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Your Top Five... Boring Spectator Sports

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  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,979
    edited July 2015
    Will never understand the UFC hype either. Two half naked blokes cuddling each other until one taps his hand on the floor. Yeah it has some good knockouts but so does Dartford High Street on a saturday night. I always feel like people wanna like it just to sound hard.
  • addick1965
    addick1965 Posts: 5,092
    Motor Racing
    Horse Racing or any horse related sports
    Golf
    Basketball
    American Football
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,318
    Again in no particular order

    (1) Horse Racing
    (2) American Football
    (3) Golf (Hate watching it but enjoy playing it)
    (4) Cricket
    (5) Boxing
  • better red than dead
    better red than dead Posts: 491
    1.Diving: jumping into water with style
    2.Sychronized Diving: jumping into water with no style as your mate is next to you taking the piss
    3.Sychronized swimming: pretend drowning with elegance
    4.Gymnastics: anything that relies on opinions of judges(which includes the above)
    =5.Fishing: trying to outwit fish and usually failing
    =5.Cycling: you can win the Tour de France without actually coming first at anything(except drug taking in Armstrong’s case)
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    F1
    Darts
    Wrestling
    Cycling
    Basketball
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    Anything involving Scotland.
  • IA
    IA Posts: 6,103
    ValleyGary said:

    Will never understand the UFC hype either. Two half naked blokes cuddling each other

    What's not to like ?
  • MountsfieldPark
    MountsfieldPark Posts: 2,074
    1 Watching CAFC scrape together a squad for next season.
    2 Watching CAFC scrape together a squad for next season.
    3 Watching CAFC scrape together a squad for next season.
    4 Watching CAFC scrape together a squad for next season.
    5 Watching CAFC scrape together a squad for next season.

    Of course, it's also repetitive, frustrating, futile, "bumpy", etc.
  • Redskin
    Redskin Posts: 3,112
    Anything with cars or horses in.

    Although Ben Hur style chariot racing would be very entertaining.
  • Cordoban Addick
    Cordoban Addick Posts: 5,448
    JiMMy 85 said:

    Cycling. Always cycling. Hate it. Then rugby (all forms).

    My team at work was swallowed up into the oxymoronical 'Content and Cycling' department, and our boss doesn't give two shits about content. On our away day this week, we had to get a talk by one of Dave Brailsford's mates and watch the TDF for an hour. I was furious. "Oh you are in the movies editorial team are you? Let me tell you about the cobblestones of southern France..."

    No, really, don't. I stopped listening three hours ago and have been enjoying a daydream about saving this pub from a terrorist attack.

    The cobblestones are in Northern France. It makes the cycling more interesting, honest.
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  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,739
    Cordoban Addick said:

    JiMMy 85 said:

    Cycling. Always cycling. Hate it. Then rugby (all forms).

    My team at work was swallowed up into the oxymoronical 'Content and Cycling' department, and our boss doesn't give two shits about content. On our away day this week, we had to get a talk by one of Dave Brailsford's mates and watch the TDF for an hour. I was furious. "Oh you are in the movies editorial team are you? Let me tell you about the cobblestones of southern France..."

    No, really, don't. I stopped listening three hours ago and have been enjoying a daydream about saving this pub from a terrorist attack.

    The cobblestones are in Northern France. It makes the cycling more interesting, honest.
    Can't do the Farmer Giles any good though.
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,164
    darts
    snooker
    synchronised swimming
    dressage
    girls, and boys if they do it, who whirl those ribbons about in leotards on a mat
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,265
    Fishing
    Test Cricket
    Sailing
    Boxing
    Snooker
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
    There are some really awful ones here. Wish I'd thought of synchronised swimming, gridiron, dressage and wrestling (the shit showbiz fake stuff anyway - I suspect that real wrestling is ok even if it is in the rules that you have to carry a hanky).
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,853
    If you mean as spectator sport for watching live then I would say cycling.

