Basketball -definitely. F1 - the way to make a potentially interesting sport utter crap is to give the guy most likely to win, the best starting spot. Result 9 times out of 10 is a procession.
I had to watch quite a bit of England rugby at Twickenham in a previous job. It is unbelievably crap to watch live. Impossible to tell what’s going on in the breakdown and virtually zero atmosphere. Also the territorial nature of it means you rarely get the equivalent of a smash and grab win on the counter attack so the result is normally quite predictable a long way from the final whistle.
Snooker can be absolutely brilliant, especially if Ronnie is playing. But it can also be a bit tedious if you get two very safe players playing each other.
Our Antipodean friends created Aussie rules / the AFL , all the sensibilities (none) and game play of basketball but on a massive pitch with thuggery and short shorts. Horrendous waste of effort.
Thoroughly recommend leaving at half time (if you get that far) and finding the nearest beach, pub or funeral to perk up your day.
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PE with animal names
Cricket. NASCAR.
Though if you combine the two it would be pretty amazing.
American Football has to be top. Its SO stop/start making a game of 60 minutes last over 4 hours! AND they can't even get the name right!
@Kim_il_Swan How dare you mention cricket 😝
Totally agree, how anyone gets enthused about watching giants have a game of catch is beyond me.
Football (proper football played with feet) and Cricket are the best 2 sports in the world and I'm not having anyone else say otherwise.
I agree, American football ( played with hands) is easily the worst/ most boring sport ever.
F1
Yes, even worse than r****.
+1.
Rugby is dire too. Public school mud wrestling.
Basketball is fun to play but not a good watch.
Fishing is probably not the most exciting of spectator sports
I was going to say any sport where there's more time recovering from action than actual action.
Cricket, tennis etc.
But then I realised on that basis football would probably be in there too!
F1 plus whatever it is they call what they do in UFC, load of old shite
Dressage.
Croquet
Sailing
I think you'd need to distinguish between sport that you watch on TV and sport you watch live. For example:
Basketball - fantastic to watch live, a bit dull to watch on TV
Golf - mind-numbing to watch live, ok to watch on TV
F1 - rubbish for both
Basketball -definitely. F1 - the way to make a potentially interesting sport utter crap is to give the guy most likely to win, the best starting spot. Result 9 times out of 10 is a procession.
Swimming.
try hard to build up enthusiasm for the Olympics and then a week of coloured caps going up and down a pool kills it dead.
Although... The crashes can be pretty spectacular.
I had to watch quite a bit of England rugby at Twickenham in a previous job. It is unbelievably crap to watch live. Impossible to tell what’s going on in the breakdown and virtually zero atmosphere. Also the territorial nature of it means you rarely get the equivalent of a smash and grab win on the counter attack so the result is normally quite predictable a long way from the final whistle.
F1 would become interesting again if they returned to the 70's when there was a decent chance of drivers getting killed every race.
A chance of death would certainly spice up LX1's PE with animal names, whatever that is.
F1, Darts and snooker
I love tennis, but that Mahut v Isner match must have been getting a tad trying towards the end of the third day...
Horse racing
I love the atmosphere of live rugby, but you have to drink to get through it as you can see the bloody ball.
If you think snooker is boring you're a philistine.
My suggestion for the introduction of parachuting sharks into underwater hockey has so far been completely ignored .
Different categories.
First is a motor sport, other two are pub games.
Quite surprised it's still legal to force animals to race around in the name of entertainment.
Snooker can be absolutely brilliant, especially if Ronnie is playing. But it can also be a bit tedious if you get two very safe players playing each other.
Our Antipodean friends created Aussie rules / the AFL , all the sensibilities (none) and game play of basketball but on a massive pitch with thuggery and short shorts. Horrendous waste of effort.
Thoroughly recommend leaving at half time (if you get that far) and finding the nearest beach, pub or funeral to perk up your day.