Aspergers and Sports.

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I'd totally forgotten about feeling like this for most of my childhood and teenage years. Then learned to take an interest, and of course went totally overboard cheering, which is what you do when you're clueless

I am quite the sports freak. I love following sport and feel a bit lost if I don't know the latest goings on in the sporting world. Football (soccer) is my biggest passion but I am also a huge lover of cricket. I love looking through league tables, form guides etc in football and cricket is just a statistical dream!

There are very few popular sports I don't follow at least casually, maybe the American ones as we don't have them in Europe, but then I do still like looking up who has won what.

Also very sporty as a kid, I was a sprint champion for my local town and also played football up until I was 30. I am very uncompetitive though, which used to annoy a couple of people on my team. I would leave the field feeling the same if we won 5-0 or lost 5-0. I said once after losing that I thought it was nice the other team were so happy at the end and had enjoyed their morning so much. Didn't go down well with my team mates who let a loss literally ruin their weekend!

I think sports are a waste of time. The only physical activity I like is running. The only physical activity I somewhat like watching is ballet, it's not because of the sport itself, it's because of the people who are performing it. During other female sports, they're all sweaty. Although, I do understand how people can like sports. I sometimes wish I was like the other guys and actually cared about them.

You're going to find that there is a lot of time to waste and sports are no different than any means of entertainment and there are way worse forms of entertainment. I don't necessarily dislike playing sports but it's a social thing I am not really apart of, I always wished I could of a been a basketball player but that wasn't in the cards genetically but I do wish I just had my own basket that I could just screw around on.

I am into all the big sport leagues, hoping for another Packer Superbowl right now!

I am especially uninterested in team sports, and I don't understand how some people can get so worked up about supporting "their" team. Football in England was once described as a collection of mentally-challenged millionaires kicking a ball around in a field.

I remember hating sports when I was at school. It was always rugby in the autumn term, and the sports master "explained" the rules to us on the first day by saying it was "like football (=soccer) with the following differences..." Since I had never played football, never had any interest in it and never knew the rules, it meant that from day one I was completely clueless about what the rules were of the game I was expected to participate in for the next few years. The games days at school were a real torture for me.

I love to watch tennis and take tennis lessons on Saturdays. My favorite players are Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, David Ferrer and Denis Istomin. It was Istomin who inspired me to pick up a racquet and sign up for lessons. I was impressed by everything he overcame to make the professional tennis tour. I was so happy to learn he (and Roger and Rafa) won their first round matches at the Australian Open.

I have had a complicated relationship with sports . On the negative side , I remember that in second grade , at this one church school I was enrolled in at the time , all of the rest of the student body was into gymnastics . In fact the primary reason why the church school was set up was so that the students , especially the headmistress's children could be excused to train at the gymnasium . So I was enrolled at the gymnasium as well . But I did not do well there . Early on when the instructor spotted me during a forward roll , I threw put my back . Plus the other students never included me in anything , as the leading dtudent , whom was also the headmistress's oldest son , did not think that i was cool enough to be friends with them . And in none of the schools I attended did anyone want to play any sports with me . So I suppose I just never developed a personal connection to sports . That and also since my family ended up moving back and forth between Pennsylvania and Ohio , during my childhood and youth , I have tended to feel conflicted about what my home teams should be , Pittsburgh or Cleveland , and not get why it even matters . On the plus side I have enjoyed competing in a chess club , if chess can be considered a sport , and also took karate lessons for a short time . And I watch martial arts matches , such as that of the UFC . I think that both martial arts and chess involve strategic thinking skills , so I appreciate them both for that reason . Lastly , my one cousin / foster brother had participated in soccer ( association football) , so I had watched a number of his games . Also I have become a fan of the Livorno Amaranto soccer team , due in large part to political motive http://www.worldsoccer.com/blogs/livorno-keep-red-flag-flying-italy-358079 .

I've never liked sports. Physically, I am unable to play anything and I never have enjoyed watching them on TV or in person.

I love watching hockey baseball basketball and football.

Never have and never will, but it can be auditorily soothing to watch snooker, as well as the inaudible atmosphere surrounding the game.

Wow! You too? For a while I had an obsession with snooker, very soothing as you say.

I was never into sports as a young child but around the age of 11 I suddenly got a massive interest in sports, particularly hockey (shocking I know!). Now, my passion is starting to wane a bit but I will probably always have an interest in it as it's my only "normal" hobby other than video games. I suppose in hindsight it was an activity where I wasn't mocked, bullied or judged and was actually accepted at for the first time in my life so I clung to it quickly. As an adult, it was also a great place for a lonely single guy who didn't drink to hang out. I also love the whole stats thing and usually browse stats from other games in the league on my phone during intermissions.

I am a regular rink rat and while I have decreased the amount of games I go to, I still am at the local arena 25+ times a season watching my local team. I also play sports although I am finding out the bullying is just far more subtle and subdued and am getting tired of being 'accidentally' excluded from team functions over and over again. I told my wife it is very possible I may give up sports entirely in the future but not because I regret being a fan or because I think it was anything less than a very enjoyable hobby with plenty of happy memories.

What was the topic again? Even though I didn't follow sports as a kid, I always loved Gym and was the only honor roll student who considered it my favourite subject in school, even with all the bullying.

I can only stay invested in sports when I'm filming them since that's my job right now. I went to high school football games but only to hang out with friends outside of school and because soft pretzels.

I love watching baseball. I watch almost every game the St. Louis Cardinals play. I used to watch football too, but I lost all my interest in it when the Rams moved. As for playing, I used to be a really good soccer goalie, but I'm not good enough to be on my college team or anything.

NY Rangers and NY. Mets

Anybody have an idea what is wrong with Lundqvist this year?

I understand that. Occasionally, I used to go and watch local cricket matches just because of the muted sounds. Very soothing. I had and still have absolutely no idea what as going on and didn;t really care but it was very calming when reading. Snooker has the same sort of quiet, polite atmosphere. even the balls make the similar gentle noise as cricket.

Please everyone, do not try and explain the rules to cricket to me. My father used to try and 1) I still don't understand 2) I do not want to understand