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!!