I don't know what football team won the last Superbowl or what baseball team won the last World Series. And I don't care. I don't care which pro sports team wins in hockey, basketball, or any other sport.
I would find a blank TV screen more exciting to watch than any baseball game.
In fact, I heard the terms "double play" and triple play", but I don't know or care to know what they mean. I don't know the difference between a quarterback, halfback, fullback or linebacker, and I don't care.
The only circumstance under which I would care which sports team wins a game would be either if I had money riding on the game or if my own brother was on one of the teams.
I know that the vast majority of people root for sports teams, but I cannot get interested in something just to go along with the majority.
Is anyone else here besides me apathetic about sports?
I am actually not apathetic to sports at all. I actually hate sports. I don’t understand people wasting entire days staring at someone throwing balls around on TV. I have never understood it even a little. I have people in my life who do nothing but talk about sports and it is hard to listen to them. They know my feelings yet still feel the need to tell me all about the game the other night or about this player or that player. They know I have zero fucks to give. They just don’t care because they can’t shut the fuck up for a second about sports.
Yesterday I was able to enjoy my first game of footie and it was awesome! The game that was being played was the Community Shield and it gives the winning team their first trophy of the season as well as some bragging rights. It's played between the winner of the Premier League Manchester Shitty (City) and the winner of the FA Cup which was Liverpool (they beat Chelsea which happens to be my other favorite PL team). It's been a long 16 years, but Liverpool won 3-1 and I am over the moon about it!
Well since this is the perfect place to post this, thanks Perl for that, anyhoo, today was the Community Shield which is the first chance to grab a trophy in the upcoming 22/23 season in English Prem League. This game brings together the winner of the regular season (league) and the winner of the FA Cup, so Manchester Shitty (City) won the league last year and LIVERPOOL who won the FA Cup. They played that game today and LIVERPOOL look red hot it was a chance to show off a new striker that they acquired over the summer. Liverpool deserved it more and it has been 16 years since they last won.
English and European soccer is known as the "Beautiful Game" and it's for good reason.
One thing I will NEVER understand is: Why are fans so happy when "their" team wins and so distraught when they lose? Whether your favorite team wins or loses, everything else in your life is unaffected: your health, your relationships, your career, etc. I just don't get it and probably never will.
I don’t like sports much either Perlinator, one of my coworkers said I was born without a sports gene!
One day they were talking about a famous hockey player in our area and they asked me what I thought about Sidney Crosby, I told them I didn’t follow football. That was the last time they talked to me about sports.
It works with any sport too.
What do you think about Tiger Woods? Sorry I don’t follow baseball.
I'm with you, Perl.
Just doing regularly sports for my happiness, I don't care about sports events.
I have this on a wall in my office:
…And I played World of Warcraft for years, so everyone knew I knew all of this.
Well folks it's time for the English Premier League to start again, I so excited I can totally shit twice and die! Ugh, after several months without a single game, I will be able to start getting my fix starting August 5th and the season lasts until the following May! Yay!
Lol, I was thinking of coming over here and starting a football thread soon because I’m so excited it’s about a month away. I’m a complete sports fanatic: love it all and for me that was one of the worst parts of the early days of the pandemic. It’s now been since 2019 since I‘ve been to any kind of game in-person and it’s making me crazy…
I'm like Perlinator--I don't give a rip about sports and never have. As a kid, of course, I liked to play baseball and football on the playground with my classmates, but I was awful at it.
In fifth grade, after years of verbal abuse and always being one of the last to get picked for teams, I learned why--it wasn't that I was becoming nearsighted (and had to start wearing glasses to correct that), it was that I have no depth perception. My eyes don't "work together," so to speak, so instead of seeing double, my brain automatically ignores the input coming from either the left or right eye, depending on what I'm looking at. Normally, it's not a problem. But when you have a small round object like a ball moving quickly toward you, that you must catch, or hit with a racket, or hit with a bat, it's damn near impossible. Try to do any of those activities with one eye closed, and you'll know what I mean. To catch a pop fly ball heading into the infield, one has to "snatch" it out of the air, with the glove closing on the ball as it nears, but with no depth perception, I was waiting for the ball to hit the glove, and of course, by the time my glove closed, the ball was long gone. My eye doctor, bless him, patiently explained all of this to my fifth-grade self, and it was like suddenly having the blinders removed--finally, I knew why I could only rarely catch a ball, why I almost always struck out, why I was always getting yelled at on the playground. And to this day, people who talk with me for a while sometimes wonder if I am really looking at them. I am, but with only one eye--the other eye wanders off in another direction, out of focus! It's a bit disconcerting for other people, I know.
So--no sports for me, except ... snow skiing, or jogging, or weight-lifting. Team sports with balls have always been out of my league, so I've never paid attention to them. There are far too many things in this world that are more important, anyway. Of course, this means that I have nothing to talk about or say with that very large share of the male population (including many of my male relatives) for whom sports are THE topic, and no other. I'll admit that it's quite isolating.
Definitely agree with all that.
At any professional level, it's only about money. Boring.
However - confession time - I do catch up with the rugby sometimes ... those dudes are fit 😊😋
I love to play and love to watch. High school, college and pros. I think basketball is as beautiful as a ballet
My mom was a huge baseball and basketball fan but my dad was not. I was also a cheerleader in high school My first husband was a small college football and baseball coach. He was also alcoholic and I divorced him and married a musician who doesn't drink and has no interest in sports. Instead of football, we watch concert and music festivals. We could not live without music.
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Hiya Perl & thanks for the post. I like Kathmandu could not survive without sport. Actually, let me be more specific, there is only one form of sport that I care about and almost everyone on here knows it's football aka footie aka soccer. I can say without a doubt that I am addicted. I played from age 5 till 23, which earned me a scholarship. My absolute love is Liverpool, second is Chelsea. But if I'm being honest I will watch any and all games possible. English Premier League starts in August and goes til May of the following year. I also support Bayern Munich which is Bundesliga, again watching any game shown. In total, I will watch 15 or more games during the week.
LOL...I have a problem!!
Sports is very prevalent in my extended family. Lotta athletes, I played college basketball. One of my sons was a HS & college QB, two other sons played HS basketball. I'm not sure I could survive without sports.