[Closed] Is there anything more silly?

Grown men in tight lycra.. riding round on roads as fast as they can to beat other grown mens times. Fastest one across certain sections gets the honour of being a King.

You're in Wales aren't you?  You've probably never seen morris dancers

Bog snorkelling.

Football.

22 men running around a field for 90 minutes, pretending to be nearly fatally injured, and writhing in agony if they trip over near someone wearing the other team's kit.

And then the score is still 0-0.

Access laws in England and Wales

Rugby? WTF is that all about?

Oh come on, cricket surely.

Rugby? WTF is that all about?

It's about separating the men from the boys, apparently.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/international/france/11433808/France-drug-scandal-no-surprise-I-knew-they-were-on-something-says-former-All-Black-Wayne-Buck-Shelford.html

Cricket, slightest hint of rain and they go running for cover like acid is falling from the sky

F1, where silly looking cars have more and more bits put on them every year to try and flatten the car against the impossibly smooth tarmac

Ice Hockey.
Bunch of violent chancers that were too short to play basketball.

I demand we remove curling from the list immediately, its the best thing at the winter games!

I suggest tennis in its place.

Car racing, it’s just driving round in circles

Got to be Luge.... rocketing down an icy slide on a tea tray?

Or Modern Pentathlon, think how hard they must train to do Swimming, CX running, pistol shooting, fencing and show jumping, only for 99% of people not to have a clue what it is they do?

I suggest tennis in its place.

Tennis on ice might be fun to watch.

Walking races.

Walking football. Although I gather it's good for old people and those with limited mobility.

Aunt Sally.

Football.

+1 million

I wonder what the percentage of brexit voters would be amongst the football supporters that are keen enough to actually go to the stadiums to watch the game ?

Judging by the train last week when portsmouth were playing sunderland, I reckon it's pretty high.

Walking football. Although I gather it’s good for old people and those with limited mobility

Ebike football ?

Driving for hours, to ride a bicycle in a circle *back to the car*. InArmour!

Did I miss the point! 😉

was thinking young girls on hobby horses :

but grown men on hobby horses beats it :

Ice Hockey.
Bunch of violent chancers that were too short to play basketball.

Whoa there! Say that again and I'll punch 'cha.

All American sports are bizarre.

22 men running around a field for 90 minutes, pretending to be nearly fatally injured, and writhing in agony if they trip over near someone wearing the other team’s kit.

And then the score is still 0-0

F1.

Go to your nearest roundabout, with 2 lane feed, far more exciting, more overtaking, and way more incidents.

Baseball...it's just rounders with a bigger stick

It's the same as every sport ever invented.

If you're into it and understand the nuances of the game and its tactics then it's brilliant. if you're not and you don't then it's nonsense.

OR as it's friday.

Ice hockey, as a spectator the puck is too small to follow, you have to wait for the electronic indicator to go off before you know for sure if anyones scored, the biggest star of most games is the bloke that drives the Zamboni at half time and the players seem to forget all about the game every so often for a playground fight

Any sport where the team has a place name  first and then some sort of rufty tufty name second.

Brisbane Broncos etc.

I dread the day when west ham become the London hammers.

Using the word "Preternaturally" when un-natural would have done.

Baseball. A sport where the 'World Series' is just America.

English Sorry, non-American people pretending to like, or understand, this nonsense.

Kabaddi FTW

This isn't meant as a cheap dig but...

... religion is full on silly.

All American sports are bizarre.

FTFY.

@DezB - I am English and understand American Football.

Using the word “Preternaturally” when un-natural would have done.

Except that they're not the same thing. "Preternatural" implies an extended nature - that is, something that goes beyond what one expects. "Unnatural" clearly suggests something antithetical to nature.

So there.

Don't be silly.

[i]nothing like 200m travel for the admiral or good game.[/i]
What means this?

 its the best thing at the winter games!

Winter Olympics should be renamed the Slidey games...

Baseball. A bunch of slightly portly men in pyjamas a few sizes too small for them playing a game designed for Victorian school girls.

I don't think sports are silly at all..generally. A far better time for people to be spending their time over sat in cars in traffic jams heading to jobs they hate that are slowly killing them due to stress. Far more productive to be playing sensible games that challenge the body and mind....so yeah, rules out Amercan sports/games/marginally active pursuits.

Basketball, baseball, American "football, ice hockey.

All American sports seem pointless copies of good games that the yanks couldn't win so they changed the rules and only allow themselves to enter.

So many World Series are confined to N America.

Basketball, baseball, American “football, ice hockey.

All American sports

2 Canadian, 2 Briitsh. The ones they didn't steal outright they just changed enough from the original to make them "theirs"

As for those that go on about The World Series, it is named after a newspaper called The World, not implying the whole world takes part... still a daft game though..

Kabaddi? Horse dancing is definitely up there along with golf. Basketball is like netball on cheat mode.

