For me the most bizarre is ski jumping where athletes can’t even eat normally.
Any sport that you can get an advantage in by altering the crotch of the uniform is pretty weird.
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Curling.
I mean, don’t get me wrong- I love yelling at rocks, but on ice?
Thats just too much.
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Looks like a very cold weather bar game to me. I would think it fitting that it would be played with excessive alcohol consumed.
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This is odd.
Check out the jump though.
I won’t pick on it. Every sport/hobby is cool as long as it’s genuine. Except soccer. Fuck soccer.
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Yep. That has to be how it evolved. One of my observations on the essentials of Man is that we hit things with other things. This takes on many forms from simple to sophisticated, but thats what almost everything we do as Men boild down to. From Curling to the Moon shot, The Mars Lander and exploration- hitting stuff with other stuff. Archery, riflery, baseball- its just what we do.
And if there are two men- you have a contest. Teams, tournaments, nations- its on. We’re gonna hit stuff with other stuff. Winner takes all!
Of course. Also another essential of Man. Testing of the mettle!
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While they’re immensely talented with loads of athletic skills, competitive cheerleading is crazy. They’re no team to cheer for. They are the team. It’s a standalone sport.
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Synchronized Swimming has a similar format.
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Slapping contests. Immense risk of brain damage and pretty small skill component.
Honestly, what the fuck.
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But if we drop the stupid and focus on the bizarre. Ski ballet deserves a mention. It looks pretty difficult though.
Or chess-boxing!
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Let me guess- you never played two pump with bb guns as a kid.
Interesting question.
I like seeing all the weird ways people do physical stuff, so I would watch the hell out of anything as long as people enjoy doing m it.
I dislike sports culture when control is done by people who don’t participate in the sport.
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That shit makes me wanna rewatch Bud Spencer and Terence Hill movies, so there’s an upside to it. Slap(stick) comedy heroes of my childhood lol.
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Why? Genuinely curious. Is it the diving?
Soccer is a communist plot designed to make American men effeminate.
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It was mostly in jest. If people enjoy it, thats fine. I’ve personally always hated it and the culture around it. The diving doesn’t help, but the sport encourages the diving. It’s the same way they’ve ruined football and are trying to ruin hockey, legislate the violence out. Players are rewarded for diving, so they dive.
I prefer violent sports, but I love baseball so thats not all of it. Soccer has just never been entertaining to me. It lacks a certain Americanism that I can’t quite put into words.
It could also be completely irrational. LOL
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I never played soccer in my youth. I didn’t know a single person who played soccer until I went to college.
When I think of soccer, the single descriptive word that comes to mind is “boring.” I was brought up where American Football was king and Baseball was the American pastime. And I thought baseball was too slow to enjoy watching it. And being required to watch soccer would be torture. Give me some paint to watch dry.
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It absolutely does, but up until the 90s defenders used to wreck talented forward players like Maradona. We’re talking career ending tackles. Futre from Atletico de Madrid was a prime example.
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I agree, I loved playing baseball as a kid but I could never watch it.
American Football, to me, lacks fluidity, with all the stops. I find it boring but I do like RugbyI guess it’s a cultural thing, @Alrightmiami19c puts it perfectly with his “Americanism” comment.
Basketball is one American sport that I enjoy watching since it has that fluidity I mentioned. It has the high scoring that football lacks but not the apotheotic euphoria of a match winning goal.
A good version of Rugby/American Football I enjoy is Florence’s Cálcio Storico. It’s basically a mix of rugby with mma and dates back to the middle ages.
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The flopping is worse than in soccer.
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