[Closed] 3 most Boring Sports to Watch!

[i]Road cycling - Just soooo dull.[/i]

A 6hr transitional stage of the TdF can be as dull as ditchwater apart from the last 3km. But watching the Tour Down Under was ace and a mountain stage of the TdF can be nail-biting.

Cricket and golf are the two most boring sports that are on regularly. Bowls and curling are well up there in the thoroughly dull stakes too.

[i]Ice Skating.
Ballroom Dancing.
X-Factor.

big brother
the restaurant
the apprentice[/i]

not [i]sport[/i] though

F1
Tennis
Golf
Difficult to decide which is the worst..

I find a good way to test if a tv sport is truly boring is to watch it with the sound off - some commentators can spice it up a bit and others just confirm your thoughts.

Some interesting responses - never thought cricket would feature as often!

Cricket
Rugby
Football

Nothing to do with some people's bizarre class notions, just that I don't find any of them interesting - and the notion that I would spend time watching overpaid halfwits for pleasure..........

Gav you old skater yes it is 🙂 you dont see any of the nuances you describe on film it all happens to quick. In photos its a differnt matter. There you can see foot placement, where the rail is, the stance etc. If you watch 10 minutes of pipe or Teahupo'o you will be comatose. After the initial "Ohmygod" look at the size of that thing it is all the same drop bottom turn run like a loon for the shoulder. Seeing people like Shawn Briley deliberatly pulling in to get munched is always fun but he is a rare breed.

Winter Olympics coming up.
How about the Luge (Going down an icy slope on a tea tray).
Curling (Lots of Scottish and Canadian persons looking serious with a broom).
Biathlon (XC Skiing & rifle shooting) Pointless pursuit unless you are in the Russian Army.

1. Football
2. Football
3. Firkin Football!

Nice and easy!

However - I would watch footbal if the pitches were littered with live mines! That would be sport!

Dylan08 +1

Bl00dy hate football and all that goes with it.

Distance running
Judo
Fencing
Competition climbing

Stuff like curling etc I do not classify as sport

I have to agree, football should be put into room 101, and then the room should be ejected from Planet Earth with a radio signal, in every conceivable language permanently broadcasting a proclamation of utter boredom and ineptitude if anyone is stupid enough to remove Football from this cage floating in outer space.

Football can be great. You can't say that half the nation would have their hearts in their mouths during penalty shoot-outs in an intrinsically boring sport... The 4-yearly spectacle has to be the most nerves I've ever felt whilst not being in mortal danger, and I'm not even a football fan 🙂

The problem with it is the likelihood of boring league games is quite high, which is a shame.

And I love curling. Tense, exciting, tactical.. just because it's fashionable to bash minority sports doesn't mean their actually bad.

3) anything that takes 4-5 days to produce 'a draw'

Cricket is the only game where a draw can be an exciting result. I maintain anyone with an understanding of the concept of sport could not have failed to get excited during the Cardiff Ashes match which was a spectacular draw 🙂

How about the Luge (Going down an icy slope on a tea tray).

Pulling 7G at 140km/h and crashing with only some lycra to protect you.

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Yeah, dull 🙂

You can make any sport sound rubbish by using suitably derogatory language. I mean, who the hell would want to get on a bike and struggle through mud for four hours just to ride round in a big bloody circle? What a waste of time!

Rugby (Boot it out to touch, penalty, boot it out to touch, penalty, kick for goal and repeat)

Ten pin bowling (Bowl, strike, bowl, strike, bowl strike, bowl one pin left standing, bowl hit it and repeat)

F1 (Lap, lap, lap, lap, overtake, lap, lap, lap, lap, pit, lap, lap, zzzzzzz and repeat)

any 3 that is not rugby or football.

