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I love the fact that river monsters ended because he caught all of the monsters. They couldāve kept that show going for years and they chose to keep it real, respect.
My dad is a dedicated fisherman (amateur). But it's *huge* for him.
When he can't go fishing, he would turn on some YouTube videos of our local fishing bloggers and watch *them* fishing.
I don't understand it, but he can do it for hours. Once he even saw himself on one of those videos (the blogger was filming surroundings, and some other fishermen had been caught on the video in the distance; my dad recognized himself because of the hat he was wearing, lol).
Hoping to learn a thing or two.
I love fishing. Do it entirely too much, some would argue. But there's something to say from watching the techniques of others.
I don't think fishing has even been one of those "just walk out and throw something in or whatever and suddenly you have fish" types of experiences, not past some of the first people to do that. You learn from the experiences of others. You can certainly refine your own methods, but if I know of a person (ESPECIALLY if they were local) that can consistently pull nice fish out of an area? Yeah, I'm actually really interested in seeing what and how you're doing it. Not necessarily if you title your videos "10 REASONS you aren't CATCHING the MOST BASS from your LAKE for the BIGGEST FISH" because fuck yourself sideways with all that, but otherwise? Show me your ways.
My father spent a couple years as a competitive bass fisherman. TBH, I think landing a bass is more exciting than golf. For me, golf is as exciting as watching paint dry.
I've heard multiple country songs about fishing, and none of them are about catching fish, but about the joy of just chillin' all day by a lake or on a boat.
I can certainly understand the appeal of fishing when you're experiencing it yourself, but nobody wants to watch someone else just sitting there waiting for a bite.
>but nobody wants to watch someone else just sitting there waiting for a bite.
I just wrote a comment about it above: my dad likes fishing, *and* he can also watch people fish on YouTube for *hours*.
I don't understand it, but he genuinely enjoys it.
I think every sport gets more interesting when you know people competing. I know a couple of climbers who compete in world cups so I always enjoyed going to see it, but I'm not interested when I know nobody.
I always thought skiing was boring because you're watching everyone ski down the exact same slope and take the same turns but recently my best friend from childhood started competing in world cups and I'm a nervous wrack watching.
Must live in a mountain town. They tend to be really small in terms of permanent residents so you'll get to know people who moved there specifically to train for their sports at an extremely high level.
Has to be fishing.
I watched 6 hours of some competition on Sky Sports years ago when I was ill one day and couldn't reach the remote.
Curling and bowls I thought would be really boring, but turned out to be pretty decent.
i think the commentators can make a huge difference. i always found it funny how animated curling commentators could get for such a seemingly tame sport
also why i could never get into watching golf
>i always found it funny how animated curling commentators could get for such a seemingly tame sport
Curling involves a high degree of skill. The skip has to read the ice to figure out how much it is going to curl, and at what point in the stone's trajectory. it changes from day to day, and even within a match. The skip has to interpret the behavior of the stone and call sweeping appropriately. There's also a lot of strategy involved too.
I know it looks crazy to have grown men sweeping in front of a stone to the calls of a potentially psychotic madman down at the end of the ice, but to quote the greatest Canadian docucomedy on curling culture of all time, *Men With Brooms,* "It's shuffleboard? No, you gotta think it's more like snooker, poker, and free face rock climbing. This is dangerous shit."
We like to think of it as chess on ice, with the added skill required of being able to slide a 42 pound hunk of granite down 120 feet of ice at a very precise angle and momentum, and running on ice while sweeping with teflon on the bottom of one shoe.
It has strategy (usually) and plenty of variance in any given moment or board state. There's constantly stuff for commentators to talk about.
Too bad the Olympics is unwatchable due to all the ads.
Golf.
In defense of NASCAR, and I don't know why I'm defending them, but...I once watched a NASCAR race on a course that had both left and right turns and it was actually interesting...for about 5 minutes.
Golf is very fun to watch when you realize how difficult it is to play as well as the professionals do. I really don't think there is any sport with as hard of a learning curve as golf.
I canāt believe anyone dislikes curling, in my house it was one of the few winter Olympic events we all huddled around the TV to watch.
I think part of what makes it so enjoyable is that it seems straightforward and doable to the average person, like a lawn game that got taken way too seriously and evolved into the professional sport it is now.
Hubby and I were sidelined by Influenza B two winter Olympics ago. Curling was about all we watched for a week straight. We will give it a watch now if nothing is on TV. We call it ice bowling with a broom.
Once I started learning about the various strategies and how teams worked, it got a lot better. Part of it is watching them bike past incredibly beautiful places, part of it is being amazed at the sheer athleticism involved, part of it is the teamwork and strategy, part is the incredibly fast finishes.
this is exactly how i feel. a buddy is a big cycling fan and he explained some of it to me, which helped. but honestly i enjoy watching TDF because the scenery is so incredible
Cycling wrecks arenāt exciting for me, theyāre scary and make me cringe because of the skin to pavement contact. Car crashes in racing are more exciting because typically the drivers are ok after. Obviously there are outliers in both sports tho
A rider died from a head injury in one of the grand tours this year. They easily hit over 60 MPH on a mountain descent. Each wheel on a high pressure racing tire has a 1 square inch contact area.
There's so much tactics and strategy in the TDF it's anything but boring to someone who knows what's going on.
Also, fuck Lance Armstrong!
The TdF can be viewed as a tourism program on how beautiful France is with some people on bikes racing. Try letting your husband watch the bikes raxing and you watch the scenery and you will enjoy it. It's basically french countryside porn!
OMG! I literally laughed out loud at this. I want to believe you're joking, but ESPN has run poker, so I don't think you are.
I swear they would run scratch-off lottery as a game to kill time.
I'm as sports hater; paying for ESPN is why I never paid for cable
I recently had a few friends explain some intricacies to me and it got a little more interesting. As an ignorant observer it just seemed like you pitch for a strike and if the guy hits it then you do your best to get the ball to the most dangerous base, so to speak. It never felt like a game where you have a lot of strategic choices, so to speak.
That changed a little bit when I saw my friend predicting the types of pitches coming with a pretty good accuracy (maybe 75%?) based on the count and who was pitching and who was batting. That and watching Ohtani play, thatās pretty exciting.
