Poll of the Day > In your opinion which is the more boring sport to watch pros play on TV? Golf or

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Hear these 2 brought up most by others esp. of sports with large large numbers of viewers. Idk what others do you hear many people bring up frequently?

Both are boring for me but golf gets the edge here.

what's so boring about golf? Don't like you like the beautiful landscapes and

golf is pretty boring on tv and in person I think.

dj1200 posted...

golf is pretty boring on tv and in person I think.

You ever heard any sports mentioned more than golf?

Golf without contest.

I'd watch full-contact golf.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA97kzai-Ew

GranTurismo posted...

You ever heard any sports mentioned more than golf?

that are boring? i think darts, bowling, or billiards, but then those aren't really sports.

'Soccer'

Not entirely boring but I find it hard to keep up with the ball when things get hectic, plus I would be silently praying that I don't see a injury take place. 'American Dad' already swore me off from soccer with that episode where the babysitter had her shin split.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90TGtdc8NDI

They are all =ly boring. Each should be 1 hour only.

GranTurismo posted...

You ever heard any sports mentioned more than golf?

No. Nobody ever talks about basketball or American football.

Revelation34 posted...

No. Nobody ever talks about basketball or American football.

You know I meant only those that were boring to watch right?

I find most sports pretty boring to watch. Golf is an obvious answer, but most people don't bring up team sports. Some people will bring up baseball, since there's a lot of standing around. Honestly, I think American Football is super fucking boring. Move 10 yard....set up again. Move 10 yard...set up again.

GranTurismo posted...

You know I meant only those that were boring to watch right?

plays average 7 seconds in football

I've never watched golf but I have given soccer a try multiple times and just can't do it, it's like watching paint dry

I find football (soccer) really interesting to watch now. Also my city finally got a team to root for, which is nice.

baseball use to be pretty boring to watch on tv but the pitch clock has made it better. soccer would be better with a smaller field and even allow some hockey like checking/hitting to give it more action. not much fixing golf

Never actually watched soccer or golf on tv, i always just flipped right past them.

GranTurismo posted...

You know I meant only those that were boring to watch right?

That's not what the sentence said.

Probably soccer, I can be forced to watch golf if I have to. No amount of ...anything... really can make me get through a soccer game.

used to think soccer was boring but then I watched captain tsubasa

its aight now

I find soccer quite enjoyable to watch. One of the better sports to watch for me. Basketball is good. Hockey was great, but it's starting to fall off a bit for me. Can't really stand to watch football. Baseball is alright.

Almost all sports are equally boring to me. I'm not a sports person.

Golf for sure. Sports for the most part bore me about equally, but golf is in an entire league of its own there.

Golf. At least with soccer I can be entertained by people faking injuries.

Cricket!

Nobody understands cricket. You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket!

Snake posted...

Cricket!

Nobody understands cricket. You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket!

I love cricket, especially the format which lasts for up to 5 days. Sometimes that final day can be incredibly tense, and crazy unexpected things seem to happen.

It's funny when people make this claim about Soccer when it has the least amount of time wasting in any sport. You have baseball where they can stop the game at any time to have a long conversation, and then in soccer you only get to make three subs throughout the whole game with 0 time outs.

Golf also has plenty of time wasting, you just don't see it as much because there are so many golfers they can just keep cutting to another one.

I enjoy American Football but really if you cut out every wasted second in that game it would be like 25-30 minutes of the actual game being played. To get through that 25-30 minutes it takes well over 2 hours which is just absurd.

Golf is the best sport to watch because it has meaningful story progression.

The ball needs to get to the hole, if it gets there, everyone is happy. Sometimes, it gets there really fast and everyone is amazed.

[Cue video of Happy Gilmore yelling at a golf ball for not going in the hole]

Golf. Golf is too thinky a game to make for entertaining tv. By the time a player takes a visible action there have been a dozen things that you aren't privy to because you can't hear the internal monolague that drives their decisions.

KJ_StErOiDs posted...

[Cue video of Happy Gilmore yelling at a golf ball for not going in the hole]

Felt like that.

Yellow posted...

Golf is the best sport to watch because it has meaningful story progression.

The ball needs to get to the hole, if it gets there, everyone is happy. Sometimes, it gets there really fast and everyone is amazed.

Wow, some post, 2nd part of your post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIajBbbtgbs

Monopoman posted...

It's funny when people make this claim about Soccer when it has the least amount of time wasting in any sport.

