Indifferent towards sports

Rydia

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Does anyone else out there just not care about sports?

Some times I feel like I'm the only person that; does not care who wins the super bowl, how my local pro teams are doing, who is going to the finals in college basket ball, who has the most home runs in history and many others.

I sit with people and they talk about the local sports teams mention players names, and I just stare blankly.

I tried to act interested in my college's basket ball team, but I could have cared less. I even attended a game and had never been more bored in my life.

Last night during the Super bowl, I was at a party playing Harvest Moon on my DS. I wouldn't have known who had won if my dad hadn't shouted loudly.

And I'm not a "sports are stupid" Kind of person. I think it is great for kids and adults to be involved in them. And I don't mind sports fandoms as long as they do not get out of control. I am just not into them.
 
I can't say I feel the same as you. But I will say that no matter what happens, they are just sports. A means for entertainment, so they don't matter in the big picture in life.

Personally, I don't watch all that much for sports. I watch baseball (MLB), hockey (NHL) and bowling (PBA) (yeah, I know, haha). And all of them on the professional level because college sports are just too sporadic for my taste. When it comes to big deal college football bowls and college basketball tournaments, I'm 100% indifferent. And honestly, since noticing how corrupt officiating can be in sports events, it sometimes annoys me to the point of not wanting to watch it.

And for the record, we watched a small part of the 2nd quarter of the Super Bowl because I was cooking, and that's it. Then we flipped the channel when dinner was ready (right as halftime was starting), then went back to our game after we finished eating. We had zero interest in the teams, so we didn't bother to watch it, simple as that.
 
Hmm I don't care about playing sports and I don't care about watching it (except for Aussie Rules Football, but no one knows what that is on this site so I don't get to talk about it.)

So I too feel like I have nothing to say when the topic of sports comes up. I sit there and twiddle my thumbs and wait for it to be over. I can understand why people would have an interest in it though, its a good way of socializing too!
 
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I've always cared and loved sports. I used to watch baseball all the time, I used to even play with my siblings. I grew up in a house with sportoes so it's always been around. I've always loved football so it's almost second nature.

For me it's about family time and well, America. :ryan:

So yeah, I care about it. :3
 
I make a large portion of my livelihood from sports, and I've always been a big sports fan all my life, so sports are important to me. But I know that not everybody is as into sports as I am, so it what it is. Everybody has their own thing.
 
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I don't particularly care for sports, but I can still appreciate them for what they're worth. I could go the rest of my life without watching another sporting event and be perfectly content and not have it change my life in any significant way whatsoever, but I still took the time to watch a few of the last games of the World Cup, for instance. Last night a few friends and I had a Super Bowl party, though the only real reason I watched it was because I'm from Wisconsin and understand that, in the world of sports, there is a degree of significance in playing in the Super Bowl. So I guess having some sort of spirit for the local team was a factor in that decision, too.

So even though I rarely watch sports, I still acknowledge that they're kind of a big deal to a lot of people.
 
SQUID!!!! you wanna talk AFL l'm right here anytime lol of course lets wait till the season starts:lew:

To me there is nothing better than a double header of NBA:ryan: my fave sport, l can watch it for hours, lma stats man so sport is a natural leaning for myself plus there is the competition and rivalry.

l used to watch cricket alot...........matches go for 5 days so it couldnt be helped:lew:
but after the retirement of Australias best players it lost interest for me. l like a bit of motor sport: Dakar Rally, World Rally Championship.

So l am far from indifferent to sport the rivalry and competition between fans can get extreme look at soccer, or cricket in india they have Wire FENCING around the stadium to keep people off the ground and stuff being thrown at players8(....this goes too fair.

Some things you know about Sport:

Humans are driven to compete.

They should reopen the coliseum in Rome:D

Channi likes Curling.

And lawn bolws are ace:ryan:
 
i was born a football fan. both my parents are big carlisle united fans, so was a season ticket holder from a very young age. we went to every home game and a large amount of away games every season. from that, i've loved pretty much every aspect of football. if it's on; i watch. if i can; i play.

i'm not so devoted to other sports. i like to see england do well in rugby, and see brits do well in athletics and tennis and other sports, but i don't follow them as such.
 
I really don't care about sports myself. I don't read or watch about it unless it's a highlight on the news. I'm a very lazy person in real life as well, so I don't part take in any sports activity either.

Truthfully, I only care when a Toronto team scores in the game, that's it :wacky:

It's kind of sad. My job allows me to visit a lot of sports venues, so I feel like the opportunity is kind of wasted on me :lew:
 
I like some sports and others I'm indifferent towards. I love football (American football) and really enjoy watching it. Baseball is okay and recently I've been watching bowling. I've never cared much for basketball, not even playing it.

I know sports aren't for everyone though so I can understand where you're coming from.
 
I don't usually pay much attention to sports, but I do like to watch MMA matches every now and then. If there was any sport that I would follow, it would be something that had to do with fighting/martial arts.
 
The way I see it, watching sports has a bit more meaning than playing video games. So if I invest my time in the unimportant thing that is video games, I have no good reasoning not to watch sports.

I try not to follow everything though. I don't need watching sports to be a 24/7 addiction.
 
I don't think it's bad for people to be into sports, just as I don't think it's bad for people to be into anima, video games, plays, dance, whatever. It's just not for me.

