I gave up on the NFL about the second time I saw an endzone dance. 300 lb men in stretchy pants SHOULD NOT prance and mince. What was that line in "Blazing Saddles?" "...like a bunch of Kansas City something or others..."
Besides, some blonde ran off to St. Louis with my team anyway. And no. I won't get over it.

I gave up on the NBA when a gang of moderately talented thugs were allowed to take the championship to Detroit in .. what was it? '89 or '90? If I want to watch a bunch of tattooed gangbangers run around in baggy shorts past their knees I can just drive down the freeway to National City.

Baseball & golf are about all I have left. And baseball is losing me. First we got the Designated Hitter. HUH? 10 players a side is beer league softball. Think some of those AL headhunters would have been so bold if they had to go stand in at the plate themselves?
Now we have interleague play. What is this?
And the Allstar game determine home field advantage?
What a crock.

I'm crazy about college football, but have no interest in pro sports.

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I always worried there was something fundamentally wrong with me as I have never watched a sports program on TV or in person in my 50 some years on the planet. My life changed during the last summer Olympics and I became a follower of women's beach volleyball. I could watch that every day.

Nobody forced you to open the thread.

I agree that I am a "doer" rather than a "watcher"; therefore, spectator sports are rather boring.

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Where's my dad's America?

I'm not a sports fan. When I a kid in the 50's we lived in Chicago. My parents were avid sports fans. TV was not real big in the mid 50's, but the radio was. The White Sox were on the radio if they were playing. My mother would drag me on the bus to Comiskey rather than cook in the un air conditioned house. She would supervise my baseball card trades. I traded away Nelli Fox one time and she didn't talk to me for a week. My Dad was just as bad. His job was right down the street from Comiskey. I think the only reason she learned to drive was so we could get home safely when Dad attempted to drink all the beer in the park. The Bears used to play in Wrigley field. Dad had season tickets. So Sundays when the Bears were in town I was in Wrigley with him. Summers in the city there were 2 thinks to do. Hardball and Softball. We played 16 inch softball which I understand was indigenous to the neighborhood. Occasionally we played golf at a public course. I played at golf using my mothers "Patty Berg" clubs. My buddy Melvin decided to drive with a putter and opened up a gash in my face that had to be stiched up. Ah the joys of sports. I did enjoy watching my kid when he was 7-8 playing civic league basketball. The little twerps would swarm up to the hoop and take 20-30 shots at the hoop and finally make one. Then race down court and start again. They had to start playing half court cause the kids were poopin out in ten minutes play.

I liked guns when they were all pinned and recessed.

If there's a ball involved, somehow I just can not get interested.

Last basketball game I watched: circa 1959 Globe Trotters

Last baseball: I heard the Dodgers moved out West somewhere. Discussion with #1 son about 20 years ago my complete lack of such interest, he was in disbelief I had never even heard of 'Pete Rose'...who by that time was out of favor.

Last football: over 30 years ago

There's an amazing number of enjoyable real life activities that occupy my otherwise wasted time.

Field and track: sometimes I'll watch such as Olympic trials, although even that frequency is cutting into my regular schedule.

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I alway's said if I didn't catch it on a hook or shoot it it didn't intrest me !!!! Manny years ago my brother inlaw got me to play 9 holes of golf {not for me} A buddy is a big NY Giants fan and he took me to a game also to a basketball game and a hockey game { they all were free} so I went but It's just did nothing for me!!!! P/S it was kind of neat at the basketball game when Busty Hart got up and did swivel her breast around in a circle { I think even the players stopped to look }

A few years ago I went to Wal mart to get a repalcement travel coffee mug, right? I go where they usually keep them and couldn't find one. After a 15 minute search voila, there they are hidden on the top shelf ten feet in the air. One just barely stood out and I asked a clerk to get a ladder and get one down for me. The cost was about under 2 bucks.

You may ask what the heck does this have to do with sports. I'm not done yet, so read on. This mug is a simple 34oz. The only mugs readily on display were some ****** ones at 10-15 $$$ with LA Lakers emblems. Doesn't take an Einstien to figure this out. The lakers had just won another championship. They can all go to h for all I care.

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I don't dislike sports out of envy for their salaries - I'm not going to get drawn into class warfare jealousy. Actors/singers/entertainers in general are all well paid. They are entitled to get whatever their employers are willing to pay them. They have the skill set that those kinds of salaries demand.

I was never athletic, when kids were picking teams I was always last. I am certainly not going to idolize a group of people who rejected and showed nothing but contempt for me.

