What sport do you find boring?

[shaitan01]

Golf..yup, but also Bowling and basketball~X(

 

[loretta]

american football and golf

 

[Fusion]

Golf.

 

[zefrog3]

golfing its only fun sometimes if you're playing.

 

[chi]

boring sports

also auto racing - just driving in circles, making left turns.

those tractor pulls, also

 

[gb2000ie]

also auto racing - just driving in circles, making left turns.

those tractor pulls, also

American auto-racing may just be left turns - but you should check out WRC - what ever else you can say about it, it's neither boring nor all left turns!

You might also want to check out the Paris-Dakar race - much much more than left turns!

B.

 

[gb2000ie]

I think there are very few sports that are boring to take part in, but, many are really un-suited to watching. I think it's hard to find a less-watchable sport than Golf. Since most of it is just people walking, you either have to make it a boring shot, or cut from player to player to player so much you confuse the pants off people and remove all flow from the game.

B.

 

[Tjerk12]

American auto-racing may just be left turns - but you should check out WRC - what ever else you can say about it, it's neither boring nor all left turns!

You might also want to check out the Paris-Dakar race - much much more than left turns!

B.

As I mentioned before, sports are meant to do, for fun. People who watch never can feel the same emotion as the participants. Sports are fun, but make no sense. In a football game the players
run like idiots to get the ball and when they have got ‘m, they kick the ball away. In motor racing the drivers hurry (clockwise or counter clockwise) from start to finish. Don’t leave the grid, than you are already at the finish line while the others are fighting!
Only people who are interested in a sport can feel a bit what players feel. That makes sport interesting or on the other hand boring.
It is the same in normal life. You have the expression in English: harm watch, harm catch. In Dutch we say: wie een kuil graaft voor een ander valt er zelf in (in English: the one who digs a hole for another may fall in himself). If you are not interested in the meaning of the words you could easily come to an alternative: the one who digs a hole for another gets tired.

 

[captinjames]

golf and then baseball

 

[gb2000ie]

As I mentioned before, sports are meant to do, for fun. People who watch never can feel the same emotion as the participants. Sports are fun, but make no sense. In a football game the players
run like idiots to get the ball and when they have got ‘m, they kick the ball away. In motor racing the drivers hurry (clockwise or counter clockwise) from start to finish. Don’t leave the grid, than you are already at the finish line while the others are fighting!
Only people who are interested in a sport can feel a bit what players feel. That makes sport interesting or on the other hand boring.
It is the same in normal life. You have the expression in English: harm watch, harm catch. In Dutch we say: wie een kuil graaft voor een ander valt er zelf in (in English: the one who digs a hole for another may fall in himself). If you are not interested in the meaning of the words you could easily come to an alternative: the one who digs a hole for another gets tired.

I almost agree, but not quite. I think you are leaving out one very important factor, an admiration of the sheer skill experts can bring that you just can't. I didn't get snooker until I tried to play snooker, then I was able to appreciate just how skilful the pros are, and it make watching snooker positively riveting. The same goes for Tennis, to appreciate it you need to try it yourself, them come back and watch Nadal play Federer and it'll be a whole different ball game (pun intended).

To me it's no fun watching amateurs play, I'd much rather play myself, but there is a real pleasure in watching pros in action.

B.

 

[sucky123]

I love sports majority of them, and played several of them as well. If I were to choose one, I would say golf. I find it fun playing it but damn boring if you're just watching in on tv

 

[samos]

I find most sports boring to watch. I think I agree completely with gb2000ie except that I'll have fun playing a sport even if I'm not into it. Then again I just like to be active

 

[jeansGuyOZ]

I used to play lots of squash - haven't played much lately mainly because of lack of willing opponents. It's probably a good example of a sport that is exciting to play but dull to watch unless you are watching your team-mate play in a match.

Motor racing, of course, is the archetypal example of a sport that must be very adrenalin-pumping for the competitors, but dull as ditchwater for the spectators, who are probably hoping for a crash or a fire to liven things up.

Cricket is another sport I find deadly dull to watch.

There are some sports, such as the various football codes, where I can see them being played and think "Yeah, I can see how people who understand the game could get worked up watching the action." Cricket however leaves me cold.

 

[slimjim]

Cricket is another sport I find deadly dull to watch.

Cricket however leaves me cold.

An ozzie who doesn't enjoy cricket...

As I said earlier in this thread... maybe you were watching the wrong players

 

[jeansGuyOZ]

slimjim, if the players switched their silly baggy uniforms to something like the above, I might take an interest!

Watch a bunch of kids playing cricket in summer, and as likely as not many of them will be in shorts with their shirt off. Logical, really, for a summer sport. The logic however does not extend to the top competition players, no doubt a carry-over from cricket's origin as a "gentleman's sport" in England. Wouldn't want the male spectators with their top hats or the ladies with their parasols to be upset by the sight of a bit of bare flesh.

It's always amazed me that participants in football, which is a winter game here, wear far more revealing clothes than the cricketers standing out there on the field sweating in the sun.

 

[adam2011]

deffo golf

 

[zlxking86]

Cricket. Odd game

 

[donkey99]

Totally basketball and golf.

 

[Behrluvr]

I'm an amateur bike racer/club rider. And although its fun to participate, Cycling has gotta be the most boring sport to watch. You can only see a little bit of the race from where you stand. And even at the finish line, unless its very close it really isn't an exciting finish for a spectator.

 

[epicness83]

Golf and Cricket, Can't Stand either of them