No, SR is right. All those other sports, they are sports, all fine and good*. I like football, and rugby, and even American Football is ok. But basketball has been ruined by the selection of insanely tall people who are almost certain to score within 10 seconds of getting the ball back. The rules do not reflect their ability. The game doesn't allow for progression to elite levels without becoming boring. Like F1, really.

I went to a live baseball game once, it was incredibly dull, and the crowd were utterly disinterested and all you could hear around the stadium was chatting until the last innings which created one solitary small cheer as the home team won.

* except ice hockey

is named after a newspaper called The World, not implying the whole world takes part…

True, although I think you can forgive people for being confused - after all they refer to their elected leader as leader of the "free world". So, you know, there's that.

I went to a couple of Buzkashi 'games' years ago. Not sure that silly is the word - Mental, MAD, bonkers, etc would do it more justice.

Phenomenal displays of horsemanship though, which I expect is really the point of it rather than the goals / scores.

Ice Hockey.

Bunch of violent chancers that were too short to play basketball.

Except for....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdeno_Ch%C3%A1ra

Ice hockey, as a spectator the puck is too small to follow, you have to wait for the electronic indicator to go off before you know for sure if anyones scored, the biggest star of most games is the bloke that drives the Zamboni at half time and the players seem to forget all about the game every so often for a playground fight

Neither you nor Fasthaggis can actually ice skate. I know that much.

Football - 90 mins of pretending you are hurt. Rugby80 mins of pretending you are not hurt!

You can make any sport silly by applying reductionism.

My favourite is rugby - a sport where one of the main objectives is to kick the ball out of the field of play, and where more time is spent with the ball either invisible to spectators or no action actually happening than play occurring.

JP

I have a good friend who is a big basketball fan. My standard wind-up for him is that basketball is rubbish because it's not a game that is won, it's a game that is lost.

The whole rule set is that you score when you have the ball, and then possession is swapped to the other team who then score. The match is decided purely by the teams that don't manage to score when they have the ball. Ergo, you don't win a match, you lose it by not scoring more than the opponent.

There's nothing sillier, but I think there are some other sports that are similar (badminton?)

Car racing, it’s just driving round in circles

That’s NASCAR; a great deal involves lots of tight corners and other hindrances like chicanes, on tracks that are anything but circular. And then there’s rallying, desert racing, drag racing...

I went to a couple of Buzkashi ‘games’ years ago

I did that once, in Afghanistan.  It was like watching a bunch of bears on wild horses throwing a dead goat around.  No way was I suggesting it wasn't a real sport.

Wow some people I thought were alright have exposed them selves as ignorant Bell ends.

Wow some people I thought were alright have exposed them selves as ignorant Bell ends.

You might be taking this thread a bit too seriously.

You might be taking this thread a bit too seriously.

You might not get irony

I present popinjay archery. Shooting a target vertically above your head. What could go wrong?

Spectator "sports".

If the sport is any good, you should be participating, not watching it.

Otherwise it is entertainment not sport. 🙂

You might not get irony

No, and I don't count it as a sport.

If the sport is any good, you should be participating, not watching it.

So, after you've done your sport for the day, you're not allowed to watch any other sport on telly? What an odd concept.

molgrips

So, after you’ve done your sport for the day, you’re not allowed to watch any other sport on telly? What an odd concept.

Not at all. You're doing a different sport.

It's called arse-fattening. 🙂

Oh, so I'm not allowed to watch the SAME sport after doing it that day? So if I go on a ride, I can't watch say TdF highlights in the evening? Hmm, but I quite like watching that, so maybe I can't go out riding if it's on..? I'm confused...

Men's beach volleyball.

Nothing says 'Bell End' better than faux middle class ****wits who successfully demonstrate their ignorance by slagging off football.

Kabaddi?Kabaddi?Kabaddi?Kabaddi?Kabaddi?

FTFY

Kabaddi was ace, needs to be on telly again.

After a quick think, I quite like anything that doesn't involve horses.

F1 is a bit of a trial these days, but only because the cars are so ugly.

F1 is a bit of a trial these days, but only because the cars are so ugly.

Unlike these beauties from the olden days.

Golf. ****ting a little ball as far as you can up a field - then walking 20 minutes in the direction you hit it; to then **** it as far as you can again - and repeat ...

Unlike these beauties from the olden days.

What’s wrong with them, try and answer with out the help of a witty quip. They would of been cutting edge in their day.

What’s wrong with them

They're hideously ugly. (I thought that was kinda obvious, actually, but in case you're blind.)

In your opinion

Golf. ****ting a little ball as far as you can up a field – then walking 20 minutes in the direction you hit it;

20 mins?

Nice shot.

In your opinion

Ahh, you're being ironic again. Didn't get me that time.

Well go on why are they so ugly?

in the direction you hit it

Unfortunately not in my case - I'm more likely to finish up walking at a jaunty angle to the direction that the ball originally started out in. I used to think televised golf was dull until I'd actually played it. After that I appreciate the skill a bit more...

Can't believe you could do beautiful old f1 cars without the best of them all

Well go on why are they so ugly?

With this one, they obviously ran out of front wings so just bolted on an irony board they found lying around.