Do you like sports?

It depends on my mood. Some days I'm just not in the mood for sports, but other days I'm just as rowdy as most Americans during an NFL game. My favorite American team is the Denver Broncos.

I don't like either playing or watching sports. Alternately, I like neither playing nor watching sports.

I like playing sports I'm good at.

Sometimes I like playing sport and sometimes I don't. It depends how competitive it is... and how good I am at it.

In general I don't like playing or watching, but there are exceptions. Every so often the mood strikes me. I don't really like competition, though, so I tend to stay away from it.

What about 'I don't like playing any sport... but I don't *hate* them.'?

You're right drdt. Perhaps I've been too much visceral about it. I guess I have a childhood trauma...

Oooops, and sorry for the neither stuff.

Guillem: people are frequently visceral about things they aren't fond of. Usually I find it is because they look down on people who are fond of them. Is this true in your case?

I love to watch hockey, soccer, softball, baseball almost anything, but not basketball. I can't stand watching basketball I don't know why.

I like to play, but I am not any good at any of them.

I like to watch football (not American), tennis, F1, and ice and field hockey. But my knees are too bad to play any of these sports..

I'm very rarely interested in watching sports- it doesn't hold my attention for very long unless someone is doing something remarkable. I like single person sports- bicycling, rollerblading, kayaking, kick-boxing; all things that I do with other people, but not against other people (the kb is not of a sparring variety, really, we mostly kick and punch bags). I have, in the past, enjoyed tennis, though, so maybe there are exceptions, but it's not something I make a point to do while the others are.

I like tennis and such, but bicycling & dance are all I ever do.
The only time I enjoyed team games were: Highschool soccer, Us rear wings would scream 'human sacrifice' and berzerkly charge when activity came our way. And in the Rennaissance Faire, when us barefoot Kelts with rocks in our leine sleeves, played the booted English guard using a 17" ball of solid leathar and 2 hay bales for goals. No rules, but still one could never get a point because the bale was blockaded or someone was wrapped around the ball. Eventually we won by picking up a guard wrapped around the ball, charging the wall with him, and landing him and ball on the bale. We did a lot of complex pike formations in Geilic back then.
I've only given football on tv a moments notice, but I caught a landmark play. The dude with the ball, instead of looking over his shoulder to plan a trajectory, just looked up to catch the total overhead view on the big screen (like we all should do). The announcers caught what was going on too. Don't know if it influenced future games or not.

I don't mind freindly non-competitive competition, but as a kid I agonized over team sports: In basketball I just tried not to have 'foul' called on me. In baseball my only asset was running fast, and embarrassingly the 3rd baseman always had to catch or dodge the bat. My final game was 9th grade where coach was on 2nd, and put me on 1st. First play coach caught the ball and I thought 'whew, end of play'; to my shock he threw it at me and I paralyzed. I gathered my wits in time to jump out of the way of the ball, but not the batter who slammed into me tearing the ligaments of my knee cap which gives me trouble to this day. I sucked at pole vaulting, ran cross country, and my favorite at which I was invincible (even against cheaters) was being the horse in swimming pool chicken games where 2 piggyback teams try to topple each other. I also love body surfing.

vos: in my experience auto racing does not require good knees (though I've never raced F1!). Are there autocross or time/speed/distance rally events near you? Will you be in the US (where there are lots of such things) any time soon? These are two very inexpensive (both in terms of fees and in terms of equipment) forms of auto racing.

I don't think that sports should be reported on during the news.

When I was a kid, it seemed more of a seperate show thing. But now it's something for everyone newsbytes with no deep information on anything serious. Instead they feed us crap about a how a local boxer is a role model for the community.

drdt: I don't look down on people who loke sports, of course. the only thing I hate about sports is fanatism and "godification", so to say; I think the media have turned sports into some kind of new religion, the new "opium of the people" or a reinterpretation of the roman "panem et circenses".

If they brought lions & christins to the colliseum, the seats would still be packed, unfortunately.
But hey, if they wanted to commit suicide, maybe that'd be ok. I'm so glad my suicidal period is long over and life is bright.
My brother makes money on Ultima-Online by hanging out at taverns offering a unique display of suicide each time.

I like playing most sports (no option for that surprisingly). I enjoy watching some sports like ice hockey and rugby, but I do not understand people that watch sports all the time (any sport, any team, etc.).

Kristal_Rose: So many Christians, too few lions.

guillem: As religions go, it is a pretty good one. At least you know there is life after the Superbowl (okay, so some of them don't).

drdt: HA!

It really doesn't take too sacrifice to follow that sports religion! The only sin you can commit is cheering the other team!

I like watching baseball and tennis, and I like playing tennis

I do like neither playing nor watching sports.

I played on a company softball team once, but generally I don't much care for watching or participating.

i like watching some sports like baseball and maybe football and i like playing hockey football baseball and sometimes basketball.

I occasionally like them.