Your alternative Sport top 5

[Bjornebye]

Thread on the FF about 'football dying'. If their was no footy, what would be the top 5 Sports you would turn too. 

 

1. Snooker. I fucking love the snooker me. 

 

2. Boxing. 

 

3. Golf.

 

4. Rugby League.

 

5. NFL

 

I don't mind other sports particularly the Rugby Union (Only International games or Lions Tours) , Tennis and F1 but those above make it into my alternative top 5. I am sure they will be delighted. 

[Lee909]

 

Boxing

MMA

No gi Grappling

Jiu Jitsu

NFL(going the same way as the unmentionable) 

[Bjornebye]

Is your 3rd pick what parents and teachers are learning to get phones/ipads etc off their kids? 

[Pureblood]

1.  Cricket

2.  Cricket

3.  Cricket

4.  Cricket

5.  Cricket

[Hades]

All sports are a bit shit and a way to keep the masses entertained while the elite get on with the business of gaining power. 

[Lee909]

39 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Is your 3rd pick what parents and teachers are learning to get phones/ipads etc off their kids? 

? 

 

It's jiu-jitsu without a gi 

Same sport but very different too

[General Dryness]

I reckon Haydees has done nailed it there. Bread and circuses n that innit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Tony Moanero]

I used to like boxing but haven’t bothered with it for more than a decade. Other than that, the Olympics (when I can be arsed) and a bit of Bullseye, I’ve never been into other sports.

[General Dryness]

A while ago I'd have said boxing, but it's really shit these days. Don't mind rugby. Ditto snooker, darts or tennis but wouldn't go out of my way to watch any of them. Hate cricket and golf. American sports take too long.

 

Monkey tennis? Inner city sumo?

[Karl_b]

I don't think I can pick 5:

 

1. Ice hockey. I already attend a lot of Sheffield Steelers games; it's fun, accessible and much cheaper than football.

2. Basketball. My favourite sport as a kid, before I realised I'd never grow in to it and concentrated on football. I'd watch more of my local team, the Sheffield Sharks.

3. Baseball. I love it but don't really have the time to watch much of it. Fan of the Hillsboro Hops from Oregon, an affiliate of the D-backs.

4. Rugby League. I'm from Hull, you don't have a choice but to watch RL. 

[Lee909]

10 minutes ago, Karl_b said:

 

2. Basketball. My favourite sport as a kid, before I realised I'd never grow in to it and concentrated on football. I'd watch more of my local team, the Sheffield Sharks.

 

Used to watch the London Towers back in the day at Wembley Arena, 

[aRdja]

AFL, but my the team is going to be real shite this year so I’m not gonna bother 

[cloggypop]

Boxing 

Crown green bowling

 

Think that's it. 

[sir roger]

I’ll watch most sports that dont have horses or cars in them.

 

Finding I watch far less sport generally these days though.

 

At my peak, the Mrs sneaked downstairs from bed at 3am or so one night expecting to catch me watching porn on the tv and said she wasn’t sure whether she was pleased or saddened that I was watching Canada playing France at curling.

[Jairzinho]

Cricket - And only test cricket and the odd ODI. Can't be doing with 20 over matches, especially not the various new leagues around the world. Cheerleaders and team nicknames, etc. Fuck off.

 

Boxing - Less interest than I had previously. Bored of the corruption really.

 

Horse Racing - Predominantly as a medium to bet, but I do like Cheltenham especially as a sporting event.

 

Struggling to think of any other sport I could watch more than five minutes of without being bored senseless. Quite liked handball during the 2012 Olympics. Liked the idea of playing it more than watching though. 

 

Rugby, golf, tennis, all American sports...no. There are a few other sports I don't mind playing like volleyball, ping pong, snooker, but fuck watching other people play.

 

Maybe the odd Athletics event. I like the relays, and I thought Jo Pavey's gold in Zurich was truly incredible. Genuinely one of the greatest sporting achievements ever. 

[Trumo]

Can't think of 5, but I'd watch cricket, baseball and tennis. At its best, test cricket is still highly engrossing. The short format games can be entertaining even though they are high on spectacular if not technical batting. Baseball is the only mainstream US sport I like, and I used to watch quite a lot of tennis way back. Up until about 10 years ago, I'd have included F1 too, but that has gone to shit due to money even more than football has.

 

Anything to do with horses can fuck off.

[Bobby Hundreds]

Athletics Love it.

Not quite a sport but darts.

Women's beach volley ball

Women's tennis.

Women's netball.

[A Red]

Boxing would always be my second sport. I cant play and therefore hate golf, I can play tennis but get bored watching it and like Sir Roger, hate anything involving motor sport of horses. Pool, snooker and darts are all enjoyable to play but only watchable up to a point for me. Lived in Hull/Beverley for years so will watch a bit of RL, particularly Hull KR.

 

My Mrs is probably a bigger sports fan than me, her parents met doing cycling racing and her mum was a season ticket holder at Doncaster Rovers up until she died. The mrs will watch, understand and get into practically any sport going. 

 

 

[Elite]

1. Boxing

2. Rugby League

3. MMA

4. Darts

 

Everything else I don't follow but will watch sporadically.

[Karl_b]

1 hour ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

Athletics Love it.

Not quite a sport but darts.

Women's beach volley ball

Women's tennis.

Women's netball.

Happy International Women's Day!

[chrisbonnie]

i watch most sports, but would mainly follow Boxing, MMA, Darts, Gaelic Football here in Ireland.

 

But i do have another hobby, which is kind of a sport i suppose, i race pigeons with my father here in Dublin.

 

an odd enough little game, but we're relatively successful and cover our costs. 

[Captain Turdseye]

Drifted away from loads of sports mentioned here that I was previously a big fan of. Rugby league, golf, tennis, F1, cricket, snooker and even boxing. I’ll occasionally watch one or all of them but don’t go out of my way to do so. Been watching more horse racing recently but that’s only because I’ve been doing the matched betting. I’m getting bored of that now too as my bookie accounts start to dry up. 

 

I still look forward to the Ashes and I’ll try to watch at least the Sunday of any golf majors. I’ll watch the big domestic boxing fights but the days of me staying up ‘til the early hours for fights in the US or watching any old shite served up by Hearn or Warren are long gone. 

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

1. Horse racing. 

2. Athletics

3. Golf

4. NFL

5. Basketball 

 

I don't really watch the last 2. But, I plan to start watching Basketball as it's quite entertaining. And I'd watch them if there was no football anymore. 

 

I was tempted to put boxing in my list. But, as I've got older, while I'll still watch it a bit, someth doesn't quite sit right with me about a sport which has some primary goals that include cutting your opponent so badly that they can no longer carry on or to cause them brain trauma of a sufficient extent to render them temporarily unconscious. 

[Aventus]

10 hours ago, Lee909 said:

 

Boxing

MMA

No gi Grappling

Jiu Jitsu

NFL(going the same way as the unmentionable) 

Do you do Jiu-Jitsu too, or just watch it? 

[Red Phoenix]

Without footie I'd have very little to do with sports I think. Would mainly just play pc/console games instead. Every so often though I'd watch some martial arts/boxing, and these loonies :