Sports you do not "get"

[tikay]

Although Monte Carlo Grand Prix was amazing when went and defo in a bucket list of sporting stuff to do

What?

Monaco Grand Prix, please.

Tsk.

[Longy]

Sailing as a spectator sport seems pretty brutal, when I have watched at the olympics. Though I am not sure anyone really watches it, so presumably the vast majority don't get it.

If you haven't seen this, well worth a watch.

Haha. I have seen it before but not for a while, good stuff.

[malt vinegar]

rugby union just always seems a mess of a game to me

i dont mind rugby league

[Dubai]

Although Monte Carlo Grand Prix was amazing when went and defo in a bucket list of sporting stuff to do

What?

Monaco Grand Prix, please.

Tsk.

Ha didn't even realise I had wrote that. I called a throw in a throw on yesterday. Might be losing my brain cells quicker than I thought

[tikay]

Sailing as a spectator sport seems pretty brutal, when I have watched at the olympics. Though I am not sure anyone really watches it, so presumably the vast majority don't get it.

If you haven't seen this, well worth a watch.

Good Lord. Never seen that before - wonderful!

I intend to steal it (like you stole my Bet365 Password) & use it elsewhere.

[TightEnd]

rugby union just always seems a mess of a game to me

i dont mind rugby league

RL is too structured

Run straight ahead 5 times, get tackled, kick it on the sixth

Other team has a go

If you are close to the line you can't get through very often so have to kick it in the air and hope you win a 50-50 catch, or a grubber kick and a different 50-50 chance

I am a Union fan, which is a game hamstrung by its current rules but exhiliarating at best

[bobby1]

rugby union just always seems a mess of a game to me

i dont mind rugby league

RL is too structured

Run straight ahead 5 times, get tackled, kick it on the sixth

Other team has a go

If you are close to the line you can't get through very often so have to kick it in the air and hope you win a 50-50 catch, or a grubber kick and a different 50-50 chance

I am a Union fan, which is a game hamstrung by its current rules but exhiliarating at best

*looks up exhilarating in the dictionary ;o)

[Jon MW]

Ok if we are expanding it -

Poetry.

Why try and describe something, whether it be a place or an emotion, in forced rhyming couplets when you can do a far better job with prose.

And my Mrs has had her poetry published! (hope she doesn't see this post).

Because (if it's good poetry) you can't do a better job with prose; it's the juxtaposition of metaphor and rhythm which evokes the emotion more precisely than just basic description.


Of the sports I agree that all of them can be deconstructed into pointless repetition and I think appreciating almost any sport is only down to how much you understand it (or with sports like F1 understanding the wider context).

Apart from fishing - fishing is ridiculous.

[The Camel]

rugby union just always seems a mess of a game to me

i dont mind rugby league

RL is too structured

Run straight ahead 5 times, get tackled, kick it on the sixth

Other team has a go

If you are close to the line you can't get through very often so have to kick it in the air and hope you win a 50-50 catch, or a grubber kick and a different 50-50 chance

I am a Union fan, which is a game hamstrung by its current rules but exhiliarating at best

I'm not a fan of either rugby's, but how anyone could prefer union to league is beyond me.

[Graham C]

American Football - All the stopping and starting and changing players every two minutes.    And the season only lasts for about 3 months.

Baseball -  It's tolerable live because of everything else that goes on - 7 innings stretch, wandering off around the stadium, long hot dogs etc, but even the fans only turn up for a few innings then disapear off home.  Playing 5 nights in a row doesn't help.  200 odd games a season is just silly.  That said, I think I'd enjoy playing it.  Tried a batting cage once and whilst I missed most balls it was fun and is something I'd do again.  It doesn't look hard once you've got your eye in but I may have left it too late to turn pro.

[GreekStein]

Yep, F1 is just tilting.

Men's Hockey is also lame. It's just a women's game for blokes who can't play football.

Rugby Union > Rugby League. Ooooh I just got tackled so I'll wriggle around like a fish thats just been pulled out of water and then give the ball for my team mate to do the same.

LOL also handball. How ridiculous. This is way worse than men's hockey.

Not too keen on baseball either

[DungBeetle]

Yeah - handball is dreadful.

[Dubai]

You might like going to watch baseball- sit in seat and they just come round with beers every 15mins and different types of food!

[outragous76]

rugby union just always seems a mess of a game to me

i dont mind rugby league

RL is too structured

Run straight ahead 5 times, get tackled, kick it on the sixth

Other team has a go

If you are close to the line you can't get through very often so have to kick it in the air and hope you win a 50-50 catch, or a grubber kick and a different 50-50 chance

I am a Union fan, which is a game hamstrung by its current rules but exhiliarating at best

I'm not a fan of either rugby's, but how anyone could prefer union to league is beyond me.

Im absolutely certain that you show any individual a game of league & union who has never watched rubgy and they would never chose union! It is one of the worst spectator sports there is.  The "pleasure" in the game tends to be in the nuances of the rules and therefore the plays taken. It is so unbelievably dull  it hurts.

A game finished 18-21 and there hasn't been a try! So wait..................... the idea is to run with the ball across the line, but nobody did that today and the score was 18-21! errrrrrrrrr ok!

All you need in Union is a world class kicker and you will win!

[Tal]

Technically the idea of the game is to kick the ball over the bar. Historically, the only way you could do that was to put the ball down over the line, following which you were allowed to have a go at kicking the ball over the bar; hence, this putting the ball down was called getting a try.

I prefer union tbh, but am more than happy watching either code.