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re: Have you stopped watching / following a sport? If so, why?
Posted on 1/5/17 at 10:00 am to UF
Posted on 1/5/17 at 10:00 am to UF
I loathe college basketball now. The regular season couldn't possibly mean any less and the product is just so inferior to the NBA now. I'd rather watch Kings/Bucs in February than Duke/Kentucky.
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Posted on 1/5/17 at 10:33 am to UF
1. College football
2. NBA
3. College basketball (but I never really watched it much)
I just don't have the time for it all. My favorite sports are baseball and football. I love MLB and have gotten into prospecting a bit. I love the NFL, but I wish we could revert a couple of the recent changes made. I also really enjoy watching soccer.
Unfortunately as you age, you have to prune your sports tree.
2. NBA
3. College basketball (but I never really watched it much)
I just don't have the time for it all. My favorite sports are baseball and football. I love MLB and have gotten into prospecting a bit. I love the NFL, but I wish we could revert a couple of the recent changes made. I also really enjoy watching soccer.
Unfortunately as you age, you have to prune your sports tree.
Posted on 1/5/17 at 10:48 am to UF
Would help if you knew the players but still...
For me the NBA....
I actually enjoyed those old Timberwolves teams with Garnett, Steph, and Tom Gugliotta... Was a fun team to watch. Only reason I quit is I just lost interest in the NBA. I started to find it boring and uninteresting. Nothing major just enjoy baseball more.
NFL would be that way if I didn't participate in fantasy football. I keep up with it and watch to see how my players are doing. If they have a game on that doesn't impact my fantasy season then I won't watch. Last weekend I didn't watch a single game because the fantasy season ended
For me the NBA....
I actually enjoyed those old Timberwolves teams with Garnett, Steph, and Tom Gugliotta... Was a fun team to watch. Only reason I quit is I just lost interest in the NBA. I started to find it boring and uninteresting. Nothing major just enjoy baseball more.
NFL would be that way if I didn't participate in fantasy football. I keep up with it and watch to see how my players are doing. If they have a game on that doesn't impact my fantasy season then I won't watch. Last weekend I didn't watch a single game because the fantasy season ended
Posted on 1/5/17 at 10:50 am to Tigerfan56
quote:
Everyone is entitled to their opinion and the quality of product is subjective, but to most basketball fans - the quality of basketball being played now is at an all time high
100% agree. Of all the sports takes that's the one I can't stand. The NBA is at an all time high imo.
This post was edited on 1/5/17 at 10:51 am
Posted on 1/5/17 at 10:56 am to UF
I genuinely don't watch anything anymore except college football and occasionally, college basketball and baseball.
My sports fandom has fallen off a cliff.
My sports fandom has fallen off a cliff.
Posted on 1/5/17 at 11:01 am to UF
Don't really watch the NFL. More of a basketball fan, but I can't watch CBB outside of Auburn. I have season tickets for Auburn, but the freedom of motion fouls are ruining the games. The NBA is a much better product.
Posted on 1/5/17 at 11:01 am to UF
NFL- has gotten boring and stale especially because of all the ticky tack bullshite personal foul/pass interference calls
NBA- no one in the league gets my interest. Preferred the 90's and early 2000's
NBA- no one in the league gets my interest. Preferred the 90's and early 2000's
Posted on 1/5/17 at 11:04 am to El Magnifico
I still love college football but Bamas dominance is getting tiresome and has affected my interest.
Posted on 1/5/17 at 11:46 am to Fus0623
Done with the NBA after last year. Ted isn't firing Ernie anytime soon, it's just an inept organization. I feel terrible for John Wall, he's been completely wasted. Besides, nobody is winning the title except the Cavs or Warriors for the next 5 years. How anyone can be excited about that fact is beyond me. The NBA is the ultimate bandwagon sport. The Premier League has more parity.
Posted on 1/5/17 at 12:00 pm to UF
For the most part, I've stopped watching MLB outside of the playoffs. As a kid, I could name every superstar there was, would keep up with all of the division races, watched highlights on loops from Sportcenter; I even would read all the box scores in the paper. Nowadays I can only name a handful of good players and really don't care too much about the sport. The only real reason I watched the entire World Series this year is because history was being made by either team winning, and I used to love the Indians. I guess it's just too long of a season to hold my attention and the game itself is really slow.
