Do You Watch Sports? What Sports Did You Last Watch?

[MFG38]

The only sports I watch is eSports (if that qualifies), and even then, I don't follow the scene actively. I'll be lucky to watch a single eSports tournament in a year.

Edited July 3, 2021 by MFG38

[Valboom]

Yes,only MMA (UFC).

[Doomkid]

I watch Rugby League (NRL). As a Canberra fan I'm frequently disappointed. But the Blues have won Origin this year in two impressive games, so that was cool.

 

I've also watched numerous MMA fights, but my interest in that waxes and wanes.

 

EDIT almost a year later: Sorry Lee, I only see AFL in very limited doses.. it's a bit much to follow!

[leejacksonaudio]

36 minutes ago, Doomkid said:

I watch Rugby League (NRL). As a Canberra fan I'm frequently disappointed. But the Blues have won Origin this year in two impressive games, so that was cool.

Do you watch any Australian Football League (AFL)(Aussie Rules Football to outsiders) games? I've been following them since the mid-80s, when ESPN broadcast them in late night here in the states. I remember watching Hawthorn and Essendon go at it in the Grand Final - that's what hooked me, but I'm a Carlton barracker now.

[Murdoch]

Not really anymore. Used to watch Rugby but the cost of subscription to catch it has become not too expensive per se but too expensive to really justify.

[Mr. Freeze]

9 hours ago, TheGreenZap said:

I watch basketball more than anything. I grew up in Indiana, so I’ve always been into basketball.

 

Do people still reference Larry Bird all the time? 

[TheGreenZap]

5 minutes ago, Mr. Freeze said:

 

Do people still reference Larry Bird all the time? 

 

Yes, sometimes. Haha.

[[McD] James]

I watch pro wrestling, MMA, and Starcraft. Love hockey, tennis, and basketball as well, but can never find the time for them. 

[Jello]

I really don't. Occasionally I will watch football (American), and I enjoy it. But I just don't enjoy watching other people play a game. If I'm not playing, then I don't really give a toss. It's the same reason that I don't watch Grandmaster Chess tournaments, or esports. I'm not playing, I don't care. Football I will watch on occasion because I played it in middle school, so I have a fondness for it. But I really couldn't care less which team wins the Superbowl. 

 

I do really like watching snowboarding though. I don't want to break my neck going 60 miles an hour down a mountain on a slippery plank, but it is enjoyable to watch.

[leejacksonaudio]

Just got finished watching the IndyCar race at Mid-Ohio. Josef Newgarden won for Team Penske. It was Penske's first win of the season. Good, solid win for Newgarden.

[Seeker_of_Truth]

I watch baseball on a regular basis. I'll watch other sports to if I happen to see it on, but I don't follow any others regularly.

[leejacksonaudio]

Getting ready to watch Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Finals. I'm hoping against hope that Montreal pulls out the impossible comeback and takes the series, mainly because I'm still pissed that Tampa Bay beat my Dallas Stars last year. ;)

[Arrowhead]

3 minutes ago, leejacksonaudio said:

Getting ready to watch Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Finals. I'm hoping against hope that Montreal pulls out the impossible comeback and takes the series, mainly because I'm still pissed that Tampa Bay beat my Dallas Stars last year. ;)

Same! Fingers crossed Tampa doesn't start a dynasty... :P

[leejacksonaudio]

Well, damn. Tampa Bay wins game 5 by a score of 1-0 and takes the 2020-21 Stanley Cup, 4 games to 1. Montreal just got outplayed, plain and simple. They looked like dwarves out there compared to the Lightning. They got the crap beat out of them, even in a one goal game.

[Arrowhead]

2 minutes ago, leejacksonaudio said:

Well, damn. Tampa Bay wins game 5 by a score of 1-0 and takes the 2020-21 Stanley Cup, 4 games to 1. Montreal just got outplayed, plain and simple. They looked like dwarves out there compared to the Lightning. They got the crap beat out of them, even in a one goal game.

Completely agree. Sad really, I was hoping they would come back like they did w/ Toronto. Oh well, there's always next season.

 

Go 'nucks! :)

[Mr. Freeze]

14 minutes ago, leejacksonaudio said:

Well, damn. Tampa Bay wins game 5 by a score of 1-0 and takes the 2020-21 Stanley Cup, 4 games to 1. Montreal just got outplayed, plain and simple. They looked like dwarves out there compared to the Lightning. They got the crap beat out of them, even in a one goal game.

 

Montreal backslid their way into a cup final and got exposed in front of a generationally dominant team. Cue the world's smallest violin. 

[Phobus]

I’m British, so international football (soccer) is basically unavoidable. As a result, I’ve embraced it as a biannual excuse to drink regularly in front of a TV. England making it through to the final of the Euros last night was a pretty big deal!