Follow European football and INDY Car Racing. Always watch the 3 big horse races every year, Belmont being today.
Couldn't care less about the rest.

I played some baseball and basketball back in high school and considered football a losing proposition....and still do. Anyone dumb enough to play football deserves whatever injuries and health problems it brings them. I never encouraged my two sons to play sports but both did and their teams ended up in the state finals in both baseball and basketball. Thankfully, they both shared my views on the stupidity of playing football.
Snowman nailed the "builds character" BS. It requires an exceptional coach to have any positive influence on the character of his players. Not all, but entirely too many of the so called "jocks" are arrogant little jerks with a common trait of having little respect for the ladies...seems to be a part of the jock culture. And no, I wasn't jealous of any of them. I was 6'1"/185 as a high school freshman and non of them messed with me. An overwhelming majority of coaches shouldn't be coaching. It is unbelievable some of the things I have heard come out of the mouths of various coaches over the years. The coach that took our sons team to state finals in both sports was a quiet laid back fellow who never used the screaming, cursing, drill sgt tactics to get results. One of the very few coaches I ever saw that actually knew it was just a game and kept it in its proper perspective.
We had the typical sports addicted gang at work spouting nonstop sports every day and they always had to have a radio blaring whatever game happened to be playing. Actually, the sports nuts were a minority, but oddly enough, many of the folks irritated by the nonstop bombardment of sports, seemed to consider it unamerican to complain.
After my sons graduated, I never went near a sports event or watched one on TV until my six year old granddaughter started playing soccer.....watching her play is mandatory... When her sports participation ends, mine will end. Except for wrestling, of course, it's the only one that isn't fake...

I grew up so far out in the country that the only organized game available was solitaire.

I've never even been in a poker game, let alone a football game, thus very little knowledge and no interest.

If somebody wants to talk sports, I just drop the hint, "I'm not a sports fan". If they REFUSE to take the hint, I've been known to change the subject to things like headspacing and timing the M-2 .50 machine gun or my fascination with machine guns with top mounted box magazines...

And I'm willing to pay a professional athlete... NOTHING.

I don't care how much they make as long as none of it comes out of my pocket.

I literally place NO value on what they do, so I wouldn't pay any of them anything to do it. I wouldn't pay somebody to pick his nose either, and for the same reason.

Aside from their repeated excursions through the criminal justice system, I do a pretty good job of COMPLETELY ignoring professional athletes.

The cafe where I used to eat lunch ALWAYS had ESPN on. It's amazing what you can tune out. I just ate my lunch and read "Combat Handguns" or "Small Arms Review". I'd occasionally catch myself looking at the TV, attracted by color or movement. I'd realize it was sports (or worse, sports talk) and go back to something meaningful, like variations on the RPG series or the history of the MP-18.

It gets conceptually and grammatically cumbersome to try to be all inclusive.

I have NO interest in what most people would consider organized "sports", professional or otherwise.

I'd watch bullseye pistol if it was on TV... which it's not... not even on the Outdoor Channel. But that's mostly because it involves guns and I actually do it myself.

I view things like baseball, football (and ESPECIALLY) basketball as utterly trivial and not worthy of my attention. I don't care if other people watch them, or even obsess over them to the point of psychosis... as long as they don't bother ME with the subject.

I REALLY like fighter biplanes from the period 1919-1939, but you don't see me badgering total strangers about how much better the Avia B534 was than the Fiat CR-42, much less getting angry that they don't know or care about either.

My son plays lacrosse in college. Attack position. So, of course, I love watching him play. I watch practically almost zero pro sports. Some motorsports if I'm in the mood for it. I do watch Syracuse University basketball (the Orange) and go to the occasional game at the Carrier Dome.

Here my boy with the ball #22 playing college lacrosse.....

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We must have gone to the same school. I always believed that my guy teacher's jock strap cut off part of the oxygen supply to his brain.

For the most part I would rather be playing sports than watching someone else play sports. March madness and the BCS are the notable exceptions.

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If the NFL, NBA and NHL had never existed, other than those who make money from them, they'd barely be missed.

If the U.S. Army didn't exist, this would be a VERY different country... if it were a country at all.

I can read about the Battle of Okinawa for hours on end. Two seconds into a football game, my mind wanders to matters of substance.

If you want to come back to the matter of salaries:

• What does someone pay semi-literate thugs to chase an inflated animal skin?
• What does someone pay Lady Gaga to be a bad Madonna imitator?
• What do we pay Navy SEALs to fly into the hostile territory of an "ally" and shoot the most wanted man on earth in the head?

