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[cdyhybrid]

The people playing on TV are typically much better at the game than the viewer could ever hope to be.

People want to watch greatness. They want to see the best players play the sport at the highest level.

Sports also carry storylines and drama if you're into that sort of thing.

 

[Aaron-Lagann]

The people playing on TV are typically much better at the game than the viewer could ever hope to be.

People want to watch greatness. They want to see the best players play the sport at the highest level.

Sports also carry storylines and drama if you're into that sort of thing.

Actual sports need to adopt some wrestling themes. I want the Vince McMahon equivalent to show up and fire coaches.

 

[a Master Ninja]

I need stakes. Regular games aren't enough; I need playoffs or championships to stay interested.

 

[FootballFan]

The drama. The excitement. It's better than anything and everything. No movie, tv show, videogame or book can match the feeling.

It's not scripted either(except in Italy), it's just so good.

pls

 

[RELIGHT]

Not at all, I enjoy playing games, but I think Let's Plays are boring as hell.

Eye C wut U ded their.

 

[Mortemis]

Entertainment. Thrill. Suspense. Excitement. Happiness. Disappointment. Drama. Intrigue.

It has everything. Pretty weird to not see why people would find it entertaining.

Exactly. The thrill and excitement are what brings people in and keeps them back for more, especially for me.

Not at all, I enjoy playing games, but I think Let's Plays are boring as hell.

You can't really compare Let's plays to sports though. For sports, you're usually rooting for your team, so it gives you a sense of belonging in a community you're in, so you know what you're rooting for. It's what brings the suspense and thrill. Let's plays don't really give you that, it's just some guy you don't know playing. Someone could argue that you can apply that to watching two teams you don't root for playing, but you at least know the teams and usually have some sort of feelings towards them, like you don't like a certain player or you want to see your rival team lose. There's a bunch of other reasons, but that's the main points imo.

edit:

Eye C wut U ded their.

Err, guess I missed something about that post.

 

[akira28]

Not at all, I enjoy playing games, but I think Let's Plays are boring as hell.

Strangely enough, I can watch these like other people watch sports. Only games I like though.

 

[tokkun]

A lot of the people I personally know who have the "lol sports" attitude are nerdy guys who would probably love following sports if they gave it a chance. There are more statistics to nerd out over in a sports league than in a Dungeons and Dragons manual, and there is actually a lot of strategy in a game of football if you take the time to learn about different offensive and defensive formations.

 

[speculawyer]

All my brothers are watching World Cup and most of my friends watch Footy/Rugby, and here I can't understand how can anyone watch someone else score a ball in.

Now, I love playing sports. It's fun, you're taking an activity and it's a great cardio but how can watching sports be fun? I can't understand this.

Yes . . . this. I can sometimes get sucked into it if I surround myself with other sports fans. But in general, I think watching pro sports is silly. Much better to get out there and PLAY SPORTs. Even if you are terrible at them. I ran 4 miles today. Very slowly but it was time much better spent than munching junk food and watching sports.

 

[cdyhybrid]

Yes . . . this. I can sometimes get sucked into it if I surround myself with other sports fans. But in general, I think watching pro sports is silly. Much better to get out there and PLAY SPORTs. Even if you are terrible at them. I ran 4 miles today. Very slowly but it was time much better spent than munching junk food and watching sports.

You can do both, you know

 

[Sean]

The only sport I watch regularly is fighting. It feels like more of a special event with bigger stakes since most fighters only fight two, maybe three times a year, and they spend months training to compete at the highest level. It's tense to watch since there can be a knockout at any time.

Baseball games for example, each team plays what, 170 games per season? It's tough to get invested in the individual games for me because there's so many of them.

 

[supergiz]

If you are every expecting to be in upper level management, you should develop an interest in sports.

 

[rtcn63]

Don't really do the idol worship. I have favorite singers, actors, writers, fighters, fictional characters. But I don't devote any more of time to them and their media than I have to.

 

[OriginalNameGuy]

I enjoy seeing the sports I love being played at the highest level. The large stadiums, scream of the crowd, superhuman feats from the athletes. Watching offers a experience I can't get from playing a pickup game, hit around at the park, etc.

 

[Blearth]

A lot of the people I personally know who have the "lol sports" attitude are nerdy guys who would probably love following sports if they gave it a chance. There are more statistics to nerd out over in a sports league than in a Dungeons and Dragons manual, and there is actually a lot of strategy in a game of football if you take the time to learn about different offensive and defensive formations.

Baseball is the nerdiest sport in the world.

That's why it's the best sport.

statsstatsstatsstatsilovestats

 

[ConfusingJazz]

Its exciting and dramatic. Technical and emotional. It makes my heart pump hard and my fingers shake. It is better than any piece of fiction I have ever read or watched. I can still feel the roar from when Vince Young ran into the corner of the endzone in the 2006 Rose Bowl, and I can still feel nausea from the Crabtree catch in 2008.

Would be the answers I give when lying. The real answer is socially approved shit talking.

