I find reading, and science much more exciting and worthwhile. Not to mention I don’t need to see people getting paid insane amounts of money doing a thing others do for free. On top of that, the amount of resources used for this activity could be better spent on actually achieving something for humanity that isn’t a drain on a local government.
I’ve never been that person I prefer trading stocks and playing the actually sport. and traveling. Sitting in front of a screen watching other people play doesn’t excite me. I’m 38 years old btw
i don’t like to just ‘watch’ sports, i’d rather watch with my friends. I would rather see a game live and if possible I would rather play the sport than watch it. Obviously, the older I get the harder it is b/c people don’t stay fit, people don’t have time, but to just watch sports by myself ain’t my thing.
The only thing I’m into anymore is baseball and that’s fading too. Used to enjoy football but quit watching years ago when the team I liked signed Greg Hardy. Couldn’t accept that.
No meaning to any of it. What’s the end goal? Bragging rights? You ain’t even playing so what’s there to brag about? lol also, I don’t like the idea of some dude wearing a jersey with another dudes last name on it.
I don’t mind seeing a few minutes of a good game of any kind, it’s the competition that gets out of control for me. People have become obsessed when it comes to sports and I’m not interested in it. Not many people like sports, they like winning more- no matter what.
I would much rather watch my grandchildren play Upward Basketball when they are small enough that no one keeps score.
Had a single parent that may as well have not existed whenever a game of any kind was on, unless i needed something then got yelled at for “making them miss the game”. 12 years of that caused me to develop an ick that I havent had reason to get around.
Why would I want to spend my time watching a bunch of sweaty men try to get a ball to go to a specific location? Why on earth would that interest me? I’m baffled that anyone watches sports at all, it’s completely nonsensical.
I am unathletic and uncoordinated, so I wasn’t very good at sports growing up. Because of this, I was regularly bullied and disparaged by my teammates. I guess that left a bad taste that never went away. As for why I don’t watch them, the kind of bore me to watch. Very repetitive and uninteresting if you don’t have a stake in one of the teams.
Well kinda. I don’t really enjoy playing a game I suck at, and I’m not in shape so I suck at nearly all sport. I prefer duel than team sport, but even then I’d rather do some individual activities. And then, I’m just bored out of my mind by individual activities.
That’s for the “do” part. For the “watch” part, I enjoy watching things I do. I have absolutely zero interest in watching hockey or football or whatever, because I don’t practice those sports. I do, however, enjoy a little watching people playing chess or videogames because I do play those games.
I don’t find watching them entertaining at all. I am in no way vested in who wins or loses, and i have zero desire to waste time thinking about something that bores me.
Lol I used to joke that it was like watching paint dry. But I painted cars for a living and actually enjoyed watching paint dry more than sports. Also I feel like there is the standard jock type into standard sports and then there’s the lunatics on the Red Bull Team. They are competing in real sports in my opinion.
Because we find different arenas to satisfy the intrinsic desire for mastery and progress. If the itch is getting scratched by something else, we don’t need sports.
Some of us modify/restore cars. Some of us play DND / video games. Some of us build businesses.
At the end, we just want one domain we can make progress in, so the other areas of life where progress is denied don’t eat at us and leave us face-to-face with the existential dread of our own mortality.
But y’know. Tell me who’s playing and who to cheer for, hand me a beer and I’m still down.
My dad wasn’t in to sports, so there was never that bonding moment where we cheered on the same teams. I think that has more to do with my disinterest in most sports than anything else.
As I got older, I did become interested in baseball though. But I’m fully convinced that I like baseball mostly because it is the nerdiest sport. All numbers and stats and such. Which really lines up with my personality for whatever reason. So I try to catch a few baseball games each year and follow my team, but I don’t just sit and watch any baseball game that happens to be on. I watch The Texas Rangers and no one else.
I also always liked wrestling, but that doesn’t really count. Most combat sports are fun to watch, in fact. But it’s a completely different vibe than team sports and like baseball I only really got interested once I was an adult and made friends with people who were interested in them as well. So that became a bonding experience with a couple of my friends.