Though I will watch the olympics, just not team sports because I do not enjoy watching them. I watch gymnastics, ice skating and among other. I don't follow them. I will not know who the US gymnasts are until I watch the first gymnastics event. And I do not always necessarily root for the USA. I typically root for the underdog who is actually pretty good but overshadowed by a favored competitor, the person who is clearly the best, or the favored to win regardless of country. Last year at the winter olypics I was heavily rooting for Yuna to with ice skating and was hoping that the Americans would not place because I did not think they were good enough for the top three places. (Not good enough as in there were better competitors)

If I were to miss those events, I would not be at all upset.
 
I have never had much interest in the big sports, football, rugby, GAA, or hurling. I used to walk around the playground eating bread at lunchtime in primary school because everyone else played footy, I was informed this was due tu my being 'a puff and/or faggot'

I still have no interest in watching any sports however I fence a lot, I am very good at it because I am talented at all things.
 
I've never been a sports person. I found watching it on tv to be very boring, playing sports games never appealed to me, and I was just never very good at them in the first place. I've tried following football, but I never got that "omg touchdown fuck yes fuck yes" sort of thing going like many people that I lived with (mainly my step brother and all of my cousins).

Every time I did a sport I hated it and wondered why I was doing it to begin with. My dad kind of made me do it, though. 'Was fun when I was little, because everyone sucked. I still don't get any joy watching sports, and every time we were forced to watch them at school I had to sit in the bleachers bored out of my mind for 2 hours :damon: Only sport I did have fun playing was baseball, but it was extremely boring to watch. And I sucked at that as well. But I made a few friends. And I watched the Sandlot as a kid, and after watching that, who wouldn't want to play it at least for one season? I'm going to be doing a short bowling class for my PE credit next term, and that's a sport that I have actually enjoyed in the past. Alas, it is boring to watch as well. Ah well. It'll be more fun than most sports that I have experienced :)
 
When most kids were likely kicking footballs with their dads and running around with their t-shirts over each other’s heads, I was building lego and being chased around the house by my Dad with a giant stuffed elephant.

From a young age I have had no interest in sport. I guess, perhaps, if I’d have been brought up to love it then I would have had no choice in the matter, but my childhood was spent daydreaming about fantastic things like cowboys, dinosaurs and such. In my world, dinosaurs did not play football, though that would be something that would get me interested in the game for the first time in my life.

When I was about 8 or 9 I got laughed at by my teacher for wanting to be a storywriter, and he told me I should be something normal… Like a footballer. I joined the school football club and it was horrible for me. I hated it. I didn’t stay long.

From then on at school I tried to avoid The Football where I could, but it was quite impossible since EVERYONE appeared to be into The Football. They’d kick The Football at break time, and it would hit me in the head. In P.E I would be placed on the pitch with The Football, and it would come close to hitting me on the head, and I’d do my hardest to avoid the ball. On TV I’d find The Football waiting for me, and occasionally The Football would hijack channels. When people talked, they talked about The Football.

The Football has been something I’ve never seen the point of. While I like to think that I don’t need to see the point in it, I think it would help me socially if I was up there with everyone else in the Football talk – it seems to be what a heck of a lot of people talk about. That said, I wouldn’t enjoy such conversations, so it is pointless trying to crack the whole football enigma.

The same goes for sport in general. Even when I did a lot of athletics myself (back when I was a spring lamb), I did not enjoy watching athletics on TV, and I didn’t enjoy running in competitions, even when I won quite a few of the local ones at different times. I didn’t like the stressful, aggressive and competitive aspects, I guess.

I also didn’t find running interesting. If we dressed up in chicken costumes, then it would have been fantastic. Sadly we dressed up like human beings - in leggings, vests and spikes. If we’d donned superhero-style costumes then that would have been great instead, but instead we were all normal. I did it for the exercise, for the good feeling when oneself and the team does well, and also largely for the peer pressure (because I did well at school in athletics I felt pressured to continue this) but I didn’t find it interesting enough to really care much about it myself. I didn’t dream about it. I didn’t think about it much either. When I did, I was thinking about myself running the track in the ruins of ancient Olympia (a feat I later achieved :woot:).

The same pretty much goes for all sports. I genuinely don’t find them interesting, and anyone’s dog would be better company than me in a room where sport is the number one topic on the agenda. At least a dog might recognise the words, get excited, and skip out of the room for the ball.
 
I love skiing myself, but when it comes to watching sports... I find it a little boring. :ness: I gain nothing from one team winning and another losing. I certainly don't have a problem with others enjoying it - we all have varying tastes and there are plenty of people who don't love the things I love - but it's not for me.

When it comes to playing sports... Well, I like the idea of combining exercise and social activity, but I prefer walking through the landscape to do that. Netball, badminton and rounders were very fun at school, but I'm not sure I could commit to it for an entire season and enter competitions. I have far too many interests and kinda prefer being able to choose when I do what. :hmm:
 
I feel sports are heavily overemphasized and some people are far too into them, and I generally don't like to watch them on a regular basis (although I did enjoy watching the WWF from about 1997-1999, when I was in early high school). With that said, I don't really see the reason to make a thread in the sports section about disliking sports.
 
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