What Sport do you find the worst to Watch?

Blisterman

Following on from the "If you could Ban One Sport..." thread.
What sport do you find the worst to watch, and why?

To keep it fair, only sports you actually understand. Not just ones you briefly saw on TV and immediatly formed an opinion on.

Personally, I would say Long Distance Cycling. For 90% of the race, it's about keeping up with the peloton, rather than competing to win, and very dull to watch.

For a more mainstream sport, I would say Soccer. I enjoy playing it, but unless Ireland are playing, I can't stand watching it. Scores are just too infrequent, and when they do happen, luck plays as large a part in it as skill. There's not much excitement for a neutral observer the majority of the match. I also can't stand watching the players rolling around on the ground in mock agony, and throwing hissy fits. Why does it happen so much in Soccer? You never see it in other sports.

My name is URL

Gaylick Football

Can't stand it

shenanigans1982

Repetitive threading....it's horrible to watch.

Local-womanizer

Arm wrestling on Eurosport.Takes about 10 mins to set up and a match only lasts 10 seconds,pointless.

connundrum

Darts. I mean wtf?!

Ardscoil Ris

That one with the ball.

Gone Drinking

Womens Vollyball, absolutely disgusting.

See here for example

Mmcd

Agree with cycling - cant believe anyone could watch it!

Devil5434

Golf and Test cricket

petes

Cricket and soccer.

walshb

Golf and snooker and darts. Pure boredom!

Snowie

f1 when Schumacher was racing...
chess
the premier ship but whats funny is wacing some one shout at a tv and throw a strop..
ice skating,

yerayeah

Cricket is pretty drab tbh...

Most exciting thing I've ever seen during a cricket match...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZimSVYWmVac

rossie1977

in fairness to cycling the landscape keeps changing and during the tour de france (in the mountain stages especially) some of the scenery is fantastic

to answer the question probably baseball

Black Swan

golf (yawn!)

emeraldstar

GAA of any sort. Also Formula One. Jeez, the boredom.

TDOie

Cricket and Soccer.

Guy:Incognito

Snow-Monkey wrote: »

f1 when Schumacher was racing...
chess
the premier ship but whats funny is wacing some one shout at a tv and throw a strop..
ice skating,

How do the play this "the premier ship"? Is it some form of boat sport?




To the people replyign to his thread, would you not, for once, have a read of the title and not just name a sprt you hate? Theres lots of sports I hate , gealic football and hurling being 2. But they would be nowhere near the bottom of a list of borign sorts to watch. Anything where something happens at all with any sort of urgency isnt goign to near the bottom to be fair.

Donagh_mc

LOL @ Stekelly!

If I had to pick one it would be American Football!
If I could pick another I'd include cricket.

DenMan

Any extreme sports like dog walking and fly catching. I'd much rather be doing them myself than spending time watching others do them.

Rowley Birkin QC

+1 for Baseball....it is excruciating to watch.

Snowie

DenMan wrote: »

Any extreme sports like dog walking and fly catching. I'd much rather be doing them myself than spending time watching others do them.

Watching kayaking is brain numbingly boring...
look at me i can do fancy tricks while siting down ....
oh and even better, ski slalom.
yacht racing, or dingy tho actually taking part is fun..
speed rock climbing...
archery

Captain-America

Darts.

It can hardly be considered a sport at this stage. It generally takes place in a pub whereby the dart players drink heavily in between throwing the darts thereby leaving the game in an unhealthier state than when they arrived.

Quint

+1 for cycling. And just to make it worse, they're all on drugs

mickydoomsux

Rugby and hurling. So painfully boring, both of them.

loveissucide

GAA in all it's forms.

[Jackass]

Cricket and GAA (especially hurling, but football is sh*t too).

Simply Red

Golf and cricket.

mike65

Any American sport.

rubadub

Local-womanizer wrote: »

Arm wrestling on Eurosport.Takes about 10 mins to set up and a match only lasts 10 seconds,pointless.

But there is one freak, check out this guys right arm in the white.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-_Y2GpvdXI

Bit hard to see but it is massive.

http://www.vfl-wob.de/assets/plugindata/w2dblg8e45546050ea17d1e2d2e78823244e93/pic1214908462.jpg

bowls, golf, speedwalking (unless its Hal on Malcolm in the middle)

peasant

Golf:
Ball lies on some bit of greenery. Player gawking into the distance. Player whacks ball. Ball is shown moving against blue sky. Ball lies on different bit of greenery. Player gawking into slightly shorter distance. Player whacks ball ... ad infinitum.