It’s just been a lifelong “meh” from me. The irony is that I love hitting baseballs, tennis balls, and if I have a basketball and a goal I will do that for a while. I like those parts of the sports, but when other people get involved I do not like that. I am pretty good at hitting baseballs. In high school gym I successfully gave my least favorite douche a “fuck you” by grand slamming a bad pitch instead of taking a ball. Sent that fucker to the parking lot. He was a shit pitcher and threw strays half the time and didn’t like that I let the coach call them and always took a walk. So he muttered something and I shut him up. I am so proud of that and I’m almost 40. It just takes one good grand slam as a kid to wipe out all the terrible memories of gym class.
I tried karate once. I put the outfit on at home and immediately ripped it off because I didn’t like the way it felt. That was the end of that.
When I was at a church picnic around 5 or 6 I made up a really long explanation for not playing shirts and skins football because I really didn’t want to wind up playing skins. I also had no idea how to play football so the idea of being shirtless and clueless in a field was horrifying.
So, a combination of really not wanting to be in that specific scenario with others and also not understanding the rules to most sports and also not finding them very interesting from the get-go.
I was briefly a competitive cyclist, but I lacked much discipline so my natural ability didn’t take me far. Now I enjoy cycling for fun. I did enjoy watching pro cycling.
It doesn’t interest me to watch a bunch of people get paid millions to chase a piece of rubber around a sheet of ice and then complain they don’t get paid enough.
Sports are like religion; they make perfect sense if you were raised with them, and no sense at all if you weren’t, even if you understand all the rules.
Two teams that aren’t from my city are playing against each other, who am I supposed to cheer for? When I was a kid, everyone told me it was dumb to pick a team based on whose colors I liked better. Is anything else any less arbitrary?
Played American football and soccer on teams for a few years and took golf and tennis lessons but I preferred skateboarding and BMX. I liked watching the NBA in high school but stopped keeping up with it years ago. It’s a complete culture shock to go home for the holidays and the TV at family gatherings will be on college playoffs or NFL the entire time.
I don’t like competition. I find the attitude of who’s better and let’s argue about it tiring. I was bullied as a kid by the jocks for being nerdy and smart. I did everything else I could to not have to be a part of that group. I was artistic and liked music. So, I started playing guitar and by high school I was quite popular. Never looked back. And now, I’d rather spend three hours on Sunday spending time with my wife doing stuff besides sitting around spectating other people being active.
It’s not interesting to me. Ya let’s run back and forth with a ball for a couple hours and do nothing else, sounds like fucking Disneyland levels of fun to me.
Plus sports junkies are the most insufferable people ever. They’re always high energy and you can only talk about sports with them. All they think about in life is balls 😂
It’s not like I don’t like watching sports, I’m just not invested enough to understand which players are currently the top dogs, or how certain teams perform in recent seasons. So although I watch the games sometimes, it feels like I still have nothing to talk about with others, that makes me feel like a “poser” and I don’t feel good about it.
I had season tickets for NFL and NHL teams for many years.
But, a combination of things have made me lose interest:
I got so tired of being let down. My teams have never won a championship. I’m in my 40s…and it’s just too heartbreaking year after year after year.
Once the politics really started infiltrating all the sports, that took a big wind out of my sails. Sports were an escape from things. It used to bring people together. Now it has an element of divisiveness to it. Even having a Coke or a Bud Light while watching the game risks political drama.
I have come to absolutely hate sports analysis, commentary, etc. I despise ESPN, Stephen A Smith, Dan Patrick, Joe Buck, etc. They provide zero value, zero insight, and nothing they do has any impact on the game. I hate the rehashing, rehashing, and rehashing of shit. They all have inflated egos and it’s just their opinions…which means nothing. But it feels like the analysis and personalities are just as big as the sports. And I can’t stand it.
I just found I have more important things to do.
After I stopped watching sports…I realized how little I missed it.
It just became less and less fun or rewarding. Other things crept in and squeezed the life out of what little fun was left.
