What Sports do You Watch and Who do You Support?

[Asmodean]

Curlers don't bleed over everybody.

Yes! That! See? You see? TOTALLY different. 

[The Magic Pudding]

Curlers don't bleed over everybody.

Yes! That! See? You see? TOTALLY different. 

What the fuck are you two talking about, the elegant bleed is a sublime thing, OK there's some that get it and some that don't.

[Tank]

Curlers don't bleed over everybody.

Yes! That! See? You see? TOTALLY different. 

What the fuck are you two talking about, the elegant bleed is a sublime thing, OK there's some that get it and some that don't.

Ah! But for the curler it's the 'face plant' that is the essential move!

[Hidelight]

Wow I am not sure what anyone is talking about
when it comes to sports I love them ..all of them ..

but what I really like is womans basketball and my home team The Seattle Storm!!
Roller derby and the Rat City Rollers

curling is very cool btw

Sumo is one of my absolute favorites

[Ragnar]

Four codes of football are followed here with religious zeal by people who never even played the games, I don't get it.

Answer: Tribalism

Yep, just sheer tribalism.  Football dates back to the Middle Ages, and back then it would have more resembled Rugby or Aussie Rules Football or Gaelic Football, than Association Football.

In fact the oldest form of football I know is Hallaton Bottle Kicking, which is an annual event in Leicestershire, where two teams (of unlimited numbers) representing two villages knock seven shades of poo out of each other, while using a barrel of beer as the ball.

The oldest professional football club is Notts County, founded in 1862.  But the mentality behind many fans of football is from the Middle Ages.

I remember, years ago, listening to a local radio phone in programme, about football, the night before we played Nottingham Forest.  A Forest fan came on the radio and said, "We are going to lose to West Brom today, because we are crap, utter crap."  He got told of for saying "crap" on the radio.

The next one to phone in was a West Brom fan, he said "They think they're crap?  They don't know what crap is!  We'll show 'em crap!"

....and we did, we lost 2-0, in one of many games I have seen through the gaps in my fingers.

Boxing
In particular David Tua
also
Tyson, Holyfield, Forman, Frasier, Oscar and Pacman

Cricket
I was brought up in the Hadlee years, but for the most part NZ are the worst of the serious teams.

Rugby
The world cup is coming to my town this year. Go the All Blacks!

Walter Hadlee?   

In all fairness, I have always considered NZ to be a good, solid cricket team.  But I'm still occassionally pinching myself watching England playing 5 day tests.  We're awfull at the 50 overs version, but I can't recall a stronger England test match side than what we have now.

Yep, the RWC is back in NZ where it all began back in 1987.  The AB's have got a great chance this year, and they're long overdue. 

[Gawen]

I generally dislike sports other than tennis which I played in school, but I could never make myself sit down to watch it. I make it a point to not watch millionaires run around bases, throw touchdown passes, and make free throws only to strike because they don't make enough. The sports I will watch are hockey, but only if the Detroit Red Wings are in the playoffs, curling and the Biathlon.

[The Magic Pudding]

Our guy just won the The Tour De France, I didn't watch it but its nice to hear he got there. 

[Asmodean]

Wow I am not sure what anyone is talking about

Zombiefication.

(Don't mind Tank, Pudding and me... We do that sometimes :-P )

[Tank]

Watching the German Grand Prix ATM. Bloody amazing!

[Abletony]

I hate any type of car racing. It's so bloody boring. Just a bunch of idiots going round and round. I prefer football, a real man's game.

[Tank]

I hate any type of car racing. It's so bloody boring. Just a bunch of idiots going round and round. I prefer football, a real man's game.

Football is a girly game, Rugby is a man's game