Foo - Does anybody else find televised sports annoying?

It seems like sports, particularly football and base ball, dominate TV.
A good show is soon to be on, one which maybe requires thought, an overall educated show. Then to your misfortune, football is playing before the show. THe show is supposed to start at 7PM. Football is going....its 6:55 and its still going. There are no closing messages, no credits. Its 6:59 and theres no sign of the show ending. You go away and figure after a cup of tea or some other beverage the show will surely be started. 15 minutes later you go and the same guy is still boasting about how this player did this, and this player tackled that one. 7:20, the commentator announces that there are 2 minutes left. 7:45, "1 minute left".
I find this situation common, and really annoying. Am I just a hermit or does anybody else feel this way?

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But yeah, it sucks

It seems like sports, particularly football and base ball, dominate TV.
I find this situation common, and really annoying. Am I just a hermit or does anybody else feel this way?


I hate ball sports ! :crash:
I used to worry about being the weird one at work
who came in sober and not giving a _ _ _ _ about who won
the superbowl or whatever the day after but I got over that real
fast. The older I get the less I understand them.
But, yeah.....I agree, the network money makers football,baseball,
nascar etc are a few of the reasons its so easy to not watch Tv.

Are you kidding, sports program?

I find those tabloid shows are much much more annoying. Every day of the week, every station, one after another. And all those talk shows targeted toward women who have too much time in their hands, every day of the week, every station, one after another! Does this mean women have nothing else to do but watch TV?

Sports shows I don't watch(like hockey, foot ball games except USC) don't bother me that much. They don't come on the air that often and usualy only one station at a time, unlike tabloid shows.

I have to wonder who is paying attention to which movie star hooking up to which.

I'd much rather have 24 hour news station.

And those political campaign ads sponsored by current California governor, I find them very annoying.

Edit: Majority of sports shows are scheduled on weekends daytime and most people are out there doing something outdoor like bike riding? Why are you watching TV on the weekends?

It seems like sports, particularly football and base ball, dominate TV.
A good show is soon to be on, one which maybe requires thought, an overall educated show. Then to your misfortune, football is playing before the show.

gosh darn you smarty pant types. i wish i was too smart to see the point of baseball and football :(

Show that requires thought? Educated show?

*PLEASE* where? I've never seen one.

Oh, for the love of Pete, don't tell me you mean a game show.

P.S. Yes, Televised sports sucks gonzo beans!!

I hate when sports pre-empts scheduled shows I might actually *want* to watch. I was about ready to send a dog-poo bomb to the NFL after three straight weeks of Simpsons withdrawal a few years ago.

thats why you have cable or satellite. so you can watch the same piece of **** any time of the day. TV sucks period. There stopped being consitently decent shows on there years and years ago. Now its just a time waster filling the void for 3/4 of the people.

Thank god we have the internet so that people can complain about everything under the sun.

Exactly - cause its not like you can complain to the TV. All its going to do is show you another advertisement with some girl running through a meadow and jumping on a bed and then telling you to see your doctor for some <insert obsecure medical condition that may put you at risk>.

I never really could understand why people are so fascinated by a bunch of guys or girls that can do things with balls and get paid kings wages. OOOOOH Boy my hero wow he can really throw that ball good. I really want my kids to look up to the local soon to be pro college quarterback who was convicted of **** of a local high school girl and drug charges. See kids you can do anything you want in America as long as you’re good with some type of ball.

Having said that I played many sports, Basketball, football, soccer, baseball, golf, ect… and they are real fun to play but to spend my free time watching overpaid drugged up criminals just to have something to say to my coworkers at the water fountain on Monday is nothing but a waste of life. And I live in a pathetic football nutty college town that pours millions of dollars down the drain on this crap so it’s all talk talk talk about how ‘We’ did. Gee aren’t ‘We’ great. ‘We’re’ gonna kick there ass ooooh boy. Meanwhile the underfunded cycling team cannot even get a criterium on campus :(

Ok second cup of coffee coming up.

dang dude
NO MORE COFFEE FOR YOu. I mean **** I hate sports and sports players, but they're not alll bad. mostly. sort of ..
Okay, damn it all wheres my coffee. Oh wait I dont drink coffee what am I thinking.