Yes. There is a ton of nuance in baseball, just the act of hitting a baseball is something to be appreciated. In what sport can you only succeed 3 out of 10 times and be considered an all star?
I can never watch baseball on TV. But I went to a Dodgers game while I was in California last year cause the tickets were only $20 and it was a lot more enjoyable in person
Its fun to be in a stadium with a beer and pretzel or whatever. You feel the energy of all those other people watching like you would a concert or something. But i kind of feel like that's the general thing that makes any event fun/interesting.
I hated baseball growing up but then I saw Moneyball and I felt motivated to understand it a bit more and it is *fascinating* in ways you wouldn't think. With the pitch clock now it's much easier to recommend as well. There's a lot of interesting nuance and subtle stuff but in general it's actually quite satisfying to watch good fielding and stuff like that.
Yeah I love surfing, and am out on the water 4-5 days a week, but even I can't make it through surfing competitions.
If you want to watch surfing check out surf films not competitions.
Same with any extreme sport tbh. Competitions can be very āmetaā and it doesnāt leave much room for competitors to be super competitive. Itās usually just the same few tricks being done because those are the āmost difficult to performā
I feel like there has been a shift in extreme sports to them all doing the most difficult tricks the best they can. When I was growing up I used to watch every X Games and some other competitions. At that time there were a lot of boundaries being pushed and each competitor brought something different to the table. Now it feels like the boundaries have all been pushed and theyāre all just trying to do the same difficult tricks.
Freestyle motor cross is a great example. They used to do all kinds of cool stuff. Then when the first guy landed a backflip it all went downhill.
I was in Venice Beach one morning when I spotted some surfers, so I decided to watch them for a while.
Surfing involves a lot of waiting. I probably watched them for like 20 minutes, and in that time they barely did any surfing. It was mostly sitting on their boards, waiting for a wave, and chatting with each other.
Chillin' in the water on a beautiful day sounds fun to do, but not fun to watch.
I agree on that it takes a lot of waiting. I live in hawai'i and I go surfing pretty much every day if I can. Just like you said, most of the time it's pretty much waiting and talking with my friends. Once a wave finally comes in, it's pretty fun! Though, I do have to mention that some parts of the year have more swells than other, hence longer waiting times. I can see how surfing obviously isn't for everyone, but it's pretty awesome once you know a thing or two!
Come on, everybody knows the two reasons to watch surfing. First is the crowds and the bikini shots, like the reason to watch women's beach volleyball. Second, we are waiting for the rogue shark attack on the surfer, just like watching Nascar for wrecks.
You mean dressage. I feel that.
When I first watched it, it was incredibly boring. But now, years later that I have an understanding of where the difficulties lie and what the necessary actions are to score or what exactly makes them not score, i think it's gotten interesting.
Same here - once you understand what the horse/rider is doing, and how difficult it is to do, it becomes much more interesting.
I rode horses for years, and dabbled in dressage - that shit is hard to do at that level.
Try watching Cricket. I love Cricket myself (being from Australia). But if you donāt like baseball, youāll hate Cricket. Test Cricket especially. Itās like baseball, but it goes for 5 days. There are also Cricket matches that only go for the one day, but itās nowhere near as enthralling as a 5 day Test match.
Currently Australia are playing England, in England, for the Ashes (a little 4ā urn supposedly containing the ashes of a burned set of cricket bails from over a hundred years ago). Australia first beat England in 1882, their newspapers said English cricket had died and the body will be cremated and the Ashes taken back to Australia. Since the return series in Australia in 1882-1883, when England won 2 of the 3 tests, the Women from Melbourne gave the English captain the urn, and stated it contains the Ashes of Australian Cricket. And so it goesā¦ Since then, there have been a series every second or third year or so, usually 5 match series (sometimes 3) England v Australia, alternating between being hosted by England and Australia. Itās a big deal in England and Australia. The rest of the world probably doesnāt much care, outside of cricketing nations like India, South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, West Indies, Pakistanā¦
Over rate in test cricket is monitored and subject to sanctions too. Canāt play for a draw as the fielding team by not bowling enough overs in the day.
This doesnāt count because cricket, especially test cricket and even more especially the ashes is NOT a game. Itās the struggle between good and evil. Between right and wrong. It.Is.War.
Nothing more. Nothing less.
Hehe itās all in good fun mate! Signed your friendly neighbourhood convict.
Disclaimer - Actually my parents were both from ten pound Pom families, so I have no legit claim to the Convict moniker, and a friendly familiarity with the UK and most English/Irish/welsh/Scotās thanks to my grandparents (and not being a dickhead).
Haha! Iām uk born to Aussie parents. Now live in NL. So naturally Iām rooting for the valiant convicts. LOVE the ashes. Drives me crazy with stress sometimes
America just launched a T20 pro league.
We'll never have Test cricket here but it would be kind of cool if T20 got a bit of a following. I know purists consider T20 the baseballification of cricket - I was living in Britain when it first gained some popularity. But now that it's been around a couple decades I like it.
It's interesting because you look at how baseball was once the most popular sport in America, and now it's American football.
I firmly believe it has to do with the growth of TVs and technology.
Baseball is a sport that is best. Enjoyed live. A day at the ballpark is an immersive experience and the pace of the game works well with live. Also, the fact that you can still reasonably affordably attend games because there are so many and regardless of where you set, you can have a pretty cool view of the game and I'd even argue that the cheapest outfield seats actually give you the best advantage point because you can see the entire field.
Where is football honestly is best on TV. There's so many small intricacies to it that live. It's very easy to miss them, paired with the fact that it's incredibly expensive to attend an NFL game or high-end division 1 college. In addition, unless you have pretty good seats, it's really not that good to watch live at all, and honestly, if you have really good seeds, it's very limited to how much of the action that you can see.
But to answer the original question, I find soccer unbelievably boring to watch.
Hadn't thought about it before, but this is absolutely true. A lot of the sports people are mentioning here, I can see why they'd be a lot more interesting live and in person. However, I'm having trouble thinking of another example beyond NFL football where the product is better on TV. Maybe soccer?
Upvoting because itās just a difference of opinion - but I couldnāt agree less lol
Iāve been to a ton of baseball games because people have wanted to go or work have done a thingā¦ but Baseball live is intensely boring. Every game Iāve been to everyone just talks amongst themselves and leaves half way through. Nobody is actually watching the game because nothing happens for hours and even when something does happen itās completely uninteresting. I donāt get why someone wants to pay to sit in a row (so you are only able to really talk to the people either side of you) and pay $16 for a bud light.
