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Motherfucking football(or soccer to you). Thankfully my immediate close friends don't really like it either but it is so hard to escape it the rest of the time, it's all over TV, newspapers, on the radio and I just do. Not. Fucking. Care.

The culture that surrounds football also doesn't help my disdain of it either. (I don't mind sports in general and I have some that I like but the glorification that some sports get just aggravates me, that and most other sports are easy enough for me to avoid.)

I hear you on the glorification thing.

I live in Australia, and our entire culture revolves around sports.

Everything about it is so overhyped - they talk about these sports players as if they're heroes going into battle, and as if the matches are these epic, dramatic stand-offs. I just think it's boring.

And then there's all the commentary. After the match, during the match, before the match, analysing every little thing the players do and wear and say. I don't give a flying fuck.

I also wish we gave ACTUAL heroes (ie. people who save lives and work to make the world a better place) half the recognition these sportspeople get.

Then people ask me: "What team do you go for?" and I don't know what to say, because if you say you don't follow any sports teams, people look at you like you've grown a third head.

God I feel you so hard on this, and honestly it's like this in the UK too. Footballers are held up as gods among men because they're good at kicking a ball around a field, the stupid EPIC BATTLE adverts that we get whe it's two top teams playing each other, and the riots. The fucking riots because a stupid team lost a game.

God commentary is something I could do without on any sport, it's not really necessary and most of the time it's just two people prattling on about anything they can in order to fill the silence. And I think I'd prefer the silence tbh.

Yeah not rooting for a team is seen as weird over here too, I can get away with it more because I'm a girl and there's still that outdated idea that 'girls don't like football' but men like my dad and brother get weird looks because they don't like it at all but y'know they're men, they should.

All sports bore to, at least a bit. I did like playing basketball (and soccer, and mini-golf) when I was younger but watching other people do it holds absolutely no interest for me. I would rather be doing just about anything than watching sports. My father and brother are huge fans (same for my sister in law), and even my mom puts up with it pretty well but arg, I just won't bother.

I've got a couple that I do enjoy watching, tennis, ice-ockey(if I can find it which is pretty hard over here) and a bit of NFL(I don't mind the Olympics either) but I'm not overly fanatical about it either. I've grown up with football surrounding me though as my mum loves it and I didn't mind it so much when I was little but when it's everywhere and you can't escape it at home just, argh.

And it's really the almost-worship of footballers that really grates on me. Congrats you can kick a ball between two posts at the end of the field, such amazing. much wow.

Congrats you can kick a ball between two posts at the end of the field, such amazing. much wow. lmao, ilu

Well, I know it takes skill so I don't mind people appreciating them for that, but when people worship them it's a bit unsettling. I just don't get it. (But at the same time, I'm sure there are things I like that completely stump other people. My mom doesn't get video games. *shrugs*)

I feel like hockey would be the most fun to watch...not sure why. (The best 'hockey' memories I have are playing this hockey video game as a kid and punching the shit out of other players.)

Oh yeah it does take skill and I don't knock athletes for having it but when it goes from 'hey this person is good at this, good on them and their skill' to 'OMG THEY ARE THE GREATEST HUMAN ALIVE, WORSHIP THEM' it irks me.

Ha, true, my over-attachment to fictional characters would be strange to a great many people. (And for the most part I don't judge but I have learnt over the years to be very, very wary of deeply fanatical football supporters, but having a favourite team isn't instant grounds for 'you are a gigantic butthole'.)

I typically watch some when it's the winter Olympics because it's pretty much the only time it ever airs over here, there's probably some backwater sports channel that shows European ice-hockey but I have no idea which one it would be, and I've enjoyed what I've seen of it.

(The best 'hockey' memories I have are playing this hockey video game as a kid and punching the shit out of other players.)

I THOUGHT THAT WAS MADE UP. OMG. Thank you for telling me this. xD

People get like that about a lot of things. It's always weird.

I agree. There's nothing wrong with supporting your team but when people start rioting because the team they liked lost, or get in physical altercations over it...that's too far. It isn't worth it.

Ooo, the Olympics. ...Don't watch that either. Maybe one of these days I should do that... I think hockey would be fun, but then again I can't skate so that would be a total fucking disaster.

Nope, it was an actual hockey game! My brothers love for sports extended to sports games, so I spent some time sighing while he hogged the console. The only sports game I kind of enjoyed was the hockey one because you could start fights. That's literally the only reason I played it.

True, true.(Heck even the almost celebrity worship I see sometimes wierds me out.)

Agreed, I've actually seen a punchup happen in a pub because of a sports team loosing and sure they got kicked out but that was still scary to be near.

I usually end up with it on TV 'cause there are certain events I like watching and it's only for two weeks anyway. Ha, I can skate but not with any kind of speed or grace, I just manage to not face-plant into the floor.

Ngl I would have played that just to start fights, hell all those stupid Fifa games(soccer video games) would be a hell of a lot more fun if you could go and kick another player in the shins.

Man, you would probably hate American football! Though, I don't think it is quite so in your face in regards to newspaper/radio/etc.

I do actually watch NFL a bit, but I'm not surrounded by the culture of it so it doesn't annoy me in the same way. But I don't doubt that it would if I lived in the US.

Nothing bores me more than sports and i was born into a family of sports worshippers.

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