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Do you have an interest in professional sports?
Yes 31%  31%  [ 22 ]
No 69%  69%  [ 49 ]
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24 Nov 2007, 10:15 pm

No interest at all.



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25 Nov 2007, 12:07 pm

I love hockey, it's one of my obsessions. It's weird since I probably don't have a lot in common with the people playing it



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25 Nov 2007, 12:11 pm

Whenever someone talks football at me it poisons my soul just a little bit.



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25 Nov 2007, 12:14 pm

Any kind of team sports is stupid and idiotic. I watch pro wrestling form time to time because it doesn't pretend to be anything other than entertainment. My son and I love the Ninja Warrior show. Now that takes real skill and talent to do what those guys do.


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25 Nov 2007, 12:28 pm

I find watching sports to be very boring.

I do however like to hit baseballs and play pool.


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25 Nov 2007, 12:54 pm

not in the slightest. I have enough trouble memorizing how to act in social situations to memorize ERAs, TDs, and whatever else you're supposed to know.

And...this is probably strange, but if a team loses, I'd feel like I'd made the wrong choice, and I'd done something wrong. I know it's silly, but there it is...



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26 Nov 2007, 1:10 am

I am a huge sports fan, professional sports only, especially the NFL. I even studied the history of the league, and can tell you when each of the current teams joined.



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26 Nov 2007, 1:10 am

I am a huge sports fan, professional sports only, especially the NFL. I even studied the history of the league, and can tell you when each of the current teams joined.



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26 Nov 2007, 2:43 am

I love watching sports, big fan of football (i.e. soccer). I go out to as many Sydney F.C home games as possible and try to go to see the national team (Socceroos) if they play in Sydney. I get very much glued to finding out the news on my favourite overseas team Celtic F.C.

I don't mind some other sports as well, like rugby league and rugby union but football (soccer) is my favourite. I occasionally see the Australian rules as well.



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26 Nov 2007, 7:55 am

I like watching sports, especially soccer. To be honest though, since it became virtually controlled by big money, my interest is waning. When I was a kid it was quite feasible to see a team go from the bottom of the leagues to the top in 4 seasons. Now, if the club doesn't have mega-bucks it's unlikely that they'll ever be able to buy the players to do that.

As one of our rugby players said recently: the English (soccer) Premiership should be called the Andrex (brand of toilet paper) League - they're very soft and inexplicably expensive.

Otherwise, I don't get this whole tribal supporting business. I used to support my home side, because that's where I came from, but all this supporting the big teams just because they are big is just plain weird to me.

Despite liking facts and figures I also can't understand people's almost encyclopaedic knowledge of what player played in what year for what team and scored how many goals in that season. This just bores the heck out of me - but as a teenager, if you can't be bothered with this stuff, you don't fit into the "in crowd". What I find bizarre is that a lot of these guys who know all this stuff often can't add one and one together.



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07 Dec 2007, 9:38 pm

Nearly all men in Great Braitain are total anoraks when it comes to football, and your some sort of a loser/geek if your not (? crazy upside dowm world)

Anyway, I love to (truthfully) tell them that I used to ba mad about football when I was a kid, but "grew out of it" when I was 12



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07 Dec 2007, 9:46 pm

That's what happened to me with baseball (I grew out of it at 12, after being absolutely obsessed with it for a couple of years)



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08 Dec 2007, 12:57 am

Figure skating, if that counts.



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09 Dec 2007, 9:36 pm

As far as when I was growing up in school? No I couldn't have cared less about what football or baseball games were being broadcast on television.

I wanted my science and nature programs.


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09 Dec 2007, 10:22 pm

The only professional sports I have an interest in are MMA(Mixed Martial Arts). I watch UFC on Spike channel and FightZone on SUN channel.

When I notice kickboxing or breaking/forms competitions I'll watch them.

I used to enjoy watching tennis and ice skating, but rarely notice them on anymore.