Men Who Hate Watching Sports!

Ficheall · 08-01-2011 11:17AM

Snooker on the telly is well watchable.
And maybe women's beach volleyball.

admiralofthefleet · 08-01-2011 11:19AM

in kind of in the same boat as the op, i dont like soccer but i do folow a team and i only watch horse racing and rugby on the telly

ted1 · 08-01-2011 11:21AM

i like sports just hate watching them. I would much prefer to be playing them. Don't see the point in being sat in front of the telly for two hours when i could be out playing my self.

krudler · 08-01-2011 11:23AM

ted1 wrote: »

i like sports just hate watching them. I would much prefer to be playing them. Don't see the point in being sat in front of the telly for two hours when i could be out playing withmy self.

:pac:

stovelid · 08-01-2011 11:59AM

Each to their own. It's not for everyone.

Only thing I hate is when they come out with retarded lofty comments like x people chasing a ball or snide pseudo-intellectual comments about people who like sport although that's usually just down to childhood bitterness about getting picked last in football at school.

Irish Guitarist · 08-01-2011 12:03PM

I hate sport. What I don't understand though is why people who don't normally like football watch it because Ireland are playing. Why would you care how well you well your country does in something you're not interested in?

Son Of A Vidic · 08-01-2011 12:32PM

Rugby, Boxing, Full contact Kick Boxing, Taekwon-do, kung Fu and Weightlifting have been my sports down the years. But I certainly don't judge anyone for not being sporty. I watch very little sport myself because I prefer to participate, rather than sitting on my arse watching it. But football fanatics especially make me laugh. Watching a bunch of 'sissy bitches' roll around on a field when their little ankle gets clipped and then the stretcher comes......I mean on ffs!

hsi · 08-01-2011 12:37PM

As a kid the only "sport" we could watch at home was snooker... BOOOORRRRING...

Dad did not like sports, never took use any any game. In College play soccer for about 4 years. Really like baseball.

Love Croagh Park, Amazing stadium, would have no problems watch any game there.

As far as TV... could not be bothered that much.

aDeener · 08-01-2011 12:48PM

hsi wrote: »

As a kid the only "sport" we could watch at home was snooker... BOOOORRRRING...

Dad did not like sports, never took use any any game. In College play soccer for about 4 years. Really like baseball.

Love Croagh Park, Amazing stadium, would have no problems watch any game there.

As far as TV... could not be bothered that much.

clearly

08-01-2011 12:53PM

God, I hate when you tell someone that you hate sports, they instantly think there's something wrong with you. Watching sports is perhaps the most boring thing ever.

I Love Cheese · 08-01-2011 12:57PM

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

I HATE watching sports. Soccer, Rugby, GAA, etc.. I just hate watching it, I find it boring. I might watch some major sports events like if Ireland was in the World Cup but other than that I'm just not interested.

If I'm ever around with mates they always talk about soccer teams, players, league tables and all that jibber jabber and I feel bewildered because I don't posses a large amount of knowledge about the bleedin' fuseball. For instance, just last week I found out what to be 'relegated' meant. Some people I know know every little detail of matches that happened like 20 years ago and I'm totally gobsmacked!

I just don't get it! It's boring!

Any other guys out there who don't conform?

Edit: My hate is mainly aimed at field sports (Soccer, Rugby, GAA, etc..).

YES. I cant stand these pitch sports, on the other hand I'd watch Aussie Rules, or anything with a bit of violence.

08-01-2011 01:00PM

I was watching the French movie Micmacs recently and there's a segment where the lead character, Bazil, has a dream sequence in which mines are placed randomly around a soccer pitch. Now that's a game of soccer I'd be willing to watch!

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

Blisterman · 08-01-2011 01:02PM

policarp wrote: »

The Ashes in Australia.

Same as the World Cup in 1966.

You can't get away from it.

Unless you have no T.V. or Internet connections.

You'll hear about it for the next ???????? many years

Who talks about the ashes in Ireland?

I live in England, and I think I've heard about 2 people mention it, since it began.

johnnyjb · 08-01-2011 01:05PM

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

Genghis Khan.

Just cause barbarian style mutilation of enemies isnt in the modern day olympics doesnt mean it wasnt a sport in his days.

