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QUESTION: Do you watch sports? If so, which one, and who’s your favorite team?
Talk about it….
49ers
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NO.
Not any more. ‘Haven’t watched stick n ball sports since players started taking knees and disrespecting the US.
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I watched for entertainment… not for political or social messaging.
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Not since they’ve gone woke. Used to love tennis and baseball. Oh and the olympics. But I watch none of them now.
Nope I do not anymore ever since the knee to the ground and BLM support puppets started their so called movement.
No, I do not watch professional sports on TV. I occasionally watch NCAA basketball tournament games
All the time! I like baseball, football and basketball, but the A’s are my favorite team.
Baseball = Washington Nationals (Since 2005)
Football = Tamp Bay Buccaneers (Since 1976)
Hockey = Montreal Canadians (Since 1973) San Jose Sharks (Since 1991)
I only watch big games (playoff for both nlf and nba, bowls for ncaa) no favorite team but always root for the underdogs.
Used to watch sports and had season tickets for football and baseball. Once they started changing the games, made them political and to expensive I stopped watching and attending.
Much better things to spend my time and money on!
Sports have become to political and I don’t watch anymore.
Hubby likes to watch Golf,…isn’t a sport?
It is Roz but too boring for me. An ice cold beer and a good football game is where it is for me.
My grandfather was a Scot who never played golf.
When asked by his buddy’s why not?
He said, “I’m not old enough to learn yet.”
Simonpure~
I figured it was,….just not really a ‘team’ sports like many others are.
I stopped watching any sports when they started becoming nothing more than a bunch of political BS. If I want to see that kind of stuff, there are a million other ways.
To those that don’t watch sports because of the political stands, which in all case mentioned tend to be liberal. Would you feel the same way if the message was more conservative? If you don’t it means you are not against a sports team being political, as long as their message aligns with your belief. I don’t watch any team sports, because it is not something I’m interested in, but whatever message a team member might send, wouldn’t it be rather short compared to the game itself. If you enjoy the game, seems like you are punishing yourself!
No Hanne any political messaging is the issue but your always stirring the pot I’m sure with your popcorn at your side
That’s the thing Hanne, the games are no longer enjoyable, once they became platforms for anti-Americanism, and support for violent thugs and foreign despots.
Cowellian, you hit the nail on the head. And Hanne, I don’t want to see ANY political garbage in sports. Doesn’t matter who is responsible for it.
I’m a huge sports fan, and I don’t want to see any political garbage in sports either, but I ignore it. And Hanne is right. I’m a moderate Republican, but it’s not so much the politics, it’s the politics you disagree with.
Maybe you were never really a “real” sports fan. All the men I know are still going to the games and watching on tv regardless of political BS. They tune it out. Most men love sports, and so do a lot of women.
You put up with political BS online, especially those of you who hang out on the political thread.
While I like baseball and football I don’t watch either on TV. I do like being at the games and being in the crowd. Just don’t get that with TV and commercials.
I follow mud wrestling, everything else got too political.
I do not watch sports, and I do not have a favorite team. I’m not a couch potato and will not waste my life away sitting in front of a TV. I haven’t gone to a game since the 90’s. I don’t like crowds, especially drunken crowds.
Years ago, a friend had an apartment across the street from Kezar Stadium, and we would sit on the rooftop and watch the Niner’s play. We had a clear view, and we could hear the announcer.
Baseball, favorite team was and always has been the A’s. Was always taken to the games. Giants and Yankees too. Thrive on the strategy of Baseball. Football, got hooked on it when going to games. 49ers and Broncos.
I don’t mind watching a good boxing match once in a while
The University of California Golden Bears and the San Francisco Giants.
Used to when I was a kid, when it was actually sports.
Nowadays – never. So called sports is now a joke. It was bad enough with the ridiculously overpaid players; who essentially are just playing children’s games. But now with all the political BS involved, I will never watch or support any of it.
Well, it was the Raiders until they left. But to be honest I stopped watching football shortly after my dad passed since football was mine and my dads thing.. AND NO HE DIDNT PASS FROM COVID.
Not anymore. Sports used to be a break from politics, issues of the day , reminded me of childhood and chances to break away from stress and enjoy . Now that’s its gotten political it doesn’t have the same feel for me. I feel that way about some musicians also, love Bruce Springsteen, but when he goes on about politics I usually got to the bathroom and get something to eat. I agree with him on somethings , but that’s not why I’m there or what I want to hear in the middle of having a good time at a concert. I love politics and debating, but I have places for that , sometimes I just want a break and it’s getting harder and harder to find that.
