What do you like and dislike most about sports in general?

[Buzz Rules]

What do you like and dislike most about sports in general?

 

[john7994]

Can we start with soccer?

 

[ShelbyWagon]

I like the comradery of cheering on my team with other fans and the thrill of a nail-biting, down to the last second game.

I dislike the amount of commercial breaks they try to squeeze in!

 

[Buzz Rules]

I dislike the amount of commercial breaks they try to squeeze in!

Can we start with soccer?

You said the "forbidden word", not me.

 

[john7994]

You said the "forbidden word", not me.

I am here to help - I got one trick to play and I play it if it brings a little laughter or joy - even better!

 

[luvnwdwgal]

I like the team spirit but personally I find most sports just boring to watch.

 

[TCRAIG]

I enjoy college sports more than professional…
College sports - to me - it’s all about your alma mater, the bands, the rivalries, etc.
Pro sports is just too %#<> much money going into the hands of (many times) a bunch of jerks. I mean, how are pro athletes worth $$$$$$$$$ when teachers, nurses, care givers, etc only get $.

 

[tvguy]

I enjoy college sports more than professional…
College sports - to me - it’s all about your alma mater, the bands, the rivalries, etc.
Pro sports is just too %#<> much money going into the hands of (many times) a bunch of jerks. I mean, how are pro athletes worth $$$$$$$$$ when teachers, nurses, care givers, etc only get $.

Not sure why, but I just don't get College Sports. Although your last sentence kind of is why I don't think highly of College Sports. They take money away from the teachers and educational programs.
I did go to some football games in College, but our team rarely won, and that was about hanging out with my Fraternity brothers. My University dropped Football in 1995. The cost was one major factor. And four of the Universities that were our rivals in Football had already dropped it.

 

[CynBeth]

I love baseball and football whether attending in person or watching on tv you get all sorts of emotions and it is something the whole family can enjoy. I feel like the fanbase is a community. I do not like when fans of opposing teams come to visit and take over a stadium acting obnoxious or anywhere in public not necessarily at a game where someone from a rival comes over to taunt you or make nasty comments while you are just standing in line at a grocery store, Disney, etc. I also know this is a big topic but the money situation. It kills me how athletes complain about getting x million verses y million which most of us will never see in our lifetime but there are people who serve in the military, police, fire fighters, medical personnel, teachers, etc who deserve to make much more than they do.

 

[Frwinkley]

I love all sports, but football is my favorite. High school, college, professional--it's all great to me.

In Western PA, if you don't love football, you spend the months of Sept-January (Feb if you're lucky), all alone!!

What I love is the sense of community. Black and Gold everywhere you look.

 

[_19disnA]

If talking about pro sports, the highly overpaid athletes who always think they are worth more money and the excessive cost of tickets. Attendance is dropping in some sports as people would rather spend their money elsewhere. Money to pay the athletes has to come from somewhere and the companies who are sponsors have to charge more for their products to generate those funds.

 

[jalapeno_pretzel]

I like 'sports' that I participate in ... but they're all really for exercise purposes, not any kind of competitive or team sports. Running, hiking, cycling, swimming, etc.

Watching sports is so boring. And the overpaid athletes. And the traumatic brain injuries. And the displacement of marginalized communities to make way for things like giant stadiums and Olympic villages. Ridiculous waste of resources and time.

 

[Disneefun]

I've gotten to where the only sports I really can stand to watch are the small sports where there's almost no money involved. (And even that is difficult to appreciate these days because the Olympic movement that showcases a lot of these sports has gone down the same corrupt path as everything else.)

I used to love all sports, but money has ruined most of them. From the bottom all the way to the top. Even at the little leagues now in sports like soccer, tennis, baseball, etc. it's all "pay to play." If your parents can't afford (or you can't find a benefactor) to get you into an academy or on a travel team, forget it. In a lot of sports, there's no path anymore from little league to high school to college to pro on talent alone. You've got to be able to buy your way up.

And it just gets worse from there. The pro leagues are corrupt, and college is almost just as bad now. It's all ruled by money and power. And the gaps between the haves and have nots (at the individual, team, and league levels) is just... Astonishing. And the (willful) blindness to those gaps is even more astonishing, especially from players, managers, etc. who demand more and more while others get less and less, and people in the "real world" go without. But it's like the rest of the world these days, I guess. Greed and corruption rule the day and talent and hard work are no longer rewarded.