Still enjoy playing sports, no longer enjoy watching sports. I think in the modern era there are better forms of entertainment such as expansive video games or more imaginative/impressive forms of movies and tv shows. Also the transformation of sports from a once a week “watch, turn off tv, and forget about it” into a 24/7 news cycle where you are expected to constantly keep up with the newest rumors, trade gossip, off the field activities, etc. It became very exhausting very quickly.
I don’t like watching sports. I love playing sports. The former bores me, since I’m passively consuming; the latter excites me because I’m actively using my body.
It’s just entertaining to me, classic sports that is. I enjoy MMA and boxing, but football, baseball, golf, and all that bore the shit out of me. It’s just people playing with a ball.
I have nothing against sports, I think they are great. However, I don’t get how people can get so heated over people playing with a ball.
I should also add, I never had a father figure or sportsy people around me growing up. I noticed most people I meet had a dad, uncle, or SOMEONE that took them to games and stuff. I never had that, so sports was never really a part of my life.
Um…I was never athletic, always the last picked for grade school/ middle school ball games and it just wasn’t for me. 😑 I do like reading, sci- fi, horror movies, paranormal stuff. That sorta thing, y’know?
If you like watching big musclely men roll atin the dirt with shiny pants and knee socks on more power to you brother. You keep reaching for that rainbow, eventually you’ll grab it
If I personally know someone who is involved in a team and is passionate about it, watching my friend and their team play a live match in person is fine.
Watching people I will never meet and do not relate to, as they make grunting sounds, shout numbers, and run around for brief periods and maybe toss a ball to someone… That’s incredibly meaningless and boring to me. I’d rather file my taxes. It’s so tedious trying to sit and watch people I don’t know play a game with rules that seem designed to mostly just slow down the action.
Professional tennis is fine though (good pace), or world cup soccer (so long as nobody fakes an injury like a diva), or MMA (relevant real world skills) or figure skating (movement elevated to art through incredible skill and strength) …
Yeah I guess I should not say I don’t like sports, I just hate the sports that America chose to promote the hardest and build temples to and make idols of.
I actually like sports, but in terms of watching them I just find them to be an enormous time suck that isn’t worth it. Every now and then I’ll try to get back into watching NBA or NFL, but it just feels like every game is so long, there are so many games, and after a while I started to feel like I’d seen it all before. Plus I find the ridiculous amounts and lengths of commercial breaks and other timeouts, pauses, etc. (US sports) make them unwatchable.
Plus you need to put in additional time to keep up with standings, trades, stats, rule changes, etc.
I enjoy going to see live sports once in a while. Basically it’s a cost/benefit thing for me, I like sports, just not worth the time and effort.
The other thing is that, as I get older, I find it harder and harder to get emotionally invested in a team or player. I just see a bunch of high paid mercenaries. The entire lineup could turn over in a few years. I don’t have that childlike illusion that I’m somehow connected to the team anymore.
I think that for me it’s because my dad never cared about them. He was an immigrant from another country where and when sports weren’t a big deal at all. We never played them or bonded over watching them, and we were too poor for me to ever participate in them so I never developed a liking for them. I can respect the athletic prowess and discipline of the athletes and the discipline it took for them to get where they are, but watching someone do something that doesn’t inspire me or affect my emotions like art or music doesn’t do anything for me even if it’s at such a high level.
Playing or watching? I don’t watch sports because it’s very… “dumb” entertainment IMO. Like I would have to turn off my brain to enjoy it. And, genuinely, I actually like thinking.
As for playing, I like baseball, but Basketball and American football friggin ANNOY me. Football is ok but I’m not good with my feet.
I’m really big so was made to play rugby by my dad, but I didn’t like it and he realised so said j could stop but I didn’t want to disappoint him. I didn’t like hurting the other kids but I was very good at running through them like a train so it kinda out me off sport for ages
It never was a priority in my world…just wasn’t. As I grew up I was never afraid of work but sports just wasn’t my thing. I do love to hit trails with my dog or walk places with my wife but sports…nope. I do have a respect for certain sports but their importance in my life is so low I barely know what sport season we’re in let alone what major events are taking place. We’re all different. No biggie.
