What is your favorite spectator sport?
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I voted American Football (although I suppose Canadian voters should vote for the same box if they prefer Canadian football, they shouldn't have to check other). To me, it combines everything Americans like about sports. It has strategy, skill, and athleticism, but it can sometimes use strength and tenacity to prevail instead (plus brutally hard hits), you can score at any time, but it tells you when to look at the screen so you can look down and not miss anything or go to the bathroom during the many commercial breaks.
Yeah, the differences between "American" football and "Canadian" football are minimal to me. It's basically the same game with a slightly different take on the rules.
Yeah, football is a great sport. Football and Combat sports have always been my top two. MMA is just edging it out for me recently though. There are some great fighters in the business today and, for reasons already stated, football is taking a back seat.
I find most sport rather uninteresting, at least at a club level. Some can be occasionally entertaining, but I'd say I mainly enjoy international football such as the World Cup and European (EUFA) Championship, World Cup and Six Nations Rugby and The Ashes cricket. Football's the main one though.
I'm afraid there's very little profile or market outside America for American sports. Which is fine - America's big enough to support them anyway.
I'm afraid there's very little profile or market outside America for American sports. Which is fine - America's big enough to support them anyway.
I don't understand (American) football, I know that much. I mean, I'm 45 years old and I still don't know what a "down" is. Pathetic, innit?
Have you ever been to Allianz Arena? That is one of the most beautiful stadiums I have ever seen.
Touchdown is a drink. At least for me.
Years ago I was in the Olympia Stadium in Munich, it was their stadium at that time (it was in the 90ies). I haven't been to Allianz Arena, though. I do not wish to go there, especially not after the Finale Dahoam (Final at home, Champions Leagues 2012, hux will remember that fateful day against Chelsea
)
Oh, oh. Another retro disaster: Manchester vs Bayern, the Mother of all defeats.....
I'm looking forward to the World Swimming Championships in Kazan/Russia. Great Britain has good swimmers, Adam Peaty among them.... Germany has no female talents, but two or three good guys. No chance for the relays, though......
I'm looking forward to the World Swimming Championships in Kazan/Russia. Great Britain has good swimmers, Adam Peaty among them.... Germany has no female talents, but two or three good guys. No chance for the relays, though......
I enjoyed Adam Peaty's 100m breastroke WR more...... It was swum without a hightech suit, and it wasn't a swimmer from USA, Australia or China.....
As to football.... 1990, Italy, Germany-England shoot-out.....oh my...... 2010 South Africa, Germany-England 4:1....... I should stop now.....
That should be at least 4-2 given Lampard's shot was over the line
Compared with the English team the Brazilians really got the shit end of the stick 2014......... They were flattened by a huge juggernaut.
I'd say football first, but specifically *college* football. I don't care at all about pro football.
A close second would be hockey. Oddly enough it has a pretty big following here in Huntsville, with a popular minor league team and the only NCAA Division I team in the South. I only really got into it once I moved here.
A close second would be hockey. Oddly enough it has a pretty big following here in Huntsville, with a popular minor league team and the only NCAA Division I team in the South. I only really got into it once I moved here.
As my British relatives might say, I know precisely "sod-all" about soccer, although - since they're huge Liverpool FC fans - I wouldn't mind taking in a game at Anfield. That looks like a beautiful and historic stadium, kinda like the soccer version of Fenway Park (which fits, since John Henry owns both Liverpool FC and the Boston Red Sox, and I believe he was the one who killed the 'Stanley Park Stadium' proposal).
Although during a game, I'd have to have my nephews with me so they could explain what's going on.
Although during a game, I'd have to have my nephews with me so they could explain what's going on.
As my British relatives might say, I know precisely "sod-all" about soccer, although - since they're huge Liverpool FC fans - I wouldn't mind taking in a game at Anfield. That looks like a beautiful and historic stadium, kinda like the soccer version of Fenway Park (which fits, since John Henry owns both Liverpool FC and the Boston Red Sox, and I believe he was the one who killed the 'Stanley Park Stadium' proposal).
Although during a game, I'd have to have my nephews with me so they could explain what's going on.
It's so much easier with swimming: that's the sport where Michael Phelps won everything - at least he used to. How boring, when the American athletes win everything. They simply have a better system of sponsoring, funding and promotion. The best German Olympic athletes are poor as hell. Only Nowitzki and Schuhmacher are big earners, but sadly Schuhmacher is still recovering from his skiing accident. No one knows, if he will ever be the same again. So all the money he has is secondary.
Although during a game, I'd have to have my nephews with me so they could explain what's going on.
It's easy to follow. Liverpool are the team that's playing badly and have a 20 year old sitting on the bench because £100k a week just isn't enough for him so he refuses to play & wants to leave the club (oh and they're wearing red).
While I am probably more emotionally invested in the NFL, I prefer MLB for the live experience. I'm usually enjoying a nice summer evening sitting next to people that haven't been drinking since dawn. The NFL experience can be fun for the electricity but I've endured crappy weather and obnoxious fans with a poor view of the action. I also think Football isn't as aesthetically pleasing to follow when you only have the view from your seat. Basketball is pretty decent live as well but your sitting indoors.
Personally, I think you always get a better view of the game now on a big screen HD TV than you do sitting in the stands. But, at same time, I agree that you can't replace the experience of actually going to a game from your couch (e.g., tailgating, energy, etc).
Football(NFL)
Baseball
Boxing
And I don't know if these count as spectator sports, but I also like watching
Competitive Swimming(Like at the Olympics) and Volleyball.
Baseball
Boxing
And I don't know if these count as spectator sports, but I also like watching
Competitive Swimming(Like at the Olympics) and Volleyball.
Who's your favorite swimmer?
I like Paul Biedermann, Ryan Lochte and Chad Le Clos. Biedermann had the super suit when he swam his WRs, but even without full-body suit he's a good swimmer. Can't compete with Phelps, though.
There's swimming WC in Kazan soon....
Oh, I realize you're from Florida. Lochte is from Gainesville, FL. Now he's in Charlotte, if I'm not mistaken.....
DC was actually created by sectioning off some land from Maryland, IIRC.
(One of the proposals for DC statehood is, in fact, giving it back.)
