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Popular sports that bore the shit

Discussion in 'Other Sports' started by eddybhoy, Sep 11, 2008.

Discuss Popular sports that bore the shit in the Other Sports area at TalkCeltic.net.

  1. eddybhoy

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    my top ten sports that are popular and shown on tv but bore the * out of me.

    1.cricket
    2. darts
    3. american football
    4. bowls
    5.curling
    6. Formula 1-too long
    7. marathons
    8. horse racing-unless your betting
    9.poker
    10.sailing

    some of these i think are good to play but dont think they are good to watch.
     
  2. R-to-the-C

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    cricket, rugby, marathons and some of your list, apart from darts and poker

    im guessing a few folk will probably say snooker
     
  3. Airdrie Onion

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    I'd agree, in fact I wouldn't even class a lotta them as 'sports'.
     
  4. Pacific Ocean Blue

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    Snooker is boring to watch but i enjoy playing it... Gotta add Cricket too thats just bollocks
     
  5. Airdrie Onion

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    Baseball and chess. To watch. Not to play.
     
  6. Metrobhoy

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    1.cricket - I haven't watched in years but used to enjoy it in the days of Botham and Gower etc.
    2. darts - I can actually watch darts and pretty much enjoy it.
    3. american football - Not a chance. Dreadful game
    4. bowls - Dire to watch. To play as you say not bad. Ten pin is the same.
    5.curling - Bowls on ice, Never likely to play it either
    6. Formula 1-too long
    7. marathons - Yawwwwn
    8. horse racing-unless your betting - why else would you watch it?
    9.poker - Never. My mate watches that!
    10.sailing - Didnt' know about this one lol

    Others include - Baseball, Swimming, Skiing, Boxing unless it's Tyson v Bruno lol,

    The best 5 to watch.

    Football
    Snooker
    Tennis
    Rugby (if Scotland or England play)
    Golf
     
  7. made in ireland

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    american football and baseball. cant understand why people would watch them. stop start the whole 5 hours there on for.
     
  8. Dermot

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    I would put Golf way up the list too
     
  9. KK-Bhoy

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    No sports really bore me. Every sport has its likeable aspects.

    If I was about to die and had to make a choice of which sport I'd watch, it'd probably go:

    1. Hurling
    2. Rugby (union, of course)
    3. Soccer
    4. Football
    5. Golf
     
  10. DobbinS 1888

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    Rugby and Cricket two of the * most boring things to watch ever. Footballs the greatest sport in the world IMO and im sure many more peoples opinion is the same
     
  11. Rendog

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    long distance running, and cricket.
     
  12. Bhoy Al Arab

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    Cricket:31:
    I have to do it in PE, I'd never done it in my life and didn't have a clue what to do, just stood there. When it was my turn to bowl I was told by the teacher, "You're Scottish, you'll never be good at cricket." All the English and Indian boys love it but I just will never understand.

    I don't know how some people can sit and watch hours of guys driving round a track. I remember a newspaper columnist criticized Formula 1 for be being boring and there was a letter in the paper the next day. The letter said something along the lines of, "I would rather take my family to a Grand Prix than a football match. I can walk around and enjoy the day, eat at a nice restaurant without any young idiots running around the palce. What's the point in going to a football match with a greasy pie, bovril, in and out in 90 minutes with hooligans shouting and swearing."
    I was just thinking so he goes to the Grand Prix not to watch it but to have a nice day, what the *! Then critizing people for going to watch a sport, support there team with a good atmosphere.

    Simple sports, with simple rules are the best to play and the best to watch. Strangely, I have seen chess in the sports section of the Gulf News.

    My Favorites
    1. Football
    2. Rugby
    3. Tennis

    My Dislikes
    1. Cricket
    2. Formula 1
    3. Darts
     
  13. Euskal Herria

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    Absolutely all of them bar soccer, hurling, gaelic football and rugby union.
     
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    Despise cricket, thats about it tbh would watch anything else.

    have to say love watching poker(proper professionals, wsop, million dollar cash games) not them spastick games they show on sky sports or that pkr.com where your watching people play online.

    Soccer.hurling,Football(gaa) and snooker all class to watch aswell.
     
  15. Lazycame

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    I 100% completely agree with you apart from 2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10.
     
  16. AnthonyBhoy

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    cricket - english
    darts - pub game
    3. american football - american
    4.bowls-for older people
    5.curling - dont like it
    6.formula 1 - too long
    7.marathons - too long
    8.horse racing - bad
    9.poker - mugs game
    10.sailing - awryt
     
  17. R-to-the-C

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    forgot about golf, but that can be good on final days though
     
  18. Martin

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    All of the above bore me.
     
  19. Dempsey

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    Cricket
    Baseball
    Darts
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    AFL
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    Absolutely bore the * out of me
     
  20. HenrikBhoy

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    I saw * fishing oan a while ago, no sure if it's a * sport but * watching that.