I would rather be doing sport than watching someone else doing it. Same thing with porn.
Having said that I never liked playing team sports, turned off by the fake camaraderie, the politics and pettiness.
So sport for me (when I was younget) was track and tennis.
Tennis got boring after a while, I am tall and got good at it mostly winning. This was not socially acceptable to some and i had to let guys win to keep the peace and get another game.
I don’t mind watching them live but I really get turned off when people know decades more stats and information than me. I’ll never catch up so why bother
Are there no sports you don’t like? Tennis, curling, foosball, Smash, chess? Unless you will mindlessly watch literally any athletic event, you understand why someone might not like a sport. Difference is, I feel that way about football/baseball/basketball too.
I’m not anti-sports, but they never really became a part of who I am in the way they are for many people. I’ve never really enjoyed watching any of them, and have only really enjoyed playing a few of them casually. The one that actually had some traction for a while was tennis. I seemed to be decent at it, but it’s been a whiiiiile.
I’m more into just general physical activity – hiking in nature or long walks in the city with my wife, or while listening to music alone. Maybe throw in some photography on the way. Some weight training and running at the gym. That kind of thing.
I don’t really watch sports cause I don’t really care who wins. I don’t follow the teams and didn’t get attached to any in my youth so I just don’t care. And since I don’t care who wins not much point in watching.
I don’t mind playing some of them but only on a casual level cause I suck at most of them.
I kinda like eSports streams, football/fifa, and F1 but not as much as everyone. I’ll watch if people around me are watching too. But I don’t understand the tribalism around them tbh. it’s just another social activity for me
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I can’t do them anymore.
Why should we?
Not entertaining or fun to me
Fantasy gambling is getting out of hand, still like sports though
Idk, just never found them that fun.
I only have so many hours in a day and I don’t want to spend them watching sports. I prefer to engage in sports myself
I find reading, and science much more exciting and worthwhile. Not to mention I don’t need to see people getting paid insane amounts of money doing a thing others do for free. On top of that, the amount of resources used for this activity could be better spent on actually achieving something for humanity that isn’t a drain on a local government.
I’ve never been that person I prefer trading stocks and playing the actually sport. and traveling. Sitting in front of a screen watching other people play doesn’t excite me. I’m 38 years old btw
Seems like a waste of a perfectly good Sunday. Rather be on my motorcycle
Lack of athletic ability?
i don’t like to just ‘watch’ sports, i’d rather watch with my friends. I would rather see a game live and if possible I would rather play the sport than watch it. Obviously, the older I get the harder it is b/c people don’t stay fit, people don’t have time, but to just watch sports by myself ain’t my thing.
I enjoy playing sports, and am an active person.
But if you are asking about watching professional sports … There are so many things I would rather do than watch someone I do not know play a game.
The only thing I’m into anymore is baseball and that’s fading too. Used to enjoy football but quit watching years ago when the team I liked signed Greg Hardy. Couldn’t accept that.
No meaning to any of it. What’s the end goal? Bragging rights? You ain’t even playing so what’s there to brag about? lol also, I don’t like the idea of some dude wearing a jersey with another dudes last name on it.
I can’t stand watching 45-90 minutes of ads
I don’t mind seeing a few minutes of a good game of any kind, it’s the competition that gets out of control for me. People have become obsessed when it comes to sports and I’m not interested in it. Not many people like sports, they like winning more- no matter what.
I would much rather watch my grandchildren play Upward Basketball when they are small enough that no one keeps score.
Because I’d rather devote my attention to either a) being physical myself or b) create something in my life.
I have no clue why the stats of some teams matter. There’s so much your own life to live.
I like to play them, just don’t like to watch. I’m also a computer nerd so…
I like sports just fine, it’s the propaganda and advertising that I reject.
It’s not interesting to me.