 

[Wiktor]

Nope. I don't like watching sports (aside from few exceptions, when somebody from Poland is fighting for top prize), but I do understand the appeal.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

I think it would be pretty cool to share the experience of something like this even if I wasn't into whatever is going on in the screen
http://imgur.com/gallery/bv7d4

 

[Yaboosh]

Don't really do the idol worship. I have favorite singers, actors, writers, fighters, fictional characters. But I don't devote any more of time to them and their media than I have to.

You don't have to devote any time at all to them. So yes, you do devote more of your time to them than you have to.

 

[Maddocks]

I have a friend who is like that too. You bring up sports and he shutsdown, because he doesn't know anything about them so he doesn't feel like he adds anything to the convo so he doesn't talk.

I watch sports, get into it when I understand it. Basketball and baseball right now, but going to add hockey to the sports list because what I like the most about sports is the atmosphere. Watching an event live with a group is fun and crazy.

 

[PseudoKirby]

spectator sports make no fucking sense how involved these people get, they make it their fucking life and it makes no sense.

playing sports is great, can be fun and offer great exercise and character building.


if anything spectator sports ruin your character.

 

[PseudoKirby]

Sports fans aren't just watching people knock a ball around. Go listen to some fantasy leaguers talk and you'll get an idea of just how much they're seeing when they watch these people play.

and yet these same people look down at us when we play video games.

 

[rtcn63]

You don't have to devote any time at all to them. So yes, you do devote more of your time to them than you have to.

Okay.

 

[Sundown]

I've tried, even pretended to care, just can't care. Now sports anime, that's a different story. Kuroko no Basket is the hotness.

At least name a good example of a sports anime like Eyeshield 21, Major, Ace of the Diamond or Big Windup. Kuroko no Basket is hot garbage. A convoluted, predictable mess that isn't even about basketball anymore. It's a shōnen battle manga pretending to be about sports.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

I don't care for sports but I do like watching them with my sports-loving and handicapping friends with a few drinks. Then I'm drunk and get into it.

 

[Aaron-Lagann]

At least name a good example of a sports anime like Eyeshield 21, Major, Ace of the Diamond or Big Windup. Kuroko no Basket is hot garbage. A convoluted, predictable mess that isn't even about basketball anymore. It's a shōnen battle manga pretending to be about sports.

No way, it's so hype. It's standard, but so is pretty much every other sports anime. Ace of the Diamond was one of the most boring things I've ever sat through, as where Kuroko has the hottest gimmicks and the best power scaling.

Also, Eyeshield is just as much of a battle manga as Kuroko.

'Nuff said.

 

[abstract alien]

I'm very much the same way. Watching sports has always been a pretty boring affair for me in general. I love to play because I love physicality and exertion, but I'm not one to watch or know much at all about them. Shit I have no idea who won the super bowl last year, or anything big game for that matter.

I watch MMA, does that count?

 

[maomaoIYP]

I enjoy watching some sports but I will never understand soccer. 22 guys running after one ball, long matches, few goals.

 

[abstract alien]

THE SEAHAWKS

Now you can't say that line anymore heheheheheheh

Did they really win, or are you trolling me? Let me see...

 

[PirateKing]

Its exciting and dramatic. Technical and emotional. It makes my heart pump hard and my fingers shake. It is better than any piece of fiction I have ever read or watched. I can still feel the roar from when Vince Young ran into the corner of the endzone in the 2006 Rose Bowl, and I can still feel nausea from the Crabtree catch in 2008.

Would be the answers I give when lying. The real answer is socially approved shit talking.

What a twist.

 

[PseudoKirby]

I dunno, do they? I think many of them at least play Out of the Park or even The Show, on the baseball side. I don't know any football fantasy leaguers personally.

For those that do look down on gamers, it is likely born of the same exact ignorance we're projecting towards them in this thread. Most of us have no idea what the other side actually does.

whats being projected?! you know the fucking waves of people that dress up in ridiculous outfits and go to these games, then have a heart attack because some dude didnt hit the ball or kick the ball or throw the ball or catch the ball

its a hell of alot more socially acceptable to be a crazed fan of sports and have it take over every aspect of your life then to let anything "nerdy" do the same

although to be honest I dont let anything take over my life like that

Spoiler

cept for cars

 

[Monocle]

I think I understand how watching sports could be appealing to other people, but personally, trying to squeeze any enjoyment out of it is like jacking off to lettuce. I mean, I guess I could try to fake it if you bribed me.


I would totally watch naked Olympics though. Bring back naked Olympics.

 

[PseudoKirby]

I thought we were talking about fantasy leaguers given the post you quoted.

I am talking about any sports nut. but yes I never understood in High School how I needed to stop playing so many video games because they didnt do shit for me, yet those same people would spend so much fucking time rounding up some fantasy shit and investing their lives during a certain season.