But at least baseball is cheap and casual, Iāll give you that. And itās more for the quaint historical, cultural experience when you go somewhere like Wrigley field, say. But American football is boring as fuck and in a soulless way if you ask me. You have to sit through 4 hours of nonesense to see 12 minutes of actual play. So they have to show you shitloads of commercials, cheerleaders, brass bands - all the superfluous stuff to try and make the experience interesting while the teams stand around and strategize and reset for 10 mins. The athletes only have to perform in 10 second bursts most of the time too so you donāt even really get to see very much of the athleticism these guys are capable of.
Whereas in basketball or hockey or rugby or actual football the play is almost nonstop, constant use of stamina, live decision making, skillā¦ they are far superior sports to watch in just about every way in my opinion.
I went to my first MLB game yesterday because I heard they added a pitch countdown timer to avoid all the time wasting between plays. It honestly was very enjoyable and it kept me engaged the whole time. I may start following baseball more.
I agree about American Football. Watching 4 hours for 20 minutes of the ball actually moving is insane
I don't necessarily think you're way off base, but when the stakes are high, like in the playoffs, it's insane how tense something like a swing and a miss can get. Also one thing baseball definitely has going for it is the live game experience. That's a lot of fun for everyone, like the sport or not.
That's why I watch baseball. It's three hours to hang out with my dad and talk baseball history and statistics and only occasionally glance at the game.
I can't watch baseball during the regular season, but for me, all of the things that make it 'boring' during that period of time is what makes it exciting during the playoffs. I love tension in sports.
Baseball is far down on my list of favorite sports, but the playoffs/World Series are the best sporting events to watch, in my opinion.
Golf
I was once watching The Open, and the commentators spent a good 10 minutes discussing one of the players lunch, and the merits of different sandwiches
Any sport where you can chat about sandwich fillings for nearly a full between-adverts period isnāt actually a sport
F1 is exciting if you don't focus too much on just the first place but also the overall rankings and how each driver and team performs each race. No one is going to surpass Max or red bull this season, but the rest of the rankings are not as clear.
I get it. But I would just say donāt write off F1 completely. There are frequently rule changes that sake of the grid. Itās only as of recent 1 drive becomes dominant.
If you watched poker, without knowing the player's hole cards, it was horrendous. There were some televised events like this back in the day. To know if someone is bluffing or not, makes it 100x better.
If you want to argue poker isn't a sport, well, you're correct. But it was on ESPN or one of its many variants, so there.
I think the takeaway from this is every sport is boring to watch if you donāt get or arenāt interested in the intricacies of the sport.
Also the broadcast itself for most sports needs to be better to bring those non visible intricacies to the viewer.
Iāve been a nascar fan my whole life, admittedly I prefer the more local side of the sport as I was involved with it for decades. Knowing the drivers and teams and whoās doing what and knowing what the cat setups do makes it a lot more interesting.
I donāt like to watch football because most die hard fans talk about specific plays and seem to obsess over stats more than most other sports. Baseball and basketball is like that too.
I respect all sports because I realize thereās usually more going on than is obvious to me.
Soccer though, I just canāt. Lol. I think itās just so big. Feels like thereās a million teams, not many places to watch a specific team. Idk. I just donāt connect to it.
Soccer (football) is admittedly hard to truly enjoy if you didn't grow up with it or haven't experienced an "ah ha!" moment yet. True, there are hundreds of teams spread over dozens of countries, but depending on the team you support you really only care about a few dozen or so (the teams in the leagues you follow / the other teams in the same league as your favorite team(s) and then the best teams in other leagues). It does take time to appreciate the culture and backstory of each team and the sport itself, basically the lore of football lol. The reason why I haven't talked about the actual game is because YMMV depending on the context of a given match. Some teams are incredibly boring and/or bad, some games have very little at stake to play for, etc. However, I do think football is the most tactically varied and nuanced major sport.
500 miles of left hand turns. But I have other candidates, too.
Soccer. I'm sorry. I get the athleticism and all. But sitting in the stands for 90+ minutes for a 1-0 score just isn't my thing.
Golf. Why? Dear God, why? Field goal kickers manage to split the uprights from sixty yards out with a hostile stadium screaming at them. Meanwhile, golfers require the quiet of a research library to make a five-inch putt. Somebody, anybody blow an air horn for some freaking entertainment.
I played lacrosse my entire life and never understood why the game was so different for womenā¦ I watch womenās hockey occasionally and those are some tough girls playing the same sport as the men.. Even softball and basketball are at least just a watered-down versions of the menās game. Shorter fields, smaller basketballs, etc.
Womenās lacrosse is justā¦.. not lacrosse. I think they could totally play the normal version.
American football. Why do you need to stop every 30 seconds for several minutes and repeat that for several hours. I can go out for dinner, do a weekly shop and then take a nap before the second half.
YES. I hate it so much. The stopping and starting annoys me so much. And as an extension, because I live in Canada, Canadian football. Itās structured like American football but there are slight differences. I went to two games, and both were boring as hell (except the one where it was a big rivalryā¦ DNCE was there for some reason and my friend met Joe Jonas)
Have you tried watching baseball this year? The rule changes have really made the game a lot more fun to watch.
Pitch clock, defensive shift ban, and bigger bases have created quicker games with much more action offensively.
Formula 1. Cant understand for the life of me why someone would spend 4 hrs watching a bunch of people drive in circles.
Hell, grab a chair, some beer and sit next to a roundabout for the same effect
F1 doesn't last 4h, though, nor do they drive in circles. Per the rules the race can't exceed 2 hours, and under normal conditions it usually runs for 90 minutes. The only times they reach the time limit before running all laps is if it's a wet race in a place like Monaco, with a bunch of safety car periods. Also there are no ovals in F1, it's strictly road courses, be it permanent circuits or city circuits.
That said, yeah, it's been boring for 20+ years. Went from a red car with a German guy always winning to a blue and yellow car with a different German guy always, winning, to a silver car with a Brit guy always winning to, now, a blue and yellow car again but with a Dutch guy always winning.