They got picked last in gym class and they resented them ever since.
Had a single parent that may as well have not existed whenever a game of any kind was on, unless i needed something then got yelled at for “making them miss the game”. 12 years of that caused me to develop an ick that I havent had reason to get around.
It just never hit that nerve for me. I see men running back and forth or in a circle, and I just shrug and think, “Man, this is one comfy couch.”
I like to read books.
Just not interested in watching grown men kick or bounce a ball around
They are money laundering operations.
Playing them is fun, I just don’t get the appeal in watching other people play.
Same way I feel about video game streamers.
Why would I want to spend my time watching a bunch of sweaty men try to get a ball to go to a specific location? Why on earth would that interest me? I’m baffled that anyone watches sports at all, it’s completely nonsensical.
There’s a million more productive things that I could do instead of sitting in front of a TV.
There’s nothing entertaining or interesting about sports.
Only good for making me fall asleep faster. So boring.
It’s the same reason I don’t watch streamers or Let’s Play videos. Watching someone else do an activity is boring.
I’d rather do it myself or not at all. Sports don’t interest me in the slightest anyway. I’d rather spend my time doing something I enjoy.
I just suck so much ass at most of them. I liked wrestling though. I wasn’t very good at it in high school but I had a lot of fun
I just don’t see a lot to like. I don’t hate them or anything, I have no laundry list of downsides. I’m just not interested.
I am unathletic and uncoordinated, so I wasn’t very good at sports growing up. Because of this, I was regularly bullied and disparaged by my teammates. I guess that left a bad taste that never went away. As for why I don’t watch them, the kind of bore me to watch. Very repetitive and uninteresting if you don’t have a stake in one of the teams.
I’ve got other stuff to do that’s more important around the house.
I don’t enjoy doing them.
Well kinda. I don’t really enjoy playing a game I suck at, and I’m not in shape so I suck at nearly all sport. I prefer duel than team sport, but even then I’d rather do some individual activities. And then, I’m just bored out of my mind by individual activities.
That’s for the “do” part. For the “watch” part, I enjoy watching things I do. I have absolutely zero interest in watching hockey or football or whatever, because I don’t practice those sports. I do, however, enjoy a little watching people playing chess or videogames because I do play those games.
Nope, I’d rather play them.
People chase ball.
I only like sports when I’m playing in them. I don’t like to watch. I prefer it to be where the action is.
I don’t find watching them entertaining at all. I am in no way vested in who wins or loses, and i have zero desire to waste time thinking about something that bores me.
Lol I used to joke that it was like watching paint dry. But I painted cars for a living and actually enjoyed watching paint dry more than sports. Also I feel like there is the standard jock type into standard sports and then there’s the lunatics on the Red Bull Team. They are competing in real sports in my opinion.
Because we find different arenas to satisfy the intrinsic desire for mastery and progress. If the itch is getting scratched by something else, we don’t need sports.
Some of us modify/restore cars. Some of us play DND / video games. Some of us build businesses.
At the end, we just want one domain we can make progress in, so the other areas of life where progress is denied don’t eat at us and leave us face-to-face with the existential dread of our own mortality.
But y’know. Tell me who’s playing and who to cheer for, hand me a beer and I’m still down.
My dad wasn’t in to sports, so there was never that bonding moment where we cheered on the same teams. I think that has more to do with my disinterest in most sports than anything else.
As I got older, I did become interested in baseball though. But I’m fully convinced that I like baseball mostly because it is the nerdiest sport. All numbers and stats and such. Which really lines up with my personality for whatever reason. So I try to catch a few baseball games each year and follow my team, but I don’t just sit and watch any baseball game that happens to be on. I watch The Texas Rangers and no one else.
I also always liked wrestling, but that doesn’t really count. Most combat sports are fun to watch, in fact. But it’s a completely different vibe than team sports and like baseball I only really got interested once I was an adult and made friends with people who were interested in them as well. So that became a bonding experience with a couple of my friends.
Just don’t care.
