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Any men here not enjoy watching/following sports?

  • 19-09-2019 6:58pm
    #1
    mr_fegelien
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭


    I can't be the only man who's like this. I have some interest in tennis but not really tbh. I don't spend my life talking about it and not interested in watching huge matches.

    I guess I'm not a sports fan and that seems pretty rare tbh. All the lads I know that are 21 like me talk about football, Gaelic like there's no tomorrow.


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  • #2
    LionelNashe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,961 ✭✭✭LionelNashe


    I've only ever found myself interested if I know something of the personalities involved. For example, Formula 1 was just insects buzzing around a track until I had a couple of flatmates who watched it every Saturday. Then I got familiar with who the various drivers were, and the races became interesting. Same for MMA; I find it very watchable if I know who the fighters are, and I've seen them making fools of themselves in press conferences.

    No interest in GAA, soccer, rugby, etc. The few live matches I've been to, I end up talking to whoever I'm with and forgetting about the pitch.


  • #3
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,887 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    I like to watch the international rugby matches, the odd soccer match, Wimbledon and skiing but I’m not mad into sports and talking about them all the time - I find that incredibly boring and limiting.


  • #4
    Calhoun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    My wife has more interest in watching sport than i do. I always liked doing it when i could rather than watching it.

    My interest is in computer gaming ect but even in that i find it boring to watch.


  • #5
    DeanAustin
    Registered Users Posts: 3,855 ✭✭✭DeanAustin


    Skiing, computer gaming, tennis???? FFS. How about knitting?

    Hand in your man card. There is nothing on earth more important than sport.


  • #6
    simongurnick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,919 ✭✭✭simongurnick


    I live to watch sports! Each to their own though.


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  • #7
    Calhoun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    DeanAustin wrote: »
    Skiing, computer gaming, tennis???? FFS. How about knitting?

    Hand in your man card. There is nothing on earth more important than sport.

    I mean i'm sure allot of the knuckle dragging beer swilling neanderthals, who enjoy nothing than spending the weekend in the pub before going home to neglect their family/kids or alone would agree.

    Others however tend to not stereotype and understand people are interested in different things.


  • #8
    heroics
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,878 ✭✭✭heroics


    I play Gaelic rugby and hurling and have done for nearly 20 years now but I have no interest in watching them. If I’m not playing I just couldn’t be bothered.

    Watch the odd bit of sport (Int rugby)but don’t follow any teams/remember names stats etc. Find it hard to join conversations about games etc because everyone assumes because I play a lot that I watch the games on TV.

    Go to the odd rugby match but it’s more about the
    Craic with the lads.

    Dreading the day I can’t keep playing if I’m honest as I don’t know what I’ll do!


  • #9
    368100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,067 ✭✭✭368100


    mr_fegelien wrote: »
    I can't be the only man who's like this. I have some interest in tennis but not really tbh. I don't spend my life talking about it and not interested in watching huge matches.

    I guess I'm not a sports fan and that seems pretty rare tbh. All the lads I know that are 21 like me talk about football, Gaelic like there's no tomorrow.

    100% the same. Some interest in tennis...but for playing rather that watching.
    No interest in anything else.......and I never get lads talking about their chosen English soccer team and using "we" to talk about them.....
    "We need to win this"...."we played well".....


  • #10
    DeanAustin
    Registered Users Posts: 3,855 ✭✭✭DeanAustin


    Calhoun wrote: »
    I mean i'm sure allot of the knuckle dragging beer swilling neanderthals, who enjoy nothing than spending the weekend in the pub before going home to neglect their family/kids or alone would agree.

    Others however tend to not stereotype and understand people are interested in different things.

    I hope the irony of your post is not lost on you. Read your first and second paragraphs in reverse order...


  • #11
    Calhoun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    DeanAustin wrote: »
    I hope the irony of your post is not lost on you. Read your first and second paragraphs in reverse order...

    That was the intent :) If i am going to be stereotyped because i have a certain interest its a two way street.


