Sports you do not "get"

[Woodsey]

You get to do Sweet Caroline at a lot of ballparks as well!

I have been to quite a few games in the US and I think it is a great night out. I think as a tourist going to a baseball game is one of the best ways to get an idea for American culture that isn't right wing politics and religious nutcases!

I agree with that. 

[Karabiner]

Tell ya what though, the birds that go and watch league could deffo take down the ones that watch union  

In a tackle or in a little black dress?

[Woodsey]

Tell ya what though, the birds that go and watch league could deffo take down the ones that watch union  

In a tackle or in a little black dress?

The league ones aren't getting into anything little   

[kinboshi]

Tell ya what though, the birds that go and watch league could deffo take down the ones that watch union 

In a tackle or in a little black dress?

The league ones aren't getting into anything little   

Oh, and all their tattoos

[Woodsey]

Tell ya what though, the birds that go and watch league could deffo take down the ones that watch union 

In a tackle or in a little black dress?

The league ones aren't getting into anything little   

Oh, and all their tattoos

 

[Marky147]

There are quite a few sports I don't really get, and I'm not interested in watching. However, fire up Victor/Sidney/Ladjokes beforehand and they all become a lot easier to watch

[Karabiner]

There are quite a few sports I don't really get, and I'm not interested in watching. However, fire up Victor/Sidney/Ladjokes beforehand and they all become a lot easier to watch

Didn't fred have a bet on ladies' water-polo last summer?

[Teacake]

Agree with everything said about Rugby union.  I simply don't get it.  Also cannot really watch basketball although I do bet on it a lot.

On Poetry - So you don't like If by Kipling Keith?  Or are impressed by the way Wilfred Owen is able to express the horrors of war so succinctly?  I don't sit around reading poetry but it is a lot more than simply rhyming couplets.  At its best it can express ideas using language better than almost anything else imo.

Only when read by Mike Bassett.

Try John Cooper Clarke, genius.

[Marky147]

There are quite a few sports I don't really get, and I'm not interested in watching. However, fire up Victor/Sidney/Ladjokes beforehand and they all become a lot easier to watch

Didn't fred have a bet on ladies' water-polo last summer?

Quite probably, but I likely would sneak a look at that without a bet...

[redarmi]

There are quite a few sports I don't really get, and I'm not interested in watching. However, fire up Victor/Sidney/Ladjokes beforehand and they all become a lot easier to watch

Didn't fred have a bet on ladies' water-polo last summer?

Quite probably, but I likely would sneak a look at that without a bet...

I find the water gets in the way.

[Bazzaboy]

What I don't get is people who will happily watch boxing, but not MMA.

That would be me. I just don't find MMA entertaining, I've watched and tried to like it but I can't take to it at all.

[Tal]

Agree with everything said about Rugby union.  I simply don't get it.  Also cannot really watch basketball although I do bet on it a lot.

On Poetry - So you don't like If by Kipling Keith?  Or are impressed by the way Wilfred Owen is able to express the horrors of war so succinctly?  I don't sit around reading poetry but it is a lot more than simply rhyming couplets.  At its best it can express ideas using language better than almost anything else imo.

Only when read by Mike Bassett.

Try John Cooper Clarke, genius.

Just caught up. That's the best shout for Camel, I reckon.

Here's my favourite:



About as removed from rhyming couplets of ABAB or Shakespeare's iambic pentameters as it gets.

[kinboshi]

It's not a sport, but I just don't get 'professional wrestling'.

[The Camel]

Take me down to the ballparkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[BorntoBubble]

The League/Union argument will never be agreed on as generally a person is one or the other.

I grew up in a town where this was not the case though, most clubs played Union AND League but did not play League AND Union if you understand what im saying there... anyone guess the town? Anyone who knows me thats cheating.

For me personally, I enjoyed playing Union a lot more, i gave up with football at age 11 and my dad gave me the option of both sports to play and i choose league as thats what i had played in school, but after about 3 months of give fat boy ball and fat boy run with ball i was fed up considering i was tiny i never got a touch and hated it. My dad than took me to play Union where in the first training session the ball got fizzed out to the backs and the team played fast running rugby and i loved every minute of it. I was probably lucky as i played for a very good union side who happened to have a very quick winger so they had grown up trying to get him the ball. As we got older though it meant the games were enjoyable to watch and play in and im very glad i played League first as i then never wanted to return! My dad got lucky as deep down he always wanted me to play Union but thought he would let me play League first to decide i would hate it as much as i did Football which eventually i did! ( I still played football/League in school while i played Union out of school)

To watch i have generally said the lower the standard of rugby the more i would rather watch league than union. Union can get very boring when the standard is low in my opinion but at the top top levels like Super League Grand Finals/Internationals (league) and Heineken Cup Finals/Internationals (Union). Union wins hands down for me, probably would be right up there for my number one choice of sports if i could only watch that sport for the rest of my life. Lions/Six Nations/Late stages of world cups are some of my favorite sporting moments in my life. I do definitely think though that Union is a sport you have to "get", a lot of the bits people find boring are the bits Union addicts love. This is where i think League is strong though as its a game you can pick up very earlier and "understand" whereas Union can take a little longer to grasp!

Sports i don't get - Any form of fighting/wrestling/boxing - never got it don't understand the skill element plus im much more of a team kind of person and these sports dont have much of a team element.

Most American sports i don't get - NFL/Baseball just seem like worse... much worse versions of Rugby/Cricket.

Aussie Rules also but i would love to understand that game looks pretty fun to play!