I'm not sure how you can say this when soccer is like 90% just lightly jogging around

I usually only watch soccer during international tournaments but I would say that it's better than golf by far as entertainment

Soccer

You hope the ball eventually makes it towards you, you kick it, it may or may not end up in your desired place..
If you're lucky, you'll score a goal and have the opportunity to run towards your teammates, shirtless, where lots of hand slapping occurs..

Golf takes precision, skill, knowledge of equipment and weather conditions, plus swinging a club and smacking the crap out of a golf ball is more fun than kicking

Monopoman posted...

It's funny when people make this claim about Soccer when it has the least amount of time wasting in any sport. You have baseball where they can stop the game at any time to have a long conversation, and then in soccer you only get to make three subs throughout the whole game with 0 time outs.

Golf also has plenty of time wasting, you just don't see it as much because there are so many golfers they can just keep cutting to another one.

I enjoy American Football but really if you cut out every wasted second in that game it would be like 25-30 minutes of the actual game being played. To get through that 25-30 minutes it takes well over 2 hours which is just absurd.

Lol.

Muscles posted...

I'm not sure how you can say this when soccer is like 90% just lightly jogging around

Nah it's 30% running and 70% flopping around like a fish.

Wow....70 percent flopping around like a fish. Sad that might actually be true.

Soccer could benefit a lot by making the field smaller. I mean they can have their regular FIFA soccer, just make a version with a smaller field (and possibly smaller nets as well in proportion to the field size)

Like that poster said, golf has progression.

Soccer is just dudes running back and forth, and 99% of the time , there is no progress. Because ball travels back and forth and at such rapid pace, very little suspense or tension is amassed. Their highlights, despite loftier demands of athleticism and stamina, are even less interesting or remarkable than golf's.

Damn_Underscore posted...

Soccer could benefit a lot by making the field smaller. I mean they can have their regular FIFA soccer, just make a version with a smaller field (and possibly smaller nets as well in proportion to the field size)

I mean if they wanted more scoring they could also just eliminate the off-sides rules. It would likely destroy any integrity scoring a goal ever had, but they could try it and see what happens.

The only reason you see less goals in a game like that is because that rule is upheld and it's very strict. There is no way they ever shrink the field though, it's an endurance sport and the large field is part of it. Shit the distance traveled by a typical midfielder in soccer makes the distance traveled by a basketball player look like a joke.

I appreciate that the scoring system in golf makes every shot significant. I can turn on a golf tournament at random for 5 minutes and what I see will impact the outcome.

By contrast, I can watch soccer for 20 minutes and there's a good chance neither team makes any progress towards winning. As a viewer who doesn't understand the game well enough to recognize good/bad plays, that makes it impossible for me to get engaged.

Golf.

golf is the most boring to watch, despite the one requiring the most skill out of almost all sports

Monopoman posted...

I mean if they wanted more scoring they could also just eliminate the off-sides rules. It would likely destroy any integrity scoring a goal ever had, but they could try it and see what happens.

The only reason you see less goals in a game like that is because that rule is upheld and it's very strict. There is no way they ever shrink the field though, it's an endurance sport and the large field is part of it. Shit the distance traveled by a typical midfielder in soccer makes the distance traveled by a basketball player look like a joke.

There used to be no off side rule. I think that puts to bed your idea.

Olld-Onne posted...

There used to be no off side rule. I think that puts to bed your idea.

No it doesn't.

Revelation34 posted...

No it doesn't.

Think about it for a minute.

Olld-Onne posted...

Think about it for a minute.

It would only do that if you compare scores before offsides was a rule and scores after offside became a rules and only if the scores were the same as they are now.

Revelation34 posted...

It would only do that if you compare scores before offsides was a rule and scores after offside became a rules and only if the scores were the same as they are now.

The rule is there to prevent what you are saying. It's like passing a law to stop something happening.

It was not thrilling to watch strikers literally standing on the opposing goalies line waiting for the ball to come close after all.

The games was just hoofing the ball from one side to the other basically. the rule was made to prevent goal hogging and lack of skill to that effect as even a grand mother could probably score some goals doing that.

Olld-Onne posted...

The rule is there to prevent what you are saying. It's like passing a law to stop something happening.

It was not thrilling to watch strikers literally standing on the opposing goalies line waiting for the ball to come close after all.

The games was just hoofing the ball from one side to the other basically. the rule was made to prevent goal hogging and lack of skill to that effect as even a grand mother could probably score some goals doing that.

There is absolutely no way for you to prove that since the rule was made before video cameras existed.