Dislike of televised sporting events

[Firehouse]

I have noticed a lot of folks on the forum hate football and other various televised sporting events. I can certainly acknowledge that it's mostly different strokes for different folks. However, not all athletes are prima donnas. You only hear about the bad ones on television and in the media. The good things pro/amateur athletes do for their communities back home go un-noticed. We have a couple of local pro-athletes that have taken their success and given back to the community in the form of after school athletic and childrens programs and sports facilities. Some have came back and have given lectures to kids and schools about their personal life experiences and how sports turned their life around and used the analogy of team work and personal dedication to achieve goals in life.

In our part of the country, sporting events and participation in athletics play a major part in our society. It brings together friends and families somewhat like people do at holidays or other special occasions.

If you don't like football, or baseball or Nascar, or whatever, you don't have to put your hate on for it.

If everybody liked the same thing life would be boring. This is just an observation, don't anyone take it personal. It's not directed at any certain individual or group. Thanks.

 

[Forester]

I never listen to firemen who post about people who post about hating sporting events on TV!

 

[Firehouse]

I never listen to firemen who post about people who post about hating sporting events on TV!

That's a good policy. Don't pay any attention to Firemen about anything! Except, if you see us running, try to keep up!

 

[Forester]

That's a good policy. Don't pay any attention to Firemen about anything! Except, if you see us running, try to keep up!

Will do.

You know I was just joshing you, right?

 

[Firehouse]

Will do.

You know I was just joshing you, right?

Absolutely. Thanks!

 

[jcall]

I agree with you Fireman. Good post.

 

[Spotteddog]

There's only one way to watch any of them.
That being with the mute button on.
The jocks are jocks and so no surprise, typically as articulate as a house brick. The on air so called "talent", are just as articulate as the jocks but lacking the athletic ability. JOMO?

 

[kennyb]

i'm with you firehouse...like any group there are some losers...the majority however have done so much for charitable causes

 

[ladder13]

You'll find most that hate sports never played them.

 

[kennyb]

You'll find most that hate sports never played them.

plus one mike

 

[Nframe]

I played a few, yep I'm one that does not care for any of the sports.

Then again I hate watching TV!

It keeps folks at home so I can go out and do things on the game days thats Ok by me!

 

[cmort666]

I simply ignore sports. I don't tell others not to like sports. I just refuse to assign sports ANY importance in MY life or to pretend that sports are actually important.

Every second I spend NOT paying attention to sports is one more second I can spend shooting, listening to jazz, reading about machine guns, or even staring at the wall.

 

[therevjay]

I don't spend a lotta time watching football (or other sports) on TV. Superbowl ? Yeah probably. What I really hate about the games is, WHY do they have to have a couple of "has been" or worse "never were" wannabee jocks yap about the game for A HOUR BEFORE IT STARTS!!!

 

[jkc]

I simply ignore sports. I don't tell others not to like sports. I just refuse to assign sports ANY importance in MY life or to pretend that sports are actually important.

Every second I spend NOT paying attention to sports is one more second I can spend shooting, listening to jazz, reading about machine guns, or even staring at the wall.

Exactly! Who cares? The only time I'm irked about organized sports is when somebody assumes that I know and care about some pet passion of theirs, and is put off by my indifference. Why you would presume that a stranger is a football or NASCAR fan (or a Lutheran or Presbyterian, for that matter) and shares your interest is beyond me...

 

[Leonard]

I find it boring and have no interest in living vicariously threw someone else s activity. I would rather be hunting or shooting or for that matter cleaning my guns.

Len

 

[cmort666]

Exactly! Who cares? The only time I'm irked about organized sports is when somebody assumes that I know and care about some pet passion of theirs, and is put off by my indifference. Why you would presume that a stranger is a football or NASCAR fan (or a Lutheran or Presbyterian, for that matter) and shares your interest is beyond me...

If somebody INSISTS upon talking to me about sports (or religion), I just start talking about something like different operating systems for machineguns. "Man, that St. Etienne! What a DOG! Blowing the piston FORWARD??? What were they thinking???" If that didn't work (It always does), I'd move on to wing warping vs. ailerons...

 

[MarshallDodge]

Like anything in life there are losers and there are winners. Just look at all the stupidity in the firearm world that we as conscientious gun owners get blamed for.

There are a lot of good athletes that are good human beings both on and off the field. The thing that gets me about all sports is that there are some really talented players that get put up on a pedestal and worshiped. When they do some thing wrong, they are pushed off the pedestal and beaten over the head with it.

