Any Guys Who are Not Interested in Sports?

[bdgbill]

:eek: freak!
lol, just kidding, but i am extremely jealous. I've only been to the bell center once and that was during summer so no game. I would LOVE to be five minutes away from my favourite team.....instead of toronto

We drove by the Bell Centre last Sunday. I think season tickets for hockey had just gone on sale. The line was at least a half mile long. I don't think I would have stood in that line if they were giving away hundred dollar bills at the other end.

My girlfriend works for National Bank and is constantly being given tickets for sports events (she is going to an Alouetts football? game (without me) this Sunday.

When she won the tickets to watch the hockey game from the luxury box with past team members she told everyone that her boyfriend did not follow sports but he had agreed to go for the food. This was a very bad thing to say to Canadians. Some people got seriously pissed off.

A few days later a Vice President told her it was his life-long dream to meet those old players. The guy had tears in his eyes! He offered to buy us dinner at any restaurant in the city in exchange for the tickets. We took the deal - the dinner was awesome and that Vice president is her new friend for life.

[roy]

I'm in the other camp. I am a diehard Boston sports fan (the cheater Patriots and the slumping Red Sox :eek: ), and GBPVR has become an integral part of that. Now, instead of trying to catch every minute of every Red Sox game (hard on the WAF), I can watch a 3-4 hour game in 30 minutes, thanks to 10 second skip which is perfect for pitch to pitch. I now find it hard to watch a baseball game in real time.

With the fall TV season starting, I'll have to start juggling conflicts and manual recordings to catch as much of the games as I can. :p

[amckee]

It is even harder here because Dallas has a number of professional teams. Case in point I can remember the Dallas Cowboys, but I forget the names of our baseball and soccer teams LOL.

Heh...we have a Soccer team in Dallas? I didn't even know. I'm not a big fan of sports either.

[herbs]

I can take sport or leave it, I do watch Mixed Martial Arts, Boxing or judo if its on. But I can leave it if I'm not in the mood, occasionally watch football if the national team is in the euro/world cup. Also watch rallying when its on but again i'm not bothered if I miss it. I'm lucky in where I work they don't talk about football that much, but the place before thats all they talked about, im glad I left there only after a few months.

[pastro]

Wow, it must me tough living in Dallas and not following football. Football is a religion down there. Texas has got to be the only place in the world where high school football games are televised.


Glad to see I have some company. Maybe we should form a new minority group and lobby for anti-discrimination policies -

By the way....I once got dragged into a softball game for work. I was shocked when I actually whacked the ball over the fence....So shocked that I ran directly to third base - I NEVER lived that down. I have not seen any of those people in twenty years but I'm sure they would bring up that game if I ran into them.

ROTFL..
High school and college football are the games right now in Austin. Our high school stadium is astroturf, seats 10000, and has a jumbotron. In ohio where I went to HS, I think our stadium sat about 1000, although there wasn't more than about 500 for any game that I remember.

[zed]

My wife is the sports nut, esp. baseball (Diamondbacks & Yankees) and basketball (Suns) (we live in the Phoenix area). She's even gotten our two daughters into it. I don't care much one way or another. I followed F1 and Indy cars (I grew up literally in earshot of the Indy 500 track) when I was young (Jim Clark was my idol, to show you how long ago it was) but only watch a race now and then if I come across it while channel surfing.

My dad was a major jock and tried too hard to get me into it, I think. Pretty much turned me off to it all. I preferred to dink with my chemistry set and radios (didn't have computers then) and later, cars.

[Ted the Penguin]

I am kinda in the middle here, I am no sports nut, and really dont follow anything very closely (except when it involves my personal safety, like when I lived in Boston and the Sox won the world series/beat the Yankees in the ALCS. I did NOT go outside those nights :p)
I do however, know a bit about sports and have always been pretty active, as I played football through high school, played (and sucked at) baseball up until high school, and I was a cheerleader through high school and college. ok so I find it hard to get myself to the gym lately... whatever.
I will enjoy watching the occasional football game on TV, but that is about it.

[whurlston]

I used to be a sports junkie, but my wife hates sports. Guess who won out.

[dvasco]

I don't watch sports too much. There are a few I watch sometimes such as soccer, MMA, bullriding, and boxing. But I am never up to date on anything except the world cup. I get crap from people sometimes but where I work there are almost as many people that don't watch much sports as there are that do. The cool thing about MMA is that a lot of ex-wrestlers are in it now and are doing good. I wrestled 3 years in high school and I always knew it could come in handy. I took a bit of martial arts after high school but the time and money kept me from pursuing it for more than 1.5 years. I could spar good against red belts even though.

[JonnyCam]

I used to be a sports junkie, but my wife hates sports. Guess who won out.

Luckily I was able to convince the missus that football (soccer) was great, now she follows my team fanatically (Chelsea, so I am a sad fan today!)

But we watch Rugby Union, cricket, rugby league, AFL, MLS, English Premier League. Everything! (including Poker, it's on ESPN - so it's a sport) (not too much motor racing except for the V8 series)

I guess I don't watch much in the way of US sports, I'll watch an NFL game, but I think I'd rather watch it in fast forward - guess I should record them. Basketballs OK, Hockeys pretty entertaining (hard to follow the puck though)

So, I think I need one of those Homer Simpson "Sports" Pennant flags.