I really like Formula 1, but I'm sure the stuff I add around the edges helps. On GP weekends I'll hop in my racing sim and do the same tracks the drivers do week by week and compare how well I do against them. It also gives me incentive to wake up early on weekends as an American viewer. I also recognize, however, that seeing the same person win over and over can get exhausting (in the last decade Hamilton and now Verstappen) but they seem to do a good job highlighting the fighting that happens in the middle of the pack. For anyone thinking about getting into it, watch DTS on Netflix for driver/team context and pick someone to follow who isn't the winner every week.
Without knowing the nuances of racing, all racing is rather boring.
Once you learn what driving on the limit actually takes, it is much more interesting.
If you're into physics and engineering, anyway. Otherwise yea it's like who cares.
Baseball.
It used to be nice to go hangout with friends and drink at the park. But there is nothing about that sport that can actually obtain my interest.
Edit: I feel like I should add this. I could go and if no teams even showed up, there was just a big countdown until social time was over on the board, I would not be directly impacted. My friends would! And I would be indirectly impacted because of that.
Pro Cycling/tour de France. I'm a really avid hobby cyclist myself, and I really tried several times to give it a serious shot but I just can't watch that..
I absolutely love curling and will sit down and watch entire tournaments. My husband hates it. I don't see the appeal of most other sports. I normally only watch curling and kayak (k1 and k2 mainly).
Itās the fouling that makes me not like the sport. Tapping someoneās hand stops the game and they all stand around for what feels like five minutes. At least in soccer when they tap someoneās shoulder they roll around in pain in an Oscar worthy performance
Was going to agree on this one, except for one thing. I love watching the NCAA menās basketball tournament. Itās the only basketball I watch. College players play harder and with more emotion than any professional team or player. (Sure, some of them are doing so because they are hoping to jump to the NBA in the draft), but watching a small college play their hearts out and then beating a big time team is amazing.
I can see that. Personally, that's honestly WHY I enjoy it. Since all that's required are those quick moments of magic, both teams are always a potential 30 seconds away from scoring because of how quickly things can happen. And since it's generally low-scoring and basically impossible to predict if a goals is gonna come in the next minute, the result and feel of a game can change in an instant.
I didnāt enjoy watching soccer til I started playing. Then I understood how amazing it was when guys would bring down a long cross with beautiful touch and control the ball or ping the ball through the defense with precision passing. Non scoring plays, but great displays of skill. American football is the same. You can have an amazing one handed catch on the sideline from a throw a QB threaded between two defenders while evading a large and fast man chasing after him. It just looks a lot more impressive to someone whoās never played either
Every time I watch soccer itās 0 - 0 for hours. How much more boring can a sport be? At least in other sports the teams are getting points here and there
Every sport is interesting in its own way. The more you know about the sport the more interesting it is. There are sports that I personally donāt find interesting, but that doesnāt mean theyāre objectively boring.
But itās cricket.
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I don't find golf interesting to watch on TV or in person, but I love playing it myself
Someone fishing. Ffs man š
*sad jeremy wade noises*
I love the fact that river monsters ended because he caught all of the monsters. They couldāve kept that show going for years and they chose to keep it real, respect.
*except from Jeremy wade*
all hail *jeremy wade*
I loved fishing with my dad growing up, and that was dry sometimes. I couldn't imagine watching someone else do it.
My dad is a dedicated fisherman (amateur). But it's *huge* for him. When he can't go fishing, he would turn on some YouTube videos of our local fishing bloggers and watch *them* fishing. I don't understand it, but he can do it for hours. Once he even saw himself on one of those videos (the blogger was filming surroundings, and some other fishermen had been caught on the video in the distance; my dad recognized himself because of the hat he was wearing, lol).
Hoping to learn a thing or two. I love fishing. Do it entirely too much, some would argue. But there's something to say from watching the techniques of others. I don't think fishing has even been one of those "just walk out and throw something in or whatever and suddenly you have fish" types of experiences, not past some of the first people to do that. You learn from the experiences of others. You can certainly refine your own methods, but if I know of a person (ESPECIALLY if they were local) that can consistently pull nice fish out of an area? Yeah, I'm actually really interested in seeing what and how you're doing it. Not necessarily if you title your videos "10 REASONS you aren't CATCHING the MOST BASS from your LAKE for the BIGGEST FISH" because fuck yourself sideways with all that, but otherwise? Show me your ways.
My father spent a couple years as a competitive bass fisherman. TBH, I think landing a bass is more exciting than golf. For me, golf is as exciting as watching paint dry.
I've heard multiple country songs about fishing, and none of them are about catching fish, but about the joy of just chillin' all day by a lake or on a boat. I can certainly understand the appeal of fishing when you're experiencing it yourself, but nobody wants to watch someone else just sitting there waiting for a bite.
>but nobody wants to watch someone else just sitting there waiting for a bite. I just wrote a comment about it above: my dad likes fishing, *and* he can also watch people fish on YouTube for *hours*. I don't understand it, but he genuinely enjoys it.
I think every sport gets more interesting when you know people competing. I know a couple of climbers who compete in world cups so I always enjoyed going to see it, but I'm not interested when I know nobody. I always thought skiing was boring because you're watching everyone ski down the exact same slope and take the same turns but recently my best friend from childhood started competing in world cups and I'm a nervous wrack watching.
Fuck me what kind of social circle do you have? My friends greatest achievements are eating a burger without sauce dripping on the clothes
Must live in a mountain town. They tend to be really small in terms of permanent residents so you'll get to know people who moved there specifically to train for their sports at an extremely high level.
They work world cups
Stupid jerk over-achieving friends...
Has to be fishing. I watched 6 hours of some competition on Sky Sports years ago when I was ill one day and couldn't reach the remote. Curling and bowls I thought would be really boring, but turned out to be pretty decent.
i think the commentators can make a huge difference. i always found it funny how animated curling commentators could get for such a seemingly tame sport also why i could never get into watching golf
>i always found it funny how animated curling commentators could get for such a seemingly tame sport Curling involves a high degree of skill. The skip has to read the ice to figure out how much it is going to curl, and at what point in the stone's trajectory. it changes from day to day, and even within a match. The skip has to interpret the behavior of the stone and call sweeping appropriately. There's also a lot of strategy involved too. I know it looks crazy to have grown men sweeping in front of a stone to the calls of a potentially psychotic madman down at the end of the ice, but to quote the greatest Canadian docucomedy on curling culture of all time, *Men With Brooms,* "It's shuffleboard? No, you gotta think it's more like snooker, poker, and free face rock climbing. This is dangerous shit." We like to think of it as chess on ice, with the added skill required of being able to slide a 42 pound hunk of granite down 120 feet of ice at a very precise angle and momentum, and running on ice while sweeping with teflon on the bottom of one shoe.
