Watching the olympics I noticed how there are some really stupid sports today. My list:
1. figure skating (girly, boring...)
2. cricket (what's that all about, nobody likes it except for the British)
3. curling/ equestrian (booooring...)

And I have a high tolerance, I can watch snooker!
Anyway, what's your opinion on the stupidest sport in the world?

Synchronized Swimming is by far the cheesiest sport out there!!! I mean, swimming together?!?!? WTF?

Curling is strangely interesting to me...It reminds my of horseshoes, so I'm okay with it!

Oh, I forgot to mention rhytmic gimnastics. How can anybody find that interesting I'll never know...

All of the above ring bells.

Also: Dressage. I'm no fan of 3 day eventing, but the Dressage stuff takes the biscuit.

Hm, if the sport is girly (What would that mean? Only women partake in it? What a bad lie! ;)) it doesn't make the sport bad, or stupid. I love figure skating, I think it's fulfilled with suspense, it's beautiful and dynamic.

Most people can't stand curling just because they don't understand the tiniest bit of the rules (like me, but I actually watch it to find out what's the catch, heh).

For the stupidest sport, I gladly nominate american football, setting golf as close second. :)

Oh yeah, sync swimming! But set it third on the list.

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I hate all sports.
Ok, not exactly hate. I simply don't give a damn about it. To me, it's boring.
That's it.

Corr, cricket is pretty popular throughout the world. The basics aren't that hard to understand either.

Ok, tribal head-hunting is pretty stupid, but it's Fun! Anyway the worst sport in my opinion is gotta be fishing. Most people say it is a sport. Then there's cricket, and then theres this sport called pig troting. Its where you grab a pigs tail and run around and try not to get bitten. I slipped and fell. I tell you if my friend wasn't as good throwing rocks as he is, I wouldn't be here today.

what planet are you on? Cricket is civilisation defined, the fight of good against evil - the ultimate strategy of war, played in only slightly dubious slacks...

Test match special! Cakes! wood on leather! bad light and rain! the true smells of an English Summer.

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kabaddi.

used to be on C4, yes? :sleep:

kabaddi! kabaddi! kabaddi! kabaddi! kabaddi! kabaddi! kabaddi!

And curling is really interesting if you just start watching.

Sports are soooooooo boooooooring..
Except skiing.Heehee.

Ezellohar Shark
(I need a life..Can somebody give me a life?)

just in case no one believes me about kabaddi being the stupidest 'sport' ever:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/ug/morrisj/rules.htm
http://www.goindiago.com/sports/kabaddi/kabaddi1.htm

About American football... It's actually ok to watch once in a while, but the play stops every 5 seconds so it's not even close to football, hockey, basketball. Why that is popular in USA, and not real football (soccer), I'll never know.

Are you insane? Cricket is one of the stupidest, most pointless exuses for a sport it has ever been my misfortune to catch a glimpse of before a wave of panick and disgust made me change the channel.

I would rather drink out of a septic tank than watch a cricket match in its entirety (they can last for five days and at the end it can still be tied). From my limited experience with the thing, it is mainly a "sport" for upper class twits in dodgy cardigans who are too stupid to do anything else with their time and too rich to get a job.

Cricket epitomises all that is wrong with the class system of UK where double standars, racism, xenophobia and chauvinism are still a large part of everyday life. :mad:

and they like to keep rubbing their genitals with the ball.

CL, there have only been two tied tests out of all those played, of course the draw is more frequent. A litte pedantic I know. There is one instance of a test being played over 11 days (including a rest day), which was drawn.

The game is hardly an upper class dominated game over in the UK, and the end of the second paragraph just sounds like it's been drawn from a book of random put downs.

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The caber Toss. Buncha fat men in skirts screaming and seeing how far they can throw a tree. ( And most British people hate cricket ACTUALLY!) ;)

I dont like football in America. I do like to curling though! I think it kinda kewl. I wish they would have put it on in the US for the games but they didn't. If they did it was a late night thing at 4 in the morning :p

I'm not trying to make enemies here... but how can you guys not like football (American of course). It's a team sport... 11 guys on each side depending on each other to accomplish similar goal. Now I know there's other team sports... but football is like a clash of the titans... gladiators if you will. In fact isn't that what BG and other IE games are all about... working together.

Maybe this comment isn't just about football... all sports (soccer included)not only teach you to work as a team and rely on others but for spectators it's entertainment... just like a movie there's highs and lows and sometimes the under dog comes back at the last second. Like the American gal winning the gold in skating last night... I don't really care for the sport... but it's a great story and when she won she had real honest emotion. As far as football I don't care if my team's winning or losing, I get wrapped up in the emotion happy or sad... or mad as the case may be... if it's not for you don't watch... but I think you guys are missing out.

"football (american of course)" -what? read the mass of posts above. :mad:

as for "honest emotion" in the skating... have you noticed the fake smiles :D on the faces of EVERY competitor when they see their scores? now, if one of them burst out crying on getting a poor mark -that would be honest emotion! :p

Christopher_lee: try to back up your stupid claims with some evidence. Saying you think it is **** is fine. lots of people don't like cricket, but comparing it to British social order is just plain stupid. Everybody on this board knows from september ast year that if anyone makes stupid irrisponsible and idiotic claims it would be me. But i forgive you, you are new after all.

