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I follow football but I'm not enjoying it...

I enjoy playing golf and doing active stuff which isn't really sport such as walks, outdoor gym, bowling, air hockey, wii fit.

I also like playing football but my football mates are between 18 and 70. The older generations don't fancy playing it. Except my stepdad who is who I play 1 aside football with on our local field Taking it in turns to be the goalie or striker.

I used to enjoy watching golf tournaments and falling asleep.

The natural beauty of the golf course would lull me to sleep.....

They used to put me at goalie in soccer when I was in junior high because I was too aggressive a player.

I was usually picked last for baseball/softball and basketball---but I was a short, husky kid, so I did pretty well in American football, though I would never have made a school team.

I enjoy watching team sports like soccer or Aussie rules but I don't play them.
I was always more into solitary exercise like cycling, ice skating and horse riding.
Also played table tennis, that's fun, but my hand-eye coordination is not that great.

I like combat sports. Though mostly just the combat. I can do without the showboating and the big talk.

Yep...just play the friggin’ game!

You didn’t showboat back in the 70s. You just played the game.

follow many of the major sports here in Europe. Very obsessed by football (soccer) though, love poring over league tables, form tables etc. I follow PL, Football league and many European leagues. I also gamble on football and generally do okay. I am up quite a bit this season so far. Spent time almost every day reviewing tables, fixtures, listening to podcasts about it. Also attended games myself from a young ages until around 18 months ago. Spent much of my youth traveling around football grounds watching games

Also love cricket. The amount of numbers and stats in it feels like an aspie dream . England are currently playing India in test cricket, day 1 finished and we have had a great opening day batting. Joe Root is going to go down as one of the greats. He finished the day 128NO

If my wife wasn’t Trinidadian, I wouldn’t have known that NO means “no out.”

I’ve seen a couple of “test matches.”

IMO there is very little that compares to the finale of a well balanced cricket match. Ideally a test match but there have some great ODI's too

To play for 5 days and it go down to the last over (an over = 6 balls), or even the last ball. Just incredible.

I like it when they have lunch during breaks....on fine China....

Hockey, baseball, speed skating, luge, diving, swimming, track and field.

When you guys say hockey, do you mean ice hockey or field hockey? The latter is popular here but ice hockey has a following too.

In my early teens I was obsessed with tennis, had tennis lessons, collected and read tennis magazines, watched a lot of tennis on tv. I wanted to be a pro. But then I found out that I have no depth perception. No wonder I wasn't getting any better in my lessons. That was the end of my obsession.

Battle Bots

That's it.

Hate everything else.

That brings to mind a list of sports that are often played by people while consuming snacks and/or alcoholic beverages. Curling was the inspiration, but there's also bowling and darts. Some consider fishing a sport. Some French race car drivers have used champagne, and by the end of the race in Le Mans, fatigue is considered to about equal two drinks.

I could fill this column with stories about how hockey-mad many of my Canadian neighbours are, but I have never watched a full game. The first time I saw ice hockey it was on TV, and was fascinated that the players were mostly gliding around in some complex, rather beautiful pattern. Then, I spotted the puck, and it made sense as just another ball chasing game. I was further disenchanted by the low scores, which add a strong element of chance to the outcome, and the fights, which seem a thorough abuse of the rules.

I have thoroughly enjoyed playing frisbee, sending the disk in big curves right to the other player. I like cheap, convenient sports. Cross-country skiing or skating or boating can be that in rural areas, but downhill skiing and many other sports always burn more calories in oil than food if done by city residents. Even gym use is very wasteful compared to in-home calisthenics or bicycle commuting.

One of my favourite things to do as a kid and younger teenager was to just run around, so I wanted to try to do track in middle school, but my parents didn't let me. I like anything that involves a lot of running and mainly running. lol

Rugby Six Nations starts today

Opening game on now and we (england) are 3 minutes away from losing to Scotland

And Scotland win. First time they have beaten us in England for 38 years.

We are the reigning champions and the Six Nations feels over before it starts for us. What a shambles