What sport(s) do you hate?

admiralofthefleet

boxing, i despise it

DarkJager

Soccer

Cricket. I ****ing hate cricket.

kincsem

Soccer

Hazys wrote: »

16.9m/450m = 3.75% (less than my random guess of 5%) and that was for the World Cup and not regular viewership. Soccer is a minority sport in the US.

The population of the United States, projected to 09/29/09 at 20:09 GMT (EST+5) is 307,578,754

Greyfox

Basketball

Reindeer wrote: »

I am not a big fan of most sports, but I do enjoy Baseball greatly

Baseball will never be popular in Ireland, thank god! I myself would prefer to watch snails raceing instead!

lisaface

Soccer

Cricket- f*cking waste of time grrrrh

Horse Racing - I don't mind it half as much if i'm betting and in said areas with horses, but as for taking up the tv channels :mad:

American football that nfl sh!t - wait is that the same thing?
Freakin' pussys with shoulder pads , who can't play the real thing RUGBY.. grow a pair and p!ss off Ha ha I really get into this too easily ha ha

Sephiroth_dude

Basketball

Cricket and rugby :mad:

Greyfox

Basketball

Rebelheart wrote: »

Hilarious. Hang on while I go out and buy every Westlife and Boyzone album I can get my hands on. Popular must mean better. I want to fit in, I want to fit in, I want to fit in.


Did they now? In the real world, and according to FIFA's undoubtedly generous figures, 716.1 million people out of a world population of almost 7 billion watched the soccer World Cup final in 2006: http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/marketing/news/newsid=111247.html That's about 1 in 10 people, according to FIFA, the body charged with promoting soccer.

So, what's your source for 2billion people?

The 2007 All-Ireland was watched by 890,000 people: http://www.rte.ie/about/pressreleases/2007/0808/allirelandcoverage07.html. That's the RTÉ figure, not the GAA's. So, seeing as you are motivated by popularity, a far greater percentage of Ireland's population watched the All-Ireland than the percentage of the world's population which watched the soccer World Cup. That's about 1 in 6 people in the entire country's population of c. 6 million people.

If you want to live your life by following "popular" things, you really should do your research first.



Here we go again. If it's popular it must be better. Really and truly this is the thinking of a 13-year-old who is desperate to fit in with his peers. This thinking makes Mozart, Vivaldi and Beethoven not as good as Michael Jackson. Bizarre.

Well how else can you determine which is a better sport? why is GAA not played everywhere in the world? the answer is because the rest of the world could never find GAA anywhere near as exciting as soccer! Gaa is a exciting but it's basically a game of who can kick the ball highest when compared to the amout of strategy and tactics that goes into soccer. It's not about fitting in, it's about playing a sport that many people think is the most enjoyable thing in the world

Your just been silly to base your statistics on the % of Irish people watching the all-Ireland final, just because one nation may prefer to watch GAA doesn't mean you can ignor the fact that every other nation on earth prefer soccer!

Ok so 716 million. tell me how many million people worldwide watched the GAA final, about 3m at the most, now what's 716 - 3? that's a pretty big figure I must say and puts into perspective the difference in "popularity" of the two sports. Don't try to compare the most popular sport in the world with a sport many people in the world have never even heard off!

Eh Mozart is classical music and Michael Jackson is pop music so that's more to do with which music you prefer. "you" may find soccer boreing but for hundreths of millions of people real football is more important than life and death to them

Greyfox

Basketball

Rebelheart wrote: »

British soccer does nothing to improve our society.

All across Ireland hundreds of thousands of people attend GAA matches every week throughout winter adding life and supporting economies across the entire country. These are Irish people supporting the Irish economy and Irish families. No variant of soccer is given this support in Ireland, never mind supports communities here as much. The GAA, uniquely, consolidates Irish communities, supports Irish culture and keeps society local in an increasingly global and boringly homogeneous world. By virtue of this context, it is absolutely refreshing and has more humour, character, life and Irishness than all of your ultra commercialised British soccer could possibly conceive of. Give me Mozart to Boyzone anyday.

Just to educate you Brazil is the home of football and not England, lots of football/soccer fans watch football from all around the world, their just happens to be a superb league across the water that's advertised very well and hard to resist!

So what if it doesn't improve our society, all I care about is that fact that it's wonderful entertainment to watch and very enjoyable to play! Yes I agree that the GAA is good for the community, but so is the tidy towns competition.

Greyfox

Basketball

Rebelheart wrote: »

soccer gives nothing back to this society.

You talking shyte, go do some research into English football!