Cricket is good but it doesn't flow enough for me.
Needless to say American Football is rubbish, i have given it a chance before but i just thought it was one long advertising campaign mixed in with ego ridden players and five second moments of rather wimpish action. You see American footballers think they are tough, but in England Rugby players play a equally violent game with no padding and don't make a fuss at all. Those American footballers are just woopsies if you ask me. (yes i do play rugby)

Baseball is the best thing ever to cme out of America. God i love that game.

Curling is brill especially when the British Women's team win!

Equestrian is not something t be laughed at, I can bet my last pound (english currency) that no person on this board who has never ridden would have anywhere near the right strength and muscle build up to steer a half ton horse with just his thighs. You have no idea how difficult it is to make a horse do dressage. Well actually they d it themselves it just takes five years of training, 5 hours a day every day. I know i have lived my life around horses and am quite cometant myself. if you think Equestrian is pointless then you get on a horse and you try it!

horse riding = physically demanding = tones muscles = equals tight buttocks = good sport to watch. :hahaerr:

get your eyes off my buttocks

Now if it was lady Dargorn...

Anyway, Sir, cricket is holy.


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Rythmic Gymnastic is great when you're in the mood for it. The lovely girls are a feast for your eyes! :love: :D

No, the most annoying event is Race Walking - in summer olympics. How incredibly stupid is that event?

Football. American Football. :toofar:

The dumbest sport I can think of is the Steeple Chase - equestrian event but with people! It looks so ridiculous watching them run through the water, climb over the jumps, hop over a bush, etc.

As for some of the other comments: sport doesn't necessary mean physically demanding. Fishing is great sport - if you like it. Figure skaters are extremely talented (not a big fan, but I wouldn't put it down) - how many people here would be able to jump, glide, even lift, throw and then catch another person, on skates! Curling is about technique, skill and strategy. American football is..well...it's American: big, flashy, slow...but it takes strength, power, and skill (also not a fan of american football). And about cricket - it's also played by a billion Indians, a quarter billion Indonesians, Caribbeans, Australians, etc, etc...upper class?

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Oh yeah, I just love when they put cricket ahead of football on World Sport for the sake of West Indies and Pakistan!

BTW, football was made up in England long before American football was invented, and it was named football. Which makes sense, since you cannot touch the ball with your hands. Of course Americans had to be special and call it soccer.
And why do they call A. football like that; the plays are made by hands!

Actually it was a Brit that coined the term soccer, at one of the public schools, to be a contraction of association, in a similar way that rugby was referred to as rugger. Early American football (as in association) competitions refered to it as football before American football came to the fore.

I have to join the choire, american football must be the most stupid sport if you dont reckon with the thousands of small local sports that can be real silly.

I mean do they actually play anythin in A.Football? They just stand in a huddle for 10 min, then they line up smash into eachother and and after 10 seconds of brawling the whistle blow and they go to commercials for another 10 min. Once in a while some fast dude gets lucky and gets the ball and run like hell and maybe is able to toss the ball to the ground.
I agree with Dargon if you want a tough hard sport, play rugby thats a sport for real men, no sissy protections or steroids either.

holy- CJ and i agree on something! :eek: american farceball is lame.

the main reason i hate it is that they keep having to stop it every few seconds- no fluidity. :sleep:

The thing I find is boring is golfing. My dad golfs and when I'm sometimes with him, all I see is that you whack the ball into a hole that's about 2 inches in circumference. I fell asleep after about 5 minutes, since it's winter here, you don't get to hear the word "fore" or that you don't get to see them screw up because there is a net and not a hole.

SG,i have the same problem...I HATE golfing.Dad LOVES it.

Indeed, the god. Say . . . Are those the Four Horsemen up in sky?

If you like American football, or if you don't, watch rugby.. What a brutal game, woo! I don't play myself, but it's so much more exciting to watch then football.. pffa!

The worst sport would probably have to be figuare skating but I do believe it takes alot of talent. The best is hockey. Hockey rules. My team won our playoffs today hell yes. :p

Hey i play rugby!
so far i have picked up: two cracked ribs, a fracture above my left eye, two scars on my arms and a dislocated shoulder! yey! now that is what i call a sport!
And to think you pansey american football players think you are tough! ha!

(Sir Dargorn limps off into a corner to take his two hours of physiotherapy and medication)

tractor pulling anyone? Eurosport sucks... but then they do air some sumo wrestling now and then, so I forgive them!

:cool:

Synchronized swimming for me too.

in american football, all that happens is a lot shouting and moaning while everyone bends over, before jumping into a frenzied orgie.

Yeah, that's all that happens!?!

/me orders a clue for Deathmaster

rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming.

Life, if you decide to play it like one;)

Bridge... and Checkers... yes that are sports.... rediculous.