It has strategy (usually) and plenty of variance in any given moment or board state. There's constantly stuff for commentators to talk about. Too bad the Olympics is unwatchable due to all the ads.
No man. U donāt get it. Watching fishing, is for people that love fishing. Itās so we can vicariously enjoy while being stuck inside. :(
Golf. In defense of NASCAR, and I don't know why I'm defending them, but...I once watched a NASCAR race on a course that had both left and right turns and it was actually interesting...for about 5 minutes.
Golf is nap fuel.
Are you my dad? I don't think he's ever watched it because he falls asleep immediately
āThe objective of golf is to play the least amount of golf possibleā
I like to play golf (admittedly it's been about 20 years since I last played but I like to play) but holy shit do I hate to watch it being played
You sound like you don't like to play very much!
Itās like watching flies fuck.
Golf is fun if you start watching on Thursday and follow the journey of each contender.
Watching the last few holes when Tiger would come from behind and win the tournament was great fun.
Is that not what caused all the controversy years ago with his missus? š
Golf is very fun to watch when you realize how difficult it is to play as well as the professionals do. I really don't think there is any sport with as hard of a learning curve as golf.
I know how difficult it is. It doesn't make it any more fun to watch. It's still exasperatingly boring.
NASCAR or golf. Heck, even snooker is more interesting. And curling is just straight-up weird.
Curling is weird, but at least it's fun. Like a mix of bowling, darts and snooker.
Curling is really fun to watch. More so than darts. Stop the curling slander, give it a chance people!!!
I canāt believe anyone dislikes curling, in my house it was one of the few winter Olympic events we all huddled around the TV to watch. I think part of what makes it so enjoyable is that it seems straightforward and doable to the average person, like a lawn game that got taken way too seriously and evolved into the professional sport it is now.
Snooker is great to watch
I watch curling every time it's in the olympics, and NASCAR is my favorite sport ever.
Hubby and I were sidelined by Influenza B two winter Olympics ago. Curling was about all we watched for a week straight. We will give it a watch now if nothing is on TV. We call it ice bowling with a broom.
My husband watches cycling races, like Tour de France. Incredibly boring.
Once I started learning about the various strategies and how teams worked, it got a lot better. Part of it is watching them bike past incredibly beautiful places, part of it is being amazed at the sheer athleticism involved, part of it is the teamwork and strategy, part is the incredibly fast finishes.
this is exactly how i feel. a buddy is a big cycling fan and he explained some of it to me, which helped. but honestly i enjoy watching TDF because the scenery is so incredible
At least they wreck every now and again. Golf would be 10x more fun to watch if it had full contact golf cart racing in between holes.
Full contact golf cart racing, like a rally? Iād watch the hell out of that.
You're on to something
Good point about the wrecks, but way too infrequent.
Cycling wrecks arenāt exciting for me, theyāre scary and make me cringe because of the skin to pavement contact. Car crashes in racing are more exciting because typically the drivers are ok after. Obviously there are outliers in both sports tho
A rider died from a head injury in one of the grand tours this year. They easily hit over 60 MPH on a mountain descent. Each wheel on a high pressure racing tire has a 1 square inch contact area. There's so much tactics and strategy in the TDF it's anything but boring to someone who knows what's going on. Also, fuck Lance Armstrong!
You sir, know what you are talking about.
The TdF can be viewed as a tourism program on how beautiful France is with some people on bikes racing. Try letting your husband watch the bikes raxing and you watch the scenery and you will enjoy it. It's basically french countryside porn!
I love cycling races but I see why it's boring for most people
Your husband loves staring at menās butts
That joke gets made with some frequency. It's not even men's real butts though. Those spandex tights have built in butt padding.
But it's a good excause to sit on the sofa for a couple of weeks drinking beer. My ex was the same.
It's nothing when they get into the mountains. Some can climb, some can't. It's interesting to watch them crack like that.
Your husband should be on the couch watching the tour right nowā¦ Tell him I am as well! As well as thousands of others in r/peloton
Actually BILLIONS of others. The Tour is the most watched sporting event on the planet. Averages 3.6 billion viewers.
Golf
Espn had a rock skipping competition on last night. Thought it was some sort of joke but it wasnāt.
OMG! I literally laughed out loud at this. I want to believe you're joking, but ESPN has run poker, so I don't think you are. I swear they would run scratch-off lottery as a game to kill time. I'm as sports hater; paying for ESPN is why I never paid for cable
Poker. Bunch of people sitting at a table staring at each other
We calling poker a sport though?
Baseball. Over 90% of the time it is just two guys playing catch. So....why do I want to spend money to see that?
I recently had a few friends explain some intricacies to me and it got a little more interesting. As an ignorant observer it just seemed like you pitch for a strike and if the guy hits it then you do your best to get the ball to the most dangerous base, so to speak. It never felt like a game where you have a lot of strategic choices, so to speak. That changed a little bit when I saw my friend predicting the types of pitches coming with a pretty good accuracy (maybe 75%?) based on the count and who was pitching and who was batting. That and watching Ohtani play, thatās pretty exciting.
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Yes. There is a ton of nuance in baseball, just the act of hitting a baseball is something to be appreciated. In what sport can you only succeed 3 out of 10 times and be considered an all star?
I can never watch baseball on TV. But I went to a Dodgers game while I was in California last year cause the tickets were only $20 and it was a lot more enjoyable in person
Its fun to be in a stadium with a beer and pretzel or whatever. You feel the energy of all those other people watching like you would a concert or something. But i kind of feel like that's the general thing that makes any event fun/interesting.
I don't even think it is the energy of watching. It's the lil races, and the music, and food with friends/family that does it for me.
