3 most Boring Sports to Watch!

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3 most Boring Sports to Watch!
GrahamS
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Skiing is ace to watch – provided you fast forward to the crashes 😀

Posted 14 years ago

Steve-Austin
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Run and Wriggle
Fishing
Golf

Posted 14 years ago

john_drummer
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1) anything with wheels
2) anything involving hitting balls with sticks
3) anything that takes 4-5 days to produce 'a draw'

Posted 14 years ago

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Hairychested
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Ice Skating.
Ballroom Dancing.
X-Factor.

Posted 14 years ago

AndyRT
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big brother
the restaurant
the apprentice

Posted 14 years ago

crazy-legs
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Road cycling – Just soooo dull.

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.

Posted 14 years ago

john_drummer
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Ice Skating.
Ballroom Dancing.
X-Factor.

big brother
the restaurant
the apprentice

not sport though

Posted 14 years ago

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

Posted 14 years ago

tiggs121
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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!

Posted 14 years ago

aP
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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……….

Posted 14 years ago

Pigface
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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.

Posted 14 years ago

alan-sierracycling
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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.

Posted 14 years ago

Dylan08
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1. Football
2. Football
3. Firkin Football!

Nice and easy!

Posted 14 years ago

Dylan08
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However – I would watch footbal if the pitches were littered with live mines! That would be sport!

Posted 14 years ago

tjr666
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Dylan08 +1

Bl00dy hate football and all that goes with it.

Posted 14 years ago

ianv
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Distance running
Judo
Fencing
Competition climbing

Stuff like curling etc I do not classify as sport

Posted 14 years ago

AndyRT
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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.

Posted 14 years ago

molgrips
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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.

Posted 14 years ago

molgrips
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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 🙂

Posted 14 years ago

GrahamS
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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 🙂

Posted 14 years ago

molgrips
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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!

Posted 14 years ago

Whathaveisaidnow
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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)

Posted 14 years ago

Caher
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any 3 that is not rugby or football.

Posted 14 years ago

jimster
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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

Posted 14 years ago

john_drummer
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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!

Posted 14 years ago

molgrips
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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 🙂

Posted 14 years ago

jimmy
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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!

Posted 14 years ago

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

I can only assume you've never watched it properly – or maybe only watched the individual (which is a time trial and the most boring form), as you're so wrong! Your comments about the Russian army would tend to back that up, given there's only one Russian in the current top 10. I challenge you to watch a mass start or a pursuit and find it boring.

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.

Posted 14 years ago

GrahamS
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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.

Posted 14 years ago

uplink
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Cycling
Golf
Snooker

Posted 14 years ago

AndyP
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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 don;t think anyone claimed it was dull to do. But to watch? Almost as bad as F1.

Posted 14 years ago

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

Posted 14 years ago

RepackRider
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2retro4u
Marin County, Cali

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.

Posted 14 years ago

tiggs121
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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.

Posted 14 years ago

mooman
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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 …..

Posted 14 years ago

waynekerr
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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.

Posted 14 years ago

aracer
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Oh sailing's pretty crap too.

I give you boring sailing – OK so it's not thrill a minute from the start, but it's worth waiting!

Posted 14 years ago

ex-pat
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Cricket
Golf
Nascar

Posted 14 years ago

AndyP
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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.

Posted 14 years ago

waynekerr
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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.

Posted 14 years ago