Isnt football and some other sports all about what owners have the most money to buy the best talent? I really get a charge watching hometown fans going crazy rooting for their side when likely not one player was actualy born there or even visited untill they were paid a fortune to come play there.

Sports? Who cares. Too much emphasis put on it in schools to where learning suffers.

Too much $$ paid to these spoiled little whiners too (not all are that - some are okay and some are drug addictics and womanizers). They are not worth it, and my time is more valuable to me than watching them. I'd rather watch mold grow on my neighbor's compost pile.

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...and felons. Don't forget felons.

Not eliminated, but made useful.

Replace the meaningless ball sports with the North Korean PE curriculum:

• basic rifle marksmanship.
• grenade throwing
• obstacle course

No public school funded sports period. Let the little buttholes get in college by grades and brains alone.

And non-felons who never got arrested because of who they are and the team they play for.

If they want sports in schools, then do a "pay to play" with no recruiting or open enrollment to get better teams.

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So sports is to blame for the failure of the educational system? I know of many in school who have excelled in sports and gone on to do great things. I even have a few neighbors whose sons have gotten into the service academies thru sports scholarships. That is, they were recruited to play ball.

I agree that the cost of athletics and violin playing should be paid for the participants. My tax money is meant for the basics, not to re-turf the athletic field every 3 years.

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No, what I meant was too much is put on getting a winning team over teaching the student to read and write.
Education first, then sports.

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Womens beach volleyball is OK.

Stick and ball sports? Nope. Nada. Zip.

Motor sports? YUP!!!

I better learn some baseball basics fast though because I just volunteered to be an assistant coach on my son's T-Ball team

Luckily it's just T-Ball and I'll have room to grow. The league also has free coaching clinics throughout the season so that's nice.

My biggest fear is being unable to speak about anything about baseball with the other parents. I just don't know squat.

Not as interested since I got too old to play, but it sure was fun while it lasted. My dad was like you guys, didn't like sports at all. We still managed to get along famously.

In the past, I used to watch Professional Bull Riding (on television) from time to time - not a sport for wimps.

I love ice hockey, I follow that.
I watch some baseball because my wife loves that.
I cannot stand football or basketball or blah blah blah.
Nascar has become boring.

I agree with you. My partial deafness is because co-workers would start sports talking and then I would pull out scratch awls and screwdrivers and jab my ears.

Yes I agree, high school gym teachers are wanna be Axis leaders.

Sports does not build character, it reveals it.

The group I used to hang with at church when Nascar was exciting would talk about it non stop. As soon as the last amen was said the group would assemble and it started. There is more to life than sports and after that I knew these guys were good men but were not the type that I could talk deep with.

At a former job guys would be making football picks. I gave them my picks but would not participate with money. I work for mine. My picks were based on....
Cards vs Packers. Packers because Bill Bidwell is a dope.
Jets vs Chargers. Chargers because Jets have boring colors.
Thing like that. MY picks were just as accurate.

Yes, sports talk is boring.

I would love to see all the money spent on professional sports to be re-directed to education and or law enforcement, but I am not hopeful on that. Stopped watching pro sports in the early 80's and do not miss it. I have found that people who can barely make copies also know the entire line ups of their favorite teams along with batting averages and pass completion percentages. The folks with gravitas are seldom sure of what division their local sports franchise is in. What division are the Houston Texans in anyhow?

I watched every game I could of the Little League World Series. Those kids were great.

This is NOT an attack on anyone, so please don't take it that way. What I think I'm seeing here is a generational difference. When I was a kid growing up in the 50's and early 60's, there was no cable TV, no video games, no central A/C. There were four channels on rabbit ear TV and kids programming ended around 9am. Mom ran us out of the house. So most of us walked or rode a bike to the nearest field where we played baseball pretty much all day. There might be variations, but our summertime activities took place outside. I noticed this started changing in the late 70's, early 80's. Tailor-made ball fields with backstops and benches stood empty all day long. I know some guys took jobs, but not everybody. Atari, MTV and Lennox A/C took over. Is there a parallel between this and the attitude toward sports expressed here? Could be.

I watch boxing with a passion, no interest in anything else.

I like watching the Phoenix Suns playing or sitting at a NASCAR race. It's not what it once was... the "magic" is gone...

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I like most any sport when it gets down to the win or go home stage.

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Everybody liked History, Science, Geography, Music, Art and any other, except when it came to sports, which we called 'Sprots'.

I like a good play in baseball or football and I used to be somewhat athletic and enjoyed many sports, but the professional sports are rotten to the core. I rue the day they let professional athletes into the Olympics in order to compete with 'professional' teams from East Germany, the Soviet Union and China. Sports to me are for benefits other than money. Fun, fresh air, exercise and comradery are the best reasons.

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I had books, REAL ones.

My grandmother taught me to read and bought me almost the complete set of Doubleday(?) "little black books" on aircraft and submarines of WWII.

While other kids had their minds numbed with sports statistics, I learned about the P-51 and the FW-190. I read about the Japanese airborne operation at Palembang and the Bruneval raid.

When my mother had jury duty, a copy of Hohne's "Order of the Death's Head" followed her home. It's kind of funny refuting Holocaust deniers with information I acquired in grammer school.