 

[mercenar1e]

I can't understand how some people can sit through this shit.. It's worse during the Super Bowl.

http://qz.com/150577/an-average-nfl-game-more-than-100-commercials-and-just-11-minutes-of-play/
An average NFL game: more than 100 commercials and just 11 minutes of play

 

[Pennywise]

I like watching athletes compete at the highest level -- something I can only dream of doing.

This.

I don't wanna imagine a real match from FootyGaf.....

Pulga would get send off for a rude foul within seconds, by either Mumei or Wes.
Milch would be scared of the player with the Ballack shirt.
Skigaffy would punch the trainer, imagining it was Pep.

The rest would most likely break their bones.

 

[Moofers]

All my brothers are watching World Cup and most of my friends watch Footy/Rugby, and here I can't understand how can anyone watch someone else score a ball in.

Now, I love playing sports. It's fun, you're taking an activity and it's a great cardio but how can watching sports be fun? I can't understand this.

Yeah man I was a pro cyclist for a few years and everyone would want to watch the Tour de France every year and I could not give less of a shit. I wasn't in it, and watching was boring time that I felt could be better spent doing something else or playing games.

I will watch the Green Bay Packers if they get to the playoffs, and that's all the sports I care to watch. I grew up in Green Bay and it really is insane Packer fan land, so watching the playoff games makes me feel like I can be a part of that community excitement and now that I live on the other side of the country, it's a small piece of home to keep me connected.

But that's it. I don't even play sports video games.

 

[Sundown]

No way, it's so hype. It's standard, but so is pretty much every other sports anime. Ace of the Diamond was one of the most boring things I've ever sat through, as where Kuroko has the hottest gimmicks and the best power scaling.

Also, Eyeshield is just as much of a battle manga as Kuroko.

'Nuff said.

I can't take this seriously, yo.

 

[Aureon]

I kind of expected this to be a jab to League of Legends.

 

[Eidan]

Why do people ENJOY things?

 

[ThLunarian]

I've lived most of my life with my father and my brother, both of whom have always been major sports fans. Even today, my brother and I share a house and he has ESPN on in the living room constantly.

I have never had the slightest interest in watching a game. I've even sort of tried to learn about the sports world and I still just don't care enough to retain anything. My 'favorite' baseball team that I picked when I was 3 years old is the Yankees, and now that A-Rod is gone, I can't name a single player on the entire team.

I guess I can never fully understand the enjoyment people feel by watching sports. I accept that they do, though.

 

[Aaron-Lagann]

I can't take this seriously, yo.

How can you not take the hypest haircuts in Japan seriously?

 

[FairXchange]

I'm pretty much the same way. I love to play sports, but as far as watching sports, I only watch the Super bowl and NBA playoffs

Add the odd soccer match and we're about the same.

 

[Kite]

Watching pros play at a higher level gets me excited and inspired to both play and try out new plays/techniques.

 

[CornBurrito]

A lot of the people I personally know who have the "lol sports" attitude are nerdy guys who would probably love following sports if they gave it a chance. There are more statistics to nerd out over in a sports league than in a Dungeons and Dragons manual, and there is actually a lot of strategy in a game of football if you take the time to learn about different offensive and defensive formations.

I have given it a try. Still don't enjoy it. I just don't find sports exciting to watch. Maybe if they were super soldiers with cool abilities and technology. But it is mundane people doing mundane things for me.

 

[Knox]

It's interesting to see displays of skill and strategy from people that have devoted their lives to become the best at something. Mix that with the kind of dramatic situations that arise in sports and it becomes very good entertainment.

I think what a lot of people in this thread seem to hate is how sports fans act, and just conclude that watching sports = dumb. Lots of people live vicariously through their team or certain athletes. Some people get into heated debates about shit that doesn't matter. It is kind of funny because "sports guys" are just nerds for something that is more accepted to be a nerd about.

 

[Robot Pants]

I'm more like "lol at people who think "lol sports"".

How can you not understand how people can like watching sports?

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[Ceebs]

I have given it a try. Still don't enjoy it. I just don't find sports exciting to watch. Maybe if they were super soldiers with cool abilities and technology. But it is mundane people doing mundane things for me.

If you are watching a top tier professional league, the people you are watching are anything but mundane. They are freaks of nature who are the best in the world at doing what they do.

 

[Cyan]

Its exciting and dramatic. Technical and emotional. It makes my heart pump hard and my fingers shake. It is better than any piece of fiction I have ever read or watched. I can still feel the roar from when Vince Young ran into the corner of the endzone in the 2006 Rose Bowl, and I can still feel nausea from the Crabtree catch in 2008.

Would be the answers I give when lying. The real answer is socially approved shit talking.

You'd like it a lot better if your team didn't suck. Is Mack Brown still coaching over there or what?

 

[dr3upmushroom]

I use to say the same thing but the older I get the more I'm actually interested in certain sports. It really comes down to having amazing athletes do some of the greatest performances possible. And it isn't just your traditional sports, same can be applied to something like skateboarding.

 

[ConfusingJazz]

You'd like it a lot better if your team didn't suck. Is Mack Brown still coaching over there or what?

When did you get down from your tree protest to charge your iPhone?