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What is the worst sport to watch on TV? (4 Viewers)
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STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
I wanted to pick Soccer cause it’s easily the worst sport but chose Hockey for two reasons- it’s too hard to see the puck and of all the sports listed, it is so much better in person than on television. More so than the rest.
Juxtatarot
Footballguy
Baseball is so damn slow.
PhillipPhoto
Footballguy
Curling down?
FairWarning
Footballguy
DocHolliday
Footballguy
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
The fans throw bags of urine, players pretend to be hurt and refs arbitrarily add time to games. It’s not even worth listing.
Summer Wheat
Footballguy
Soccer and MLB are boring so a tossup.
Hockey is exciting but so much better in person.
Hockey is exciting but so much better in person.
Juxtatarot
Footballguy
I’m not much of a bowler and I probably only watch bowling on TV about once a decade.
However, I admit to liking it. Matches are quick, there can be some excitement, and many of the bowlers are interesting in a dorky kind of way.
ShamrockPride
Footballguy
Add in some peppering of fireworks in the stands, human stampedes, it's a blast.
I think probably my favorite sports take of all time, by the Great Jim Rome:
"Soccer isn't a sport, it's a reason to riot."
arrow1
Footballguy
Have you been to a game? Until you can understand the flow of the game it's hard to watch on TV. However, there is no better sport in person than hockey and playoff hockey kicks it up a notch or two even higher.
CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
The list has to include golf. Just a completely alien concept to me that people will sit at home and watch others play golf.
I would say baseball has the biggest gap between in person and TV. Sitting outside on warm day, drinking a beer, eating a dog/peanuts/seeds/etc and soaking in the game/crowd etc is awesome. Watching on TV is a bit boring (however if you are thinking the pitch sequencing, hit/run/steal/etc it still good - unfortunately nowadays its just swing from the heels and try and throw 100 mph every pitch so much of that nuance is lost in MLB).
Once, although admittedly I didn't pay much attention to it as it was a work function. I am sure there is strategy to it but when watching on tv it is extremely hard to follow the puck.
I could never watch golf on TV until I started playing it. Realizing how hard it is and how amazing the pro players are at it does make it much better to watch.
I guess I am the loner that put basketball as my answer. It's just the same stuff for 2 hours and the only thing that really matters is the last 2 minutes. It's just the greater of all the evils listed.
I actually like watching all those sports listed but basketball the least.
I actually like watching all those sports listed but basketball the least.
CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
This is probably kind of true for the whole list. If someone has never done cross-country skiing, they're not going to want to watch it on television. But I've sat in a bar in northern Italy watching a world championship biathlon competition that was over two hours long, and it was exactly like sitting in a sports bar here watching a Packer game.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
I was tempted to vote for baseball, but that doesn't have anything to do with watching it on television. It sucks on tv of course, but that's just because baseball sucks period. It broadcasts just fine -- television accurately captures the tedium of the sport.
So I went with hockey instead, because #### if I can tell what's going during a hockey broadcast.
So I went with hockey instead, because #### if I can tell what's going during a hockey broadcast.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
Are we really sure we want to complain about sports featuring unruly fans, player injuries, and questionable officiating? Because I have some bad news if so . . .
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
Hockey is just soccer on ice. Better cause there is hitting and probably the last tough guys on earth.
HellToupee
Footballguy
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
I am done with all of them. Ive come to the conclusion that the NFL is manipulated. College football is about to be ruined by paying the players. Don’t care for any of the other sports.
It’s so bad I’m considering watching baseball. :shudder:
CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
The redeeming thing about seeing baseball live is that you don't really have to pay attention. The bleachers at Wrigley field on a weekday afternoon is like a party with a game in the background. I agree completely about watching it on television - really no point to that unless your team is playing in October.
AAABatteries
Footballguy
The easy and correct answer is baseball - studies have been done and they show that on average you get to see about 15-20 minutes of game action for an average 3 hour game. It's beyond ridiculous. Watching a game in the sunshine with a beer in hand is still enjoyable but outside the playoffs I've pretty much stopped watching baseball on TV.
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
First two minutes and the last two minutes. Another sport I stopped watching. Can’t take all the complaining and again, pretending to be hurt.
AAABatteries
Footballguy
Except Jim Rome is a moron. And you seem to have no idea what you are talking about with regards to soccer.
AAABatteries
Footballguy
ShamrockPride
Footballguy
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
Ironically, Rome's whole soccer bashing thing from the past was nothing more than put on for his moronic fans who had the appropriate intelligence level to eat that up. Over the years he threw away the bashing gimmick and regularly has on soccer guests now and treats the sport like he never once acted like a caveman about it.
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
I will watch almost any sport at any time on tv. All except baseball. I just can't stomach it and I was a big fan when I was a kid.
Runkle
Footballguy
Hockey in person is great. Hockey on TV is terrible... you can't see the puck and just wait for it to go in the goal, see the way the net moves, then retroactively triangulate in your mind where the shot came from and what happened.
They need the SkyCam zipping all over the rink to follow the action, the locked-off camera up high makes the puck invisible... it's like 3 pixels and behind a board half the time.
They need the SkyCam zipping all over the rink to follow the action, the locked-off camera up high makes the puck invisible... it's like 3 pixels and behind a board half the time.
facook
Footballguy
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
This really hit me during covid. Watching a soccer game with out a crowd is really different. The same could be said of other sports too of course, except baseball since the crowds are either dead quiet or asleep most of the time in that sport.
offdee
Footballguy
Years ago they tried the computerized lit up puck for TV. Obviously it wasn't well received for whatever reason.
facook
Footballguy
Can be a fair bit of drama on the back nine of a major on Sunday.
It’s probably the rare sport where the tv coverage is better than being there live - just due to the ability to watch multiple golfers and multiple holes.
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nirad3
Footballguy
I voted baseball just because it's so slow. I love summertime, but loathe knowing that there's nothing really to get excited about sports-wise from mid-June to early September.
I'm in a fantasy baseball league JUST so if there's absolutely nothing else to do, I can watch a baseball game or three during the week and track my players.
I'm in a fantasy baseball league JUST so if there's absolutely nothing else to do, I can watch a baseball game or three during the week and track my players.
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