I'm with you, only thing I like it Braves baseball and I can take it or leave it most of the time.

I don't fault anyone about what they like to spend their time with because I am sure people think my hobbies are stupid as well.

I've always hated pro football and pro basketball. I do love college football and pro baseball, though, and watch more games than my husband.

And there's a whole world of sports out there that are great fun to watch: F1, MotoGP, EPL, Bundesliga, equestrian eventing, to name a few. I enjoy a lot of the Winter Olympic events, especially speed skating. The World Cup is this summer and that's a lot of fun to watch.

There's definitely room in my world for guns, cars, and sports.

I'm deadly serious, no joke, I'll watch a lumberjack competition. Those folks are incredibly athletic, coordinated, and it's DIFFERENT than the mass media blah blah blah blather of mainstream sports.

cheesegrits, your husband is a lucky man.

My wife enjoys some sports too. She also does not have an issue with the ones I choose to watch. So I am a lucky man too

I don't pay any attention to sports either. When there's a discussion about, say, the Superbowl, I like to ask "That's football, right?".

I don't follow sports (professional or collegiate) like I used to, that's for sure. Growing up I played any and all sports I could, had to stay busy.

Now, it's work 40 hours a week, 2 kids under the age of 4, a house, yard, bills, etc.... I don't even have time to do half the stuff that I want to do, watching sports on tv is so far down the list it's not worth thinking about.

Becoming a parent, and watching my kids develop to where they don't need 2-3 naps a day, there is so much stuff I would rather do with them, than by myself.

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Originally posted by acidjazz:

I've always been a car and gun guy and nobody in my office seems to like either.

Am I alone on Sig Forum as a guy who knows fuck all about professional sports players, statistics, etc?

You are not alone, however I thought I was...

Thank you for this thread

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Originally posted by smschulz:
I think the business of sports has hurt if not ruined the experience for many.
When I was a kid > we did some sport everyday of the year.
It was great fun.

Same here.

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Originally posted by smschulz:
As we get older we gravitate to certain ones of interest.

Was baseball and ice hockey for me.

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Originally posted by smschulz:
As a kid I was in love with basketball but I despise it now.
As a kid I loved baseball and now just ambivalent at best.

Never, ever had an interest in basketball. Neither playing nor watching it. I used to listen to Detroit Tigers games all summer long.

Then, one year, came the baseball strike. That so turned me off to baseball that I never listened to another game again.

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Originally posted by smschulz:
It used to be that the athlete and the common guy could relate somewhat but now that difference is far, far apart.
Very sad.

Two big changes: The athletes are now all "heros" (read: "prima donnas") and the common guys are rarely at all athletic any more (re: Ripley's comment, earlier).

Zero shits given about professional sports.

Don't care about organized sports at all. Will go to a baseball game with friends, and happy if one of my 2 teams wins (Rangers and Tigers). Football, Soccer, Hockey, Basketball? Meh.

flashguy

I like professional sports, but nothing like college football. College football takes up my Saturdays,but we make it a family thing. Pro sports I only watch if I have chores and everything done and kids are doing something without me.

Being emotionally invested in a professional sports team is a waste of human spirit.

I love NHL games, GO AVS! I also play ice hockey which drives my interest. It is amazing to me the level of skill NHL players have.

I'll take NASCAR and cars going around in circles - football and baseball is just something to watch.

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Originally posted by TBH:
What about women’s beach volleyball? That’s the only sport I watch!

I'll watch indoor volleyball before beach, but if I'm watching either one I actually watching it for the gameplay. The eye candy is secondary. (*Don't read to hard into it, but for some reason the women's volleyball seems more interesting than men's. Like they're somehow more strategic than men.)

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I've always been a car and gun guy and nobody in my office seems to like either.

With the NFL it's easy to combine all three, usually there is a National Felon League member that's either arrested with a gun, shot someone, or going to jail for having a gun illegally, and they all have bitchin' rides so conversation should be natural..

Kinda like:

Say fellas, I saw LaFawkin Jackson done went and got his Lambo impounded when he fired a glock out the window as he was leaving the Pink Pony in Atlanta, whats up whith that, do you think The Falcons can win with him in jail?

I won't profess to be an expert on all sports, but given the level that I've reached coaching I'll say that I'm fairly knowledgeable about Hockey.

I can tell you that most 'sports experts' know very little about the actual game/sport. Sure they can spout statistics on players and teams going back decades, and will regurgitate what the sports casters say, but they lack an actual working knowledge of the game.

I would highly doubt that most 'hockey experts' can compare and contrast a 2-1-2 vs 1-2-2 fore check. I doubt any could tell you the role of F3 in a 3 v 2 attack, or when D should or should not pinch on a break out.

So rest assured, most of them don't know a lot more about the sport than you do.

I was never a big fan of those spectator sports. Meanwhile my father was a huge baseball and football fan and occasionally boxing.

He had season tickets to the NY giants since the 50's and until his death in 85. even after that they were kept in the family. I rarely ever went to a game. A Yankee fan he would go to games whenever he could find the time. My wedding had to be when the giants were not playing at home.

Meet my future wife in 75. She works for the NFL Properties in NYC in Marketing and Promotions. All of a sudden , every sunday I'm going to the Giant game. Fifth game I go to is the Super Bowl. Totally clueless, I'm not hanging out with players and the front office.

Back then, it was a family and they were all good natured. I was the brunt of a few jokes from time to time. Flew down to a super Bowl next to Pete Rozelle and his wife. Her bosses on the same plane were praying he didn't try to talk about football.

Funny think is much of her life she worked in professional sports and I still ever became that interested. Met a lot of great people who to this day I keep in contact with but don't ask me about the rules.

I quit watching pro sports when that idiot (I think basketball?) turned down a multi million contract and said "I have children to feed."

I used to be a big NFL fan but lost interest a couple of years ago because of how over-regulated the game became with the rules, challenges, appeals, etc.

Yesterday, I was sitting at home and turned on one of the playoff games just to see if I was missing anything.

First play: Incomplete pass.

Second play: Exciting 40-yard play called back because a lineman had his hand on a defensive player's shoulder (legal) for too long (illegal).

Third play: Pass reception challenged. After much delay, with somber officials looking at displays on the sideline and then conferring amongst themselves, it was finally determined that the offending player's shoe had creased the sideline before he caught the ball and the reception was disallowed.

Yawn. Yeah, count me out too.