01-12-2019, 06:34 PM | #1 |
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What sports do you follow? And which leagues/competitions?
By following I don't mean necessarily watching every game/tournament/event/wtv, but keeping up to date with it in general.
I only follow football these days. Mostly my club, Benfica, who play in the Portuguese league, obviously. I don't bother watching foreign leagues nowadays. I keep track of the league tables, the current champions, etc, but I'm at a point in my life where I need to double-check who manages which team or who is playing for each team. I just don't have much motivation and patience and time to watch much football anymore. Plus, it's getting mroe and more predictable nowadays, with always the same lot of teams winning major things. So I only really watch my team's games and the Euros and the World Cups. And I'll even miss some games. I watch like 70% of them maybe. I used to follow Formula 1 racing a bit when I was a kid, but never got to know much about it. I only watched it on tv because my family watched it every Sunday morning. Plus it was in the golden era of the sport with the likes of Schumacher, Hakkinen, etc. in their prime. It was practically mandatory for a European to watch those guys race. And no, I wasn't old enough yet when Ayrton Senna died, so I've never seen him race. What about you? |
01-13-2019, 12:22 PM | #2 |
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I don't really follow any sports myself, except for the Triple Crown in horse racing, and the Breeder's Cup if I remember to catch it. Mr D follows F1, and football (American, not soccer). He is more into the F1, though. He likes teasing our neighbor about F1 being better than NASCAR, with stats and such that show NASCAR is inferior. (For example, NASCAR does not run in the rain, and makes multiple pit stops, runs mainly on circle tracks.)
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01-13-2019, 12:39 PM | #4 |
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He started getting into it a couple of years ago. He watches races whenever he can, or catches the highlights if he misses the race itself. With football, he mostly only follows the Vikings, and the Steelers to a lesser extent. I cheer the Panthers, but that's about it.
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01-13-2019, 12:44 PM | #5 |
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Soccer, ice hockey, team handball, track and field athletics, swimming, floorball, cross-country skiing, alpine skiing and biathlon, and some bandy.
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01-13-2019, 12:49 PM | #6 |
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Football, baseball and hockey are what I mainly follow.
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01-16-2019, 05:17 AM | #7 |
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I follow NFL football.
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02-05-2019, 10:23 AM | #8 |
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How do you find the time to watch all of that? I notice a lot of people online seem to follow a lot of sports. From watching European football leagues and competitions to following sports like handball, F1 racing, basketball(European leagues and the NBA), futsal, cycling, etc. Granted not all sports and events are around at the same time, but still, damn.
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02-05-2019, 10:54 AM | #9 |
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I follow Football, I support Arsenal. I also like to watch F1 Motor racing.
Sometimes I watch a bit of Tennis (Wimbledon) and cricket.
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I really can't be bothered with "individual" sports like athletics and all of those other olympic sports. Never saw the appeal. |
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03-28-2019, 12:02 PM | #12 |
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Why? Because you have to run all the time? Unlike soccer, where you can stand at your position for a time, especially if you're a defence player and nothing happens for a while.
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03-28-2019, 02:48 PM | #13 |
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No. I enjoyed playing basketball and you also have to run constantly in that sport. Handball was just awkward as hell to play. I just didn't enjoy playing it.
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03-28-2019, 04:14 PM | #14 |
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I talk about watching it. But Portugal doesn't do well in handball, so the interest there isn't the biggest. However, it is popular in Sweden.
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