watching the same thing on repeat.
El Floppo
Footballguy
Baseball's the only sport that's boring to play, not just to watch.
and even still, I still enjoy going to the ball park occasionally- the electro-green seeing the field as you head into the stadium, the sound of the ball hitting the bat, the beer that somehow tastes better than normal. But on TV? no gracias.
El Floppo
Footballguy
Me too. Even though the individual moments are pretty cool- it's hours of rinse/repeat. And then even the last two minutes... it's like an hour of actual TV time with time out after time out just to get the clock down to 0.
I know people don't like soccer- but it's 90 minutes +/- a few extra minutes, plus 15 minutes at halftime.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
Women's basketball
College anything (except championships, tho even that's kind of lame, but a championship is a championship) on TV.
College anything (except championships, tho even that's kind of lame, but a championship is a championship) on TV.
Runkle
Footballguy
Oh for sure, but at least it's the same stupid worthless sport on TV as it is in person.
The whole game should be ten minutes. Because either one team is up by a ton and the whole game doesn't matter, or, it's been close and only the last few minutes count. Considering the last two minutes are thirty minutes of real time, they could condense the whole game down to just the end.
Raging weasel
Footballguy
Desert_Power
Footballguy
I totally get why some people like Hockey, but I just always found it difficult to keep track of the puck so never got into it. I'd rather watch baseball, although I only really do that during the playoffs.
grateful zed
Footballguy
my rushmore of good tv
nfl
pga
cycling
alpine skiing
nfl
pga
cycling
alpine skiing
grateful zed
Footballguy
my rushmore of bad tv
hockey
baseball
nascar
women
hockey
baseball
nascar
women
El Floppo
Footballguy
Eephus
Footballguy
It's not going to be popular on footballguys dot com but the correct answer is football. I'll watch some Red Zone during the season but sitting through single games during the playoffs made me remember how much dead time there is between the occasional action. There are also way too many penalties.
-fish-
Footballguy
I really enjoy hockey as a sport, but it sucks on TV. Puck is just too small to track. Live it's great.
Conversely, football is pretty bad to watch live. All the breaks for TV timeouts and you even if you have great seats you can't always see what's happening on a run or a turnover. Way better to watch at home on the couch.
Conversely, football is pretty bad to watch live. All the breaks for TV timeouts and you even if you have great seats you can't always see what's happening on a run or a turnover. Way better to watch at home on the couch.
The General
Footballguy
The General
Footballguy
I’ll watch any of the events listed if it’s a good game. Random hockey game probably gets my vote of those listed.
Nascar definitely would have my vote of major sports not listed.
Nascar definitely would have my vote of major sports not listed.
Osaurus
Footballguy
supermike80
Footballguy
supermike80
Footballguy
True, but I’ve always been able to follow it, though to be fair, I do have 20/10 vision. I do remember in the 90s where they had a blue dot over the puck to help people with tracking it.
arrow1
Footballguy
Steve Tasker
Footballguy
Baseball by a mile, though I watch very little hockey too. Golf would be close behind if it were an option. The only time I will watch either baseball or golf on television is the final ~2 innings of a World Series elimination game or the final ~2-3 holes of a major if it's in contention. I can probably count on one hand the number of times I've watched either of those sports on television in the past 5 years. Just not for me, to each his own.
I do enjoy going to a baseball game or two a year.
I do enjoy going to a baseball game or two a year.
Zegras11
Footballguy
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
None of those that I will "never" watch. I was surprised that when I thought about it a bit, football is the one that I have watched the least in the last 4-5 years. It mostly bores me now and is on in the background with the volume down. Can't remember the last full game that I watched.
Understanding the game and flow really helps with being able to follow the puck on TV. For people new to the game just trying to watch on TV could be difficult to follow the puck but with bigger and clearer TV's it really isn't hard to follow.
Hockey is far and away the best spectator sport. End to end action, elite athleticism/hand-eye coordination, speed and toughness. There doesn't have to be a lot of scoring to make it exciting. End to end scoring chances (whether they go in or not) brings the excitement and when goalies are on their game its even better.
James Bond
Footballguy
IDK, the women's national soccer team is a pretty good watch. Of course, they're the only ones that remove their shirts after they score.
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