There's a reason it's called broadcasting. They need to appeal to the masses so they can sell more stuff.

I find the most useful button on my remote is the OFF button.

But as long as your viewing habits don't affect me, go for it!

I can't find my tv :(

I never really could understand why people are so fascinated by a bunch of guys or girls that can do things with balls and get paid kings wages.



Oh man. Kings don't make wages. Kings are salaried. :rolleyes:

Yeah, I find it frustrating when sports pre-empts something I want to watch.

Since I gave up cable, though, I don't watch much on TV except sports (and PBS). Mainly I just watch the big events (eg World Series). I do think it's sad when watching other people play sports eats your life. Come to think of it, anything that "eats your life" sucks. Even cyling forums. :)

Must be a guy thing...

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Oh man. Kings don't make wages. Kings are salaried. :rolleyes:

Their "Kings Salaries" really take the fun out of the Olympic versions. It's no longer a story of people living what they love and working hard to triumph despite everything. Now it's a bunch of millionaires skating or playing basketball who are like, "We weren't getting paid for this anyway."

I pay just enough attention to sports that I can have a relatively informed conversation with my cow-orkers on the morning after a big sporting event. I can stick my head in the golf fanatic's office on Monday morning and say, "Man, can you believe John Daly missed A THREE FOOT PUTT in a playoff to lose?!!" I actually only saw that one hole.

Or, after Florida State lost to Virgina a couple of weeks ago, "Man, they have got to get rid of that offensive coordinator. I don't care if he is Bobby Bowden's son." I didn't see the game, mind you. I was at my daughter's wedding reception. Or, like this morning, "Can you believe it? Guy only hits one home run all year and it wins a World Series game...." I learned about that on NPR on the way to work.

While my cow-orkers are vegging out in front of the TV watching games, I doing something culturally uplifting: I'm flipping back and forth between the NASCAR race at Martinsville and Comedy Central's country comedy marathon. That Larry the Cable Guy.....he cracks me up.

I find that televised sports are great background noise for napping. :lol:

I find that televised sports are great background noise for napping. :lol:

I won't disagree with that. ;)

You can have a lot of things get done while paying half attention to the TV. Doing so will never affect the result of the game. But then, I can say the same thing to any shows on TV.

I even have a jinx. My favorite teams lose when I sit there watching it and doing nothing else. :D

I find television annoying in general.

It depends on who's doing the televising. Just look at the difference between your local Fox Sports Network and the big national Fox. Giants games on the Bay Area FSN have Kruk and Kuip and Jon: a great team that's a pleasure to watch. The national Fox, on the other hand, is a travesty: mound cams, such tight closeups that you can never see the pitcher's entire body, and Jeanie Velazko. Would someone please silence her?

Love hockey on TV (mainly because the Red Wings are fantastic), can't stand anything else. Then again, the only sports I play are baseball and hockey.

I pay just enough attention to sports that I can have a relatively informed conversation with my cow-orkers on the morning after a big sporting event. I can stick my head in the golf fanatic's office on Monday morning and say, "Man, can you believe John Daly missed A THREE FOOT PUTT in a playoff to lose?!!" I actually only saw that one hole.

Or, after Florida State lost to Virgina a couple of weeks ago, "Man, they have got to get rid of that offensive coordinator. I don't care if he is Bobby Bowden's son." I didn't see the game, mind you. I was at my daughter's wedding reception. Or, like this morning, "Can you believe it? Guy only hits one home run all year and it wins a World Series game...." I learned about that on NPR on the way to work.

While my cow-orkers are vegging out in front of the TV watching games, I doing something culturally uplifting: I'm flipping back and forth between the NASCAR race at Martinsville and Comedy Central's country comedy marathon. That Larry the Cable Guy.....he cracks me up.

Haha. I can't stand listening to the news announcers on NPR. I will be listening to the classical music and then the piece will end and it will be {drolling zombie monotonous voice ** and a cattle trailer over turned on eye aych thirty five {drolling zombie monotonous voice continues on**

[grandpa voice] it looks like ur tonsils are hanging out of your shorts[/grandpa voice]
get back in the car grandpa. Dang you're following me everywhere. the catholic church, here.