People seem to forget that we are all made of flesh and bones and are not perfect.

 

[OKFC05]

When the cities build shooting ranges to match the overdone stadia and arenae built only for hyperthyrondic anomalies to throw balls, then I won't mind my tax money supporting sports. But not until then.

 

[bmcgilvray]

I was once a keen football fan. When the 1982 strike blew a large hole in my enthusiasm, my esteem for the edifice of professional sports and all that it represents came crashing down. After a few years of sharp contempt, I've become like cmort666 and simply ignore sports.

 

[buckeyeshooter1]

well around my house you get 1 college game thursday night, 4 college games saturday, 3 pro games sunday and the monday night pro football game. I am not interested in baseball, basketball or soccer, but I love football!!

 

[kennyb]

well around my house you get 1 college game thursday night, 4 college games saturday, 3 pro games sunday and the monday night pro football game. I am not interested in baseball, basketball or soccer, but I love football!!

yet another plus 1

 

[dg101win]

Do they still show sports on TV?

 

[David LaPell]

I used to enjoy watching pro-football on TV, I was never a big NASCAR fan, I always preferred drag racing or off road racing. Hunting shows, I can take them or leave them at times. I quit watching football when players began having more loyalty to the dollars than the team. Then when the best players seemed to be crack addicts and criminals, I decided I wasn't going to bother with it anymore. But to be honest, I find less and less to watch on TV these days, its either reality TV showing someone trying to get something past someone else, or someone elses life collapsing in front of the whole world. No thanks. I get more done by going into the basement when I can and crank out a few rounds on my press. One of the best reasons I like working 2nd shift, there's never anything on.

 

[Spotteddog]

David,
It doesn't matter what shift you work! How'd ya' like to get stuck having to watch Oprah?
There's still "nothing on"? Due just exactly to the reasons you described. When I get home (02:00 local) the only thing on are Extenze infomercials and C-SPAN. I've decided that the reason everyone has to have 337 channels now, is so they can find one channel worth watching? I didn't have that problem in the past. There was usually one good thing on in prime time between the three network channels available. If not, the Ol' man could always find a useful way to pass the time. I get more like him daily...

 

[m657]

I've managed to not watch a single ball player do _anything_ since around 1984. The last round ball game I watched was the Globetrotters circa 1964.

I just don't relate to watching someone chasing a ball around. And especially the pageantry and countless advertising opportunities associated.

The remote control works fine for eliminating those endless dreary Big Game moments.

It doesn't matter the _shape_ of the ball....the mere existence of a 'ball' and all that derives therefrom somehow is of no personal interest.

Field & track events don't annoy in the same way; sometimes I'll watch those...

Somehow life goes on.....

 

[cmort666]

I've managed to not watch a single ball player do _anything_ since around 1984. The last round ball game I watched was the Globetrotters circa 1964.

My last sporting event INTENTIONALLY watched was the Superbowl that the Bears won ('86?) I figured it would never happen again, and I believe I was right. Haven't watched another professional sporting event since.

The cafe where I used to eat lunch ALWAYS had ESPN on. I'd always be reading a gun, history or photography publication of some sort. Every once in a while I'd see color or motion and look up, realize it was sports and return my attention to lunch and the operating principles of the Schwarzlose heavy machine gun.

 

[ecam8000]

I like sports in general but don't watch that much on TV. I get tickets from the company once or twice a year and take the family. How can I refuse Avalanche tickets when the seats are on the glass? I do enjoy this time of year and watch football on Sundays after church. It is my one day I can unwind. I have three girls in the house, and leave the room when the find a "sport" they want to watch (gymnastics, English riding/jumping, ice skating...).

 

[bk43]

When the cities build shooting ranges to match the overdone stadia and arenae built only for hyperthyrondic anomalies to throw balls, then I won't mind my tax money supporting sports.

If shooting ranges generated revenue like big time sports the cities would be falling all over themselves building ranges. It doesn't so they won't..."follow the money" works every time.

Myself, don't watch sports much on TV but it's hard to beat a good tailgate or Superbowl party.

Bob

 

[John Eilertson]

TV sports are best seen minus sound, and there are loads of civic minded athletes, who should get more publicity for it. The media is more interested in bad news than good, I suppose. Oh, well--play on.

 

[reerc]

I'm actually quite vocal in my extreme dislike of professional sports of all kinds. It absolutely drives me crazy that our society makes multimillionaires out of people for playing a game ... while making paupers out of those who feed, educate, house, and clothe us.