    You stand by the side of the road for a couple of hours, then a bunch of cyclist go past you for a minute or two then you go home to see who won on the telly.
  • Gravesend_Addick
    Gravesend_Addick Posts: 7,299
    1. Formula 1 - I could happily nominate this 5 times. Absolutely bores me to tears
    2. American football - glorified rugby
    3. Baseball - glorified rounders
    4. Golf (except Ryder Cup)
    5. Fishing - I can't believe they actually televise it!
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,168
    Golf
    Road Cycling (conversely really like track cycling)
    Marathon Running (again, enjoy track running)
    Basketball
    Rugby League


  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    Cricket - unless having a drink while watching
    Rugby - no skill whatsoever unless you are a lard arse or can run fast
    F1 - real petrol heads who attend most forms of motor racing detest it
    Tour de France - even with the gear they're on its dull
    Baseball
  • Danepak
    Danepak Posts: 1,629
    Dressage
    Rhythmic Gymnastics
    Netball
    Motorsport (apart from speedway)
    Synchronised Swimming
  • ilovelucy
    ilovelucy Posts: 220
    "Boring" as in my most disliked:

    Boxing
    W
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  • ilovelucy
    ilovelucy Posts: 220
    Boxing
    Wrestling
    Greyhound racing
    Archery
    Anything using horses
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,741
    Fishing, anything with a boat, anything with a horse, darts, most things on snow/ice
  • dickplumb
    dickplumb Posts: 4,835
    Show jumping.
    Dressage,
    Horse racing.
    F1
    Curling.
  • Addickforlife
    Addickforlife Posts: 2,101
    Greenie said:

    Cricket - unless having a drink while watching
    Rugby - no skill whatsoever unless you are a lard arse or can run fast
    F1 - real petrol heads who attend most forms of motor racing detest it
    Tour de France - even with the gear they're on its dull
    Baseball


    Trying really hard not to bite here....
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,315
    To be fair, you need to be a lard arse who can also run fast, and drink vomit out of a shoe
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,087
    edited July 2015
    ValleyGary said:

    Will never understand the UFC boxing hype either. Two half naked blokes cuddling each other until one taps his hand on the floor. Yeah it has some good knockouts but so does Dartford High Street on a saturday night. I always feel like people wanna like it just to sound hard.

    That makes more sense now. I disagree in both instances.

    Swimming, it's like running but a lot slower.
    Baseball, even watching it in a Japanese crowd didn't make it exciting.
    American football, nothing happens!
    Basketball, giants taking it in terms to score.
    F1, more about the car than the driver.

    I do think people are getting boring mixed up with not liking a sport.
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,741
    Friend Or Defoe said:

    ValleyGary said:

    Will never understand the UFC boxing hype either. Two half naked blokes cuddling each other until one taps his hand on the floor. Yeah it has some good knockouts but so does Dartford High Street on a saturday night. I always feel like people wanna like it just to sound hard.

    I do think people are getting boring mixed up with not liking a sport.
    Why would anyone like a sport that they thought was boring?
  • colthe3rd
    colthe3rd Posts: 8,486
    ValleyGary said:

    Will never understand the UFC hype either. Two half naked blokes cuddling each other until one taps his hand on the floor. Yeah it has some good knockouts but so does Dartford High Street on a saturday night. I always feel like people wanna like it just to sound hard.

    I must admit I've only got into UFC over the past couple of years but it is definitely not boring. I probably should add as a whole, sure there can be some dull matches but just like in any sport. The event at the weekend, UFC 189, was without doubt the best I've seen, brilliant matches all with some unbelievable finishes. I'd urge anyone who thinks it's dull to watch that on replay.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,087
    SuedeAdidas said:

    Friend Or Defoe said:

    ValleyGary said:

    Will never understand the UFC boxing hype either. Two half naked blokes cuddling each other until one taps his hand on the floor. Yeah it has some good knockouts but so does Dartford High Street on a saturday night. I always feel like people wanna like it just to sound hard.

    I do think people are getting boring mixed up with not liking a sport.
    Why would anyone like a sport that they thought was boring?
    There's sports I don't like, like limited over cricket and Ice Hockey but are they boring? Hardly.
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,784
    Far too many to name. 5 doesn't even scratch the surface, so I'll walk away now.............

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