Boring as shit, and taken way too seriously
Mfers treat their sports teams like religions, I’ve seen more respectful disagreements over politics
Cars and motorcycles
It’s just been a lifelong “meh” from me. The irony is that I love hitting baseballs, tennis balls, and if I have a basketball and a goal I will do that for a while. I like those parts of the sports, but when other people get involved I do not like that. I am pretty good at hitting baseballs. In high school gym I successfully gave my least favorite douche a “fuck you” by grand slamming a bad pitch instead of taking a ball. Sent that fucker to the parking lot. He was a shit pitcher and threw strays half the time and didn’t like that I let the coach call them and always took a walk. So he muttered something and I shut him up. I am so proud of that and I’m almost 40. It just takes one good grand slam as a kid to wipe out all the terrible memories of gym class.
I tried karate once. I put the outfit on at home and immediately ripped it off because I didn’t like the way it felt. That was the end of that.
When I was at a church picnic around 5 or 6 I made up a really long explanation for not playing shirts and skins football because I really didn’t want to wind up playing skins. I also had no idea how to play football so the idea of being shirtless and clueless in a field was horrifying.
So, a combination of really not wanting to be in that specific scenario with others and also not understanding the rules to most sports and also not finding them very interesting from the get-go.
I was briefly a competitive cyclist, but I lacked much discipline so my natural ability didn’t take me far. Now I enjoy cycling for fun. I did enjoy watching pro cycling.
It doesn’t interest me to watch a bunch of people get paid millions to chase a piece of rubber around a sheet of ice and then complain they don’t get paid enough.
Sports are like religion; they make perfect sense if you were raised with them, and no sense at all if you weren’t, even if you understand all the rules.
Two teams that aren’t from my city are playing against each other, who am I supposed to cheer for? When I was a kid, everyone told me it was dumb to pick a team based on whose colors I liked better. Is anything else any less arbitrary?
I don’t mind actually going to a game, never cared about watching it on TV though. Just doesn’t amuse me.
Love to play sports hate it watch them. I’m way to ADHD. Moves to slow.
I think they’re boring and I don’t enjoy watching them. I spend the whole time thinking about stuff I’d rather be doing.
as long as my parlay hit, i could care less about sports
Played American football and soccer on teams for a few years and took golf and tennis lessons but I preferred skateboarding and BMX. I liked watching the NBA in high school but stopped keeping up with it years ago. It’s a complete culture shock to go home for the holidays and the TV at family gatherings will be on college playoffs or NFL the entire time.
I don’t like competition. I find the attitude of who’s better and let’s argue about it tiring. I was bullied as a kid by the jocks for being nerdy and smart. I did everything else I could to not have to be a part of that group. I was artistic and liked music. So, I started playing guitar and by high school I was quite popular. Never looked back. And now, I’d rather spend three hours on Sunday spending time with my wife doing stuff besides sitting around spectating other people being active.
No reason to cheer for any team. I simply don’t care who wins or loses.
Playing them is better
I can watch women’s volleyball all day. With all other sports, I just don’t get the attraction.
It’s not interesting to me. Ya let’s run back and forth with a ball for a couple hours and do nothing else, sounds like fucking Disneyland levels of fun to me.
Plus sports junkies are the most insufferable people ever. They’re always high energy and you can only talk about sports with them. All they think about in life is balls 😂
It’s not like I don’t like watching sports, I’m just not invested enough to understand which players are currently the top dogs, or how certain teams perform in recent seasons. So although I watch the games sometimes, it feels like I still have nothing to talk about with others, that makes me feel like a “poser” and I don’t feel good about it.
It’s boring, I have never gotten into watching sports. It’s like watching nascar, watching all 500 laps not just the end and the crashes.
I used to love sports.
I had season tickets for NFL and NHL teams for many years.
But, a combination of things have made me lose interest:
It just became less and less fun or rewarding. Other things crept in and squeezed the life out of what little fun was left.