I feel like I dodged a deadly bullet... of ignorance.

No interest in sports, except when I want to fall asleep I'll put on a ball game!

No question, but there was a time and place for everything. The school year and winter was prime time for reading, both required or whatever personal interests one might have. Summer vacation didn't mean we gave up reading all together, it did rain sometimes. That said, warm weather and no school meant being outside playing baseball, football or if someone had a hoop on their garage, basketball. At least it did in my day.

My thoughts: Since I decided to quit paying for cable roughly 10 years ago, my sports-watching has become very close to nil. Even when I did watch I wouldn't say I ever followed anything. I still enjoy watching pro sports though, well everything but basketball. One of the few things I find beautiful is a well-turned double play, ala Ozzie Smith .

To the OP: There are few things in life more tedious than listening to someone preach, ad nauseaum, on a subject you have no interest in. Trying to understand someone else's "thing" is nearly impossible: Why does your wife spend so much money on shoes? Why could I possibly need more duck decoys? The problem lies in that, stereotypically, guys are supposed to be interested in sports. Don't ask me who came up with the idea, we're just somewhat stuck with it .

I love sports. Basketball, baseball, and football.


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I have a word or two about the Pro's. They stink

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I REALLY only make time to watch the Super Bowl, or in the case of our D-bax World Series win 10yrs ago, that too.

However, I would still find the sports-talk less painful than the two ladie's rendering you posted, LOL.

On related note, I had an old boss who would listen to the Jim Rome show on talk radio. That guy actually ALMOST made sports-talk interesting. I lost all interest in the little midget hippocrite when he began making horrible cruel remarks about Charlton Heston regarding his last years of dementia, at the time of his death. He wouldn't stand for such talk about an athlete, or another person with a disability, that he agreed with politically.

I don't need for people to like what I like, or dislike what I don't. I just need for them not to bore me to tears.

If they can't take the hint, I won't hesitate to start talking about aircraft flexible machineguns or obscure military Mauser rifles.

hockey only now...i used to watch football too...i was even a steelers fan...then i got hired where i currently work...i absolutely hate the steelers and their overbearing fans. the talk about who should "we" draft..."we" played like **** yesterday..."we" are unstoppable and "we" will win the superbowl...ummm no "we" won't your fat out of shape butt was not on the field, nor are you emplyed by the organization at all. other than being a fan, you do not contribute to the play on the field so there is no we...

when the talk come up, i walk away...if asked if i watched the game...i say "i haven't watched a game in about 5 years now..."

yes, i love my penguins, i watch or listen to almost every game. i never say "we" or anything of the sort...

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Well, I've raced motocross at Budd's Creek (Maryland), MX338 (Southwick, Massachusetts), Unadilla and Broome-Tioga, both in New York. All of these are Pro National tracks. Unadilla and Budd's Creek have also held International Grand Prix races.

Oh yeah...and Englishtown, N.J....just over the fence from the drag strip.

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I haven't been a fan of ANY professional (and I used the term loosely) sports since the early 1990's. I have my reasons which I won't go into here.
If I want to follow any "pro" sport, I'll follow professional wrestling.

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I never had any interest in sports. I last saw a college football game in 1963, a college basketball game in 1975. In 2007 I attended 3 Minor League Baseball games here in NJ, do regret that I never went to Old Yankee Stadium. I do like to watch the Dallas games. I am not a fan of the Cowboys-I am a fan of the Cowgirls.

Never had any interest in sports.

I played football in high school but wasn't very good. I then got a job that paid pretty good for high school kid. I don't the patient to set and watch sports on TV and not any interest in Pro or college sports. I don't wear team clothes or hats and I don't wear clothes that advertises cars, guns, hardware stores unless it free and is good quality.

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Here in the "burbs of the Burgh" I like the Steelers...... but I hate giving up a nice fall afternoon (best days of the year IMHO) to watch them on TV!

Penguins and Pirates ...... indifferent

Pats Sun 9/7 1:00 PM Dolphins

B's Wed 10/8 7:30 PM Flyers

Counting the days

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Played Baseball in little league, high school football, wrestling and track there I threw discus, shot and ran 440 relay. Did so to try and keep my weight down. As far as interest in sports now I have none. Wasn't a fan growing up or since. Give me a fishing pole and a piece of water with fish and you have my interest. Take me camping where I can cook over an open fire and enjoy the quiet and I'm happy. Put me in front of the TV with any thing sports related including the fishing shows and I'm asleep. My wife's male relatives crowd around the TV at Thanksgiving and Christmas (my wife wants to be there with family) and you would think that to hear them the TV is interactive where the coach and players actually hear these guys calling out plays and telling so and so that he is open and throw it to that guy. It's comical but if I laugh to hard they think I'm the crazy one. I'd rather listen to the women gossip in the kitchen.

My wife follows our baseball team, me not so much but I watch a few types of car and boat racing and that is it.

I will watch a few College Football Games especially if Wvu is playing,Otherwise I have zero interest in sports,My sports are Hunting & Fishing


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Professional sports. Lets just say I don't have a TV anymore. I can't remember exactly why now but I think that was one of the reasons I don't have one.

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