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  • #12
    Stigura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,520 ✭✭✭Stigura


    I've got absolutely no interest in 'sports' what so ever. Never have had. Don't even understand the rules of any. Doesn't make me a bad person.

    Nor does it mean I, in any way, 'Don't like' those to whom their chosen sport / team / idol is their very life blood. Good luck to them. It's nice that they enjoy :)

    Having said that? I must confess that I could happily watch televised Womans Pole Vault pretty much for ever! :o


  • #13
    Up Donegal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,236 ✭✭✭Up Donegal


    I only take an interest if my local or county Gaelic team, or the national soccer team reach the semi-finals of a competition. Otherwise, I don't bother. I've no problem with those who follow sport religiously. Each to their own.


  • #14
    sky88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,689 ✭✭✭sky88


    i like sports but will never get when i hear people say to others who dont watch how do they not watch i mean theres plenty of sports ive no intrest in like rugby and GAA just cant get into them


  • #15
    howamidifferent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,819 ✭✭✭howamidifferent


    Have no interest in any sports, never had, never will. As a child a read a huge amount and played chess. Not so much in the last 20 years, have become more interested in news, international etc.

    I like to watch political debates and news stories about global affairs.
    I wouldnt watch sport of any kind no matter what it was or where it was.

    Just cannot identify with the fascination. :confused:


  • #16
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,110 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    I have no interest in watching or following sport, whatsoever. The only time i would have had an interest in sport is when I was actually participating in one.


  • #17
    sky88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,689 ✭✭✭sky88


    howamidifferent wrote: »
    Have no interest in any sports, never had, never will. As a child a read a huge amount and played chess. Not so much in the last 20 years, have become more interested in news, international etc.

    I like to watch political debates and news stories about global affairs.
    I wouldnt watch sport of any kind no matter what it was or where it was.

    Just cannot identify with the fascination. :confused:

    i cant understand fascination with watching political debates i think there all dirtbags who are looking out for themselves so dont like listening to them lie and pretend to care

    its all personal interests


  • #18
    dvdman1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭dvdman1


    I watch sports, but i cant understand the facination with club soccer...if we look at liverpool or man utd ...not 1 of the players is even from there, they'd be lucky to even be English...i mean if i pick n choose whatever players i want from around the world with my wad of cash what do i think will happen? Ill win games..whoopi doo


  • #19
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 11,614 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    DeanAustin wrote: »
    Skiing, computer gaming, tennis???? FFS. How about knitting?

    Hand in your man card. There is nothing on earth more important than sport.

    Whats wrong with knitting?


  • #20
    Cyclepath
    Registered Users Posts: 333 ✭✭Cyclepath


    I've no real interest in watching sport either live or on TV. In fact I'll switch over as soon as it comes on - especially GAA - absolutely can't stand it.

    I'd occasionally watch coverage of big cycling tours as I love cycling, but that's as much for the scenery as anything else. I played rugby in school but can barely watch an Ireland match.

    That, along with my musical tastes, was enough for most friends to assume I was gay in school and college! Not liking sports really does tend to pigeon-hole you as some sort of effeminate/intellectual fop. I dunno, maybe I am :rolleyes:


  • #21
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,617 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    My kids swim allot and I enjoy being at competitions they swim in, also involved in the running of their swim club, other than that I’ve no interest in sports at all.
    My father won a number of all Ireland medals so I saw lots, been to many all Ireland finals both football and hurling, brought me to soccer matches too, it just never stuck.

    I see grown men wearing football jerseys and living for U.K. soccer teams and to be honest I feel a little embarrassed for them, I see it no different than if they were wearing a superman costume or talking about the avengers constantly.


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  • #22
    Iderown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 233 ✭✭Iderown


    I sometimes compare watching others playing sport to watching others doing sex or mathematics.
    Probably harmless, but much more fun participating yourself.