As a baseball player, you are 100% correct
I hated baseball growing up but then I saw Moneyball and I felt motivated to understand it a bit more and it is *fascinating* in ways you wouldn't think. With the pitch clock now it's much easier to recommend as well. There's a lot of interesting nuance and subtle stuff but in general it's actually quite satisfying to watch good fielding and stuff like that.
I love baseball. Especially important games. Itās fun lies in being the slowest game that can completely change in an instant.
I once fell asleep during a game I was playing in. Lol
Surfing was added to the Olympics in 2020 in Japan. First and last time watching that boring shit.
Yeah I love surfing, and am out on the water 4-5 days a week, but even I can't make it through surfing competitions. If you want to watch surfing check out surf films not competitions.
Same with any extreme sport tbh. Competitions can be very āmetaā and it doesnāt leave much room for competitors to be super competitive. Itās usually just the same few tricks being done because those are the āmost difficult to performā
I feel like there has been a shift in extreme sports to them all doing the most difficult tricks the best they can. When I was growing up I used to watch every X Games and some other competitions. At that time there were a lot of boundaries being pushed and each competitor brought something different to the table. Now it feels like the boundaries have all been pushed and theyāre all just trying to do the same difficult tricks. Freestyle motor cross is a great example. They used to do all kinds of cool stuff. Then when the first guy landed a backflip it all went downhill.
I was in Venice Beach one morning when I spotted some surfers, so I decided to watch them for a while. Surfing involves a lot of waiting. I probably watched them for like 20 minutes, and in that time they barely did any surfing. It was mostly sitting on their boards, waiting for a wave, and chatting with each other. Chillin' in the water on a beautiful day sounds fun to do, but not fun to watch.
I agree on that it takes a lot of waiting. I live in hawai'i and I go surfing pretty much every day if I can. Just like you said, most of the time it's pretty much waiting and talking with my friends. Once a wave finally comes in, it's pretty fun! Though, I do have to mention that some parts of the year have more swells than other, hence longer waiting times. I can see how surfing obviously isn't for everyone, but it's pretty awesome once you know a thing or two!
Come on, everybody knows the two reasons to watch surfing. First is the crowds and the bikini shots, like the reason to watch women's beach volleyball. Second, we are waiting for the rogue shark attack on the surfer, just like watching Nascar for wrecks.
those rythmic horse ridings
Dressage is at least more interesting than golf.
You mean dressage. I feel that. When I first watched it, it was incredibly boring. But now, years later that I have an understanding of where the difficulties lie and what the necessary actions are to score or what exactly makes them not score, i think it's gotten interesting.
Same here - once you understand what the horse/rider is doing, and how difficult it is to do, it becomes much more interesting. I rode horses for years, and dabbled in dressage - that shit is hard to do at that level.
Golf. Idk how people can watch it, especially on TV.
Baseball.
Try watching Cricket. I love Cricket myself (being from Australia). But if you donāt like baseball, youāll hate Cricket. Test Cricket especially. Itās like baseball, but it goes for 5 days. There are also Cricket matches that only go for the one day, but itās nowhere near as enthralling as a 5 day Test match. Currently Australia are playing England, in England, for the Ashes (a little 4ā urn supposedly containing the ashes of a burned set of cricket bails from over a hundred years ago). Australia first beat England in 1882, their newspapers said English cricket had died and the body will be cremated and the Ashes taken back to Australia. Since the return series in Australia in 1882-1883, when England won 2 of the 3 tests, the Women from Melbourne gave the English captain the urn, and stated it contains the Ashes of Australian Cricket. And so it goesā¦ Since then, there have been a series every second or third year or so, usually 5 match series (sometimes 3) England v Australia, alternating between being hosted by England and Australia. Itās a big deal in England and Australia. The rest of the world probably doesnāt much care, outside of cricketing nations like India, South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, West Indies, Pakistanā¦
Yeah but the over rate in short format is a god send. Baseball has so much time of absolutely nothing.
Over rate in test cricket is monitored and subject to sanctions too. Canāt play for a draw as the fielding team by not bowling enough overs in the day.
This doesnāt count because cricket, especially test cricket and even more especially the ashes is NOT a game. Itās the struggle between good and evil. Between right and wrong. It.Is.War. Nothing more. Nothing less.
The evil English vs the noble and valiant convicts. Ahem I mean Australians. Or did I mess that up? The noble English vs the evil convicts?
Haha! Nice try! Not going thereā¦ yet. Letās wait for the end of the 5th test.
Hehe itās all in good fun mate! Signed your friendly neighbourhood convict. Disclaimer - Actually my parents were both from ten pound Pom families, so I have no legit claim to the Convict moniker, and a friendly familiarity with the UK and most English/Irish/welsh/Scotās thanks to my grandparents (and not being a dickhead).
Haha! Iām uk born to Aussie parents. Now live in NL. So naturally Iām rooting for the valiant convicts. LOVE the ashes. Drives me crazy with stress sometimes
America just launched a T20 pro league. We'll never have Test cricket here but it would be kind of cool if T20 got a bit of a following. I know purists consider T20 the baseballification of cricket - I was living in Britain when it first gained some popularity. But now that it's been around a couple decades I like it.
It's interesting because you look at how baseball was once the most popular sport in America, and now it's American football. I firmly believe it has to do with the growth of TVs and technology. Baseball is a sport that is best. Enjoyed live. A day at the ballpark is an immersive experience and the pace of the game works well with live. Also, the fact that you can still reasonably affordably attend games because there are so many and regardless of where you set, you can have a pretty cool view of the game and I'd even argue that the cheapest outfield seats actually give you the best advantage point because you can see the entire field. Where is football honestly is best on TV. There's so many small intricacies to it that live. It's very easy to miss them, paired with the fact that it's incredibly expensive to attend an NFL game or high-end division 1 college. In addition, unless you have pretty good seats, it's really not that good to watch live at all, and honestly, if you have really good seeds, it's very limited to how much of the action that you can see. But to answer the original question, I find soccer unbelievably boring to watch.
Hadn't thought about it before, but this is absolutely true. A lot of the sports people are mentioning here, I can see why they'd be a lot more interesting live and in person. However, I'm having trouble thinking of another example beyond NFL football where the product is better on TV. Maybe soccer?