Still enjoy playing sports, no longer enjoy watching sports. I think in the modern era there are better forms of entertainment such as expansive video games or more imaginative/impressive forms of movies and tv shows. Also the transformation of sports from a once a week “watch, turn off tv, and forget about it” into a 24/7 news cycle where you are expected to constantly keep up with the newest rumors, trade gossip, off the field activities, etc. It became very exhausting very quickly.
Never enjoyed playing them much, never found much reason to watch them, never had friends that were into them.
I don’t like watching sports. I love playing sports. The former bores me, since I’m passively consuming; the latter excites me because I’m actively using my body.
It’s just entertaining to me, classic sports that is. I enjoy MMA and boxing, but football, baseball, golf, and all that bore the shit out of me. It’s just people playing with a ball.
I have nothing against sports, I think they are great. However, I don’t get how people can get so heated over people playing with a ball.
I should also add, I never had a father figure or sportsy people around me growing up. I noticed most people I meet had a dad, uncle, or SOMEONE that took them to games and stuff. I never had that, so sports was never really a part of my life.
Men who like sports, why?
See how silly that question is as you formulated it?
You can be more creative than this buddy.
Its boring to watch others have fun. I can find better entertainment elsewhere.
Um…I was never athletic, always the last picked for grade school/ middle school ball games and it just wasn’t for me. 😑 I do like reading, sci- fi, horror movies, paranormal stuff. That sorta thing, y’know?
Why would I?
Because they were bad at them
If you like watching big musclely men roll atin the dirt with shiny pants and knee socks on more power to you brother. You keep reaching for that rainbow, eventually you’ll grab it
Mostly because of the ravenous and zealous fanatic base they attract…
I like a good match but don’t care enough to follow the team, let alone the individual players. I will go watch it live too, that’s always fun.
I enjoy playing them, never understood why you’d watch someone else play.
Boring, don’t even care to learn the rules which makes me not even understand what’s going on in the game.
Boring, so I prefer to do some other stuff I like more
I have a theory that men who are not into sports are 3x as likely to cheat.
As a Canadian I’m obliged to be entertained by hockey and curling but that’s about it. I just don’t care.
I find it boring. The same thing always happens, one team wins, and the other loses. It’s really boring and repetitive.
I can enjoy watching a sports game, I don’t get how people like really follow it though. I’ve tried getting more into it, just not for me.
I just find it boring.
I also find the commentary really off-putting
Personally, I just find watching sports boring. And playing them, it’s never really been a strong point for me.
I was an uncoordinated nerdy kid, so didn’t really like playing them and watching them was boring.
Why would I like it?
I grew up playing three sports through high school. I was a state ranked sprinter and still hold a few school records.
Now, at 44, I nudge my kids away from sports. They can play is they want, but I’m not pushing it.
I rarely watch sports and stopped playing anything years ago.
Playing sports is fine.
If I personally know someone who is involved in a team and is passionate about it, watching my friend and their team play a live match in person is fine.
Watching people I will never meet and do not relate to, as they make grunting sounds, shout numbers, and run around for brief periods and maybe toss a ball to someone… That’s incredibly meaningless and boring to me. I’d rather file my taxes. It’s so tedious trying to sit and watch people I don’t know play a game with rules that seem designed to mostly just slow down the action.
Professional tennis is fine though (good pace), or world cup soccer (so long as nobody fakes an injury like a diva), or MMA (relevant real world skills) or figure skating (movement elevated to art through incredible skill and strength) …
Yeah I guess I should not say I don’t like sports, I just hate the sports that America chose to promote the hardest and build temples to and make idols of.
Im not big into sports. Not something ive liked doing. If I’m going to watch something that I like doing, I’m watching amateur porn.
The crazy 1% fans turn me off enough to ruin the rest of the experience.
Tbf I’ve never been coordinated enough to be good at them.
I actually like sports, but in terms of watching them I just find them to be an enormous time suck that isn’t worth it. Every now and then I’ll try to get back into watching NBA or NFL, but it just feels like every game is so long, there are so many games, and after a while I started to feel like I’d seen it all before. Plus I find the ridiculous amounts and lengths of commercial breaks and other timeouts, pauses, etc. (US sports) make them unwatchable.
