Top Five Reasons Why I Hate Sports
Sports: Confessions of a Hater
5. Many sports are directed towards men (of course, this isn't always the case). But how many times have we all seen the curvy and vivacious women cheering the team on? I love how the camera will sweep to the cheerleaders for a full minute before commercials instead of showing the crowd. What about the commercials endorsing sports organizations? We see men with a beer and plenty of beautiful blondes cheering the team on. Does this happen in real life? No. Anytime I've ever watched live coverage of an event, I have noticed that most of the fans in the stadium are nothing worth staring at…
4. Most sports are boring until someone starts a fight or gets injured. Yes, you can sit and watch a NASCAR race for hours on end in a daze. But if you were coherent, would you really be able to sit through a whole entire race? The wrecks and angry remarks when someone is spun out are what make it exciting. The same with football. Up a yard, back a yard. Up a few more yards…this can go on and on. Wow, a penalty was thrown (note the sarcasm here). Whoop dee doo…don't even get me started on basketball.
3. Players are only interested in what affects them. NFL players only seem to be interested in other players' ailing children. Do you think that they'd be interested in creating awareness of certain conditions if some of the players didn't have children with these problems? NO. It wouldn't even be an issue. You don't see the players creating awareness for glaucoma or arthritis. Nope. What about breast cancer? Nah…but wait until someone's wife is stricken with it…
2. The players are so incredibly full of themselves. Okay, not all, but a lot. How many of these guys claim to be the reason the team is making the headlines? How many blame mistakes on others when it was clearly their fault? How many claim that they don't make enough? Please! Where there is one good guy, there is always a better one. You'll never be on top forever. C'mon. Or it's always a pity me fest. We don't want to hear you complain. You want to hear a complaint? Let me tell you how I can barely afford to drive to work or heat my home, and meanwhile you're griping about how everyone won't leave you alone (think Barry Bonds here).
1. The players make more money than God. Running up and down a field for millions of dollars. Swinging a stick at a ball for millions of dollars. Throwing a round ball into a round hoop for millions of dollars. Saving a child's life by giving them a new heart - oh, well, that's only worth thousands. Do you really think that most of these players love the game so much that they'd play for free? No way.
Okay, not all sports are bad. I guess I wish it was all just a game as much as everyone claims they are. It aggravates me that people will push their children into sports and expect the best from them. It angers me that husbands ignore wives to watch a grown sweaty man wrestle in his underwear with another grown sweaty man. It makes me want to scream when people will spend close to $100 to see a game that is more easily seen for free at home. I also firmly believe that beer and sports go hand in hand because without the beer, people wouldn't be relaxed enough to sit through a whole game without wanting to scream of boredom.
But alas, sports will always be a part of modern life. Where there is one hater, there will be ten sports lovers. People love sports because of the energy, the stardom, the glory of winning. Sports are the one thing that we can rely on to remain virtually constant in that there are rules which must be followed. The players are the heroes that we may never be.
So, the best thing I can say about sports is this: Hand me a six pack! I'm ready to watch a game! Beer goggles to save the day!
Published by Lisa Carley
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Post a Comment@Tim L
Sports are pathetic miserable waste of time, anyway but you knew that already right timmy? Sports alone don't make people miserable its their mroe adherent followers aka jocks that do that. :D
there's alot of repressed rage in the comments lol. it's actually kinda funny, in that they are blaming sports for their miserable lives.
To anyone with even a moderately rounded interest in other things like art, history, science, music, literature, nature or politics, sports are meaningless. Sports fans are also very annoying. Here's why;
1. Sports feature people running around, falling down, loud noises, yelling, clapping. All of these things require absolutely no thought to process.
2. Sports fans are hypocrites. Take your average soccer mom or dad; Their little Johnny or Brittany is a hero when they get hurt playing their sport. Try visiting any hospital emergency room on a weekend. Take a look at all the children under 17 who arrive with cuts & broken bones, some even die. All that is okay but if someone smokes a cigarette within 100 feet of their kid, it's the end of the world because it may harm them.
3. Male sports fans act as though their interest in their sport is a manly-man thing. However, there is something very homo-erotic about all-male teams grabbing and fighting over who gets to hold,
People trying to be pedants to hide their own social complexes.
Mark: Thank you for your comment. It lacked substance and any sort of rebuttal. Maybe instead of parking your butt in front of the tube watching sports and your Hollywood movies, you'd have something intelligent to say or offer that could back up your stance. It's pretty lame that you don't. By the way, if you can't figure out that a lot of this article is sarcastic and meant in fun, get out and interact with some real people instead of the ones that don't talk back to you on the TV. It will help with your social skills.
What a pathetic article with nothing but lame excuses. Oh, so lemme guess. You don't watch Hollywood movies then since the stars get paid exorbitantly too? >_>
(continued) You know why bullying is so rampant now?? Because there are no genders anymore. Girls have to act tough, and mean, and act like boys. Kids nowadays have to be in as many sports as possible: Football, basketball, baseball, soccer, swimming, volleball, track & field, wrestling, tennis, I know I'm forgetting at least 20 more.. where does this leave ACADEMICS, and ART, and MUSIC? My husband thinks it's great that my son is in sports and has a sports related-job. I don't think it's so great when he's getting home at 9 p.m., and stressed out trying to do his homework. But hey, that's okay, right? I'm sure his future professional sporting job will be paying millions. After all, the recruiters out there are picking all our sons and daughters for their teams. GO TEAM SPIRIT!!!!!! YUCK!!!!!!!
I am not a big fan of sports, to say the least. The biggest thing that irritates me is how all women and girls now are forced to be sports enthusiasts. Women can't be women anymore unless we're rah rahing from the stands or bleachers every weekend, and attending all day sporting events, and getting into the "big game". Oh, and don't even get me started on the number of women who don't wear makeup, keep really short hair, and act like "one of the guys"! Why can't a women be a women??? Why the heck can't it be okay to enjoy staying home for a change on a weekend and actually getting to cook a supper??? Oh, and don't even get me started on the kids sports!!!!! Girls aren't allowed to be girls anymore either! I'm really p -od about that one!!! Little girls have to act like boys now, and tough it out, join as many sporting things as possible. It teaches them team spirit. Oh yeah??? Okay, maybe it does. You know what?? It's also teaching them to be BOYS
(continued) However, what you don't realize is that the more you comment and view it, the more I get paid, so thank you for your support! :)
dB - I do not like reality shows at all. So therefore I don't like any of the shows that you mentioned. Also, I guess you didn't bother to read any of the comments I had made below. I DO watch football and sometimes baseball, and I do enjoy it. This was a rant for fun that I created several years ago when my then current boyfriend spend more time in front of the tube watching sports than he did with me. I didn't "start a website." This website was created a long time ago before I ever came along. I never mentioned anyone being a "complete drooling idiot." You did. Maybe this is your subconcious view coming out. People do like sports in order to fantasize and dream; I do agree with that, and I said as much in my article. Thank you for your comment(s), however, I really enjoy the comments that like to have a friendly debate, support their comments with other reliable information, or just generally do not tell me to "f- off." However, what you don't realize is that the more you comment an