Have pity on a fellow nerd...

[Hobgoblin]

Can someone explain the appeal of sports to me? I've tried watching sports before, but I just cant get interested. I guess most people just like the competition, just like I like the competition in politics. (Sorry, people hate it when I compare sports and politics. )

Also, it seems like mega fans are really just as nerdy as comic fans. Some people know the stats of the 1968 Dodgers, just like I know what happened in such and such an issue of Amazing Spider-Man. Why is it ok to be a sports "nerd" but not a comic nerd? Thoughts?

 

[Immortalfire]

Being a sports fan has about as much explanation as anything else one follows, or is avid about...you just are.

 

[cyborg ninja 14]

Isn't being on this message board already put us in the nerd catagory anyway?

 

[tzarinna]

I just find it fascinating what the body can do.
I don't watch football as much as I used to, like when I was a teen.
I'm more into the X type Games and those are really intense. I don't get all riled up. I can go to a soccer game and just sit and watch, I've been given **** for that. That itself is a turn off from the game. Why can't I enjoy the mother****ing game the why I want to? I mean damn.

 

[Alex The Great]

i like seeing the underdog win. besides the 07 superbowl

 

[FaT_tONle]

Can someone explain the appeal of sports to me? I've tried watching sports before, but I just cant get interested. I guess most people just like the competition, just like I like the competition in politics. (Sorry, people hate it when I compare sports and politics. )

Also, it seems like mega fans are really just as nerdy as comic fans. Some people know the stats of the 1968 Dodgers, just like I know what happened in such and such an issue of Amazing Spider-Man. Why is it ok to be a sports "nerd" but not a comic nerd? Thoughts?

You like a TV show? A type of genre... maybe a soap? Cartoon... COMICS (go figure)... its the same thing... everyone has their own interests... I hate people asking others "what is the appeal of this" when it is something so general as sports as a whole... its the competitive factor on top of the stories and REALISM that compell us... that should be a no brainer to anyone.

 

[Jerry!]

Realism excluding the likes of Barry Bonds and Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa...

 

[Arc-Light]

Can someone explain the appeal of sports to me? I've tried watching sports before, but I just cant get interested. I guess most people just like the competition, just like I like the competition in politics. (Sorry, people hate it when I compare sports and politics. )

Also, it seems like mega fans are really just as nerdy as comic fans. Some people know the stats of the 1968 Dodgers, just like I know what happened in such and such an issue of Amazing Spider-Man. Why is it ok to be a sports "nerd" but not a comic nerd? Thoughts?

My appeal was PLAYING THEM not watching them......and once you played a couple you love to watch it. In other words if you didnt like to play sports, you will never get interested in watching them.

 

[Excel]

They're fun to do when your good at them.

 

[Cmill216]

Can someone explain the appeal of sports to me?

We just like it. [/Apple Jacks Logic]

 

[Prison Mike]

I'm into tennis. HARDCORE.

 

[SurfDUI]

Some tend to see the human body as a mechanisim, the potential for force and accuracy, strength and physical aptidude...what's not to dig.
I wish there were a ring for bedroom/floor/furniture sexual aptitude, Then Surfer would have to change tha name to Barry Sanders

 

[SurfDUI]

Then there's women's tennis & Volleyball

 

[Hobgoblin]

My appeal was PLAYING THEM not watching them......and once you played a couple you love to watch it. In other words if you didnt like to play sports, you will never get interested in watching them.

Yup, that must be my problem. I played baseball as a kid, but I never took it seriously. I was goofing off as much as playing. As soon as the other kids started getting deadly serious about it, I lost interest pronto.

 

[Hobgoblin]

Then there's women's tennis & Volleyball

Ok, this I can see helping sports become interesting.