He prob kicked a few human craniums around the floor,so he could of invented fuseball.

Jonah42 · 08-01-2011 02:26PM

One of my roomates hates football. That's fair enough no one makes him watch it. But when we're watching a match he'd sit there making sarcastic comments about the game while the rest of us are in agony after the ball hitting the post.

I have a few friends from England coming over to visit soon and he'd better behave. They live for football, maybe something comparable for Irish people with the GAA. "Part af what we ar innit bruv" as they would say.

None of that "soccer" s*** either.

dazberry · 08-01-2011 02:31PM

The only things I can stand to watch are the X-games BMX and womans' high diving

Everything else is lost on me...

D.

FloatingVoter · 08-01-2011 02:44PM

Only sports I'm interested in are the ones that can be played in a pub. So snooker, pool, darts and poker. I realise 5 a side soccer can also be played in certain pubs but usually not with the landlords permission.

ps. am waiting for speed drinking to become an Olympic sport.

Killer Pigeon · 08-01-2011 02:51PM

FFS, they're all yapping on about some 'Roy Hodgson' bloke and how he's in trouble with Liverpool. Seriously, I find the magnetic polar shift far more interesting to yap about.

JayEnnis · 08-01-2011 04:36PM

dazberry wrote: »

The only things I can stand to watch are the X-games BMX and womans' high diving Everything else is lost on me...

D.

If your gonna do it, do it right! Watch some street instead of dhers 720 backflip taliwhip to barspin or something ridiculous like that.

Love to the concrete.

KylieWyley · 08-01-2011 04:56PM

http://www.bluffball.co.uk/ -- this site has been "coming soon" for quite a while now.

ArtSmart · 08-01-2011 04:57PM

are sissy.

what do i win?

gene_tunney · 08-01-2011 05:00PM

Sport in general is probably my favourite thing in the world.

ToxicPaddy · 08-01-2011 05:13PM

Sport on TV can bore me, being at a live event is a completely different matter, you cant beat the atmosphere at a live soccer, GAA, Rugby, etc game and even if you have no interest in the sport its still impressive and entertaining..

Pyr0 · 08-01-2011 05:33PM

One thing that annoys me about soem football fanatics is the way they look down on other people who are knowledgeable about something other than sport, lets say someone interested in Science or even Natural History and go on to label them as "nerds" or "geeks". Yet they can name the bloke who scored some winning goal for a backarse team 20 years ago, are they geeks or nerds? No, they're real men. Supposedly.

I like to call them c*nts.

Oh_Noes · 08-01-2011 05:44PM

I would kind of be in the same boat as you OP but I don't "hate" sports as such. I keep an eye on soccer, rugby, MMA and a few others and I regularly listen to the Off The Ball show on newstalk because it's good radio.

I think most lads talk about football because it's their default mode. I rarely join in the conversation about football in a big group even though I would have enough knowledge to. Just most of the time, most of the lads I know and that includes males in my family generally just re-hash stuff that pundits have said on the tv.

Jimmy Bloggs regurgitates what Gilesy said on RTE last night and Joe Soap replies with whatever Dunphy said. It's an endless circle of jibberjabber and to be honest I think most do it just to be part of the conversation.

Standman · 08-01-2011 05:59PM

Football is grand, I mean id watch some good goals and have as much interest in it as any other program if theres nothing else on. But seriously, most men really rip the piss with talking about it the whole f8ckuing time! As soon as I start a new job, first question form the lads is "So what team do you support?", I telll them I don't really follow any team and that's it right there, conversation over. Every lunch break having heated debates about last nights match when something really, really shocking and amazing happened like the referee made a bad decision!!! Oh wow I havent seen that happen a million times before, lets talk about it non stop for a whole hour!! I mean christ get the fuck over it!

thisisadamh · 06-02-2011 06:52PM

I don't watch sports or play them. It is nice though that my school, which is a boys school, offers other things, not only sport. I have never felt odd or that there is something wrong with me because of that. I do though get a lot of weird looks from my friends when I don't know who *insert some famous sports player* is lol.

deathrider · 06-02-2011 07:19PM

Was never a sports fan myself. Don't see that big attraction with it. I often watch the main events from the WWE, but I certainly wouldn't classify it as a sport.