Sports you just can't stand to watch

[SPTO]

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I just watched Lacrosse. Didn't understand the rules, but it was entertaining nevertheless.

The indoor version is kinda neat.

[countryboy]

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this was the collegiate championship between Duke and Notre Dame.

[Shakedowncapo]

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NFL/College football has gotten extremely stale for me...Didn't watch one full game of both last year. I think it was the combination of ridiculous rule changes and tv timeouts(and their length) that did me in. Sprinkle in fantasy football and the "Im an expert" mentality.

Baseball
Soccer
NBA

All I watch now.

[superjames1992]

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I just watched Lacrosse. Didn't understand the rules, but it was entertaining nevertheless.

I was the same way with Rugby. I saw it on BBC America a couple months ago and it was rather entertaining even though I was a bit confused about what was going on. Lacrosse is also pretty neat looking even though I don't understand the rules very well.

I know we had a thread on here about the "manliest sports" maybe a year ago and, in my mind, rugby is far and away #1. That sport's brutality makes football look like a sissy sport.

[Bellsprout]

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I'm a little afraid of getting the hell beaten out of me by some jacked up freak in an Affliction T that's 4 sizes too small, but I can't stand MMA.

[countryboy]

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watching hockey now. I understand most of the rules, but can't pronounce many of the names.

Hockey is entertaining as hell to watch both on TV and live.

[Buckeyes_Doc]

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watching hockey now. I understand most of the rules, but can't pronounce many of the names.

Hockey is entertaining as hell to watch both on TV and live.

I agree. I really wish we had a pro team in Cincinnati so I would of followed it more. I've always been interested in hockey and love going to games but with no team and not too many players that I knows it's hard to get into the sport.

[countryboy]

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I agree. I really wish we had a pro team in Cincinnati so I would of followed it more. I've always been interested in hockey and love going to games but with no team and not too many players that I knows it's hard to get into the sport.

same here. If I knew more of the players, I'd probably follow it more.

[stlstudios189]

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Pool, poker, and bowling are terrible to watch on tv.
golf and tennis are eghh whatever.

[MassNole]

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What sport cannot I not stand watching? Baseball, it is just so damned boring and to make it worse the announcers take the Hells Kitchen approach to over dramafying every pitch.

Now if I considered auto racing to be a sport I would say that, but I can't in good faith call driving in circles for 3-4 hours a sport.

[Chip Douglass]

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Nascar- there are very few things as boring as watching cars go around a track 500 times and I honestly have no idea what the appeal is. Some sports I can understand why people like it even if I don't but it just baffles me that this has any popularity at all. Even during the olympics they never show the whole marathon or long distance races, they show the beginning, cut to the middle a couple times, and then show the end. If a Nascar race was 5 laps I would probably watch it myself but 500 is ridiculous.

Watching vehicles take hundreds of left turns is criminally boring.

It would probably be easier for me to list the sports I do follow (college football, NFL, and the final 1/5 of the college basketball season) than the sports I don't (everything else). I really don't have the attention span to follow marathon seasons (MLB, NBA, NHL) and I personally hate golf, tennis, boxing, UFC, female sports, etc.

[AUChase]

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The only racing I really watch is NHRA..

[Chip Douglass]

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I'm surprised so many people hate tennis. It is an exciting sport to watch. I just don't understand what's bad about the sport.

From the perspective of someone who has played tennis since 2nd grade, I totally disagree.

I'll tune in occasionally to witness the greatness of Federer, but that's it.

[duckfever8]

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WNBA/Women's college basketball
Tennis
College basketball regular season (I watch March Madness though)
Curling
Wrestling

[superjames1992]

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I think a lot of the sports hate like racing, tennis, boxing, golf, ect. just don't translate well to TV. For example, even though I like auto racing, I do find it much more exciting in person than watching on TV where I can concentrate on my favorite driver and can actually watch any car on the track I want to. TV doesn't allow this. The only thing I hate about going to races is when I get a smoker sitting near me and the wind blowing the smoke in my face (which happened a few weeks ago at Darlington).

Bowling is very fun to play and I actually enjoy watching it in person, but I just don't like it on television. Golf is fun to play, but I just don't like watching it on TV. MMA may be interesting to watch in person (I've never seen an event live), but watching guys beat the **** out of each other isn't that appealing to watch on the TV screen, at least.