Your favourite sport to watch...

[Chunky_Dan]

Hey Hey, I was just having a ponder as to taking in some new sports, Now i'm a brit and my absolute favourite sport to watch is soccer, i personally enjoy the creativity and excitement that it provides and i try to get to as many matches as possible and watch a lot of others on the TV.

Now it's our close season at the moment and there's this great big void in my life, i've tried arts, i've tried culture but no, what i need is a sport i can watch from my sofa and get very tribal about.

I've never really had an interest in American sports but i reckon that's just snobbishness on my part - you know the whole 'ahh but their sports aren't REAL sports' though i now acknowledge that that's rubbish.

Anyway, advise me, what to people really enjoy watching? Football? Basketball? Baseball? any hidden gems? any star players i need to watch out for? who are the people's choice? who are the best of the best?

I want to broaden my horizons but to do that I Need You!

Cheers, Dan

[MostMuscle]

I have a particular affinity for anything track & field. Seems like sport are its purest.

Add track & field for me too. I've been fortunate to attend a day during the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, one national, 2 Olympic Trials and 2 NCAA Division I meets. During the first Olympic Trials meet I went to, I was present for all 10 days of competition, morning and evening, including the race walking events. I sure got a good suntan with all that.

In addition, I saw Tommie Smith set a world record in the 220 yard dash (prior to metric) of 20:00 when I was a young boy.

Watching the 4x400 meter relay final is very exciting, both at the high school and collegiate level, and checking the athletic women jumpers and pole vaulters is very pleasant to the eyes. I could go on and on.

Another sport I witnessed during the 1984 Olympics was weightlifting. That was the Olympics the Soviet-bloc countries boycotted because the USA had boycotted the Moscow Olympics 4 years earlier. I attended the finals for the 181 lb. division and it was very exciting. I like the silence that builds when the lifter approaches the stage and goes through his final moments of concentration before attacking the bar. I'd like to see more weightlifting competition.

[.V.]

I like to watch triathlon races. Although I hadn't trained for that sport in a year and wasn't going to participate this year. When they had the spring tri here this year, I went and set up a tent with the rest of them and saw them off on the swim, and was there to shout encouragement at the transition points and cheer them to the finish at the run.

I like to watch powerlifting too.

[CF-OC_gal]

NCAA basketball games are fun to attend.

[Maxgain]

Soccer here to.You just have to wait till July for the rugby world cup.I like NFL myself but so many games are so slow and boring I think I just wnat the best of dvd.

[ixoyc]

i like pride fighting a lot (much better than ufc in my opinion) it probably doesn't fit under the american sports persay but it gives me a rush

[The Flash]

1) Football 2) Soccer3) Basketball

[LiftGirl]

Hmmm, I am really not a sports person, but I occassionally like figure skating and gymnastics.