 

 Otherwise I’ve got no interest in professional sport or eSports and don’t watch any of them. I don’t really watch live TV at all, and indeed haven’t set up any means of doing so at home.

[Hellbent]

Currently watching the tour de france. Pretty great one so far, though Pogecar's lead makes the GC race a little less exciting than the rest of the race. But if Tadej were to crash out then dang, what a GC race we'd have as 2nd through 6th place are like 30 seconds of each other. I don't see Tadej getting into trouble, though. He's a smart bike rider.

 

The only other sport I watch is the World Cup. I therefore answered 'no' on the poll.

Edited July 8, 2021 by Hellbent

[leejacksonaudio]

Watching Aussie Rules Football on Fox Sports 2. Hawthorn is hosting Fremantle from their Tasmania base. The Hawks are trailing the Dockers late in the third quarter, 5.6.36 to 9.12.66. If Freo wins, they're in the top 8 for good for the season.

 

Final score: Hawthorn loses to Fremantle, 6.10.46 to 16.12.108 at Full Time.

Edited July 10, 2021 by leejacksonaudio

[Kinetic]

I live in the US, and love watching the NFL, which is American Football. I also watch the NBA playoffs when it rolls around, but not the regular season. ESports don't interest me (quite frankly I'm hesitant to even label these competitive gaming tournaments as sports since they involve so little physical activity), but probably because I only play Doom and Doom doesn't really have any competitive gaming scene that I know of (and I wouldn't want to be a part of it if there was one). Don't care for Golf or Tennis or Soccer or Hockey or Track or the Olympics in any way, shape, or form though.

 

P.S. Tom Brady can stick it. Man solid his soul to a being greater than God or the Devil to win as much as he has

Edited August 31, 2021 by KineticBeverage

[Coopersville]

WWE

[Sergeant G]

In the past I watched NASCAR, which hardly counts. Some football but not anymore. When the Olympics are on, I've been known to watch Tae Kwon Do and Judo. I don't watch sports regularly though. Women's MMA and some boxing occasionally.

[TwinBeast]

I wanted to watch the women's ice hockey world championship, but don't have a tv and couldn't watch it online (would have needed to subscribe/pay to a channel to watch it). Watched the men's ice hockey world championship earlier, that I could watch online, different channel that I have a subscription to already.

[yakfak]

I got hooked on watching sports climbing
imo I have insanely high gravity and would need a ladder to do any of this stuff but its so satisfying watching people figure out routes, thinking about how tight they have to cling onto the holds, marvelling at how people just turn themselves upside down without getting much of a surface to kick off etc

[Murdoch]

11 hours ago, KineticBeverage said:

Don't care for Golf or

 

The only time i found golf remotely entertaining was when someone video taped my dad and his friends trying to play while hammered.

 

A Facebook memory came up recently where i joked about watching my friend play a golf sim on his ps3. It was an accurate and realistic sim cause i was just as bored out of my skull watching it as the real thing.

 

Someone needs to start a full contact golf league.

[Azuris]

No, never.

I have no thrill or excitment by watching it, it is boring for me.

 

It is the same as watching let's plays.

 

Edit:

I liked watching Takeshis Castle, maybe this counts somehow as Sports :P

Edited September 1, 2021 by Azuris

[Chopkinsca]

I don't watch any, but I can see the appeal. There is a park with a field nearby where I live and sometimes they have games going on there. It's a fun place to go for a walk and just sit and take in whatever the people are playing.

 

I remember my mental health crisis in the mid-2000's. I couldn't sleep because my mind was so awful. I turned the tv on and found a hockey game was a neutral topic for my brain to absorb. So there was that. 

[Kinetic]

9 hours ago, Murdoch said:

Someone needs to start a full contact golf league.

I always wished golf had some sort of obstacle course inbetween holes, Yknow, make it like a Japanese game show between each hole, or like American Ninja Warrior between each hole. Just make it absolutely absurd and nonsensical.

[Murdoch]

23 minutes ago, KineticBeverage said:

I always wished golf had some sort of obstacle course inbetween holes, Yknow, make it like a Japanese game show between each hole, or like American Ninja Warrior between each hole. Just make it absolutely absurd and nonsensical.

 

I would watch that.

[Master O]

I've been watching Minor League Cricket on Willow TV's Youtube Channel:

 

https://www.youtube.com/c/willow

 

Willow is currently streaming it free.

 

Minor League Cricket is the first USA-based T20 Cricket League.  It's going to be the prelude to Major League Cricket, which is set to start in the USA in 2023.

 

Minor League Cricket matches can also be watched on their own Youtube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/c/MinorLeagueCricket

 

Their official site: https://milc.majorleaguecricket.com/

 

Rules of Cricket: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqtpNkMvj5Y

 

 

Edited September 2, 2021 by Master O