Comments on: Five Sports That Are Boring to Watch on TV but are Great in Person

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:35:21 +0000

Hockey bad on TV? Really???? I attend regularly a minor league team in my area and I found sitting in the lower bowl or up along the glass was the worst viewing of the sport. If the puck was down on one side of the ice, you couldnt see it the action. Granted, it was the best seats when the action was in your viewing area. I suggest getting seats mid section in the mid or upper bowls. You see the whole ice and action. As for TV, viewing hockey is way better than it was as in the 70′s and 80′s with mulitple camera and don’t forget, HD improved viewing hockey on TV! As for “Ice Girls”, wtf?!?! I been to my fair share of NHL and minors games around the US and Canada, I can only think of 2-3 teams that had this. If this was the draw to get people to go, your an idiot, save you money and dont ruin my favorite sport this this crap.

By: d

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:08:09 +0000

As a canadian hockey is really the only sport that matters however it is such a broken game that you must follow the puck on tv. At the game you can actually see the strategy and style that a team can play. It also helps to be able to zero in on a mesmerizing hcokey player like ilya kovalchuk. Playoff hockey is the tops and way better in person.

By: asdjoiqoiw

asdjoiqoiw — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 07:57:00 +0000

Hockey is one of the few sports that I enjoy watching on TV. Granted, I didn’t enjoy it too much when I didn’t understand the sport, but it’s not that difficult to pick up the basics. I love how play is almost always continuous. I’ve never felt emotionally attached to any other sport. It is however 100 times better when you’re actually at the game.

To me, these are the most boring sports to watch:

1. Basketball
2. Soccer (Sorry to everyone outside the US, but that’s what I know the sport as)
3. Tennis
4. NASCAR

Football (American) is rather boring to watch because of all the stoppages and commercials. But there are some amazing plays.

Baseball is a thinking man’s sport, but I can see why many would call it boring.

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 31 May 2010 18:09:53 +0000

Baseball and American Football are the slowest most boring sports ever invented. I read somewhere that American Football games only actually have about 11 minutes (avg) where the ball is actually in play. 11 MINUTES!!!!!

And Baseball is just grown men in pyjamas playing ‘Rounders’. Sorry, it is.

I live in the UK and I love NHL first, then Football (the proper game where you play with your feet, not your hands). Ice-Hockey is so exciting and physical, and you have to appreciate a 6’8″ dude that can skate with great balance and score!

By: hockey

hockey — Mon, 31 May 2010 16:54:20 +0000

Any sport sucks ass to watch if you don’t play it or understand how it’s played.

No other sport offers as much consistent physical contact, fighting (where they’re only given a 5-minute penalty; what American sport does that?), very few stoppages, and is that fast-paced. In fact, the puck moves so quickly that some dumb-ass American’s changed the colour of the puck so fellow dumb-ass American’s could follow it on TV. Canadian TV killed that noise and it became quite the joke up here. Who can’t see black on white?

Gotta love the idiotic comment about “ice girls”. Only in America would that be a draw to a game and not the sport. So desperate. Toronto doesn’t have “ice girls”, nor does Montreal. If only America had it’s way with hockey, it’d become a farce like football, cheerleaders and drug dealers. No thanks.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 28 May 2010 22:23:52 +0000

dude did u hit ur head into the wall before u made ur list of boring sports. hockey boring. u must be saying that just to annoy us hockey fans or ur a real moron i say the latter. this is my list

1. basketball
2 horse racing
3 baseball
4 golf
5 car racing

By: Da Rooster

Da Rooster — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:15:43 +0000

Hockey ???

Seriously, if you think hockey is boring to watch on TV you should just admit to yourself that you know nothing about the game and move on .

As for “soccer”, only in North America is the game called soccer by the way in the rest of the world it’s football because you know you play it with your feet unlike the North American “football” where the feet are hardly ever used .

I will admit it’s difficult if you didn’t grow up playing/watching/eating/sleeping/breathing the game it’s difficult to watch on TV or even live for that matter

By: john

john — Fri, 28 May 2010 18:58:29 +0000

fastest sport on earth:P:P????? defintly aint football ,, check out gaelic football or hurling , ,irish sports . especially hurling the skill and speed of every minute of the match wipes d floor with football;)

By: dave

dave — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:22:30 +0000

dude….you’re an idiot, Hockey is not boring at all, and baseball isn’t even entertaining at a game, american football is sick, but it can be hella boring

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:11:29 +0000

Football is OK on TV, lousy in person. I love hockey both ways(play it, too). I don’t watch basketball at all. Soccer has essentially replaced baseball among my sports preferences. I live near Boston, and yet I’m a bigger follower of the EPL than MLB these days. For various reasons, I’ve drifted away from our national pastime. Soccer is continuous, it doesn’t take forever, and, intangibly speaking, it has verve, if you will. Baseball has become a snoozefest in a lot of cities.