Most tedious sport to watch

Dotrel

4leto wrote: »

I am amazed at the polar opinions in this thread, I don't understand how anyone would find a GAA game or rugby boring. But yet many do.

The only thing we all seem to agree on is cricket is awful.

Agreed.

Irish fans are the reigning world champions at jumping on the bandwagon, yet 'Ireland' qualified for a couple of Cricket world cups (and even beat England I believe?) and *still* no one cares.

As such I think we have a winner with cricket.

The_Kew_Tour

Mickey H wrote: »

I didn't state it as fact. I said it was my opinion. Please explain.

American Football is a Collision sport unlike rugby which is contact Sport big enough difference.

Been many tests done sure I could search them on net if needed to prove that without Helmets been many head and serious injury.

I hate this hard man talk some rugby people go on about saying they dont need to wear protection etc, that aint much of a boast if you end up in wheelchair or have serious injury.

allimac

Can't wear golf at any level,how the fock anyone could pay to actually go into one of these venues and watch someones swing or walk for hours behind one of these geniuses just to see a little ball climb into the air from 20 yards behind the player is just beyond me.There must be something that i'm missing,it's bad enough on tv where you can follow various players to keep your interest but to be following the same player all day on the course has got to be the most boring thing ever.And wtf does this borefest take four days?Surely if you're good enough then one days boredom is enough.

Nailz

Rugby League (not Union, Union is where it's at).

Rally, ugh. But also Darts, I'd partially put that down to the amount of scum whom attend those tournaments.

dj jarvis

badger baiting - mans sport

not like those cock fighting poofters

edgecutter

Nascar?

jugger0

Nascar,soccer,cricket,Formula one,curling,tennis,baseball,basketball,horse racing..

Too many terrible sports to pick just one.

flahavaj

Rugby - no good can come of a game where one of the primary objectives is to kick the ball off the field.

EGAR

GAA games - YAWN...

Soccer... argh

Rugby..... not a chance..

Cycling... wake me up when it's over.

Can't comment on Cricket as I never even attempted to watch a game.

Tennis... left right left right .. give me strength..

And last but not least: motor sports of any description.

tomthetank

darts

Cill Dara Abu

EGAR wrote: »

GAA games - YAWN...

Soccer... argh

Rugby..... not a chance..

Cycling... wake me up when it's over.

Can't comment on Cricket as I never even attempted to watch a game.

Tennis... left right left right .. give me strength..

And last but not least: motor sports of any description.

Yeah we get it you don't like sports. :rolleyes:

munster_mafia

Women playing sport in general.

JupiterKid

Bowls
Golf
American Football (why is this game in 4 quarters WTF??)
Curling
Croquet (is that even a sport)
Polo

AskMyChocolate

Long distance swimming is an outrageously tedious sport to watch.

Reamer Fanny

Golf definitely golf

ascanbe

This thread is f*cking stupid.
Any sport is tedious to watch if you have no interest in it/don't understand it/don't have a dog in the fight.
I've seen people, though, who have no interest in any sport and no knowledge of them, lose their minds while watching people they care about, or even just a cause/team they've temporarily aligned themselves with, play an important game in any number of sports.
It's all relative..
A race between two spiders up a wall/first to the ceiling, probably isn't, in itself, that interesting to many people; but it you've bet your life-savings on one of those spiders it becomes beyond compelling.
That's not to suggest that sport can only possibly pay-off for someone who is invested monetarily in the outcome; the investment is, more often, and more rewardingly, interest and emotion.

Hank Scorpio

Professional Bowling ball cleaning

TheUsual

Cricket and Darts.
if you play either "game" please step away from the supports on the internet.

Both are fat geezers aiming at something in between beer and pies.

CoolHat

Cricket.
We're all saying cricket. We cant be all wrong. :pac:

TheUsual

nuxxx wrote: »

Professional Bowling ball cleaning

Nobody fcuks with da Jesus.

