So you're not good at sports: it's a very small part of life.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Count me among those who doesn't really care for sports.

I try to follow what goes on with the Washington Redskins, though, but I can't actually watch the games or even wear team colors on game day, or I jinx the team. (Not that they need my help, sometimes. :/ )

Otherwise, the closest thing to sports I follow is pro wrestling.

[chainedbarista]

i also have no interest (outside of playing, watching is too dull for me) in sports; having been fed a steady diet of football football football (the cheesy american sport, not the real deal) growing up by male family members and every other yahoo in the immediate area that i could completely care less.

give me my books, my video games and my internet, dammit.

[ZedOmega]

Sports. I try to watch the occasional hockey game or boxing match, but come football or basketball season, Jesus Christ, does the bar get bombarded with sports fans who cheer and holler louder than any of the bands that've played there! I've developed a serious hatred of those two sports, especially the Spurs.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

I would have told him that I don't support sports that have no concept of sportsmanship, where the favorite tactic is to injure other team players when they do too good of a job, and where the star players feel that they can get away with crimes just because they are stars.

[Food Lady]

It's impossible for me to care less about sports, though I find basketball to be the least of all the evils. I hate living in Packerland. The minute someone mentions anything to do with Packers I inwardly roll my eyes and go to my happy place far, far away.

[Kristev]

I have to say I also find sports to be completely incomprehensible. Why are we paying overgrown men to refuse to grow up and play a child's game when college money would be so much better spent on, I don't know, education, perhaps?

[Cazzi]

The only sport I get slightly interested in is the odd game of Rugby, if I catch it while I'm channel hopping & if there's nothing more interesting to do at the time

Other than that, I'm another one of those gamer bookworm gals

*goes back to watching Dr Who*

[Racket_Man]

I live in a town that eats, sleeps, drinks (a lot :LOL), farts, shits, dreams, fantasizes, worships (yes it even trumpts Christmas) certain people (esp Whinney Boy), makes sacrifices to, and could even BE considered a religion about a

FOOTBALL TEAM

and GODS help you esp on game day if you are not interested.

STFU already!!!!!

I feign interest in the game (IF I happen to work a game day) in the interest of getting bigger tips.

[Marmalady]

The only sport I get slightly interested in is the odd game of Rugby

Oh I'll watch rugby too, but I'm not interested in the game, only those lovely built men with their muscly thighs, mmmmm....... Sorry, where was I?

I get a similar kind of reaction here when Wimbledon is on - people seem to find it incredible that an English woman has no interest in tennis whatsoever. Not into sport at all really, I did play a mean game of hockey at school but it wouldn't occur to me to watch it.

[Cazzi]

Wimbledon? Umm.. oh, yes, I remember, that place where they sell strawberries at outrageous prices

Hockey was about my best game at school too, don't think I've even seen a game since though. I was useless at most sports, later found out that my spacial awareness is off kilter, no wonder I couldn't catch or hit a ball to save my life

[Marmalady]

Hockey wasn't just my best, but my only game at school - I was rubbish at everything else. My brother was the sporty one - rugby, soccer, cricket you name it - and as far as I was concerned he was doing enough sport for both of us.

[Can I Help Your A$$?]

This is funny--I've had the conversation at work, too.

They ask me to join the softball team.

I said, "Well, I'm too much of a queer to be into sports."

And they understood that implicitly.

See, all the women/bosses at my work are jocks, and married to men. It would make sense that being a female "queer," or lesbian, or bi (yes, I call myself queer for real) that you would be more apt to play softball. But I was talking to a world that existed for me in high school, a world of "Normals" that I only recently rejoined after a decade and a half among artists, drag queens, and francophones.

It's a classic Subgenius situation, and I've listened to many sermons/rants on "Hour of Slack" (the official Church of the Subgenius radio show) that deal with this very topic--being very different, liking it, and surviving in a world of jocks, "cool" people and other assorted Normals. Subgenii are described as Gamers, "computer nerds," comic book geeks, weirdos and introverts. It's a group for non-joiners.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I hate the United Way, I wouldn't even care if I won tickets to the Packer Viking game where they finally gave Favre the injury that would send him into permanent retirement.

Hopefully coming next week, against the J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS.

Yeah, I'm big into sports, which puts me in the vast minority in this thread. But I enjoy reading and visiting museums and other stuff like that. I try to be well-rounded like that.

[Whiskey]

"Sports, sports, sports, sports, sports, sports, sports, sports...Marge, Bart rides up in the front seat today because he's a good guy at sports."

This guy ticked me off. SC asks if there's a football game this Sunday.

Me: I don't know. I don't follow sports.

SC starts laughing his ass off and going off on how we have the Denver Broncos and yet I don't follow sports.

SC: You're probably a bookworm aren't you?
Me: I read some books.

if hes such a big football guy why doesn't he know if theres a game or not?


*points at irv* my friend has been going on about the jets for a while now. oof.

[protege]

I get pissed off when I turn on the TV expecting my Sunday night cartoons (Simpsons, Family Guy, etc) and find a ball game instead.

I get pissed...when the the local stations preempt the *news* to have some sports show. Seriously? I mean, I watch Dem Stillers, and all that, but having a pregame show, the game (which is constantly stopped to provide updates for games that nobody cares about, or to "recap" everything I've just seen), the halftime show, the post-game specials, etc? Isn't that a bit much?

Granted, I *like* watching the "Stillers," but I have better things to do than memorize a bunch of useless stats from previous years. Of course, that means that I'm not a "true" fan in the eyes of my fellow 'burghers. Sorry, but fuck that. I'd rather read, or otherwise fill my mind with info I can actually use.

I also don't think of Big Ben as the patron saint of Pittsburgh. Sure, he's given us 2 Super Bowl victories, but other than that...he's a douche. I'm sure everyone here heard about his motorcycle accident awhile back, his current legal problems, etc.