whitetail1985 wrote: What is your favorite sport to watch? to play?
I like to watch ice hockey, NBA and soccer
... and I am playing soccer too
I love to watch ice hockey, and to play it too! I also love to swim, and I love watching swimming and diving during the Olympics.
Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 11:25 am
by Yorkie
I like to watch most sports but sadly I only play golf these days - knackered my knee playing football (soccer to those of you who know no better ) a few years back.
Of course all the worlds great sports are British (or stolen from us with a few tweaks added)..........
Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:24 pm
by whitetail1985
I love to watch soccer, and feel like a real outcast here in the states because I hate american football. I really enjoy watching all types of sports at the international level. when the olympics come around I am in heaven I can't wait for Vancouver 2010 so I can watch curling again. And the Little League World Series is fun to watch because those kids all play with so much emotion.
I like to play baseball and volleyball but never played on a competative team, just the Bar leagues I used to swim and ocassionally still do and I like the ocassional pickup soccer game although that doesn't happen too often around here.
Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:26 pm
by Yorkie
whitetail1985 wrote:I And the Little League World Series is fun to watch because those kids all play with so much emotion.
I like to play baseball and volleyball but never played on a competative team, just the Bar leagues I used to swim and ocassionally still do and I like the ocassional pickup soccer game although that doesn't happen too often around here.
Little League World Series - I never knew such a thing existed! That must be great to play in as a kid. What age is little league?
How come the great US of A is the only country in the world that just doesn't get soccer? Philistines
This '90's sketch from a UK show sums up everything you need to know about the history of the beautiful game.....
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Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 3:32 am
by TEB
whitetail1985 wrote: and feel like a real outcast here in the states because I hate american football.
Don't feel too much like an outcast. I abhor American football. " Uhh coach, I got the ball, which way do I run duhhhhhhh" When I was in high school, to be in any of the concert bands, you had to be in marching band and you had to go to the football games to get your grade. While I did enjoy marching band, I sincerely had far better things to do on a Friday night than be completely bored for hours at a football game. And we couldn't even take a book along to pass the time. We had to pretend to be interested.
If anyone here is ever visiting me, don't expect to see football on my TV. Baseball only. And, even then, it has to be the right teams.
Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 1:16 pm
by whitetail1985
TEB wrote:Don't feel too much like an outcast. I abhor American football.
Glad I'm not the only one. Question what do our other members think of American football?
Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 1:53 pm
by libera36
I'm not a fan. I know there is strategy involved in football, but it is usually very hard to spot it behind all the bashing into each other.
Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:01 pm
by kthomp
i used to do gymnastics then i broke my ankle so couldnt do it anymore
then did judo and got far in that but got bored as there was only the lower belts in my class and so there was no challenge:)
i dont generally watch sports i always seem to find the commentry boring and then i turn over to the music chanels:D
Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 11:01 pm
by Yorkie
What do I think about football?
I don't mind it as it happens. I always watch the Superbowl. For my sins I'm a Bears fan (when 'American' football hit UK tv in the 80's they had William Perry playing for them - my kind of sportsman ).
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 12:08 am
by libera36
Yorkie wrote:What do I think about football?
I don't mind it as it happens. I always watch the Superbowl. For my sins I'm a Bears fan (when 'American' football hit UK tv in the 80's they had William Perry playing for them - my kind of sportsman ).
I know feel sorely out done. Chances are, you know more about American football than me. And I am the American! However, if I had a favorite team, I think it would be the Bears, because my dad is from Chicago and he is a 'semi-fan' of the Bears.
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 3:28 am
by Flora
libera36 wrote:I know feel sorely out done. Chances are, you know more about American football than me. And I am the American! However, if I had a favorite team, I think it would be the Bears, because my dad is from Chicago and he is a 'semi-fan' of the Bears.
Chalk me up as another American who isn't a football fan, but coincidentally, my uncle is also a fan of the Bears. My family used to watch the Super Bowl together. Honestly, I was only in it for the commercials and the pretzel sticks.
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 3:30 am
by libera36
Flora wrote:
libera36 wrote:I know feel sorely out done. Chances are, you know more about American football than me. And I am the American! However, if I had a favorite team, I think it would be the Bears, because my dad is from Chicago and he is a 'semi-fan' of the Bears.
Chalk me up as another American who isn't a football fan, but coincidentally, my uncle is also a fan of the Bears. My family used to watch the Super Bowl together. Honestly, I was only in it for the commercials and the pretzel sticks.
ME TOO! Gotta love the commercials! Budweiser always has some great ones on during the Super Bowl.
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 3:33 am
by Flora
libera36 wrote:ME TOO! Gotta love the commercials! Budweiser always has some great ones on during the Super Bowl.
Haha, yes!! Do you remember the remakes with the frogs?
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 4:46 pm
by Yorkie
Hey the Bears need all the supporters they can get