Your clear two favourite sports behind T&F?...

[G.Ahearn]

all the rest in a distant tie for 2nd

+1. Very far in the distant.

[noone]

To play: nothing now
To watch: biathlon, even ahead of T&F
3rd place: golf (the majors and Ryder/President's Cup)

I've lost much of my interest in soccer, MLB and NHL, never followed NFL, NBA.

[Bruce Kritzler]

2. Cross Country
3. Road Racing (running)

[BusterZanga]

The obvious ones. Football, basketball.

[DentyCracker]

Cricket and the real Football (Association Football) that just had its World Cup, After that then NBA and NFL

[Wiederganger]

To watch: biathlon, even ahead of T&F

Biathlon & cross country skiing are probably my top two after athletics. They're the sports I would consistently watch. I also try and catch up with speedskating online, as Eurosport doesn't show it. After that, I watch occasional tennis, only the big matches in football (soccer) and that's about it.

[scottmitchell74]

The question I have is: will anyone admit that T&F isn't # -1?


For me NFL football is like a good, slow-burn, long-term loving marriage that started with an intense crush and that punctuates each year with an awesome passionate, romantic rejuvenating month-long vacation.

On the other hand, each year I also manage to have an intense almost maniacal affair with T&F.

[highjumpfan]

To participate or to watch?

I've long been a fan and used to compete a bit.

now just to watch. Back in the day when I was high jumping it was a standard part of our weight training.

[TN1965]

The question I have is: will anyone admit that T&F isn't # -1?

Umm... did you read # 32?

[bad hammy]

When I was growing up I was wild about baseball (SF Giants starting with the Mays/McCovey/Marichal era) & football (49ers starting with John Brodie), and all baseball/football - college included generally. Stayed wild about both teams until:

• Giants of the Barry Bonds big-assed head/inflated numbers era. Stopped watching for a few years until Bonds retired and Tim Lincecum came on the scene, the first brick in the building of the SF Giants glory years. But the funny thing is, after they won their first WS in 2010 my 'wild about baseball' pretty much died altogether - it was like it would never get any better - after 52 years that mountain had been climbed. And even though they won two more WS in the next four years, they were not the same for me. It's only coincidental that was also the time they trotted out those ultra-hideous orange uniforms . . .
• 49ers - a huge fan through the glory years and beyond until ahole coach Jim Harbaugh f'd over Alex Smith in 2012. That was it for me as far as regularly watching them.

These days I only watch the 49ers or Giants if they're in the playoffs. If the 49ers miss out, the only football game I watch every year is the Super Bowl, and if the Giants aren't in the playoffs I don't watch any baseball at all. Long long gone are the days when I'd watch every pro/college football game or baseball of import - saves a lot of time & money!

[Big Tusk]

NBA
College football

[scottmitchell74]

When I was growing up I was wild about baseball (SF Giants starting with the Mays/McCovey/Marichal era) & football (49ers starting with John Brodie), and all baseball/football - college included generally. Stayed wild about both teams until:

• Giants of the Barry Bonds big-assed head/inflated numbers era. Stopped watching for a few years until Bonds retired and Tim Lincecum came on the scene, the first brick in the building of the SF Giants glory years. But the funny thing is, after they won their first WS in 2010 my 'wild about baseball' pretty much died altogether - it was like it would never get any better - after 52 years that mountain had been climbed. And even though they won two more WS in the next four years, they were not the same for me. It's only coincidental that was also the time they trotted out those ultra-hideous orange uniforms . . .
• 49ers - a huge fan through the glory years and beyond until ahole coach Jim Harbaugh f'd over Alex Smith in 2012. That was it for me as far as regularly watching them.

These days I only watch the 49ers or Giants if they're in the playoffs. If the 49ers miss out, the only football game I watch every year is the Super Bowl, and if the Giants aren't in the playoffs I don't watch any baseball at all. Long long gone are the days when I'd watch every pro/college football game or baseball of import - saves a lot of time & money!

Sorry to hear that, I guess.

I know things change as we age. I don't follow baseball nearly to the level of fervor I once did. And I haven't watched a full NBA game in 2-3 years. I used to be a 10-15 games/year + full playoffs guy, but something's different with the NBA.

I think I've narrowed and trimmed the fat. I still have that sports passion but I've hyper-focused it to NFL Football and Track and Field.

That said, these last two years I've had an MLB renaissance and I think it's because I took my girlies to two games in 2021. Nothing like the Live experience to get you back on board.

I DO follow the MLB and NBA stats closely all the time even if I don't sit down and watch.

[bad hammy]

Sorry to hear that, I guess.

No sorrow required - I'm more than happy with the change. The 2010 Giants WS win & the 2012 49er Harbaugh-Smith fiasco coincided with my retirement, so a great time to make changes. (By the way, I'm a huge Kaepernick fan - he's a great athlete who was later screwed too - that 2012 mess wasn't his call, and besides after three years of my Covid-inspired no-haircut routine we have similar profiles!)

Most of the timed saved by not getting in front of the TV or heading to the stadium is spent learning how to manhandle five acres of rural homestead outside of Eugene (lifelong city boy before that) and expanding my limited creative abilities in music and writing, along with helping expand opportunities for artists young & old around Eugene. Nothing worth talking much about but much more rewarding that watching football players beat the crap out of each other week in and week out.

[DrJay]

As a kid in Louisville in the 1970s, I lived and died by the Kentucky Colonels. It was heartbreaking when they did not get absorbed by the NBA. They would have been competitive, and we would have gotten to see all the NBA greats of that era play in Freedom Hall.

[CKuykendall]

To watch: alpine skiing, rowing
runners-up: curling, thoroughbred racing
To play: miniature golf, ping pong
runners-up: shuffleboard, baseball