And don't even get me started on this week's grossness surrounding the Spanish women's football team, and what happens in a lot of of other women's sports.

I think all sports could do with a serious bit of soul searching and house cleaning, but it's never gonna happen, so I vote with my wallet and watch very little of it anymore.

Off soap box.

Actually, hang on.

Without getting political, I need someone to explain to me why people who spend their days moaning about the one percent, who claim that life isn't fair and that everything is corrupt, still so willingly pay thousands of dollar per year on tickets and high cost cable packages and add ons to watch football and basketball. I mean, aren't these some of the very people they purport to dislike? Wouldn't it make more sense to vote with their wallet and not watch the overpaid people who get paid for so very little (compared to a teacher, fireman, rescue worker, septic tank cleaner, road paver, etc.)? It makes no sense to me, so if anyone can explain it, please do.

 

[tvguy]

I guess we're still evolving here in regards to High School Sports, especially in regards to football. The front page of the newspaper today has an article on one of the High Schools trying to install lights on their stadium so the students can experience "Friday Lights". Friday Lights was a term I only heard from people who moved here, usually from Texas.
In my high school days, the BIG games were always played on Saturday afternoon. Most schools shared a stadium.....in my case, three high schools shared a stadium as their home venue. While it had lights, there were curfews on when the lights could be used. In the last 10 years that sharing has ended and the two other schools have gotten stadiums, however neither of those new stadiums has lights. But there are efforts to try and get approval for lights.
Tough sell as those two schools have been there over 60 years and back up to residential areas that were there first. The residents did let them build the stadiums in the last 10 years not sure they will be on board with lights.

 

[DisneyOma]

Nothing - too much money spent on it in schools, colleges, universities, and professionally. What if we took all that money and put it towards getting rid of homelessness, hunger, cancer, poverty, etc?

 

[MamaMermaid]

I like the outfits and cheerleaders/dancers. I love a good mascot and a theme!

But, I think sports are generally pretty boring... not a sports girlie.

 

[georgina]

I prefer to watch individual sports - tennis, golf, etc. (but the whole Saudi Arabia golf connection is not good for me!) The herd mentality of sports team fans really turns me off. I like living in the DC area now because there are many people who don't care much about sports around me!

I love all sports, but football is my favorite. High school, college, professional--it's all great to me.

In Western PA, if you don't love football, you spend the months of Sept-January (Feb if you're lucky), all alone!!

What I love is the sense of community. Black and Gold everywhere you look.

Having grown up in Cleveland and living 35 years in Pittsburgh after college, married to a Steelers fan, we managed to raise 3 kids who don't care much at all about sports. My DD played lacrosse, all the way through 2 years in college (D III), but doesn't pay any attention to sports.

 

[RedAngie]

One thing I dislike is the sports betting ads by the play by play announcers right during the game.

The over/under for the Flyers scoring a goal during this power play is..,,.. Get your bets in now.

I went to a Washington Capitals game last season. A few days later I received an e-mail survey asking my opinion about the experience. At least half the questions were about betting. I deleted the survey without finishing.

 

[starvenger]

What do you like and dislike most about sports in general?

What do I dislike? Unwritten rules. The Cardinal Way. The Yankees. James Dolan. Brazilian football tactics. Leafs fans.

What do I like? Athletes showing emotion. National pride in International competition. Invested - but not delusional- fans.

 

[Disneefun]

And here's a primo example of what's wrong with sports, or at least what's wrong with the people who put them ahead of everything else that's more important in life. The long and short of it is that the Louisiana legislature gave a huge (obscene) amount of money to refrub the arena in which LSU's women's basketball team plays. (Whether the money can be legally given in this way seems to be up for debate, but no doubt they tried!)

Now, there's nothing wrong with upgrading an old facility, necessarily, but in a state that lags behind in every metric.. health, education, poverty, etc., and whose flagship university needs a lot more resources to, oh, I don't know, educate students, couldn't/shouldn't the money be much better spent? But no, because the round ball and the oblong ball consume all. This is why my sports viewing has basically tanked. Society has much bigger problems than this, and I'd rather see the money consumed by college and pro sports spent on things that benefit us all, rather than a chosen few.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/29/louisiana-republicans-millions-sports-arena