Oh, but people will TRY to impose on you. They will assume that you are utterly consumed with what the "Tribe" is doing. Were I to act similarly, everyone I meet, I would first ask, "Hey, how about those Japanese paratroopers at Palembang?!", assuming that EVERYBODY was interested in WWII Japanese special operations forces. And when they DIDN'T express an interest, I'd get angry and condescending.

The problem is, now that Obama's destroyed this country's manned spaceflight program, there's no way for them to go far enough...

Bread Pudding

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Competitive shooting and fly fishing are sports, so I guess I do like sports, just not the team kind. Seems any kind of "individual" sport is more interesting and requires more talent than team sports. Golf, and shooting I can watch, tennis is so-so. Nascar is an individual sport, I don't follow it, but will watch it. European road racing in interesting, the Le mans is fun to watch.

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I'm not interested in auto racing per se, but I once saw an interesting show/segment about how some Formula One cars now have telemetry like aircraft so that things like engine configuration, aerodynamics and suspension can be fine tuned via computer.

Kimchi.

Last night while my co-workers were discussing the Indians, I was on my cell phone reading the history of kimchi on Wikipedia.

It's amazing how some people can blame sports for breeding thugs when most professions have more participants who commit crimes than sports and that even includes Law Enforcement. Athletes and other celebrities just get more media coverage. Fact is most pro athletes are model citizens and many donate millions from their salaries to legitimate causes. You'd be amazed at how many people have a job because of sports. You have stadium construction, security, media coverage,transportation, ticket sales, janitorial, maintenence, the list goes on. That's millions of people that aren't competing with us for our jobs. Whether any individual likes something or not is completely irrelevant and just because someone can't see how something impacts their life it doesn't mean it doesn't. I've also noticed that some people who are saying they have no interest in sports are showing a lot of interest. It just happens to be negative.

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Ugh... they seved that a lot shipboard. I think it was leftover everything...

Thanks for reminding me...

I'm sure those great athletes are reading all this and getting real worried

If it doesn't involve a rod or gun, it's not a sport to me. Men chasing, bouncing or throwing balls is just playing silly games to no purpose. I played football and baseball in HS and into college, and played on the tennis team for several years. Enjoyed playing, but don’t care to watch. I could never stand watching basketball, even before it was transformed to "ghettoball" in the early '70s. Apparently, a lot of people share that sentiment, as at my military academy alma mater, back in the '60s, even though our basketball team had a good record, with many talented players, attendance was so poor the administration made attendance at home BB games mandatory, and had a formation prior to every game, and the entire Corps marched into the gym and fell out into the bleachers. After the game, formation in the gym (demerits and guardpath duty for anyone not still there), then dismissal. To this day, I will not watch basketball, incredibly boring. Years ago, I watched football, and used to attend Packer games at Lambeau and Milwaukee stadium ( in the days of Bart Start, Paul Horning and Ray Nitchke), and watched football on TV. I was driven away by ever-lengthening seasons, TV football increasing from one day a week to three or four, and the ever-increasing greed and avarice exhibited by the owners. Add in the short-lived World Football League, then almost year-round exposure, and it was just overkill. Oh yeah, for many years, the only way to see any team on TV in Phoenix was if they happened to be playing the ****Dallas Cowboys, at least until we were burdened by Bill Bidwell and the Cardinals. The full extent of my viewing of football over the last 20 or so years has been to watch a few minutes of a couple of Packer games on TV, but never a complete game, and only if one happened to be on. I really don’t care to watch any sports, and certainly don’t want to discuss them. There are far too many better things to do with my time. If sports float your boat, great, they just hold no interest for me. Oh, one other thing, my girlfriend loves the fact that I don't spend the weekend glued to sports on TV, and she likes to go shooting! A win-win situation.

Hey, if you like it, more power to you. The rest of us here only wish we could appreciate it, again.

I don't despise nor am I jealous of anybody who is rich. It's the method I sometimes have a problem with.

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that's MY point, i don't act like that, and it appears you don't also, so who cares, as it seems with everyone on this board, everyone has lots of varied interests and that's what life is all about, guns bring us together on this board and what our other interests are is just gravy, agree or disagree that is what makes life so great.

I find the Sports Balthering AM radio more annoying than the constant sports chatter in the breakroom.
I have a minor interest in Hockey, the only "Pro" sport. But I'd rather attend minor league Hockey over NHL.
Why isn't there any shooting matches on the TV? No open wheel auto racing, ie; Sprint/Midget/TQs. Forget Indy Racing League thou I do watch the 500, it was a much better race back when the cars had the motors in the front.