Mountain Biking
Surfing
Triathlon

The first two I do and the third I'm training to do one, but to sit down and watch them? No way José

I fully understand the concept of sport and how 5 day cricket match can end in a draw. I just don't find it interesting to watch

Meanwhile, I love watching football, especially when my favourite third division team comes up against the overpaid primadonnas of the Premier League and matches, or better still, beats them!

MOT!

Rugby (Boot it out to touch, penalty, boot it out to touch, penalty, kick for goal and repeat)

20 years ago when wathing England, maybe. Now it's mostly tackle, recycle, throw it around, tackle, break, run, score! Exciting 🙂

Darts is TV gold - fat sweaty athletes, pissed up crowd, wideboy commentators. Darts was made for TV. TV was made for darts.

Jimmyyyy you requiiiire... a coat!

Biathlon (XC Skiing & rifle shooting) Pointless pursuit unless you are in the Russian Army.

Not like I even compete in Biathlon - or am ever likely to. I do compete at a low level in XC skiing, and if you'd put that down as a boring sport to watch then I wouldn't argue at all, since a lot of the races are about as boring to watch as a cycling time trial - even the mass starts aren't exactly a thrill a minute. But biathlon is totally different. Got a satellite dish for Eurosport to watch the cycling, but the dish has been U/S for most of the summer - only got round to fixing it in time for the biathlon season.

Biathlon could be made far more exciting if they had to ski and shoot at each other or a Britsh agent armed only with a handgun.

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Cycling
Golf
Snooker

[i]

How about the Luge (Going down an icy slope on a tea tray).

Pulling 7G at 140km/h and crashing with only some lycra to protect you.

Yeah, dull [/i]
I don;t think anyone claimed it was dull to [i]do[/i]. But to watch? Almost as bad as F1.

I misread the title as 'The three most boring sport watches'.
Haven't come up with my top three yet!

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Swimming
Motor "sports"
Poker

Any sport where you need to see the winning time to tell the difference between the world champion and a schoolboy is boring.

Well said 2retro4u - skiing racing is certainly like that.

Sports where the opposition can't directly affect what you do tend to be a bit dull in my opinion.

Talking about similar thing today. One of the boys offered me a biking dvd. He obviously knew I did a bit on the mtb and road bike - He looked quite surprised when I told him I`d rather watch paint dry..

heres my list of most boring sports to watch.

Golf
Cricket
cycling
F1
Tennis
Horse racing or jumping
Athletics
MMA .. two roiders groping and wrestling each other .....

I'll watch any sport, love football, golf, darts, womens beach volleyball etc. I find some athletics like 5000m boring, but if it has a Brit in it who has a chance, then I'd watch.

Only sport I draw the line at is cricket.

Some interesting responses - never thought cricket would feature as often!

Test matches are a joke, I remember hearing not too long ago, a match had been won by England because it was raining, raining FFS, get real.

Oh sailing's pretty crap too.

Oh sailing's pretty crap too.

sailing[/url] - OK so it's not thrill a minute from the start, but it's worth waiting!

Cricket
Golf
Nascar

[i]I remember hearing not too long ago, a match had been won by England because it was raining, raining FFS, get real.[/i]
memory FAIL. It might have been [i]drawn[/i] because it was raining, but not [i]won[/i].
Weather, huh? Football matches were recently affected by the snow and ice...the national CX championships likewise.

I remember hearing not too long ago, a match had been won by England because it was raining, raining FFS, get real.
memory FAIL. It might have been drawn because it was raining, but not won.
Weather, huh? Football matches were recently affected by the snow and ice...the national CX championships likewise.

Ok memory fail, but that's because it is of little interest to me, but did it not mean England won the Ashes or something.
If a football match is affected by weather, it gets replayed unless there is something like 10mins to go & one team is clearly leading by a few goals, but I don't know of that happening. I've seen F1 being cut short due to rain & the leader awarded the race, & golf, again the leader being credited with the win, but that is in the case of extreme weather where it is unsafe, unplayable. In cricket it's a case of, this shower may last till lunchtime, we want a draw.
Oh & what kind of sport stops for lunch.

