Most Boring mainstream sports

[POL]

1. F1 if it can be called a "sport"
2. Tennis.
3. Golf.

[jungle]

Horse Racing is pretty tedious if you haven't a bet down

[Sound]

Racing
Golf
F1
Baseball

[Gingy]

Lawn Bowls...
Snore...

[northmallexile]

I'll agree with Horse Racing and F1 and add in American Football.

[pudgee]

Flat racing

Tennis

Golf I barely consider a sport. 'Professional golf' is merely an advertising tool, and a semi justification for middle-aged men to spend too much time on their hobby (It's not a hobby, it's a serious competitive sport')

[POL]

I always considered Golf to be a past time

[Forsberg]

Golf
F1
Snooker (these days anyway)
Horse Racing

[Wampire]

I actually enjoy tennis and golf to watch. I even consider lawn bowls fairly watchable.

Not watchable:

F1 (not a sport anyway)
Cricket (unless it's a one-day and I'm really stuck)
Basketball (Words cannot describe how much I hate this sport)
Horse Racing (zzzzzzzz)

[ho chi feen]

Golf I barely consider a sport. 'Professional golf' is merely an advertising tool, and a semi justification for middle-aged men to spend too much time on their hobby (It's not a hobby, it's a serious competitive sport')

Heh heh heh... I was caddying for this langer last week who's been attending 'sports psychology' sessions at €160 per session. By God, he was shit. What a mug.

Golf seems to me to be more of a social thing than a sport, as well as the obvious aspirational and status side of things. Actually, when you think about, golf holidays- how tedious must that be? Fly in, play 36 holes at Lahinch. Next day, play the old and new courses at Waterville, followed by 18 at Tralee and Kilarney the next. Get pissed on and blown all over the gaff at Old Head, whilst paying €300 for the privilege. Then onto Portmarnock, Druid's Glen, Royal County Down, etc... when you're not playing, you're on a bus, or drinking in a clubhouse. You spend zero time interacting with non-golfers, end up with Yanks, Cannucks, Krauts and Aussies the whole time, and see nothing of the country.

In cultural terms, it's got to be up there with a lads holiday in Santa Ponza or Pattaya.

[steve sanders]

ladies football. the participants tend to be ruddy faced and unattractive to boot.

nascar. you spend the whole time waiting for a crash and when it happens... meh.

[DJ Silent]

Cricket, definitely cricket.

[Eau Rouge]

Horse racing isn't a sport.

Good to see F1 and baseball make the list, I used be a huge F1 fan for years when I could watch the races, and I've been a huge baseball fan for a few years now.
I suppose it depends on whay you are looking for from your sport. For out-right action, I doubt anything beats a well played game of hurling. The problem is, to my philistine eyes, thats all it is. There doesn't seem to be much else, no strategy, no tactics, nothing other than the skill needed to play the game. (oh I'm sure there is, but I can't see it, and you have to admit, it is rather subtle)

There's nothing wrong with skills, far from it, it's a huge part of sport and I don't for a second underestimate it. It's just, as a spectator, I need more than that from a sport. I like strategy, tactics, forethought.

That's what I really like about F1 and baseball, the forethought. When I used watch it, I always got the impression the 2 hours on the Sunday was amongst the least important part of an F1 week, almost like it's only purpose was to measure what had been achieved over the previous week. Sure, the skill involved was all there to see (though some people do get this crazy idea that driving a racing car is like driving a road car, just faster. It's not)

Baseball is terrible for this stuff though. When you actually watch it over a prolonged period of time, you discover that it's really little more than a game of percentages. Sure, all the players involved have all these skills (try playing the game, it takes just as much practise to learn the skills of a ball player as any other sportsman) and they vary hugely in their ability to do things, but really it's all about probability and chance.

Sure, to some people watching cars smoothly drive around a track with no-one else in sight is "boring", though not quite as boring as watching a pitcher take 5 minutes to try and get a batter out only for him to hit a little ground ball to the second baseman who casually tosses the ball to first for the out, sheer boredom. Or at least, it is if all your interested in is the instantaneous action. If you care more about the bigger picture of a whole season, the action becomes just a small part of it all, and you don't need it to be "exciting" to find it hugely interesting and captivating.

Now, the real question. Is my response actually more boring than the sports?

[DJ Silent]

Horse racing isn't a sport.