Just go on Utube and listen to Bruce or put on a CD, then you don’t have to hear his message. There are entertainer’s that I don’t agree with or did when they were alive, Frank Sinatra for one, although he was for Kennedy he became more conservative, the same with Bob Hope, however, it does not keep me from enjoying Frank’s music, or Hope’s movies and his jokes. Beside that I think Bob Hope was a nice human being, doing what he did for the troops. I guess today it would be James Wood and Gary Sinise, I might not agree with their politics, but I still enjoy their movies, since they are very good actors.
49’rs. Football 🏈
Giants Baseball ⚾️
Warriors Basketball 🏀
I lost interest in the NFL years ago. Lately, I’ve pretty much given up on MLB and NBA, as well as any women’s professional sports.
I do love my Tennessee Vols, win or lose.
Watching sports seems rather pointless.
If I, or someone I knew, were in it, then it might hold some interest for me; but, with no connection to the game, it’d be like watching someone else play a video game. I have better things to do.
Wow. I am so (pleasantly) surprised to see I’m not the only one who doesn’t think sports is the right platform to express political issues. These guys are making multi-millions to play a sport, not push their private agenda. I also feel going to the Olympics is privilege. Again, not the place to express yourself. Even if I agree with the point of view, not the place.
If you’re not there to represent our country, flag and anthem, stay the Hell off the field
Professional sports are completely unethical.
1. Steals hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars
2. Players in many sports such as football and boxing are literally destroying their brains, look up cte rates. They have a bad habit of killing their loved ones before they suicide, many such cases like Chris Benoit.
3. All the sports now are horribly woke and anti American.
I look forward to the day that all female sports are dominated by male-to-famel transgender people. It is the future liberals wanted.
Between their wokeness and greed, I’ve moved on…
Professional sports jumped the shark with politics. No thanks.
These former athletes will be OK; they can always join WWE Wrestling.
Are athletes paid(millions and millions) to play the game they specialize in, or are they paid to express their personal opinions on controversial political subjects? Also, I’d be willing to bet that there are not many people who tune into a Sunday football game to hear about politics, instead of tuning in to see a game.
Ferrari is my team.
“There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.”
― Ernest Hemingway
The question was do you watch sports, and you have a favorite team. I never cared for football, baseball, basketball, so no don’t and never did watch, went to a few superbowl party for the social aspect, never cared much who won.
As a teen ager went to soccer games with girl friends, that’s where the cute boys were. My daugther played soccer for years, and I went to pretty much all her games and enjoyed it.
As for watching other sports in the eighties and nineties I enjoyed watching the Olympics, especially the winter Olympics, speed skating, figure skating, downhill skiing. Got caught up in the human aspect of the athletes such as Dan Janssen and Nancy Kerrigan and others.
So that means I get to push my politics on customers when I am stocking shelves at work? C’mon, half the customers would stop shopping there in no time.
Religion and politics, polite company, etc.
I was big into the (SF) Giants and the Warriors until a few years back. Admittedly, I started watching them less when they started to suck. I actually lost interest in the warriors when they got Durant. They just seemed to phone it in a lot, they were so good. Made them harder to root for.
After some upheaval and lack of cable for a year in 2017, I got out of the habit of watching both. When some of the politics came our from both teams (less so the Giants), it just made it easier to not go back. Steve Kerr’s anti-gun BS was particularly annoying for me, though the hypocrisy on China was galling too.
It’s kind of sad, because I see the Giants are doing really well now. But I just can’t support a sport that has made it plain that they will take one side, the wrong one, of a political fight as important as election integrity. They drew the line, not me.
I think MLB has pretty much dropped all the idiotic BLM garbage but then Commissioner Rob Manfred moved the All Star Game to lilly white Colorado for phony left wing political reasons, that he swallowed hook, line & sinker!
“Colorado’s law governing early voting actually has a smaller time window than Georgia’s, showing that Major League Baseball didn’t do its homework before abruptly pulling the game out of Atlanta”
Millions of fans did not watch the game.
https://tinyurl.com/3e8frp5e
I watch Giant’s & A’s baseball, but if they start up with any silly political sh*t …..I will turn it off again, just like I did last year.
MLB: Giants
NFL: 49ers
College Football; LSU Tigers
NBA; Lakers
Boxing; Mike Tyson and Marvin Hagler.
Btw: There’s a kid named Jaron “Boots” Ennis that’s pretty good.
@ClayDen – like your insight and quote from one of the best.
That last sportsball game I watched was Super Bowl XXIV in 1990.
So, not recently.
JimmyJam, This site is a place where people are encouraged to express their opinions, a ballpark is a place where people pay to enjoy a game. If athletes want to express their opinions, they are free to do it on their own time.
Football – Cal and Niners
Baseball – Giants – As should move. Oakland is death to a pro team
Basketball – NBA ( Barf )
Sumo … Golf … Baseball (Giants * A’s … I am Bay Curious)
No….gave up on pro sports.