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Sport Teams

The LegThe Leg
edited May 2010 in General Chat
What Sport Teams do you support?

Me? Dallas Cowboys (American Footbal), Montreal Canadians (Ice Hockey), KC Royals (Baseball), OKC Thunder (Basketball).

Comments

  • GinnyNGinnyN
    edited May 2010
    Considering this place is somewhat international...

    I'm always with the Chilean Selection of whathever. Ever if I know they are bad at that.
  • BrainiacBrainiac
    edited May 2010
    You REALLY shouldn't post this question on any forum I frequent. Just ask MusicallyInspired. :D

    Go Bucks!
  • AvistewAvistew
    edited May 2010
    I think it would help if you added what a team they're of when you say you support them. Soccer, basketball, hockey?
    People like me aren't going to know. So I'd say, everyone add the sport for each different sport they have a favourite team for, that would make it easier.

    As for me, I don't have TV and I don't follow any sports, so I don't have favourite teams for anything.
  • JedExodusJedExodus
    edited May 2010
    The only sport I really follow is Tennis, and they don't have teams. I like a bit of international rugby as well
  • S@breS@bre
    edited May 2010
    Red Bull Racing and Aston Martin Racing. Hoping for the Aussie to win this year's F1.
  • AlcoremortisAlcoremortis
    edited May 2010
    I only like to watch fencing and that is probably the most difficult sport to find on TV.
  • LeakLeak
    edited May 2010
    The only sports I have any interest in on the TV is Formula 1 (Red Bull) and ski jumping (our national team)...

    np: The Fall - Grudgefull (Rebellious Jukebox Volume 2 (Disc 2))
  • GuruGuru214GuruGuru214
    edited May 2010
    Baseball is pretty much the only widely televised sport I can stand, so naturally my team is the Colorado Rockies. I still don't take that much interest, but I do check how they're doing every so often and I go to a few games a year with my dad.

    I have a cousin who's way into baseball, though. He lived in Alabama for a while, not too far from Atlanta, so he's a huge Braves fan. They usually come here once a year for a three game series, and my dad and I always try to catch one Braves/Rockies game with him.

    Also, I'm one of those oddball Americans who absolutely can't stand American football. I'd be perfectly happy if the NFL just up and vanished. My dad drives me nuts during football season.
  • TorTor
    edited May 2010
    Go Sportland Sports! They are number 1 in points!
  • The HighwayThe Highway
    edited May 2010
    Team Kneepads.
  • SHODANFreemanSHODANFreeman
    edited May 2010
    I don't really support teams, I support players I like rather than just whatever teams I happen to live near.
  • corruptbigginscorruptbiggins
    edited May 2010
    Middlesbrough FC (association football) is really the only team I support but I am a fan of the England national teams (association football & cricket) and McLaren (F1). Actually, with F1, I just like watching the races and don't mind if which driver and team wins (well, except Alonso - just don't like that guy) though it does feel better if one of the English drivers win.
  • HaydenHayden
    edited May 2010
    I only really follow Australian Rules Football and 2-wheeled motorsports (MotoGP, World Superbikes, FIM Speedway, AMA Moto/Supercross). But I do enjoy watching cricket and the odd game of tennis. I watch boxing and kick boxing depending on who is fighting.

    And for what it's worth, I despise freestyle motocross and I think that Ultimate Fighter should be illegal.
  • The HighwayThe Highway
    edited May 2010
    I don't understand how racing with cars, motorbikes, etc with motors, can be called a sport. I support the west coast eagles in AFL and the dockers when they do well.
  • HaydenHayden
    edited May 2010
    The Highway wrote: »
    I don't understand how racing with cars, motorbikes, etc with motors, can be called a sport.

    No, believe me, they definitely qualify. Especially motorbike sports, they're much more physically demanding than you think. Motocross riders in particular have to be extremely fit to compete at the top level. Just because they're on vehicles that are powered by motors, it does not mean that it makes the sport easy.
  • AlcoremortisAlcoremortis
    edited May 2010
    GuruGuru214 wrote: »
    Also, I'm one of those oddball Americans who absolutely can't stand American football. I'd be perfectly happy if the NFL just up and vanished. My dad drives me nuts during football season.

    You're not the only one. Someone turns on a football game, I disappear. It's like magic.
  • S@breS@bre
    edited May 2010
    The Highway wrote: »
    I don't understand how racing with cars, motorbikes, etc with motors, can be called a sport.
    Hayden wrote: »
    No, believe me, they definitely qualify. Especially motorbike sports, they're much more physically demanding than you think. Motocross riders in particular have to be extremely fit to compete at the top level. Just because they're on vehicles that are powered by motors, it does not mean that it makes the sport easy.

    Read this and this. Motorsports, as Hayden says, are highly demanding on the drivers. For instance, attempting to drive an F1 car in a full race at anything less than top physical fitness is positively detrimental to your health, due to the rigours of g-force and dehydration, among other things. An F1 car can potentially brake with more g-force than the space shuttle is subjected to in taking off, and like the astronaut, the driver has to be conditioned to take it. Motor racing is very much an endurance exercise. 24 hour races in particular test the drivers as much as the engineering of the cars and bikes.

    A driver of a high performance race car or bike has to be as physically fit as any track or field athlete and arguably better mentally conditioned - a cricket or tennis player doesn't have to worry about moving in a potentially explosive machine at 200mph with the risk of death if any one of a large amount of things goes wrong, for instance.

    Though I will say I can't see any point to NASCAR racing. They just drive around a ring, seemingly trying to kill as many as each other as possible. But that's not to say the above still doesn't apply to them.
  • JennyJenny
    edited May 2010
    Alcoremortis wrote: »
    You're not the only one. Someone turns on a football game, I disappear. It's like magic.

    I can't stand American football either. It just doesn't interest me at all.

    I can enjoy a baseball game, or soccer (football), and I love Curling for some reason. But yeah, I don't get the craze of American football.
  • HaydenHayden
    edited May 2010
    S@bre wrote: »
    Though I will say I can't see any point to NASCAR racing. They just drive around a ring, seemingly trying to kill as many as each other as possible. But that's not to say the above still doesn't apply to them.

    I fully agree there. Maybe each of the drivers are like Zoolander and they can only turn in one direction.
  • EverlastEverlast
    edited May 2010
    I support Puerto Rico's basketball team in Olympics:

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    I can't wait for this summer's World Basketball to start to see if we finally win a medal for the 1st time! If we win one, i believe people will go crazy as it will be a pretty historic day for us and sport of basketball. We also like Watching boxing Miguel Cotto's fight.

    I support Cleveland Cavaliers if Lebron stays, San Antonio Spurs, Oklahoma City. As those teams are kinda underdogs and always get to prove so called experts wrong. (Except Cleveland of course on the humble)

    I also like watching the sport where it gets alot of exposure on Olympic winter, where 2 teams try to throw round rocks onto a red circle spot. For me its aweesome watching them discuss and debate and make a strategy. Last i like watching Michael Phelps, and Gymnastics.
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