And the GOOD NEWS IS

[Riverwind (imported)]

Football has started again.

It was a long winter and a miserable summer but now its football season life is good, time for a beer.

River

[curious_guy (imported)]

Am I the only EA member who does not watch any sports?

[StefanIsMe (imported)]

Hehe... nope, CG! I watch maybe one tennis game a year and enjoy it, but that's the grand total of my sports watching.

Welllll.... I enjoy (long) highlights of F1 races.

And I genuinely cheer the nephew and niece's soccer games. Those are fun, but hardly professional!

[Riverwind (imported)]

Somehow I will guess that the Football fans here are few, just a guess.

River

[hazbalz (imported)]

I'm a big college football fan. But my team got its ass kicked yesterday.

[Dave (imported)]

After years of sportswriters and TV commentators blithering about everything (and it's always) WRONG with the Team, the QB, the ethnicity of the players, the stadium, the constant harping about race, I quit watching football. Baseball I enjoy but not when every instant in devoted to advertising. Until Hockey hit HDTV, I couldn't see the effing puck... Then there's cycling where they just had to destroy it all over steroids. That's every sports too -- baseball and football have destroyed themselves over steroid. Golf has always been the waste of a good walk. Tennis hurt my neck looking back and forth. And finally (I think...) my university has a lousy football team brightened only by the marching band and a wild and crazy Pipe and Drum corps...

And if you want proof of my sourness on sports...

There is a DVD out there of the Pirates winning the 7th game of the World Series in 1960 that puts baseball on the screen and not hype or advertising crap on the screen or sports commentary of childish proportions. It's just the baseball game and not much more. That's al I want. I don't want in-depth character studies of any player. I merely want the game put on the screen and followed. The rest of all that noise that is put on the TV and radio is masturbation of wannabes by wannabes.

[paring (imported)]

Am I the only EA member who does not watch any sports?

You are not alone.

[fhunter]

Am I the only EA member who does not watch any sports?

You are not the only one. I understand participation, but watching?

[tugon (imported)]

Am I the only EA member who does not watch any sports?

I would rather watch paint dry. A relative called me and said they had two tickets to the OSU game and did I want them? I felt like someone was trying to punish me. You have been bad and now you must watch football. Wow that was the same feeling as a young boy when my father would drag me to games. He so wanted a boy.

[Dave (imported)]

I like sports in person. I like to watch from the stands. I don't like to watch on TV.

What I don't like (and what I posted so messily above) is the commentaries, the talk, and the advertising dollars put ahead of the sport.

If you go watch that 1960 World Series game, you can see the parts of the stands where I used to walk down from college classes with my notebooks and homework and sit for $2 in the cheap seats and watch the game (and of course do classwork) It was wonderful sunny afternoons and late summer and fall evenings. THat's my idea of good baseball.

At my university, the football team was lousy and the marching band and pipe corps were so rowdy and entertaining that the football players complain people came to the game to party with the marching band and not pay attention to them...