  • #23
    Feisar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,698 ✭✭✭Feisar


    No interest in watching really, would watch the odd hurling game with my Dad however that'd be more for his benefit and there is no harm in that.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #24
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,887 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    There are also plenty of men who participate in sports and exercise but don't feel the need to watch and talk about sports all the time.

    I swim 3 times a week, play tennis, jog and do rock/wall climbing but only watch the occasional sporting event.

    Each to their own.


  • #25
    Barna77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,272 ✭✭✭Barna77


    When the Olympics are on, I'll try to watch lots of the sports competitions (damn you Japan and time difference...), or the likes of Wimbledon, swimming championships and such.

    But soccer, F1, or pool :confused: they bore me to death. I'd watch the odd Gaelic and rugby match


  • #26
    Sciprio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 790 ✭✭✭Sciprio


    Same here. I used to like and follow the footballl when younger(I'm still young) but today i find it boring and don't keep track of it and don't know any of the players.

    I don't mind and can watch and enjoy the Rugby but if i never saw it again along with other sports, it wouldn't bother me at all. Do you're own thing and like what you want and not what others tell you to like. I like you do keep an interest on the news and current affairs. guess we're "boring" haha


  • #27
    Tec Diver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭Tec Diver


    I've never been into watching sports, either live or on a screen. I'd prefer to get out and do things, my kids are the same. They have tried team sports and solo sports but prefer to do non-competitive sports, like myself.


  • #28
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    I watch a bit of sport, including "traditional" stuff like hurling and rugby (I played a little of each way back in the day). Gaelic football doesn't interest me, aside from the ladies game, that's quite good these days. I wouldn't cross the road to watch soccer of any description, and as far as I'm concerned it only exists to keep certain types out of prison. I also watch a fair bit of tennis, and also what most consider "oddball" sports such as F1, snooker, martial arts, top-fuel drag racing, MotoGP/SBK and cricket.

    I love those people who say they love "all sports", by which they mean all GAA denominations except women's, and some blasted English soccer team :pac:


  • #29
    grogi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,615 ✭✭✭grogi


    mr_fegelien wrote: »
    I can't be the only man who's like this. I have some interest in tennis but not really tbh. I don't spend my life talking about it and not interested in watching huge matches.

    I guess I'm not a sports fan and that seems pretty rare tbh. All the lads I know that are 21 like me talk about football, Gaelic like there's no tomorrow.

    Over the last year the only sport I watched was CTWC final...


  • #30
    victor8600
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭victor8600


    Tec Diver wrote: »
    I've never been into watching sports, either live or on a screen. .....

    Same. I like to participate in various sport activities myself, but sitting and watching other people doing it is not very entertaining.


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  • #31
    machaseh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 803 ✭✭✭machaseh


    I will only go to the pub for games if me mate drags me along, I myself have no interest in watching any sports whatsoever.

    Maaaaybe the world cup of football or the European cup and then only if my country, the Netherlands, is playing, but even then it's more for watching it together than out of interest for the sports.

    Same would go for some of the more 'exotic' Olympic sports when it's on.


  • #32
    [Deleted User]
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    Would have a keen interest in rugby and then would follow the likes of boxing/mma/F1 and hurling closely enough and watch the bigger occasions. Olympics I try to watch all of it.

    No interest in soccer, I like playing it but can't understand how people can be die hard supporters of a foreign club they've absolutely no connection to, with the players switching teams each season like a game of musical chairs. Most of all it's the diving that puts me off - could never respect a grown man who carries on like that, much less idolise them.


  • #33
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,009 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    Never really had any interest in Sport despite my mother's best intentions in taking me to many many Kildare football matches in Croke Park when I was a teenager. I briefly liked Newcastle United for a year or so when Kevin Keegan was there. Liked F1 for a time but lost interest in that too.

    I even was called 'weird' by the mother in regards to a lack of interest in sport. My eldest brother on the other hand would bet on just about anything and sits almost permanently in front of the TV.

    I'm currently 42 and don't watch, read or partake in any discussion with regards to sport. It's just never really done anything for me.


