re: Post your Unpopular Sports Opinions

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The feminization of the Olympics and its coverage has helped kill boxing. Decades ago, boxing stars (Cassius Clay, Foreman, Sugar Ray Leonard, the Spinks brothers, etc) emerged in the American public consciousness during the Olympics. When Mary Lou Retton and the US team won gold in '84 the networks started chasing the female demographic - at the expense of traditional Olympic sports like boxing, wrestling and track and field. Now, prospective stars get almost no exposure because of the inundation of gymnastics, floor dancing, etc.*

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That's not opinion sir, that's fact.

The one I stated 4 years ago and still own up to posting it. It was said in the midst of a 20 plus point comeback by the Spurs in a playoff game.

Thompson is more valuable to the Warriors success than Curry is.

The 1996 Olympics is what killed boxing in America.

They didn't even try to publicize that team and it was a terrible showing by the team.

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not so much unpopular, as it is dumb.

Sanders behind the Dallas line, would have run for 3k yards.

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I don't think you've actually watch Barry Run. He definitely didn't run up the middle and was a non factor in 3rd and short situations

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The overpopulation of 'journalists' and the almighty shitshow that is ESPN has damn near ruined the most important thing about sports and football - the Xs & Os - nobody GAF what athletes are twittering about, I just want more coverage of the shite that actually matters

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Hit the nail on the head there. I guess ESPN thinks sports can't survive without Twitter. What a sad world.

The BCS was the most interesting period of College Football. Combine it with a playoff, and you'd have the best way for American football to condense the judgement of champions down to 15 or 16 games.

The Stanley Cup is the most exciting annual tournament in Sports not named the Champions League.

It's hilarious that the most popular sports in America - Baseball and American Football - a freedom loving country, are the most authoritarian in nature. Coaches have far more influence on the game. The rulebooks are incredibly complex, and often inundated with ridiculous rules that only limit creativity, strategy and tactics. The players, the people, have little freedom to act on their own or to create team cohesion; It's all about the coach's power and choice. Players are often slaves to coaches and a mountain of rules. However....

American Football can still be interesting (it's only the popularity of it that is funny, given the general attitude of the country), but Baseball is barely a sport. It represents the ultimate in exterior control to on field competition. The players have so little agency, hits, pitches, base running are often controlled by someone else. And it's the ultimate game of controlling the averages. Rather than playing a physical competition between two sets of players, it's really about a bunch of old, out of shape guys trying to beat the averages and gain a few advantages to get someone across the plate. Totally uninteresting.

Pedro Martinez did nothing wrong when he was attacked by former Yankees coach Don Zimmer.

For the most part, baseball was just as unwatchable in the steroid era as it is now.

Golf is not a sport. If 80 year old men and women can play it and play it well, it's a hobby.

The BCS was better the the CFP, and I say that as someone who badly wanted the playoff in college football.

For the most part, your college football coach doesn't really care about his players and cares only about winning. That's a direct byproduct of the money and corresponding pressure in college football in the present day. There are exceptions to this but very few of them.

I like Tim Tebow. Also, he wasn't that bad of a QB in the NFL.

Baseball's "code" and unwritten rules are nothing but a bastardized version of what the game used to be, and were created by players over the last 20 years.

I hope the US never hosts a World Cup or another Olympics. There are too many security concerns, and they're profoundly and unnecessarily expensive.

The NBA regular season is as boring and inconsequential as baseball's.

Rudy is a fraudulent story.

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I hope the US never hosts a World Cup or another Olympics. There are too many security concerns, and they're profoundly and unnecessarily expensive.

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Why would it be unnecessarily expensive for the US to host a World Cup? We wouldn't have to build a single stadium. It's not like the Olympics. We wouldn't have to build a ton of facilities and a village. Just fix a few seats and paint a few parts of stadiums and we're set.

Bron Bron isn't as good as everyone thinks. Still best in the world but gap isn't as big as people think. And Westbrook is the 2nd best player in the league