I'm an oddity among men. I don't much like sports, and never have. It's not that I'm allergic to them, or elitist about it. If you like 'em, good for you. But for me, whether it's football, baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer, golf: I just pretty much don't give a damn. I do occasionally enjoy watching Sumo and other martial arts, or something like the X Games, especially because I've had extensive martial arts training and used to skydive. But even then, I have no interest in regularly watching any of it.
Of course, I recognize that I'm an oddball among men, and am okay with that.
Still, it's hard not to crack a big smile when you read stories like Shaun Micheel's, isn't it? It's such stories that are part of what draws people, particularly young people, into sports, I suppose.
I have never cared much for sports, but that grew out of a lack of ability to participate in them, and a negative attitude fostered by my elementary school gym teacher.
That story is kind of cool.
Wow there are 3 of us men out here that don't like sports?
Actually I think sports are fun to play, but I have no interest in watching them.
I too dont care too much for sports, especially prosports. Mostly, because like Jay, I lacked the ability in most sports except track and cross-country. So I ran in school, and the first year of college. So the only sport I still follow still is track and field. Did train in Shotokan karate for 3 years, but lack of time led to the end of that. But, am looking forward to finding a good dojo and studying karate again. I would like to train in kyokushin karate, but cant find a genuine kyokushin karate instructor in my city.
This is why I hate golf. Its usually a superstar or a nobody who wins. Its kinda nice that TWO nobodies won majors this year, but you won't find that in any REAL sport..
I didn't have any ability until 10th grade when my gym teacher found out I was cross dominant. Throwing and catching left handed made sports much more enjoyable for me. But I still don't care to watch them on TV.
I was going to comment, but it ended up being a full post.
I am not keen on sports but absolutely loath jocks.
I've never been big on sports myself, with the exception of pro basketball, bowling, and the Olympic games.
I may (or may not) watch the Super Bowl. And once in a great while I'll take in a baseball game-- more likely listen to it over the radio rather than watch it on TV.
Apart from that, I've never been able to work up the least interest in professional sports.
Local sports, in my neck of the woods, is another story. But there my interest lies more in cheering on the players because I know them-- rather than in the sport as such.
In high school I ran in track and crosscountry, and I enjoyed that. Jocks, I despised with a perfect righteous hatred.
I attended high school and junior high and elementary school in Indianand Australia - so I am not too familiar with why some Americans dislike "jocks" so much. Is it because the athletically inclined and talented kids are put on a pedestal since the were in little League and pop Warner leagues, so they expect to be treated like stars, and maybe, use that feeling of "celebrity" to swagger around and ill-treat other kids in school?
Well there does seem to be a "jock culture" here. I don't know what causes it exactly, or what the solution for it is. But there is a certain subset of athletes (certainly not all) who, at least in High School and college, are preening, arrogant, and sometimes bullying jerks.
Mind you, I knew some football players and other athletes who were perfectly nice people when I was in school. The bad behavior is not universal. But it is a problem here, yes.