TheUsual

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6H9-bj7vb8

Pederast dude.

TheUsual

"Shut the fcuk up Donny."

sbsquarepants

RobbieTheRobber wrote: »

If you dont judge snooker as a sport, what makes golf a sport?

Em, i don't know Robbie. I class both as equally shíte if that's any help:D

To my mind snooker is a game, golf is a sport - but, like so much of my world view, i base that on absolutely nothing!

foxyboxer

4leto wrote: »

I am amazed at the polar opinions in this thread, I don't understand how anyone would find a GAA game or rugby boring. But yet many do.

The only thing we all seem to agree on is cricket is awful.

I'm sure there are a lot of english, aussie, indian people etc who would disagree.

foxyboxer

allimac wrote: »

Can't wear golf at any level,how the fock anyone could pay to actually go into one of these venues and watch someones swing or walk for hours behind one of these geniuses just to see a little ball climb into the air from 20 yards behind the player is just beyond me.There must be something that i'm missing,it's bad enough on tv where you can follow various players to keep your interest but to be following the same player all day on the course has got to be the most boring thing ever.And wtf does this borefest take four days?Surely if you're good enough then one days boredom is enough.

Golf is the seduction of success. That's the reason it's popular.
During the Irish Open in Killarney this year I mentioned "Imagine if aliens visited here now, they'd be shocked at thousands of people watching other men hitting a small white ball around a field"

If you went to the driving range and hit 100 balls, you would hit say 5 shots as good as the best players in the world. Your mind thinks.."Maybe there's room for improvement here!", but there never is I've been trying for 15 years but it is addictive because of that.

I'll never drive a formula 1 car at Monte Carlo or be a prop at the World Cup but I can putt or chip like the best golfers and hit the odd shot just as well as them too...occassionally.

Hootanany

Aussie football is another one.

Helix

munster_mafia wrote: »

Women playing sport in general.

not at all, women's tennis is fantstic. much better to watch then the fellas

kfallon

Rowing
Synchronized swimming :rolleyes:

tolosenc

GAA and Hurling for me. Whack the ball 50m and hope one of your lads catches it, then pass inside, then whack it towards the goal posts and hope for the best. There is so little to ever be impressed by.

League is also pretty boring: run, tackle, run, tackle, run, tackle, run, tackle, run, tackle, kick.

Dotrel

Helix wrote: »

not at all, women's tennis is fantstic. much better to watch then the fellas

Depends entirely on the ladies involved tho. I wouldn't want to spend an hour and a half watching Penis Williams for instance.

cosmicfart

Did anyone say Chess yet? Brilliant game to play though!

Dangerous Man

Dotrel wrote: »

Depends entirely on the ladies involved tho. I wouldn't want to spend an hour and a half watching Penis Williams for instance.

That's what I call her too! AND there's a black lesbian who lives next door to me - guess what I call her?

AdamD

How anybody says Rugby is absolutely beyond me....

Test Cricket is boring, 1 day and 20twenty is decent though.

I dont like watching Cycling or F1

keith16

wonton wrote: »

Baseball is terribly boring, the people at the games barely even seem to be watching or care half the time, and the amount of adverts is insane

I also always thought baseball was incredibly boring and to be fair on TV with all the ads, it can be. If it's a tight game the last few innings can be very exciting.

I was at a baseball game in NY during the summer, it was a Friday evening, and I wasn't expecting much but have to say I really enjoyed it! A brilliant way to spend a Friday evening, everyone is relaxed and in great form and it's generally a brilliant atmosphere and the game is very enjoyable too once you're there! Plus, you can booze away in the stadium! :pac:

Dotrel

keith16 wrote: »

I also always thought baseball was incredibly boring and to be fair on TV with all the ads, it can be. If it's a tight game the last few innings can be very exciting.