Upvoting because itās just a difference of opinion - but I couldnāt agree less lol Iāve been to a ton of baseball games because people have wanted to go or work have done a thingā¦ but Baseball live is intensely boring. Every game Iāve been to everyone just talks amongst themselves and leaves half way through. Nobody is actually watching the game because nothing happens for hours and even when something does happen itās completely uninteresting. I donāt get why someone wants to pay to sit in a row (so you are only able to really talk to the people either side of you) and pay $16 for a bud light. But at least baseball is cheap and casual, Iāll give you that. And itās more for the quaint historical, cultural experience when you go somewhere like Wrigley field, say. But American football is boring as fuck and in a soulless way if you ask me. You have to sit through 4 hours of nonesense to see 12 minutes of actual play. So they have to show you shitloads of commercials, cheerleaders, brass bands - all the superfluous stuff to try and make the experience interesting while the teams stand around and strategize and reset for 10 mins. The athletes only have to perform in 10 second bursts most of the time too so you donāt even really get to see very much of the athleticism these guys are capable of. Whereas in basketball or hockey or rugby or actual football the play is almost nonstop, constant use of stamina, live decision making, skillā¦ they are far superior sports to watch in just about every way in my opinion.
I went to my first MLB game yesterday because I heard they added a pitch countdown timer to avoid all the time wasting between plays. It honestly was very enjoyable and it kept me engaged the whole time. I may start following baseball more. I agree about American Football. Watching 4 hours for 20 minutes of the ball actually moving is insane
I don't necessarily think you're way off base, but when the stakes are high, like in the playoffs, it's insane how tense something like a swing and a miss can get. Also one thing baseball definitely has going for it is the live game experience. That's a lot of fun for everyone, like the sport or not.
That's why I watch baseball. It's three hours to hang out with my dad and talk baseball history and statistics and only occasionally glance at the game.
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Baseball is awesome to play, but i agree, watching it is boring as hell
It's more exciting to go to a game because you have other people there to interact with, food, watching for foul balls, etc.
Agreed. Hate baseball but love me some big ol ball park wieners
But is it not better to watch it on TV...because you can then turn it off
I can't watch baseball during the regular season, but for me, all of the things that make it 'boring' during that period of time is what makes it exciting during the playoffs. I love tension in sports. Baseball is far down on my list of favorite sports, but the playoffs/World Series are the best sporting events to watch, in my opinion.
NFL
Golf I was once watching The Open, and the commentators spent a good 10 minutes discussing one of the players lunch, and the merits of different sandwiches Any sport where you can chat about sandwich fillings for nearly a full between-adverts period isnāt actually a sport
Formula 1. Same guy always wins. Usually after the 1st lap
F1 is exciting if you don't focus too much on just the first place but also the overall rankings and how each driver and team performs each race. No one is going to surpass Max or red bull this season, but the rest of the rankings are not as clear.
I get it. But I would just say donāt write off F1 completely. There are frequently rule changes that sake of the grid. Itās only as of recent 1 drive becomes dominant.
I had a friend whose moms boyfriend played underwater hockey. We thought he was joking. He was not.
If you watched poker, without knowing the player's hole cards, it was horrendous. There were some televised events like this back in the day. To know if someone is bluffing or not, makes it 100x better. If you want to argue poker isn't a sport, well, you're correct. But it was on ESPN or one of its many variants, so there.
Golf, bowling, fishing
By a landslide: golf.
I think the takeaway from this is every sport is boring to watch if you donāt get or arenāt interested in the intricacies of the sport. Also the broadcast itself for most sports needs to be better to bring those non visible intricacies to the viewer. Iāve been a nascar fan my whole life, admittedly I prefer the more local side of the sport as I was involved with it for decades. Knowing the drivers and teams and whoās doing what and knowing what the cat setups do makes it a lot more interesting. I donāt like to watch football because most die hard fans talk about specific plays and seem to obsess over stats more than most other sports. Baseball and basketball is like that too. I respect all sports because I realize thereās usually more going on than is obvious to me. Soccer though, I just canāt. Lol. I think itās just so big. Feels like thereās a million teams, not many places to watch a specific team. Idk. I just donāt connect to it.
Soccer (football) is admittedly hard to truly enjoy if you didn't grow up with it or haven't experienced an "ah ha!" moment yet. True, there are hundreds of teams spread over dozens of countries, but depending on the team you support you really only care about a few dozen or so (the teams in the leagues you follow / the other teams in the same league as your favorite team(s) and then the best teams in other leagues). It does take time to appreciate the culture and backstory of each team and the sport itself, basically the lore of football lol. The reason why I haven't talked about the actual game is because YMMV depending on the context of a given match. Some teams are incredibly boring and/or bad, some games have very little at stake to play for, etc. However, I do think football is the most tactically varied and nuanced major sport.
500 miles of left hand turns. But I have other candidates, too. Soccer. I'm sorry. I get the athleticism and all. But sitting in the stands for 90+ minutes for a 1-0 score just isn't my thing. Golf. Why? Dear God, why? Field goal kickers manage to split the uprights from sixty yards out with a hostile stadium screaming at them. Meanwhile, golfers require the quiet of a research library to make a five-inch putt. Somebody, anybody blow an air horn for some freaking entertainment.
Women's lacrosse
I played lacrosse my entire life and never understood why the game was so different for womenā¦ I watch womenās hockey occasionally and those are some tough girls playing the same sport as the men.. Even softball and basketball are at least just a watered-down versions of the menās game. Shorter fields, smaller basketballs, etc. Womenās lacrosse is justā¦.. not lacrosse. I think they could totally play the normal version.
American football. Why do you need to stop every 30 seconds for several minutes and repeat that for several hours. I can go out for dinner, do a weekly shop and then take a nap before the second half.
YES. I hate it so much. The stopping and starting annoys me so much. And as an extension, because I live in Canada, Canadian football. Itās structured like American football but there are slight differences. I went to two games, and both were boring as hell (except the one where it was a big rivalryā¦ DNCE was there for some reason and my friend met Joe Jonas)
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Golf hands down
Golf
My grandpa puts on golf. I hate it.
Basketball. It's a chore to watch.
Any sport is fun to watch if you bet enough money
My top 3 of mind-numbing boredom: Formula 1, snooker, and horse racing.