Ice hockey:
Players skating really fast, players swinging their hockey sticks, players beating each other up ...but you never, ever see the bloomin' puck

Synchronised swimming:
nose pegs, funny bathing hats and heavily made up faces semi-submerged ...backsides, tippitoes and forced grins in a wet, swirling, dripping choreography of pointlessness

Captain-America

rubadub wrote: »

But there is one freak, check out this guys right arm in the white.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-_Y2GpvdXI

Bit hard to see but it is massive.

http://www.vfl-wob.de/assets/plugindata/w2dblg8e45546050ea17d1e2d2e78823244e93/pic1214908462.jpg

What the fúck.

Aidric

Midget Wrestling
Snooker
Gaelic Football

Hogzy

rubadub wrote: »

But there is one freak, check out this guys right arm in the white.


bowls, golf, speedwalking (unless its Hal on Malcolm in the middle)

Too much **** IMO!!!

johnny_knoxvile

Snooker and cricket commentation make me want to hurt myself with a spoon...im not sure why that piece of cuttlery in particular, maybe its something subliminal in these two "sports".

Guy:Incognito

rubadub wrote: »

But there is one freak, check out this guys right arm in the white.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-_Y2GpvdXI

Bit hard to see but it is massive.

http://www.vfl-wob.de/assets/plugindata/w2dblg8e45546050ea17d1e2d2e78823244e93/pic1214908462.jpg

bowls, golf, speedwalking (unless its Hal on Malcolm in the middle)

Is that Hellboy?

peasant

looks like his left arm is crippled and he somewhat over-compensated on the right one

galactus

Hogzy wrote: »

Too much **** IMO!!!

Its not unusual, check out these guys.

Anyway, golf (unless its the last hole of a major). Formula 1 (used to be a great sport though) and rugby (why can't you throw the thing forward!), Gaelic football. Me likes the hurling though.

I watched 5 soccer games in a row on Saturday. Like everyone else, I am banned from the soccer forum though.

rubadub

Stekelly wrote: »

Is that Hellboy?

The commentators actually said that is his nickname
http://www.worldofarmwrestling.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5315

42cm / 17inch forearm, and only 69kg, that is under 11stone. Bigger or as big as a lot of pro bodybuilders.

Tar.Aldarion

soccer, zzzzzzz

Hogzy

rubadub wrote: »

But there is one freak, check out this guys right arm in the white.


bowls, golf, speedwalking (unless its Hal on Malcolm in the middle)

This is him!!!!

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Oh dear jesus!!!:eek::eek::eek:

AnonoBoy

Cripple baiting is a pretty hard watch.

But after the fourth beer or so it starts to get funny so it's worth sticking with it.

KnifeWRENCH

Walking as a sport is painful to watch. The people always look ridiculous.

+ 1 on cycling, I don't know who'd actually sit down and watch people riding bikes for so many miles. The only light relief comes when someone falls off.

Golf is boring the vast majority of the time, although you do get rare occassions where there's a brilliant hole in one or a godawful shot that ends up with the ball flying into the crowd.

Sumo wrestling is terrible and rather pointless to watch because each bout lasts about 5 seconds. Also, watching obese guys wearing nappies isn't too aesthetically pleasing.

Stephen

Blisterman wrote: »

For a more mainstream sport, I would say Soccer. I enjoy playing it, but unless Ireland are playing, I can't stand watching it. Scores are just too infrequent, and when they do happen, luck plays as large a part in it as skill. There's not much excitement for a neutral observer the majority of the match. I also can't stand watching the players rolling around on the ground in mock agony, and throwing hissy fits. Why does it happen so much in Soccer? You never see it in other sports.

This.

I just don't get what's exciting about the game. If they made it a full contact sport it might be interesting. It'd put the diving ladyboys out of business too.

Mossy Monk

Fishing. What's the point in televising it.

SwordsRed

Id go for darts. I mean it can be a bit of a laugh playing darts in the pub with mates but its very hard to watch. The commentators dont help it either. The sky commentators easily get overexcited and make strange suggestions like darts should be in the olympics and phil taylor is one of the greatest sportsmen of all time.

kraggy

Can't believe so many people are saying they find hurling boring.

The most skillful and one of the fastest games in the world and you call it boring?!

Please tell which sports you find interesting so?

Biggins

Cricket (yawn) and a walking race (I mean seriously, they move like they have stick up their ass - run ya buggers!!!)

galactus

Mossy Monk wrote: »

Fishing. What's the point in televising it.

True it needs livening up a bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quwebVjAEJA

Monkeybonkers

I suppose it depends on whether you like sports or not. Personally there is no sport that I would not watch and there are none that I find boring.
It all comes down to personal preference I suppose.
To Captain-America, I can only presume your stereotypical comment about darts is a humourous one! Surely you cannot be that ignorant about this sport.

metaoblivia

Aside from all the obvious ones - golf, fishing, baseball, etc - I have to say, synchronized diving. I can generally watch any Olympic sport and find it entertaining, but not synchro diving. It bores me to tears.