Good to see F1 and baseball make the list, I used be a huge F1 fan for years when I could watch the races, and I've been a huge baseball fan for a few years now.
I suppose it depends on whay you are looking for from your sport. For out-right action, I doubt anything beats a well played game of hurling. The problem is, to my philistine eyes, thats all it is. There doesn't seem to be much else, no strategy, no tactics, nothing other than the skill needed to play the game. (oh I'm sure there is, but I can't see it, and you have to admit, it is rather subtle)

There's nothing wrong with skills, far from it, it's a huge part of sport and I don't for a second underestimate it. It's just, as a spectator, I need more than that from a sport. I like strategy, tactics, forethought.

That's what I really like about F1 and baseball, the forethought. When I used watch it, I always got the impression the 2 hours on the Sunday was amongst the least important part of an F1 week, almost like it's only purpose was to measure what had been achieved over the previous week. Sure, the skill involved was all there to see (though some people do get this crazy idea that driving a racing car is like driving a road car, just faster. It's not)

Baseball is terrible for this stuff though. When you actually watch it over a prolonged period of time, you discover that it's really little more than a game of percentages. Sure, all the players involved have all these skills (try playing the game, it takes just as much practise to learn the skills of a ball player as any other sportsman) and they vary hugely in their ability to do things, but really it's all about probability and chance.

Sure, to some people watching cars smoothly drive around a track with no-one else in sight is "boring", though not quite as boring as watching a pitcher take 5 minutes to try and get a batter out only for him to hit a little ground ball to the second baseman who casually tosses the ball to first for the out, sheer boredom. Or at least, it is if all your interested in is the instantaneous action. If you care more about the bigger picture of a whole season, the action becomes just a small part of it all, and you don't need it to be "exciting" to find it hugely interesting and captivating.

Now, the real question. Is my response actually more boring than the sports?


Yes. Good point though...

[northmallexile]

Now, the real question. Is my response actually more boring than the sports?

My, yes.

[cantankerous bastard]

bog ball

[ho chi feen]

Cricket, definitely cricket.

People who don't get cricket don't, eh... get cricket!

[Eleven]

Could darts be described as a sport? If not... soccer. Although it is good enough fun to play.

[DJ Silent]

People who don't get cricket don't, eh... get cricket!

I like the gear they wear though. Ultra cool...

[Proinsias]

I would agree Eau, that's one of the big attractions of rugby, lot of tactics going on, same with American football. I sometimes wonder just how much tactical forethought goes in to soccer teams' plans though, a lot of the time, there seems to be little to no actual overall pattern of play.

Same with Gaelic football and hurling, maybe there's a pass and go every once in a while but you rarely see (or at least, I almost never see) as set pattern of play that had been planned out on the training pitch and carried out on the day.


In saying that, yes horse racing is utterly uninteresting unless there's a bet on it. Which says it all really about the sport of strapping midgets to handicapped horses and seeing how fast they can run. Greyhound racing is in the same category too.

Rugby league can be intensely boring to watch. It's a great game to play but jesus it can get repetitive. Player is tackled, player does a wiggle motion, restarts play, wiggle, tackle, wiggle, tackle, wiggle, tackle, kick. Catch, return, tackle, wiggle, tackle... I'm still well capable of watching it and there can be some very exciting plays though.

I usually find anything "extreme sports" to be fairly boring after the first five minutes. Wow, another flip on a snowboard. Great. And another. Fantastic. And another...zzzzzz.... .

[POL]

Ufc

[trasnanadtonnta]

English Premiership soccer
American football
F1
Golf
Snooker

I like baseball, but admittedly, I watch it in the American style, i.e., pissed and in the company of Americans. This helps.

I definitely disagree that there's no strategy to hurling, I'll leave it to greater hurling fan minds than mine to explain it if they feel the urge. That said, I do think the skills thing is probably more crucial to hurling than it is to other games that I know, in that whole 'great hurlers are born, not made' kind of thing. For me, this isn't a bad thing. It makes is more exciting rather than less, for me. There's so much more that can go wrong moment by moment, and so much more has to go right every single moment for a good score to happen.

[Eleven]

As we're in Cork and all that... how about bowling? What in the name of all that's holy is that about? Besides annoying everyone trying to drive past while they walk out in front of you and make no attempt to move in to let you pass.

[HappyMonday83]

Quite frankly, there are few things more boring than watching a bad game of soccer. Gaelic football is also awful shite.