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Could'nt give a flying fúk for watching or participating in sport.

    Fairly savvy with Windows machines, now learning the ropes of Mac (i7 mini in my case).

    I'm 47


  • #35
    Plopsu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 671 ✭✭✭Plopsu


    Do strongman competitions count?


  • #36
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,256 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    jimgoose wrote: »
    I wouldn't cross the road to watch soccer of any description, and as far as I'm concerned it only exists to keep certain types out of prison.

    Jesus! :rolleyes:


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  • #37
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    MrStuffins wrote: »
    Jesus! :rolleyes:

    Have you seen what they do? Have you? They try to kick that ball-thing under the crossbar!


  • #38
    Sheridan81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Sheridan81


    jimgoose wrote: »
    I wouldn't cross the road to watch soccer of any description, and as far as I'm concerned it only exists to keep certain types out of prison.
    You might be confusing it with boxing.:P

    I used to love almost all sports and the drama of it. I'm not considered a man's man by any means. I'm slight, bookish, quiet and to the best of my knowledge I have never picked up a hammer or looked under the bonnet of a motor vehicle.


  • #39
    UI_Paddy
    Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭UI_Paddy


    I didn't enjoy them growing up or even into my adolescent and college years, but having met as many different kinds of people as I have over the years I've gained an appreciation for sports.

    I'm still not a huge fan by any stretch and it doesn't play a huge part in my life. Although when I'm out socializing while I don't feel any immediate desire to talk about it I don't really have a problem if it comes up even when I'm more of a listener than a contributor.

    I don't watch many games but I will try catch the Dublin or Ireland matches, and although I wouldn't know the names of the players or their playing styles I have enjoyed some of them, particularly the tight Dublin vs Kerry match recently.

    I've also seen how GAA brings families and communities together, and that to me is something truly special that as a casual sports fan I can respect. Always say more power to people if any hobby has been a benefit to their personal and/ or social lives.


  • #40
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,809 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I was never into watching or playing to sport to be honest. I could get my bluff my way through things.
    I've nearly always got on very well with the GAA, Rugby guys tough.


  • #41
    v638sg7k1a92bx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,913 ✭✭✭v638sg7k1a92bx


    mr_fegelien wrote: »
    I can't be the only man who's like this. I have some interest in tennis but not really tbh. I don't spend my life talking about it and not interested in watching huge matches.

    I guess I'm not a sports fan and that seems pretty rare tbh. All the lads I know that are 21 like me talk about football, Gaelic like there's no tomorrow.

    I posted about this a few weeks ago, asking Have we reached peak football and sports coverage? and another in LL How much football does your OH watch I got a litany of posts about how people can do what they like and to stop being judgemental that the thread actually got locked because people got their knickers is such a twist. I find that when people get some animated about something you've said theory tends to be an element of truth and you've cut to close to the bone.

    I find as I get older I have more of a disdain for people who sit around watching someone 20 years younger than them kick a ball around a patch of grass. I honestly believe that people use sports as a stop gap for filing their empty heads and empty lives. People have become so materialistic that their idea of happiness is following a sports team and knowing the players names off by heart otherwise they might have to sit down and actually think about their lives for 5 minutes.


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  • #42
    Calhoun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    Myla Deep Sometimes wrote: »
    I posted about this a few weeks ago, asking Have we reached peak football and sports coverage? and another in LL How much football does your OH watch I got a litany of posts about how people can do what they like and to stop being judgemental that the thread actually got locked because people got their knickers is such a twist. I find that when people get some animated about something you've said theory tends to be an element of truth and you've cut to close to the bone.

    I find as I get older I have more of a disdain for people who sit around watching someone 20 years younger than them kick a ball around a patch of grass. I honestly believe that people use sports as a stop gap for filing their empty heads and empty lives. People have become so materialistic that their idea of happiness is following a sports team and knowing the players names off by heart otherwise they might have to sit down and actually think about their lives for 5 minutes.

