Sports or activities you just can't get in to

Pathetic Shark

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Can't believe I beat chrisd to post on this thread. Unless he was just waiting for me to go first!

Any kind of fighting, boxing, WWC, UFC or whatever it's called - a "sport" where you intentionally try to injure the other person. OK let's bring back jousting too then.

People who call baseball "rounders". You try and hit a ball that moves up to a foot in the air coming at you at over 90 mph and see if you can make contact. And for cricketers who laugh at players who wear gloves - wicket keepers wear two.

Lost all interest in soccer these days having loved it growing up following my local team. Don't get horse racing either especially when you see the jockeys whipping the horses.
 

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Women's Tennis - about 45 minutes of earsplitting shrieking.
Men's Tennis - about 5 hours of tedium with added grunting and 3 hours of watching someone towel their forehead.

Horse Racing - I don't gamble and horses don't have enough horse-power.

Rugby League - Run straight in to an opponent and flop about like a dying fish.
 

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Golf. What's that all about then? Bunch of middle-class white men wearing knee length socks and having to wear smoking jackets in women-free clubhouses.
 

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Tennis, 2 or 4 people grunting at each other, flatten Wimbledon and build some houses there instead.

F1, car just driving badly round in a circle, more fun sat beside the M25 watch traffic.

Any form of Athletics.

Snooker and darts, should be banned from all tv screen.
 

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One's I can think of off the top of my head.
  • Any kind of animal racing, horse, greyhound
  • Any contact sports
  • NASCAR (round and round we go)
  • American Football (far too many stoppages)
  • Basketball (I saw a live game in the States. Throw ball into basket one end, run to other end, throw ball into basket and repeat)
  • Ten-Pin bowling (I agree the better you get, the more boring it gets)
  • Formula 1 (I may change my mind when they can get the overtaking sorted out)
  • Darts (if you can call it a sport)
  • Figure skating (see above)
I'm sure more will come to mind.
Interesting poll here mind you
YouGov.co.uk - What is the most boring sport?
 

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Bores the bejeesus out of me:-

F1 - once went to Southampton away and me mate had it on the radio all the way down - yawn.

Horse racing - take the gambling out of it - would it be as popular - Sport of Mings, more like. (y)

Once liked, could be bothered now:-

Tennis, great in the 80's, maybe it was all the classic Fila, Ellesse and Adidas Ivan Lendl tops. Had characters then as well and skill seemd more to the for.

Darts - wouldnt mind going for the craic though, looks a boss night out.

Snooker - used to watch it in the mid to late eighties when in its heyday, not any more.

Didnt like, now watch all of England's / Lions games:-

Cricket and Rugby union.

Squash - great sport to play. I also used to play Tennis and Badminton, but squash has way more shots and options, due to you being able to use 1, 2 or even 3 walls.
 

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Darts, snooker, any horse guff, cricket, swimming, bowls, probably easier for me to list what I can happily watch.
 
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