[POL]

no strategy in hurling????!!! ah sure they just catch it and belt it up the field beggorah!! no wonder this place is the joke it is

[toes]

Unihoc is totally overrated.

[bh37]

no strategy in hurling????!!! ah sure they just catch it and belt it up the field beggorah!! no wonder this place is the joke it is

SPOKEN LIKE A PERSON WHO WOULDNT KNOW WHETHER A SLIOTHAR IS PUMPED OR STUFFED

[Proinsias]

As we're in Cork and all that... how about bowling? What in the name of all that's holy is that about? Besides annoying everyone trying to drive past while they walk out in front of you and make no attempt to move in to let you pass.

It takes a lot of skill and you really have to plan your bowls right, along with the strength to get good distance.

[POL]

UFC= failed boxers, failed martial artists etc cobbling together whatever "skills" they have and trying to pass it off as a viable, realistic sport.

[POL]

Top 5 so far

1. F1
2. Rugby Union
3. Tennis
4. Golf.
5 UFC

[RonnyB]

Enough of the golf bashing!

I've always liked playing it for the actual sporting side to it rather than the social status of it. For me the best buzz in golf is when you make the right choice. At our level its a case of hit the ball up the fairway or as near to the flag as you can. I try and avoid that. I'd rather be 100 yards away middle of the fairway than 30 yards stuck in a rain sodden bunker. Its all about course management.

Era that spiel has bored ye to death even more but as a game I find golf fascinating.

[toes]

Swingball isn't a great spectacle it's cracked up to be either.

But it's more exciting than tennis.

[Proinsias]

no strategy in hurling????!!! ah sure they just catch it and belt it up the field beggorah!! no wonder this place is the joke it is

In comparison to a lot of other sports, it's not as obvious. I'm suer it's there but if there's a particular set move that teams tend to do on a semi-regular basis, I've not really seen it that much.
An example, I suppose, that I have seen is when goalies take puck outs, there's the bit of a congregation around the centre before he hits and then afterwards, you run like greased lighting to where it's going. It just doesn't seem to extend a huge amount further than that. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe the entire play all the way is planned.

[jimmy magee]

the demolition of an opposition





in hurling..

[Eleven]

It takes a lot of skill and you really have to plan your bowls right, along with the strength to get good distance.

I understand what the aim of it is... just all seems a bit pointless and boring. I'm sure if I was putting money on it it might appear a bit more interesting. But isn't that like horse racing then?

[Sound]

This is sorely lacking a poll.

[Proinsias]

Top 5 so far

1. F1
2. Rugby Union
3. Tennis
4. Golf.
5 UFC

Besides yourself, have there been any other votes for rugby union?


In fact, Gaelic Football has far more votes.

[PatMan]

1. Darts - theres no way its a sport
2. American football - takes too long, not enough 'flow' to it
3. Baseball - See 2
4. F1 - its just the start now, and strategy on stops

A lot of other sports I dont mind watching, golf, tennis and cricket spring to mind that are dull as shite on telly but much better 'live'

[nemesis]

Horse racing isn't a sport.

Good to see F1 and baseball make the list, I used be a huge F1 fan for years when I could watch the races, and I've been a huge baseball fan for a few years now.
I suppose it depends on whay you are looking for from your sport. For out-right action, I doubt anything beats a well played game of hurling. The problem is, to my philistine eyes, thats all it is. There doesn't seem to be much else, no strategy, no tactics, nothing other than the skill needed to play the game. (oh I'm sure there is, but I can't see it, and you have to admit, it is rather subtle)

There's nothing wrong with skills, far from it, it's a huge part of sport and I don't for a second underestimate it. It's just, as a spectator, I need more than that from a sport. I like strategy, tactics, forethought.

That's what I really like about F1 and baseball, the forethought. When I used watch it, I always got the impression the 2 hours on the Sunday was amongst the least important part of an F1 week, almost like it's only purpose was to measure what had been achieved over the previous week. Sure, the skill involved was all there to see (though some people do get this crazy idea that driving a racing car is like driving a road car, just faster. It's not)

Baseball is terrible for this stuff though. When you actually watch it over a prolonged period of time, you discover that it's really little more than a game of percentages. Sure, all the players involved have all these skills (try playing the game, it takes just as much practise to learn the skills of a ball player as any other sportsman) and they vary hugely in their ability to do things, but really it's all about probability and chance.