I was at a baseball game in NY during the summer, it was a Friday evening, and I wasn't expecting much but have to say I really enjoyed it! A brilliant way to spend a Friday evening, everyone is relaxed and in great form and it's generally a brilliant atmosphere and the game is very enjoyable too once you're there! Plus, you can booze away in the stadium! :pac:

It's basically cricket, only with athletes.

(BOS v BAL , NYY v TAM tonight btw)

CoolHat

cosmicfart wrote: »

Did anyone say Chess yet? Brilliant game to play though!

I wouldnt class chess as a sport despite what some people say. Its a mental game as opposed to a physical one.

starlit

Golf

LH Pathe

anything David Milliband's playing, the breat big tide of tedium

unitedrover

Rugby. Crouch touch pause engage. Referee giving penalties because scrum falls apart. and the match isnt finished until ball goes out of play. Tedious all right.

Kirby

unitedrover wrote: »

Rugby. Crouch touch pause engage. Referee giving penalties because scrum falls apart. and the match isnt finished until ball goes out of play. Tedious all right.

Out of an eighty minute match less than ten minutes is spent on the scrum. And most matches usually only have an extra minute at the end before the ball is kicked to touch. Maybe two minutes. Much less than football.

EGAR

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

Yeah we get it you don't like sports. :rolleyes:

:rolleyes: There are A LOT more sports out there than the ones I listed on my dislike list. So no, you don't get, get it? :cool:

CoolHat

I have to add UFC to this list despite any back lash I might get. However I am not calling it tedious i am just calling uneventful.

I've watched my share of UFC ppv's and generally its boring to watch through. As president of UFC Dana White says "people wanna see exciting fights" and you dont generally get alot of exciting fights on a card.
So you generally end up watching a PPV waiting for the match you wanna see (usually the main event) which then in turn can be uneventful.

Kojak

Don't like watching Golf or most of those Olympic sports like javelin, shot putt etc.

LH Pathe

CoolHat wrote: »

I have to add UFC to this list despite any back lash I might get. However I am not calling it tedious i am just calling uneventful.

I've watched my share of UFC ppv's and generally its boring to watch through. As president of UFC Dana White says "people wanna see exciting fights" and you dont generally get alot of exciting fights on a card.
So you generally end up watching a PPV waiting for the match you wanna see (usually the main event) which then in turn can be uneventful.

what other coming together of styles usually results in someone pinned down, elbows in the face after some tussling on the floor trying to out-elope each other

sbsquarepants

CoolHat wrote: »

I have to add UFC to this list despite any back lash I might get. However I am not calling it tedious i am just calling uneventful.

I've watched my share of UFC ppv's and generally its boring to watch through. As president of UFC Dana White says "people wanna see exciting fights" and you dont generally get alot of exciting fights on a card.
So you generally end up watching a PPV waiting for the match you wanna see (usually the main event) which then in turn can be uneventful.

They should take out all the wrestling/grapling crap. I do like the UFC, but all that rolling around on the floor is just gay!*


* Obviously, i wouldn't say that to their faces, but from the safety of my keyboard -stand up and fight like men, bitches!:D

Pherekydes

Kirby wrote: »

Out of an eighty minute match less than ten minutes is spent on the scrum. And most matches usually only have an extra minute at the end before the ball is kicked to touch. Maybe two minutes. Much less than football.

Out of an eighty minute match the ball is in play for about 45 minutes. You fight like tigers to win the ball from a ruck, then you kick it straight back to the opposition. No forward passes, except when running with the ball.

And the non-stop commentary from the ref? WTF? If he's committing an infraction give a penalty; if he isn't don't. Either way, STFU.

sunflower27

Am sure it has been said, but golf. I could cry even thinking about being made watch it. That's pretty bad

Auvers

the present Irish team playing Soccer, I got two free tickets to the last euro qualifier and left at half time, felt sorry for the saps who paid full wack to watch such drudgery

elaney

Cricket and cycling . Darts matches in pubs are good not so good on tv.

saintsaltynuts

American sports...Basketball,Baseball and American Football are top class ****e.