Plus you need to put in additional time to keep up with standings, trades, stats, rule changes, etc.
I enjoy going to see live sports once in a while. Basically it’s a cost/benefit thing for me, I like sports, just not worth the time and effort.
The other thing is that, as I get older, I find it harder and harder to get emotionally invested in a team or player. I just see a bunch of high paid mercenaries. The entire lineup could turn over in a few years. I don’t have that childlike illusion that I’m somehow connected to the team anymore.
I think that for me it’s because my dad never cared about them. He was an immigrant from another country where and when sports weren’t a big deal at all. We never played them or bonded over watching them, and we were too poor for me to ever participate in them so I never developed a liking for them. I can respect the athletic prowess and discipline of the athletes and the discipline it took for them to get where they are, but watching someone do something that doesn’t inspire me or affect my emotions like art or music doesn’t do anything for me even if it’s at such a high level.
Playing or watching? I don’t watch sports because it’s very… “dumb” entertainment IMO. Like I would have to turn off my brain to enjoy it. And, genuinely, I actually like thinking.
As for playing, I like baseball, but Basketball and American football friggin ANNOY me. Football is ok but I’m not good with my feet.
I’m really big so was made to play rugby by my dad, but I didn’t like it and he realised so said j could stop but I didn’t want to disappoint him. I didn’t like hurting the other kids but I was very good at running through them like a train so it kinda out me off sport for ages
I don’t mind it, but I just don’t see the point in watching a bunch of millionaires running after a ball on some field.
I prefer to spend my time and attention elsewhere.
But if that’s your thing, I’m happy for you.
Baseball and American football are boring.
They bore me
It never was a priority in my world…just wasn’t. As I grew up I was never afraid of work but sports just wasn’t my thing. I do love to hit trails with my dog or walk places with my wife but sports…nope. I do have a respect for certain sports but their importance in my life is so low I barely know what sport season we’re in let alone what major events are taking place. We’re all different. No biggie.
I would rather be doing sport than watching someone else doing it. Same thing with porn.
Having said that I never liked playing team sports, turned off by the fake camaraderie, the politics and pettiness.
So sport for me (when I was younget) was track and tennis.
Tennis got boring after a while, I am tall and got good at it mostly winning. This was not socially acceptable to some and i had to let guys win to keep the peace and get another game.
Boring, terrible for athletes, and, above all, my masculinity was attacked for not being into sports as a little kid.
I don’t mind watching them live but I really get turned off when people know decades more stats and information than me. I’ll never catch up so why bother
Are there no sports you don’t like? Tennis, curling, foosball, Smash, chess? Unless you will mindlessly watch literally any athletic event, you understand why someone might not like a sport. Difference is, I feel that way about football/baseball/basketball too.
I’m not anti-sports, but they never really became a part of who I am in the way they are for many people. I’ve never really enjoyed watching any of them, and have only really enjoyed playing a few of them casually. The one that actually had some traction for a while was tennis. I seemed to be decent at it, but it’s been a whiiiiile.
I’m more into just general physical activity – hiking in nature or long walks in the city with my wife, or while listening to music alone. Maybe throw in some photography on the way. Some weight training and running at the gym. That kind of thing.
I don’t really watch sports cause I don’t really care who wins. I don’t follow the teams and didn’t get attached to any in my youth so I just don’t care. And since I don’t care who wins not much point in watching.
I don’t mind playing some of them but only on a casual level cause I suck at most of them.
I was forced to play them as an undiagnosed autistic kid and it was truly a nightmare. It gave me anxieties and trauma.
It’s just uninteresting, not interested in watch people run around
It’s fun to do myself but watching sweaty millionaires getting their daily exercise in just isn’t interesting to me…
I kinda like eSports streams, football/fifa, and F1 but not as much as everyone. I’ll watch if people around me are watching too. But I don’t understand the tribalism around them tbh. it’s just another social activity for me
Because they are boring to me.