Football and baseball are especially bad because there are so many gaps where nothing is happening. The empty space has to be filled with inane banter and interminable replays. I do not see the entertainment (or educational) benefit of watching a replay (from three different angles) of a batter NOT swinging at a pitch that is low and away. And if I hear one more football announcer talk about a running back "keeping his legs moving," I'll throw something—maybe a tantrum—at my TV. Who is the paraplegic running back they use for comparison?

Hockey is a different matter entirely. Fast, hard-hitting, and wildly entertaining fare for all. I could watch hockey every day. Especially because the Canucks are strong right now—probably due to feasting on Red Wings. ;)

I hate Fox. They keep pre-empting my favorite shows (I don't have cable or satellite), like Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Farscape with stupid, stupid sports junk. I never watch live, just record on my ReplayTV. Sit down to enjoy the latest Stargate, and what do I get..... a frickin football game! Then, halfway into the show "we now return to our regularly scheduled programming, already in progress". ARGH!!!

hahahahha. Technology has come so far and yet we still have the same problems :D

There stopped being consitently decent shows on there years and years ago.
I used to think that, too. "Where have all the interesting shows gone?" I wondered.

Then it dawned on me--the shows hadn't really changed much. I had just gotten older!

:D

I used to think that, too. "Where have all the interesting shows gone?" I wondered.

Then it dawned on me--the shows hadn't really changed much. I had just gotten older!

:D

That's sort of true. Thats why I can't really watch the Drama shows like, West Wing, CSI, etc. The same is with movies. They are just rehash of things that we done 5-20 years ago. I do however miss alot of the good old PBS programming. There used to be good stuff on PBS. Nature with George Paige, National Geographics, before it got all political/lbieral. MacNamara, Miss Watson, 3-2-1 Contact (old skool versions) not the new modern crap. Heck even Sesame Street was good back in those days.


Now there usually is just enough TV to keep me entertained for part of december and january. I don't even know if i will be watching much tv this january since I actaully have a suffocating job that wont let me take off for a month.

hahahahha. Technology has come so far and yet we still have the same problems :D


I think the gentleman from Asbury Park addressed this:


So I bought a .44 magnum it was solid steel cast
And in the blessed name of Elvis well I just let it blast
'Til my TV lay in pieces there at my feet
And they bsted me for disturbin' the almighty peace
Judge said "What you got in your defense son ?"
"Fifty-seven channels and nothin' on"

I think the gentleman from Asbury Park addressed this:
hehhe well put

I enjoy PBS a lot now. Yes yes im a highschooler who likes PBS, im a freak. But they dont play sports, and have limited commercials. What more could you want?

PBS sucks compared to what it was 15 years ago. It was actually watchable back then. Now its just a wanna be trying to hold onto a legacy

i always hated them, but the last few weeks i've found myself guled to the tv watching the world series, but that is just because the hometown boys (white sox) were playing in and just won the whole thing.

i gotta have some sort of pride over chicago being the world champs, right?

You're forgiven :p

thats good to know.

and nice too, seeing how you appear to be from texas, the state that just got shut out by us.........


jokes, jokes....


i can go back to hating sports on tv now though, and that makes me glad.

now, where are the riots going on at? i need some good photojournalism material!

thats good to know.

and nice too, seeing how you appear to be from texas, the state that just got shut out by us.........


jokes, jokes....


i can go back to hating sports on tv now though, and that makes me glad.

now, where are the riots going on at? i need some good photojournalism material!

*tosses dosoner to some angry houston fans :p
I keed, I keed, I don't care much for sports, and baseball is about the lowest on the totem pole, right above golf.

i gotta have some sort of pride over chicago being the world champs, right?

Yeah, if baseball's your thing, you can have "some sort of pride."

Tell you what, be proud that the Blackhawks have always had the best-looking uniforms in the league. Man, if I lived in your town, I'd be wearing my stylish Hawks jersey everywhere.

yea they look pretty sharp.