Posted on 1/5/17 at 12:05 pm to DirtyE
For me it has been Indy Car racing. I think it is the decline of American Drivers and just the fact they have attempted to make it IMO an American Formula 1. There is no Ovals or any promotion (other than limited races)
Posted on 1/5/17 at 12:07 pm to biglego
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I'm 36 and I think my generation was the last to really love baseball first and foremost. Kids now seem more devoted to basketball football or soccer.
That 1994 strike was devastating to the sport and I don't think it ever truly fully recovered.
i'm 35 and agree with your premise that we are the last generation to love baseball first. it was the first sport i played growing up, and thus the first sport i followed religiously.
i disagree however that the 94 strike (or steroid scandal) was devastating and the reason for the decline in national (not regional) popularity. i think the sport is simply too boring, and the quality and excitement of the nfl and nba has easily surpassed mlb. young kids arent falling in love with baseball like they used to.
also agree with every one that said one and done is killing college basketball. March Madness is still the greatest sporting event, but the regular season has really gone downhill.
Posted on 1/5/17 at 12:10 pm to BayouBengals03
quote:the celtics and the lakers literally own like half of the titles won
And yeah, the NBA has always been like that. But maybe not to this extent.
whats happening right now in the NBA in terms of parity is nothing new and it is not worse than it has been. its just how the sport of basketball operates. one or two players can dominate the league
Posted on 1/5/17 at 12:11 pm to UF
baseball
methamphetamines
HGH
andro
Sosa and McGuire and Bonds.
I did not watch one game all the past season.
I used to watch every pitch and listened to the pre game chatter and the post game wrap.
methamphetamines
HGH
andro
Sosa and McGuire and Bonds.
I did not watch one game all the past season.
I used to watch every pitch and listened to the pre game chatter and the post game wrap.
Posted on 1/5/17 at 12:13 pm to CelticDog
a big part of my baseball funk is how the big markets are able to buy players.
I used to be an A's fan. They were always losing good players to big deals.
I used to be an A's fan. They were always losing good players to big deals.
Posted on 1/5/17 at 12:19 pm to CelticDog
quote:it is literally the most difficult time since the introduction of free agency for this to happen
is how the big markets are able to buy players.
This post was edited on 1/5/17 at 12:20 pm
Posted on 1/5/17 at 12:20 pm to BayouBengals03
NCAA college football
Posted on 1/5/17 at 12:26 pm to 632627
quote:
i disagree however that the 94 strike (or steroid scandal) was devastating and the reason for the decline in national (not regional) popularity. i think the sport is simply too boring, and the quality and excitement of the nfl and nba has easily surpassed mlb. young kids arent falling in love with baseball like they used to.
We're burning kids out on the youth level with the over saturation of trying to specialize a kid at a young age and the ridiculous amount of baseball you have to play in order to really "succeed". And it's become ridiculously expensive for the average parent to pull that off.
Posted on 1/5/17 at 12:37 pm to UF
As a kid I watched college football, NBA, MLB, and occasionally NFL
When the braves weren't on TBS every night anymore I stopped following baseball as closely. I haven't watched the NBA since the 90s either. I loved basketball as a kid and played all the time, but that quit too.
Now I watch College football because I'll always love that. European soccer because I've grown to love that despite never playing organized soccer, and the NFL because I started playing fantasy football. NFL games can be frustrating to watch but I am hooked on fantasy
When the braves weren't on TBS every night anymore I stopped following baseball as closely. I haven't watched the NBA since the 90s either. I loved basketball as a kid and played all the time, but that quit too.
Now I watch College football because I'll always love that. European soccer because I've grown to love that despite never playing organized soccer, and the NFL because I started playing fantasy football. NFL games can be frustrating to watch but I am hooked on fantasy
Posted on 1/5/17 at 1:20 pm to Riseupfromtherubble
I grew up playing basketball. That was my sport. Too white and slow to continue to play. I loved the game. But I grew up watching Pete Maravich all the way past Shaquille to Tyrus.
I can't follow the game anymore. Partly because I don't live in BR anymore but also one and done has ruined the college game .
The shot clock changed the game.
A defensive stop is exciting to me. Yes I'm an old fart
I can't follow the game anymore. Partly because I don't live in BR anymore but also one and done has ruined the college game .
The shot clock changed the game.
A defensive stop is exciting to me. Yes I'm an old fart
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