I’m a baseball and football fan, Detroit Tigers and Lions, though I haven’t followed the Tigers this year. I have both teams’ logos tattooed on me, in fact. I can only get interested in hockey if I’m watching it in person or if it’s the Detroit Red Wings in the finals (yeah, that hasn’t happened recently lol), and I have absolutely zero interest in basketball. To me, basketball is just ten guys running back and forth, doing the same ■■■■ over and over again. Anyway, here’s my poll:
Football (American-style, not soccer)
Baseball
Hockey
Basketball
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Apologies to the non-American forum members, but I absolutely could not bring myself to include soccer. I would rather watch golf than soccer, and that’s really saying something lol.
It occurs to me I should’ve included rugby and cricket. I know nothing about either sport, but I know some of you like those. I guess I was just thinking of the major American sports; we don’t have rugby or cricket leagues as far as I know. I don’t want to try editing the poll now, though.
Hell, I think they should bring back gladiators fighting to the death in front of a live audience. And wolves fighting bears in a stadium. It could be like a pay-per-view special. on HBO.
I started watching the Tigers in 1990 because I heard about this new Tiger, Cecil Fielder, who was knocking out home runs like mad; he ended up leading the majors in home runs that year. I suppose it was a couple years later that I started following the Lions, and I think that had a lot to do with my friends. Also, Barry Sanders. He was the Lions’ running back for most of the 90’s, and he was amazing. In my opinion, the best running back of all time; he doesn’t hold the big career records, but only because he retired young, still well within his prime. He was fun to watch, though.
It sounds like you are a career Detroit fan. If you ever moved would you consider becoming a fan of your new local team? Some people support wherever they live and some people stick with the origin hometown I think.
I love the NFL. I lived in the United States for two years and never watched a game. I was just doing the look after ladies things but did do some kids games in Arkansas. Was very cool.
I have a younger brother who loves the Cowboys. I love the Redskins…we both follow New Orleans as that was where I lived for a couple of years.
Great sport but like anything American. They take all the frigging fun out of sport and make it so intellectual. It’s just guys bashing into each other people and that is why it’s great!
There is not such thing as soccer… You ignorant bastards say football is soccer. There is football and there is that shitty sport you Americans play. Know the difference
Not really a sport fan but basketball is very energetic and fast so i can watch it actually. Other sports are boring to me, especially football. American rugby might be interesting, i figure it has some strategy in it, so you need to use your brain. Am i right?
We played as children some baseball, now i remember. Of course it wasn’t real baseball we just had one of those bats, not sure how it’s called, and a ball. So we were hitting that ball haha and running to god knows what reason, we pretended we can play basically.
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