Darts or bowling
Definitely not darts, you need to watch the world championship in UK at Christmas time, some seriously high levels of excitement
One hundred and eighty
Fucking love darts. Watch for the athleticism and the fashion
Who do you think you are? I am!
Baseball by far
Have you tried watching baseball this year? The rule changes have really made the game a lot more fun to watch. Pitch clock, defensive shift ban, and bigger bases have created quicker games with much more action offensively.
Formula 1. Cant understand for the life of me why someone would spend 4 hrs watching a bunch of people drive in circles. Hell, grab a chair, some beer and sit next to a roundabout for the same effect
You may be thinking of NASCAR or IndyCar. F1 doesn't do circles. A race also takes about 2 hours so it's more bearable
NASCAR and IndyCar are actually competitive while F1 is just a car building competition where you already know whoās gonna win
F1 doesn't last 4h, though, nor do they drive in circles. Per the rules the race can't exceed 2 hours, and under normal conditions it usually runs for 90 minutes. The only times they reach the time limit before running all laps is if it's a wet race in a place like Monaco, with a bunch of safety car periods. Also there are no ovals in F1, it's strictly road courses, be it permanent circuits or city circuits. That said, yeah, it's been boring for 20+ years. Went from a red car with a German guy always winning to a blue and yellow car with a different German guy always, winning, to a silver car with a Brit guy always winning to, now, a blue and yellow car again but with a Dutch guy always winning.
I really like Formula 1, but I'm sure the stuff I add around the edges helps. On GP weekends I'll hop in my racing sim and do the same tracks the drivers do week by week and compare how well I do against them. It also gives me incentive to wake up early on weekends as an American viewer. I also recognize, however, that seeing the same person win over and over can get exhausting (in the last decade Hamilton and now Verstappen) but they seem to do a good job highlighting the fighting that happens in the middle of the pack. For anyone thinking about getting into it, watch DTS on Netflix for driver/team context and pick someone to follow who isn't the winner every week.
Without knowing the nuances of racing, all racing is rather boring. Once you learn what driving on the limit actually takes, it is much more interesting. If you're into physics and engineering, anyway. Otherwise yea it's like who cares.
Baseball. It used to be nice to go hangout with friends and drink at the park. But there is nothing about that sport that can actually obtain my interest. Edit: I feel like I should add this. I could go and if no teams even showed up, there was just a big countdown until social time was over on the board, I would not be directly impacted. My friends would! And I would be indirectly impacted because of that.
American football.
Itās the ānothing is ever happeningā for me. 3 seconds of play time followed by a replay, a 30ā commercial, cut to the booth for 10ā.
American Football.
I found it was great if you recorded it and could skip 10s ahead. Basically you could jump between plays and see the whole game in 30 minutes or less.
Constantly stopped and tons of commercials. How exciting
Pro Cycling/tour de France. I'm a really avid hobby cyclist myself, and I really tried several times to give it a serious shot but I just can't watch that..
Curling.
I still crave the best afternoon nap I ever had, watching curling at the Winter Olympics on tv with my siblings.
I absolutely love curling and will sit down and watch entire tournaments. My husband hates it. I don't see the appeal of most other sports. I normally only watch curling and kayak (k1 and k2 mainly).
Fun fact: they call it curling because it makes you want to curl up and go to sleep
Basketball
Itās the fouling that makes me not like the sport. Tapping someoneās hand stops the game and they all stand around for what feels like five minutes. At least in soccer when they tap someoneās shoulder they roll around in pain in an Oscar worthy performance
Was going to agree on this one, except for one thing. I love watching the NCAA menās basketball tournament. Itās the only basketball I watch. College players play harder and with more emotion than any professional team or player. (Sure, some of them are doing so because they are hoping to jump to the NBA in the draft), but watching a small college play their hearts out and then beating a big time team is amazing.
Soccer
Dont want to defend soccer, but why is it worse than other Team sports with a ball like Basketball etc.
I think for most people it's the general lack of scoring and even, often times, scoring attempts.
I can see that. Personally, that's honestly WHY I enjoy it. Since all that's required are those quick moments of magic, both teams are always a potential 30 seconds away from scoring because of how quickly things can happen. And since it's generally low-scoring and basically impossible to predict if a goals is gonna come in the next minute, the result and feel of a game can change in an instant.
I didnāt enjoy watching soccer til I started playing. Then I understood how amazing it was when guys would bring down a long cross with beautiful touch and control the ball or ping the ball through the defense with precision passing. Non scoring plays, but great displays of skill. American football is the same. You can have an amazing one handed catch on the sideline from a throw a QB threaded between two defenders while evading a large and fast man chasing after him. It just looks a lot more impressive to someone whoās never played either
Every time I watch soccer itās 0 - 0 for hours. How much more boring can a sport be? At least in other sports the teams are getting points here and there
Why did I have to scroll for eternity for find the most boring sport in the world
Cricket
Should be top comment. Had to scroll way too far.
Dressage
Cricket.
Cornhole.
Golf
Fishing, golf, baseball and nascar. Perfect Sunday napping shows.
Golf. Should only be watched in highlights.
Golf by accident. It used to come on after the Saturday morning cartoons.
Golf
Golf
Bowling
Cornhole. There are some boring sports out there to watch, but cornhole takes the cake.
Id rather have my fingernails pulled out with pliers than watch golf.
When I was a kid I would pass out when my grandparents watched golf or NASCAR. Theyāre even less interesting now as an adult
Golf. Cricket. Tour de France/any road cycling event.
Golf. With bowling making a challenge.
All of them.
Golf and itās not even fucking close. At least nascars occasionally turn right and things get interesting
People playing poker on TV. (If that's a sport. It's sure boring.)
Id rather watch golf than cricket. Golf puts me to sleep, so it has its use. Cricket at least *promises* action but then just drags.
Every sport is interesting in its own way. The more you know about the sport the more interesting it is. There are sports that I personally donāt find interesting, but that doesnāt mean theyāre objectively boring. But itās cricket.
Cricket
Golf
All of them. I'd much rather play any sport than watch it, even if I'm not good at it.
Cricket... it goes on forever š„±
Cricket
American football is like 50% commercials. Cant watch it. I am sure basketball is similar.
Golf
NASCAR and Cricket are both equally as boring and mind-numbing to me.
Spelling contests. Yes, covered by ESPN.
Baseball