Sure, to some people watching cars smoothly drive around a track with no-one else in sight is "boring", though not quite as boring as watching a pitcher take 5 minutes to try and get a batter out only for him to hit a little ground ball to the second baseman who casually tosses the ball to first for the out, sheer boredom. Or at least, it is if all your interested in is the instantaneous action. If you care more about the bigger picture of a whole season, the action becomes just a small part of it all, and you don't need it to be "exciting" to find it hugely interesting and captivating.

Now, the real question. Is my response actually more boring than the sports?

My teeth are crying after reading that.

[nemesis]

Enough of the golf bashing!

I've always liked playing it for the actual sporting side to it rather than the social status of it. For me the best buzz in golf is when you make the right choice.

Like putting your golf sticks back in the boot of your car and fucking off to do something more productive for the afternoon than walking around a field?

I'd imagine that's a real headrush alright.

[parrotbait]

Baseball can be excruciatingly boring. Was at one game, was there for over 3 hours score was 2-1 only one home run which I missed so wasn't impressed whatsoever.

I like watching golf, the tactics and choices taken by players is fascinating and playing it is frustrating but also a fantastic buzz when something actually works out. Apart from the Majors watching golf on telly can be boring if you don't have a vested interest. The majors are brilliant though.

Think Gaelic football can be very boring if not at the business end of things.

Some soccer matches can be shocking, Monday night football on Sky often has games that are best left forgotten

Don't like cricket, similar to Baseball nothing can happen for ages

[toes]

baseball is rounders with statistics.

[toes]

All american sports are just excuses to go eating al fresco.

[wat_boy]

i love to play golf and i play a good bit too but i do find it a bit boring to watch unless im watching tiger woods or one of the top players, the big break show on the golf channel is class though

[storysham]

baseball
american football
swimming
athletics
rowing (sorry tayts)

[Coin]

Horse racing.

Apart from that, I'd watch two spiders racing up a wall. Although these days I'd probably come away assuming the winner was on HGH.

[Edmund Blackwater]

Another vote for the borefest that is rugby union. 30 former stockbrokers running round a pitch is not a sport. Not sure if it's really a mainstream sport though as it's not played or watched by enough people to warrant that status, no matter wahat the plums in the media would have us believe.

Cricket is just behind it. A pointless game for people who are no good at any sport who love a communal shower.

I know why people don't like F1 and completely understand, but I like it. Not as much as I used to but it still has the buzz of man and machine hurtling around a track at insane speeds and the knowledge that a mistake can kill. It's no rallying though.

Most athletics are excepyionally boring. the winner is usually known beforehand.

I find Basketball exceptionally tedious. Get ball run up score. Wait for opposition to score and repeat.

[POL]

yeah Basketball is a really shit game, its like something kids should play, and only kids, like tiddlywinks

[nemesis]

I know why people don't like F1 and completely understand, but I like it. Not as much as I used to but it still has the buzz of man and machine hurtling around a track at insane speeds and the knowledge that a mistake can kill. It's no rallying though.

Your credibility has now dipped into negative equity.

[Edmund Blackwater]

Your credibility has now dipped into negative equity.
How so? And who made you the auditor of credibility equity?

[optimus]

snooker and fishing .... jesus fishing isnt a sport

[wat_boy]

snooker and fishing .... jesus fishing isnt a sport

the bass fishing shows on sky sports are good if your in into fishing that is, snooker is boring as fuck (ronnie asisde) but is good to play if ya can play which i can :wink:

[st finnbar]

but is good to play if ya can play which i can :wink:[/QUOTE

ya but your shite at darts

for me it has to be american football, what crock of shit

[wat_boy]

but is good to play if ya can play which i can :wink:[/QUOTE

ya but your shite at darts

for me it has to be american football, what crock of shit

seem to remember dishing out a hiding to you(and your brother) out in the deanrock :cool:

[st finnbar]

seem to remember dishing out a hiding to you(and your brother) out in the deanrock :cool:

was that the day the mighty john o shea won the title on merseyside:D , i was falling down drunk that night boy:crazyeye:

[KolaKubes]

1. Horse Racing
2. Golf
3. Tennis
4. Athletics (in fact, most of the Olympics)
5. Formula 1
6. Ulster football
7. Junior soccer
8. Snooker

[Liathroidi Mor]

Cricket, definitely cricket.

