Sports rendered just about palatable on TV by great editing.

[yello]

I lived in the States, and went to a few NY Mets games

I lived in Boston for a year so it was the Red Sox and Fenway Park for me. A great day out.

 

[Drago]

Golf is the prime example. Extremely boring to watch live but TV editing all over the course means you are watching something happening all the time. Golf may not be your cup of tea but it is undeniably improved by watching on TV.

I once changed shifts at work because everyone bar me was a golfist. All day long they'd talk about their golf bats, how handicapped they were, which pitch they'd be playing on next, golf golf golf bloody golf.

I ended up being moved to a shift full of women, and even the incessant talk about Love Island was better than golf.

 

[Psamathe]

I can't think of any sport events on TV I can watch. Basically, if it's interesting or exciting I'd rather be doing it than watching it. If it isn't interesting or exciting then not worth watching on TV.

I enjoy sailing and one bit of sport I did once see on TV that was good was more documentary than event coverage, Keith Musto sailing his Flying Dutchman in a good breeze - very dramatic. But not even on a sport TV program.

But probably my nature as I also can't understand football fans whose primary interest in following "their" (and other) teams (ie not as an adjunct to playing themselves).

Ian

 

[Binky]

I love rugby, especially International rugby so I always watch. The 6N this year been another great one and currently midway though womens 6N. England as expected dominating so far.

So road cycling and rugby are the two I will happily watch. I will watchon occasion England football Int matches. No interest in club football.

 

[yello]

But probably my nature as I also can't understand football fans whose primary interest in following "their" (and other) teams (ie not as an adjunct to playing themselves).

Tribal sport fans are a thing, for real, and not something I get either.

The football team I support in the UK is the town of my birth, however I wasn't raised there so wasn't indoctrinated with all parochial other team hatreds etc. I grew up in a land far far away, where I played football and loved it. Played to a reasonable level in fact. So I love the game as a game and that's something quite separate to supporting the club I do. I'll watch any team, even the one's I'm supposed to hate, for enjoyment and appreciation of the game. Indeed, I have to be careful on 'my' team fan forum to not appear too even handed!

I've no idea if having played football has given me this distance from the tribal aspect, or whether it's not having been brought up in the atmosphere of it. I assumed all UK football fans played the game to some degree (with mates at school, whatever) but maybe not.

 

[Pblakeney]

I love rugby, especially International rugby so I always watch. The 6N this year been another great one and currently midway though womens 6N. England as expected dominating so far.

So road cycling and rugby are the two I will happily watch. I will watchon occasion England football Int matches. No interest in club football.

6N on TV is a reasonably recent one for me. I used to go regularly but ticket prices have risen above what I consider to be value for money.

 

[derrick]

Wish they would edit it out the commentaters on F1/

 

[Binky]

Indeed, I have to be careful on 'my' team fan forum to not appear too even handed!

Well it seems for some here appearing to give both sides to a story doesn't go down well.

 

[yello]

I love rugby

Ditto. In fact, I prefer it to football, as a rule, to watch. I played it at school (and football for a club) until everyone got bigger than me and it started to hurt too much! Plus, growing up in NZ you kinda take it all in by osmosis even if you don't play it.

 

[Binky]

Ditto. In fact, I prefer it to football, as a rule, to watch. I played it at school (and football for a club) until everyone got bigger than me and it started to hurt too much! Plus, growing up in NZ you kinda take it all in by osmosis even if you don't play it.

Rugby isn't a sport in NZ, it's a religion!

 

[PeteXXX]

Curling.... Now you're talking excitement!! 🥌

 

[Profpointy]

Some sports don't play out quite so well on the tele. Cricket and baseball being prime examples, both of which I've enjoyed at the ground itself. For me, its hard to beat a lazy day watching county cricket. Not the same on tele. Cycling is, I'd image, dull as on the tele for many people - chateau shots from the helicopter aside. Horses for courses, but not in the living room.

When cricket was still on normal telly, I could quite happily watch a whole test match

 

[Profpointy]

Some sports would make good TV, like
"Catching the javelin" and "Heading the shot put"

I always thought javelin should be like archery and involve hitting a target rather than merely bunging it a long way.

 

[yello]

When cricket was still on normal telly, I could quite happily watch a whole test match

Yeah,me too. Well, a day anyway. Feet up, perhaps a crossword at hand, set yourself in for the duration. I found that it helped to have an attitude for it, to emulate partly perhaps being at the ground. Ditto listening on the radio. I could spend hours doing next to nothing, pottering, listening to test match special. I have fond memories. Have those days gone?

 

[Sharky]

I once changed shifts at work because everyone bar me was a golfist. All day long they'd talk about their golf bats, how handicapped they were, which pitch they'd be playing on next, golf golf golf bloody golf.

I ended up being moved to a shift full of women, and even the incessant talk about Love Island was better than golf.

I too used to work in an office where the talk was all about football, until we started winning stages of the TdF.

Was I pleased?

Well no, all those arm chair football fans started watching cycling from their cozy chairs and talked about cycling in the office. Annoyed me that they seemed more informed than me, who had been commuting to work for years.