Football and NASCAR are both great socially acceptable excuses to
drink on a Sunday afternoon....
On Feb 13, 2008 4:06 PM, <jon@dakota-truck.net> wrote:
>
> "Ray Block" <bpracing@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
> > They do, don't they! Personally I have a low G.a.S. factor. Though I
> > watch some, team sports just don't do much for me. :-) Maybe it's
> > because so many people identify with a team, yet had absolutely nothing to
> > do with the team's success. I don't get it. ;-)
>
>
> You too? :-) I can't stand team sports. Its not too bad to
> actually participate I guess, but to watch? Football, baseball,
> basketball, hockey, ugh. All boooooooring! I was going to post
> something to that effect in the recent superbowl thread, but thought
> better of it. :-) I dunno if I should even admit this, but speaking
> of that thread, it took about three posts before I realized that
> people were talking about the superbowl, which I didn't even know was
> happening that day. :-) The best thing that can be said about the
> superbowl is that the commercials are more interesting than usual, but
> they're not worth sitting through the game for. :-)
>
> As far as why people get all gung ho about certain teams, I'm not
> sure I can ever really understand it since my brain is obviously wired
> differently, but I have heard it explained that it is a way for people
> to become completely and emotionally invested in something without any
> actual, personal risk. I guess that explanation works for me as well
> as any other. Takes all kinds I guess, so if they want to waste their
> time and money on something that seems to be completely pointless,
> that's their prerogative; at the very least, its creating jobs for
> somebody. :-)
>
> I don't know why, but I find individual sports much more
> interesting. Something like World's Strongest Man I can watch all
> day! But team sports? Pass. :-P
>
> As long as I am riling up the sports fans, I might as well go all
> the way. I find Nascar and F1 and Indycar boring too. I might feel
> differently if it were the way it used to be, with real cars where the
> rules were not so restrictive, but I just don't see the point these
> days. Not when all the cars are the same, and in most cases all they
> do is turn left. Rally car racing I will tune into for a while,
> depending on what is going on, but after a bit even that can get
> repetitive. Drag racing is the motorsport which I identify with the
> most, but even then, I don't watch the funny car, top fuel, or even
> pro stock stuff, 'cause its all the same. Some of the "lesser" classes
> where the cars are actually street legal in many cases are much more
> interesting to me. I have found the "Pinks All Out" series to be
> interesting, but I don't watch the regular Pinks show because the idea
> of risking your vehicle over a race is so foreign to me that I don't
> want to waste my time watching someone who would do something that
> stupid. (Plus, the couple of times I have stumbled on the show, it
> seems like they spend most of their time arguing over who gets what
> lane, how many car lengths, and wether the nitrous is on or off, etc.)
> Shaddup and drive!
>
> Ok, that's enough ranting from me, I think I've met my "tick people
> off" quota for the week. :-)
>
> --
> -Jon-
>
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