Worst sport in the world

[Bakunin]

football for me - because of all the silliness that goes with it.

but from that list, motorsport. round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round...

and all the time making a horrible whiny noise. Ugh. Stupid stupid thing.
wouldn't mind if they just did one lap. or five. but it goes on for hours!

You should try going to Le Mans, then.

That's proper motor racing, not like Formula One at all and the fans are still treated like people. We can mingle with the drivers and get autographs and all that stuff.

Le Mans 24 Hours FTW.

 

[tarannau]

Tennis, Golf, F1, Darts.

All dull as fuck. I'd rather watch a freezer defrost.

Nah. Darts is great. Get tanked up all day watching oversized men in daft tops coming out to ridiculous theme music. High quality panto style entertainment without the pretence.

One of the best spectator drinking events there is.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

It's obviously football.


However, seeing as football isn't on the list, I voted for golf, although, if I think about it, it's the people that play golf I have a problem with, rather than the sport itself.

I always thought synchronised swimming was stupid until I saw some of it on the telly at this years Olympics - it was fantastic. The girls are seriously fit athletes (lifting someone else out of the water, with nothing solid to push off from must take some doing) and the routines they were doing looked great, nothing like the silly ones I remember seeing as a kid.

1. motorsport - insanely stupid - anti-environmental - encourages speeding.

What utter nonsense.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Golf - just. so. fucking. dull!

 

[tarannau]

It's probably better to say that motorsport inspires bad logo-festooned clothing and leave it at that. Dullard sports for rich boys in the main.

 

[tarannau]

Golf - just. so. fucking. dull!

It's a fucking game isn't it. Hit ball with stick, following it around like demented dog wearing bad outfits. It's so not a sport.

 

[Iam]

Nah. Darts is great. Get tanked up all day watching oversized men in daft tops coming out to ridiculous theme music. High quality panto style entertainment without the pretence.

One of the best spectator drinking events there is.

On telly, however, it's utterly dire.

 

[Teaboy]

For me it has to be any sport that exists soley for the purposes of gambling. So that means horse and dog racing are straight out, if gambling was banned tomorrow both these sports would be dead within a week.

Also both National Hunt racing and dog racing has a pretty shady side to it when it comes down to animal welfare.

 

[Badgers]

I like most (if not all) sports but they can all be crap at times.

Can't watch golf but do not hate it with the same venom as many people on here. Athletics is 95% crap too but occasionally a big race is worth watching.

Swimming as a spectator sport gets my vote

 

[Stevil]

Golf, followed by Motorsport, Cricket then Snooker

 

[tarannau]

Golf, followed by Motorsport, Cricket then Snooker

How can I forget the game of snooker. Quite honestly the worst spectator sport ever, with the possible exception of golf. We got some free tickets to Wembley Arena and thought we'd give it a go. It's RUBBISH - you get to sit inside a shushed auditorium and see snooker from extreme distance - inbetween frames you're allowed to go out, where you can get yourself a drink and watch the same snooker, but much more easily on big tvs.

And before you know it, you can't see any reason to go back in the stupid auditorium. What's worse is that some men clearly seem to be taking their unimpressed other halves there - you can tell from the strained faces and boredom. I wonder if they said; 'Here's love, fancy a few hours in a quiet room, looking at the top of Steve Davis' head from 150 yards away'

 

[bi0boy]

How can I forget the game of snooker. Quite honestly the worst spectator sport ever, with the possible exception of golf. We got some free tickets to Wembley Arena and thought we'd give it a go. It's RUBBISH - you get to sit inside a shushed auditorium and see snooker from extreme distance - inbetween frames you're allowed to go out, where you can get yourself a drink and watch the same snooker, but much more easily on big tvs.

And before you know it, you can't see any reason to go back in the stupid auditorium. What's worse is that some men clearly seem to be taking their unimpressed other halves there - you can tell from the strained faces and boredom. I wonder if they said; 'Here's love, fancy a few hours in a quiet room, looking at the top of Steve Davis' head from 150 yards away'

So it's like football, only you sit closer, it's not cold and/or wet, and you don't have twats shouting "cooomnearaagrhgr" in your ear?

 

[Badgers]

1. motorsport - insanely stupid - anti-environmental - encourages speeding.

2. Football -encourages kicking
3. Cricket - encourages hitting round things (heads perhaps) with blunt instruments
4. Snooker - encourages poking balls with pointed sticks
5. Darts - encourages throwing sharp things at round things (heads perhaps) when drunk
6. Athletics - encourages flat chested lasses to wear lycra
7. Fox Hunting - encourages the playing of small trumpets

 

[dessiato]

Snooker. A retarded sport for morons watched by zombies commentated on by dullards.

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ETA I ennoy playing golf, it is difficult to master and a great way to pass time with friends, but why anyone in their right mind would want to watch others playing it is beyond me. But the same is true of sports generally.

 

[Badgers]

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[Johnny Canuck3]

Which is it?

To play, or to watch?

 

[tarannau]

So it's like football, only you sit closer, it's not cold and/or wet, and you don't have twats shouting "cooomnearaagrhgr" in your ear?

No, football has motion, noise, excitement and a big white ball that you can see from distance.

Snooker has podgy blokes in waistcoats, silently moving around and obscuring the balls that you're meant to see by leaning over the table. It's a great game if you want to study male pattern baldness, less so if you want anything approaching drama and excitement

 

[The Octagon]

Basketball is appalling.

Team goes up one end and scores.

Then other team starts off, goes up the other end and scores.

Occasionally someone misses or loses the ball to the opposition.

That^^^ team loses the game.

Utter, utter wank.

 

[kained&able]

I love basketball. There is so much going on when you know what your on about and lot more tactcis then most will give credit for.

dave

 

[tarannau]

Ah basketball's one of those games when you can often just watch the last 5 minutes and 'get' the whole game.

To be fair though, the same's often true of football where one single miskicked spawny goal can settle 90 minutes of mediocrity. When there's a good game of basketball the scoring can give a real sense of the flow and direction of the game.

 

[The Octagon]

I love basketball. There is so much going on when you know what your on about and lot more tactics then most will give credit for.

dave

Don't try that "It's actually sophisticated and you just don't get it" defence.

It's Netball, without the tactical problem of being unable to move with the ball.

 

[kained&able]

Ah but beacuse you can move with the ball you get all the picks and screens and stuff that you can't do with netball and not forgetting the three point shot, which alters the tactics significently from netball.

You also get less time and often have to shoot without being set properly which puts the skill level up a hell of lot.

Theres a lot more going on then 5 players running up the court and taking a shot. But if your unintrested thats all you'll see.



dave

 

[The Octagon]

Ah but beacuse you can move with the ball you get all the picks and screens and stuff that you can't do with netball and not forgetting the three point shot, which alters the tactics significently from netball.

You also get less time and often have to shoot without being set properly which puts the skill level up a hell of lot.

Theres a lot more going on then 5 players running up the court and taking a shot. But if your unintrested thats all you'll see.



dave

To be fair, that's all this thread is - people shitting on sports they don't like

 

[kained&able]

True enough.

But i understand golf and cricket and still think they are toss.


dave