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Sep. 20th, 2006 01:01 pmWho likes sports?
Now, be honest, no sniggering or rolling eyes over me asking that question. I know many of you from alterna-hobbies, I have no clue who among you is really an athlete in disguise. This is a perfect excuse to break out the POLL:
[Poll #825840]
Why I want to know is that it's started to be football season again. Yes, the pros have been playing for a few weekends now, but it's college that worries me. Mostly, it's because I spend the next four months grinding my teeth as my uncles talk trash about FSU, University of Florida, and University of Miami when, guaranteed, only one of them ever seems to do well, and even then it still bores the crap out of me. There are e-mails about kickers and quarterbacks; guys getting into college who are too dumb to apply without it being pre-done for them with the proviso they play ball; criminals attending various schools; who owes who scotch/cigars over which team losing some game...you name it, they kvetch about it.
I'd like to get some more positive sports impressions from my friends who aren't rabid sports fanatics. Fans, sure, but fanatics, mercifully not. Why did you play? Why do you watch (if you do)? What are the attractions either way? I mean, having played, I understand the attraction of playing, but there are very few non-live events (as in, TrinityVixen has a ticket and can ogle the rear ends of a few footy players in person, live) that I've ever enjoyed sitting down and watching. My greatest triumph was delaying onset of football watching at Thanksgiving by two hours when my sister, my brother-in-law, and myself went, "Uh oh, Prizoner of Azkaban is almost over and we said they could have the TV when we were done....but what if we just restarted the movie and didn't tell them?" (and we did, and my dad commented, "Is this movie still on? It's a long movie!")
Sound off, ye friends upon my list.
Now, be honest, no sniggering or rolling eyes over me asking that question. I know many of you from alterna-hobbies, I have no clue who among you is really an athlete in disguise. This is a perfect excuse to break out the POLL:
[Poll #825840]
Why I want to know is that it's started to be football season again. Yes, the pros have been playing for a few weekends now, but it's college that worries me. Mostly, it's because I spend the next four months grinding my teeth as my uncles talk trash about FSU, University of Florida, and University of Miami when, guaranteed, only one of them ever seems to do well, and even then it still bores the crap out of me. There are e-mails about kickers and quarterbacks; guys getting into college who are too dumb to apply without it being pre-done for them with the proviso they play ball; criminals attending various schools; who owes who scotch/cigars over which team losing some game...you name it, they kvetch about it.
I'd like to get some more positive sports impressions from my friends who aren't rabid sports fanatics. Fans, sure, but fanatics, mercifully not. Why did you play? Why do you watch (if you do)? What are the attractions either way? I mean, having played, I understand the attraction of playing, but there are very few non-live events (as in, TrinityVixen has a ticket and can ogle the rear ends of a few footy players in person, live) that I've ever enjoyed sitting down and watching. My greatest triumph was delaying onset of football watching at Thanksgiving by two hours when my sister, my brother-in-law, and myself went, "Uh oh, Prizoner of Azkaban is almost over and we said they could have the TV when we were done....but what if we just restarted the movie and didn't tell them?" (and we did, and my dad commented, "Is this movie still on? It's a long movie!")
Sound off, ye friends upon my list.
