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Top 3 sports that you find boring to watch

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  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 6,671

    Handball
    Basketball
    Snooker

    Can't be having that! Handball is incredible!
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,313
    edited July 2018

    Handball
    Basketball
    Snooker

    Can't be having that! Handball is incredible!
    All three of those sports are good ffs
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    Basketball, Baseball, 3 day Eventing
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    Anything with horses unless I've bet on it, synchronised swimming, motor racing.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,313
    I really want to say rugby but it's not so much boring as straight-up hateful. Like watching a snuff video

    Actually boring sports:

    Water polo! Dear Christ who thought of this, it's SO shit. If God had meant us to play ball sports in the water she'd have given us flippers

    Track cycling. What's the fucking point? We invented the bicycle for the outdoors - for fresh air, mountains, scenery, getting from A to B. At least track athletics is a standardisation of measuring human speed. Bicycles are so arbitrary in a track context though - who fucking cares? They have to come up with gimmicky 'events' with gimmicky names like 'omnium' and 'madison' to distract from the fact that it would all be better and more worthwhile if they all crashed. But hey, as long as Team GB can design carbon fibre frames and micropolymer skintight outfits to shave those crucial tenths of a second off Our Athletes' times, then it's medal o'clock, baby! And medals for GB mean Lots Of Funding and Lots Of Coverage! Absolute bilge

    Lacrosse. It just doesn't register in my brain as a thing that actual sentient humans would do
  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,779

    Although I voted for it....I don't really see Horse Racing as a true sport - I see it more as gambling facilitation event.

    I wonder what on course and off course viewing figures would be like if gambling on the gee gees was outlawed?!?

    Gambling is illegal in Dubai, but horse racing is big business there.
    But then again, something being illegal doesn’t mean it doesn’t go on. The Horse racing venues provide plenty of opportunity, off the record...
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,737
    Leuth said:



    I Like watching a snuff video

  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728

    Basketball, Baseball, 3 day Eventing

    Actually can I change mine to 3 day eventing day 1, 3 day eventing day 2 and 3 day eventing day 3?
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,973
    Track cycling is great to watch.
  • Has changed for me a bit over the years as the sports have changed;

    1. Snooker - apart from Ronnie i find most players now very "same" and robotic to watch. What's happened to all the flair!!?
    2. Formula 1 - used to love, but again it's so techie now that overtaking in itself is rare. Pits stops used to be great too with fuel/tyres/delays. The excitement has been sucked out of the spport, now much more so a business.
    3. Swimming - just a personal one, just don't like it!
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  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    Surprised by so many finding basketball boring.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    edited July 2018

    Track cycling is great to watch.

    I enjoy it, even though some of the events are a bit silly.The Keirin for example. But I enjoy that too!
  • paulie8290
    paulie8290 Posts: 23,344
    edited July 2018
    Cycling-how anyone can watch things like the tour de france is beyond me.

    Cricket-unless its 20/20, why would you want to watch a 3 day test match and watch a few runs an over a 6 every now and then and a million dot balls or singles

    Golf- I have tried so many times
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,973

    Surprised by so many finding basketball boring.

    The only time its ever remotely exciting is the last 2 minutes, and only then if its a close game. However, in true american style, as soon as theres a hint of drama, time out gets called.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,475
    Rally cycling.
    Hockey.....stop start stop start stop start.
    Synchronized swimming.
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,809
    1) F1
    2) F1 qualifying
    3) Road biking....Tour De France....literally nothing more dull
  • Alex Wright
    Alex Wright Posts: 8,214
    edited July 2018
    If I find anything boring I don't watch it.

    If WWF / WWE is a sport it's a farce.

    As someone said earlier Snooker has lost it's appeal unless Ronnie is playing.

    C4 used to show an indian sport called Khabaddi (sp?). Reminded me of British Bulldog I used to play as a kid being played by adults. Boring to watch
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,693

    Surprised by so many finding basketball boring.

    if watching paint dry was a sport it would still be more entertaining than basketball.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    edited July 2018
    I enjoyed playing it at school, but it has too many points. They lose value because of it. I used to enjoy watching the Harlem Globetrotters, but that is closer to WWE than a sport!
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    Rugby
    Formula 1
    Darts
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  • Cycling (mind-numbing stuff)
    Golf
    F1
  • Riscardo
    Riscardo Posts: 2,337

    If I find anything boring I don't watch it.

    If WWF / WWE is a sport it's a farce.

    As someone said earlier Snooker has lost it's appeal unless Ronnie is playing.

    C4 used to show an indian sport called Khabaddi (sp?). Reminded me of British Bulldod I used to play as a kid being played by adults. Boring to watch

    Wrestling is sports entertainment .... just watch GLOW
  • Riscardo
    Riscardo Posts: 2,337

    Cycling-how anyone can watch things like the tour de france is beyond me.

    Cricket-unless its 20/20, why would you want to watch a 3 day test match and watch a few runs an over a 6 every now and then and a million dot balls or singles

    Golf- I have tried so many times

    It's a 5 day test .... and its soothing
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,726

    Surprised by so many finding basketball boring.

    The only time its ever remotely exciting is the last 2 minutes, and only then if its a close game. However, in true american style, as soon as theres a hint of drama, time out gets called.
    This. Went to watch the Brooklyn Nets a few years back, they were 20 points down in the 4th quarter so there was no tension or excitement. Basketball is dross
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,835
    Horse Racing
    Basketball
    Handball

    Really really try and get into handball during Olympic years but it just leaves me cold.

    Hurling - just hit it with a stick from 50 yards over the goalies head for a point. No need to even get close to the goal.
  • Dugdaleclass
    Dugdaleclass Posts: 554
    Hurling is great...to watch not play.

    Tried watching F1 yesterday...Brit driver comes from the back and wins in driving rain....nah still didn't do it for me. Like watching paint dry.
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    Darts golf and cricket.

    Cricket and tennis usually fight for third by being so boring...
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    Baseball
    Snooker
    Golf

    Went to a baseball game when i was in the states, i pick up sports pretty quickly and can find entertainment in most of them but baseball was dire. There was one drunk guy who was chanting and creating an atmosphere of some sort and he was chucked out.

    And the incredibly sad fireworks when theres a home run.. like, great.. we waited for this all game and its a few shitty fireworks and means next to nothing in the general game.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,668
    Cricket is a great sport.
    If you don't understand it that's down to you.
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,125

    Cricket is a great sport.
    If you don't understand it that's down to you.

    Blimey look a post from a hundred years ago zzzZzzZz