[i]I've seen F1 being cut short due to rain & the leader awarded the race, & golf, again the leader being credited with the win, but that is in the case of extreme weather where it is unsafe, unplayable. In cricket it's a case of, this shower may last till lunchtime, we want a draw.
Oh & what kind of sport stops for lunch. [/i]

the leader is awarded the race if it rains? jebus. How can they say that things may not have changed if the rain had stayed off? A draw is much fairer.
[i]what kind of sport stops for lunch[/i]
one that takes more than an hour and a half. What sort of highly paid professional 'athlete' has to stop after 45 minutes to eat an orange?

I used to participate up to national level in probably one of the most boring sports to spectate on - rifle shooting.

Markmen all trained to be calm, not show any emotion. Target 10metres, 50 metres away and you can't see what score they've got etc.

They tried to make it more exciting for the Olympics etc. by having a shoot-off final, with scores posted after each shot. But not exactly an edge-of-your seat moment it has to be said.

No wonder any medalists we've had get a 10 second mention on any sports programmes....

Oh, and squash too.

Do they have athletes in cricket? Looks to me they just do a lot of standing about.

Squash used to be dull, people playing down the wall all the time, but I watched some the other day and it was quite good. Lots of varied shots and shorter rallies.

As for golf, cricket etc being boring, I've had lots of enjoyment watching them, and bowls, skiing, motor racing, snooker, darts, lots of things. So either I am somehow clinically derranged (along with millions of other people) or these sports DO have interesting features but YOU just don't care for them.

I still say any sport on telly is interesting on some level otherwise it wouldn't be on telly. End of, really. Just because you don't care about it doesn't mean it's actually dull.

Football. (Parts of game can be ok, but ruined by relentless TV and radio coverage - who is that git on 5 live who says "penaltyerra" as one word?) I dont want to hear people arguing about the bloody game while I am at work, either

F1- what is the point. Make it like moto gp with no fuel or tyre stops and that would be ace.

LONDON MARATHON! ok if someone has a poo

Here's mine:

Football (times a million)
Fishing
Dressage

Some observations:

The bit where footballers move the ball around is brilliant. Everything else about football is depressingly awful.

Some sports seem a bit over-evolved - Curling and American Football spring to mind, instantly followed by every other sport.

I believe Ernest Hemmingway said that there were only three sports: Mountaineering, Bull-fighting and motor-racing. Everything else was just a game. This was of course, before the advent of freeride.

All televised sports would be better if commentated on by Stuart Hall. Jeux sans Frontiers.

And as this thread is going the way of a boring sport I propose a thread swerve.So...

[b]What would you change to make a sport more interesting? [/b]

I think that where it doesn't exist then judging by artistic impression should be introduced. Football gets more flowing Arsenal, show-boating and Sam Allardyce retires. Charismatic expression spreads beyond goal celebrations. Alesha Dixon and Robbie Savage are not allowed to be judges.

Contrary to above, some sports haven't really evolved enough and artistic interpretation alone is not sufficient for spectator enjoyment. Figure skating would benefit from the last man standing idea of boxing (actually that's just a scrap in the middle of a big piece of ice - needs work).

Formula 1 has not moved on in the way that say, Mario Cart has. Short cuts, jumps and missiles would greatly improve it.

We need to leave some sports alone to retain their zen qualities. Beyond quotes of existential goalkeepers, there is a Beckettian beauty in the notion of playing five days for a draw. Or losing due to inclement weather.

Darts across a ping pong table. Arrows in one hand, dartboard shield in the other. Do you risk a treble twenty or take a hit for the team?

Speed pool. With the sound off. What perfect beauty.

Excuse me, I need to go and ride my bike.

"I remember hearing not too long ago, a match had been won by England because it was raining, raining FFS, get real."
memory FAIL. It might have been drawn because it was raining, but not won.