Least favourite sport?

**deecay** · 04/02/2008, 4:46 PM

After resurecting Sligomans thread and passinginterest's post I say id make this

GAA is no.1 by a country mile,they are a disgrace to the country

American Football is no.2,after playing rugby for 7yrs I know what its liked to be tackled and to tackle,these idiots run into each other with helmets and huge padding,theres breaks in play every few seconds and is very boring

**pineapple stu** · 04/02/2008, 4:56 PM

I think this was done at the same time as that other thread.

Hate rugby; can't understand what's so entertaining about 30 men running into each other and kicking the ball out of touch. Utterly tedious game.

American football's the same only worse. Baseball, basketball (not as bad) and cricket would be up there too.

Without wanting to drag this off topic, the notion the GAA are a disgrace to the country is just silly. Yes, they have their faults (rather large ones in the case of Thomas Davis), but you can't tar the whole sport because of a few incidents like that.

**Risteard** · 04/02/2008, 5:14 PM

Generally speaking you can just avoid the sports you don't like. I could probably take an interest in anything for a few minutes.

I''d watch the big rugby matches but its hard to avoid the bull**** culture sorrounding it and it can get very tiring.
I was forced in to watching that RTE documentary on the Ireland England game at Croker twice and it was a disgraceful bag of ballsology.
Escape to victory music on and D4 accents saying
The WHOOOOLE nation . . . . . . epic battle of the ages . . . . . . . It was like a war of attrition . . . .
No, it was like a football match, a very good rugby match now shut up!!!!

**pineapple stu** · 04/02/2008, 5:18 PM

Originally Posted by Risteard

Generally speaking you can just avoid the sports you don't like.

Course. Though this thread's purely about having a moan about rubbish sports.

**eamo1** · 04/02/2008, 5:21 PM

plz dont let this become another "lets knock the GAA" thread but under another different name,getting boring lads.
i like fast sports in general but have in recent years been fascinated by american football,pure tactics,pure cat and mouse "will he 'blitz' or wont he".and last nights superbowl was incredible.how many major show piece finals turn out to be boiring affairs as both sides are too afraid of losing but not last night,amazing stuff.
cricket for me is number one.baseball is number 2-i was at a game in yankee stadium a few years ago and it was 3 hours of utter boredom.and if bowls does become an olympic sport which is supposed to happen then it will be a tradegy.

**Kildare Lad** · 04/02/2008, 5:30 PM

Cricket for me, baseball not great either. Golf can be pretty boring to watch.

**strangeirish** · 04/02/2008, 5:36 PM

Cricket, Baseball and Darts. (One hundred and eiiiiggghtyyy me hole)

**sligoman** · 04/02/2008, 5:42 PM

Gah for me. Most other sports are watchable.

**dfx-** · 04/02/2008, 6:21 PM

Gaaliban, Golf, Baseball

I'd watch pretty much everything else happily...except Rugby League

**Maz** · 04/02/2008, 7:11 PM

Cricket for me, it would be the one I could never watch

**Newryrep** · 04/02/2008, 7:59 PM

Althetics/95% of Olympics - waste of good drugs as somebody once said

**DaveyCakes** · 04/02/2008, 8:13 PM

Basketball and golf

**Thunderblaster** · 04/02/2008, 8:38 PM

Cricket!!

**Rovers fan** · 04/02/2008, 9:59 PM

cricket, rugby league and squash

**Anto McC** · 04/02/2008, 10:03 PM

Tennis is my least favorite sport by far. Rugby league is a sham too.

**pineapple stu** · 04/02/2008, 10:10 PM

That's another confusing thing - how can you like rugby union and hate rugby league?! It still involves no more than brute force and thick ignorance, with an unhealthy dose of hoofing for good measure.

Any sport which doesn't involve you to pass the ball forward is just wrong, in my opinion.

**lim abroad** · 04/02/2008, 10:11 PM

me too i'm the same as a few here with golf,rugby league,cricket,tennis,hockey and baseball

**osarusan** · 04/02/2008, 10:26 PM

basketball, baseball, cycling.

If you don't have any money involved, horseracing. If you have money involved, it's absolutely thrilling

EDIT : Any form of motor racing.

**pete** · 04/02/2008, 10:49 PM

Horse Racing. The only purpose is to gamble on otherwise pointless.

**Lionel Ritchie** · 04/02/2008, 11:31 PM

I'm actually not much of a sports fan. Football doesn't count ...in many ways it's my Rock'N'Roll.

I find tennis utterly unwatchable. Snooker too ..though I can quite enjoy playing it.

Track sports also leave me cold -though I'll ackowledge there should be far more emphasis on them in our schools PE programmes as the data is there that fewer than one in ten kids is actually suited to team sports. But you're up against it pushing change through there as many schools use their sports teams (i.e. Rugby, GAA and probably to a lesser extent Football) as flagships and adverts for the school.

When I was really small I used enjoy motor racing ...I think it was just watching all the different coloured cars being noisy and fast. Rally driving likewise. Nowadays I'd wonder what manner of six-toed moron gets off on this? ...and I'd have deeper worries again about the person that goes to these events.

Anything equine is ridiculous as well. I ate a horse steak in France a few years back and it was delicious ...a far more practical use for them things.