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RE: The most boring Sport?
June 21, 2010 at 1:01 pm
For the inept (like me), playing cricket makes you want to smash your brains out with a rusty hammer, it's so dull. What's even worse is that while you're fantasising about ever-more-extreme methods of suicide, the ball goes whizzing past you, and people shout at you for not paying attention. It's also pretty damn boring to watch, but Formula 1 beats it by a pip. Football, or soccer for you Yanks, is usually fairly uneventful. As Lisa says in The Simpsons: 'I watched 300 games; I almost saw a goal!'
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RE: The most boring Sport?
June 21, 2010 at 4:59 pm
I'm also going to throw in for baseball. It's awful. Also golf.
A lot of these kind of things are activites that are actually pretty fun to play(baseball, basketball, golf, auto racing, curling), but I really don't get why anyone would want to watch it.
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RE: The most boring Sport?
June 21, 2010 at 5:15 pm
(June 21, 2010 at 4:59 pm)Meatball Wrote: I'm also going to throw in for baseball. It's awful. Also golf.
A lot of these kind of things are activites that are actually pretty fun to play(baseball, basketball, golf, auto racing, curling), but I really don't get why anyone would want to watch it.
Yeah, its true. Activities that are fun to do aren't necessarily fun to watch, and vice versa.
For example, I love driving, and I'm sure that I'd have a lot of fun in a racing car. But watching a bunch of cars driving round and round a track? No way- its incredibly dull.
Conversely, there is absolutely no way that I'd want to play American Football. Its far too brutal for a wimp like me. But watch it? Sure- imo its a great spectator sport.
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