    Well i can explain the disdain as the level of condescension in your AH thread is off the scale. I cannot see the other thread as the links are messed up but you must ask yourself when so many people are annoyed with what you posted are you actually the asshole?

    People definitely do over do it but we all have our forms of escapism. It is just that escapism, life can be hard and people need to have a refuge of sorts so they don't have to think about things for a bit.

    I would be more of a live and let live as long as it doesn't become disruptive. What is your own interest if i may ask? and why in your mind is it socially acceptable than people watching sport?

    Unless of course you go to work (if you work), go home and stare at the wall.


  • #43
    v638sg7k1a92bx
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    Calhoun wrote: »
    Well i can explain the disdain as the level of condescension in your AH thread is off the scale. I cannot see the other thread as the links are messed up but you must ask yourself when so many people are annoyed with what you posted are you actually the asshole?

    People definitely do over do it but we all have our forms of escapism. It is just that escapism, life can be hard and people need to have a refuge of sorts so they don't have to think about things for a bit.

    I would be more of a live and let live as long as it doesn't become disruptive. What is your own interest if i may ask? and why in your mind is it socially acceptable than people watching sport?

    Unless of course you go to work (if you work), go home and stare at the wall.

    Where was i being condescending, do you mean that particular thread or just in general?

    Why is it that when someone posts an opinion that is not the received message the knee jerk reaction is to call foul and try and shut the thread down? Report, offence, judgemental! If I see a post or a thread I don’t agree with or dislike I just move on. For example, when I’m speaking my truth and other posters start throwing their toys out of the pram it just reinforces my opinion because if what I was saying wasn’t true then people wouldn’t get so worked up about it. Lets say you posted something about me or that a hobby I’m interested was crap, I wouldn’t waste my energy even responding because I would know that what they were saying doesn’t effect me because it’s not true, so when people get so worked up because their husband or spouse watches 6 hours of sports every weekend, they attack me rather than accept the fact that they don’t like that their OH spends all their time watching football statistics and they pretend to be ok with it and that actually they are unhappy in their relationship or what they see in their OH so they decide to attack me instead.


  • #44
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,512 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Watching sports is right up there with watching a coat of Magnolia paint drying on a wall for me.


  • #45
    Calhoun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    Myla Deep Sometimes wrote: »
    Where was i being condescending, do you mean that particular thread or just in general?

    Why is it that when someone posts an opinion that is not the received message the knee jerk reaction is to call foul and try and shut the thread down? Report, offence, judgemental! If I see a post or a thread I don’t agree with or dislike I just move on. For example, when I’m speaking my truth and other posters start throwing their toys out of the pram it just reinforces my opinion because if what I was saying wasn’t true then people wouldn’t get so worked up about it. Lets say you posted something about me or that a hobby I’m interested was crap, I wouldn’t waste my energy even responding because I would know that what they were saying doesn’t effect me because it’s not true, so when people get so worked up because their husband or spouse watches 6 hours of sports every weekend, they attack me rather than accept the fact that they don’t like that their OH spends all their time watching football statistics and they pretend to be ok with it and that actually they are unhappy in their relationship or what they see in their OH so they decide to attack me instead.

    The tone from your post in this thread and on the original thread comes across as very condescending. Maybe you don't mean it that way but thats how it reads, there is no compromise in what your saying. You could be talking about very extreme individuals but you don't clarify that point so taking it as reading you have a problem with anyone who enjoys watching sport.

    If your going to post something in a discussion forum then you must be prepared to defend it or walk away. If you don't want to be challenged then don't do so or at least go to twitter or reddit and find an echochamber to re-enforce your opinion.

    Your confusing people getting their backs up due to a horrible communication delivery and it being a valid confirmation of your point. You probably have some what of a point but your delivery is more than likely what got people attacking you and the post shut down.

    I don't know what your talking about with the rest, as i didn't see people being annoyed over their husband on a thread so i cannot comment.


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