I concur.....Despise that sport!!!

[wat_boy]

was that the day the mighty john o shea won the title on merseyside:D , i was falling down drunk that night boy:crazyeye:

and i wasn't, look what happened later that night ffs :oops:

[FL4ZGN]

Heh heh heh... I was caddying for this langer last week who's been attending 'sports psychology' sessions at €160 per session. By God, he was shit. What a mug.

Golf seems to me to be more of a social thing than a sport, as well as the obvious aspirational and status side of things. Actually, when you think about, golf holidays- how tedious must that be? Fly in, play 36 holes at Lahinch. Next day, play the old and new courses at Waterville, followed by 18 at Tralee and Kilarney the next. Get pissed on and blown all over the gaff at Old Head, whilst paying €300 for the privilege. Then onto Portmarnock, Druid's Glen, Royal County Down, etc... when you're not playing, you're on a bus, or drinking in a clubhouse. You spend zero time interacting with non-golfers, end up with Yanks, Cannucks, Krauts and Aussies the whole time, and see nothing of the country.

In cultural terms, it's got to be up there with a lads holiday in Santa Ponza or Pattaya.

You forgot Ballybunion.

[wat_boy]

people go on golf holidays/trip to play golf not to sample the culture or see the country to be fair

[Deadman]

1. F1 if it can be called a "sport"
2. Tennis.
3. Golf.

how is it NOT a sport then..

[raZor]

gaelic football, snooker, darts.

that americas cup sailing was shite as well.


most sports are enjoyable enough to play Id say, some just dont make great tv at all.

[batinbird]

What about pigeon racing,imagine waiting for days for a speck to appear on the horizon.Draghunting the mind boggles.Sulkey racing,the nackers will kill me.Would like to be me boss.Im not forgetting rings,standing in the middle of the pub throwing rubber bands on to a load of hooks,its even worse when the women play it.Guess who is going to be the the next Lord Mayor of Blackpool

[MonTheHoops]

F1
Cycling
Golf

[ho chi feen]

You forgot Ballybunion.

You're right, I did.

[Eoin]

Cricket. Fucking awful sport.

Aussie rules. Its a poor-mans gaelic football.

A bad game of Gaelic football can be awful to watch, but when its good it can be entertaining.

The american sports are all shocking as well, with the possible exception of ice hockey.

[Top Dog]

1. F1 if it can be called a "sport"
2. Tennis.
3. Golf.

Totaly agree and add cricket as well and snooker all of these 'sports' would put you to sleep watching them

[xvis]

1. Basketball
2. Rugby Union


..all other sports can kindle some level of interest.

[RonnyB]

Like putting your golf sticks back in the boot of your car and fucking off to do something more productive for the afternoon than walking around a field?

I'd imagine that's a real headrush alright.

No but hitting a shot from over 100 yards away in the wind and rain to 2 feet from the hole makes it worthwhile. Or sinking a 20 foot putt with loads of break on it to win a hole in matchplay is another example.

[puzz]

Hate Formula One and i think Horse Racing is a scummy sport, fair enough there is a lot of skill involved but the way it revolves around gambling is sickening in my opinion

[WhatsYourProblem]

Ufc

What!

[WhatsYourProblem]

1) Handball
2) Basketball
3) Anything to do with horses
4) Synchronised swimming

[WhatsYourProblem]

UFC= failed boxers, failed martial artists etc cobbling together whatever "skills" they have and trying to pass it off as a viable, realistic sport.

Your just jealous of them.

[Tube a Pringles]

I'm afraid ye are all wrong about F1...

[POL]

I'm afraid ye are all wrong about F1...http://www.f1wv.com/artwork/new%20design/F1_key_alone.gif

[homer jay]

horse racing isn't a sport.

F1-i used to like it, but when there were races with not one overtaking manoeuvre in nearly 2 hours of racing, i said fuck that.
american sports (except ice hockey)-i appreciate the tactics in gridiron, but the games just take too long. 5 minutes of dicking around and about 5 seconds of "action". you have to be drunk to watch a game of baseball imo.
gaa-as said previously, it seems to have a lack of tactics other than hitting the ball as hard as you can up the field and hope that the "big" lad catches it and hits it over the bar.
cricket-as with gridiron and baseball, the games just take too long, and there's nothing happening for 90% of the time. again, being pissed helps.

[Goofy Martin]

Syncronised Swimming