Sports were invented so guys could have something to talk about instead of stupidly standing around staring at each other.

But I wasn't talking about board members. I was talking about the low IQ lowlifes, ambling aimlessly through our streets!

Besides Larry Potterfield and Cheaper than Dirt, they couldn't get any sponsors, and most people would rather look for grubs in their lawn.

I can think of a LOT of things to talk about:

• aircraft engines: inline or radial?
• bayonets: blade breaker or not?
• France Nuyen or Nancy Kwan?
• grenades: impact or time fused?
• Pam Grier or Tamara Dobson?
• Torpedoes: compressed air or alcohol?

If the only thing I can talk to somebody about is sports, I obviously don't need to talk to them at all.

Actually, there's action shooting on Outdoor TV every Wednesday night.

well there you have it, that is me since i retired, wandering aimlessly listening to the yankees play with my headset on.

Ready for that CD yet?
I've been listening to it to drown out this thread.

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Lee Jarrett

S&W acted as their own general contractor and built the current factory out-of-pocket without financing.

The flush valve made during the Depression was a flop, but they called in an engineer named Hellstrom to fix the faulty design, so it had that good affect at least.

There are 3 varities of blade saver. (bet you don't know WHY there are 3, or CARE)

During WW II, S&W made their own taps and dies.

The Connecticut Valley Museum has a letter from D.B. Wesson to his tailor discussing underwear.

Hellstrom died in his office from a heart attack.

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I find this sort of stuff interesting.
However, I realize the non-shooting public probably does NOT care in the least about these facts.
I realize that most gun people do not care about these facts.
I also realize that MOST S&W people don't care about these facts.

Therefore, I don't often talk about these facts to unwilling listeners.

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Lee Jarrett

How does a slinky work?

alone or in pairs?

everyone knows

cmort666: I watch Formula 1 a lot; it's one of the few sports I watch. In F1 the pit crew gets an incredible amount of information from telemetry on the cars. In fact, some of it is fed live to the engineers back at the factgory, Maranello for Ferrari, for instance. But I don't think they can make any adjustments to the car while it's out on the track. They have to have the driver bring it in to the pits for adjustments or to get topped up on fluids and fuel.

The race timing is perfect: they have the races on Sundays, and Sundays the Rod & Gun Club ranges are just too crowded for it to be any fun for me.

I love this place!!!When I discovered the Forum and began to read the various posts I finally realized-"I AM NOT ALONE!!"Before that I felt as lonely and adrift in this world as a man in the middle of the Pacific in a dingy.
For the most part these athletes are an uncultured,antisocial
overpaid,jerks with overinflated egos.They are with very few exceptions a poor example for the youth of our nation.The promotion of athletics as a money maker for our colleges has degraded earning a diploma for those folks who aspire to be good students.Example-the letter O J Simpson wrote was on the order of the 3rd grade.Yet he has a diploma and a ring.
The athlete I admire most(I can't recall his name) gave up his career and went back to the 3rd grade in an outstanding school in Chichago(?).

Interesting thread, especially the info about S&W making their own taps and dies, as if their oddball thread sizes don't show it.

Another vote from someone who has zero interest in spectator sports, some interest in a few sports, and tolerance for anything someone else pays for with his own money.

Anyone know what time the Heat-Mavs game comes on?

Edited: thanks for the pm's men........8 pm......7:30 pre game

Dunno, I'm not interested in pro football.

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No, I don't. But I love rotary aircraft engines and am not opposed to learning Farsi...

Never have been. Worst of it was that I did a stint as a bartender while in college. Everybody wants to talk sports with their bartender.

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I have been hot and cold on pro sports. For the past few years I have been a pretty loyal Colts fan. Having a mild interest, I think, is a great way to get along with co-workers who are followers of pro-sports. I just went to my first major league baseball game with a church group. Even though the weather was brutal, I got a kick out of it. Big check mark on that bucket list! We have been having a Super Bowl party at my place for the past few years. Almost nobody who comes is a "sports" fan, but we always have a great time. I wasn't much of an athlete in school, but I enjoyed participating in the sports. I was more involved in the band and I worked after school and on weekends. I started competitive shooting (conventional pistol) many years ago, and I was really consumed with it for decades. I made a lot of friends over the years. I also got to shoot next to many "stars" of the sport and some Olympic champions, as well.

I never thought that entertainers nor pro-athletes were worth what they are being paid, but that's the way life is. I don't get my panties in a wad worrying about it.