View Full Version : Best sport to experience live?
Mustard
09-06-2008, 11:01 PM
Football
Baseball
Basketball
Hockey
Soccer
Other/Write-In
For me it is football. It is action packed, the crowd noise is something to be in awe of, and it lasts between 3 and 4 hours, so you tend to get your money's worth.
Your thoughts?
BIG PIZZLE
09-06-2008, 11:02 PM
IPTP!
evilash
09-06-2008, 11:06 PM
I love football, it is my favorite sport, but the last few Dallas Stars games I have gone to have made me a live hockey fan. The game is fast paced, the fans are fucking nuts and it is an all around good time.
Kopek
09-06-2008, 11:06 PM
Hockey is gay. The end.
nuclearjew
09-06-2008, 11:07 PM
Hockey is Canadian, which is gay as shit. The end.
nuclearjew
09-06-2008, 11:08 PM
I am answering football, but Blazer basketball games are pretty fuckin sweet.
... and it lasts between 3 and 4 hours, so you tend to get your money's worth.
Knowing nothing about the game, isn't there only like 1 hour of actual play?
Mustard
09-06-2008, 11:12 PM
Knowing nothing about the game, isn't there only like 1 hour of actual play?
yes, with four 15 minute quarters.
with that said, almost every game lasts between 3 and 4 hours due to times out, halftime, and game-clock stoppage.
Yes, but you've got to get in 2 to 3 hours of commercials.
There aren't any tv commericals if you're at a live game, dum dum.
unless you count the ads on the jumbo tron.
nuclearjew
09-06-2008, 11:12 PM
Not to mention FREE T-SHIRT LAUNCHINGS!!!
BIG PIZZLE
09-06-2008, 11:15 PM
Soccer and hockey are better live. Basketball is better live because I hate the camera angles they use. Directors need to learn how to set angles for 21st century TVs. Football is better on TV b/c of instant replay and all the awesome camera angles. But being there live is kinda like a being baseball game, it's more about the experience and going to the game than it is about watching the game. Basketball is the best because there's a lot of scoring and action and things can also come down to the wire.
Mustard
09-06-2008, 11:16 PM
Not to mention FREE T-SHIRT LAUNCHINGS!!!
I was afraid that even if I did catch one, it wouldn't fit.
nuclearjew
09-06-2008, 11:17 PM
Soccer and hockey are better live. Basketball is better live because I hate the camera angles they use. Directors need to learn how to set angles for 21st century TVs. Football is better on TV b/c of instant replay and all the awesome camera angles. But being there live is kinda like a being baseball game, it's more about the experience and going to the game than it is about watching the game. Basketball is the best because there's a lot of scoring and action and things can also come down to the wire.
You picked baseball.
Mustard
09-06-2008, 11:18 PM
Yeah, I know they don't show the commercials live. They stand around waiting for some guy with a tv to tell them they can start playing again.
well yeah... why didn't you just say that instead?
BIG PIZZLE
09-06-2008, 11:19 PM
Yeah, I know they don't show the commercials live. They stand around waiting for some guy with a tv to tell them they can start playing again.
Yeah, there's a lot of waiting. That's where the beer comes in. Football is too comlpex a sport to truely understand live. If you're at the game, you dont really realize what's going on. You get the general idea, but there's a lot of shit behind the scenes that make the game cool and it's tough to focus on those when you're basically partying in a staduim.
BIG PIZZLE
09-06-2008, 11:20 PM
You picked baseball.
Well I thought it said basketball.
Marshy
09-06-2008, 11:24 PM
there is only one clear answer. hockey.
those that didnt pick hockey probably want to see McCain's VP naked. idiots.
nuclearjew
09-06-2008, 11:25 PM
Well I thought it said basketball.
Congratulations, you would've voted for Pat Buchanan in Florida in 2000.
Mustard
09-06-2008, 11:26 PM
there is only one clear answer. hockey.
those that didnt pick hockey probably want to see McCain's VP naked. idiots.
I wouldn't mind.
Kopek
09-06-2008, 11:35 PM
Hockey is Canadian based with its own Homosexual League, which is gay as shit. The end.
Mustard
09-06-2008, 11:37 PM
See, not bad.
http://www.hollywood-newsroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/sarahpalinnude21.jpg
http://www.hollywood-newsroom.com/gossip/sarah-palin-naked/ (http://www.hollywood-newsroom.com/gossip/sarah-palin-naked/)
http://www.hollywood-newsroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/sarah-palin-hot.jpg
Kopek
09-06-2008, 11:45 PM
So horribly photoshopped.
Mustard
09-06-2008, 11:47 PM
meh... beggars can't be choosers.
Archetype
09-07-2008, 12:53 AM
Sex with men, clearly the answer is sex with men.
Claydon
09-07-2008, 01:03 AM
Golf
Archetype
09-07-2008, 01:14 AM
fag
Mustard
09-07-2008, 01:14 AM
aaaaaaaaaaaand sex with men is running away with it...
Archetype
09-07-2008, 01:15 AM
Righteous.
The GWD
09-07-2008, 01:49 AM
How could you not pick sex with men?
Superhuman
09-07-2008, 02:02 AM
Hockey.
Baseball. In person, it awesome. Hockey a close second.
Jericho
09-07-2008, 03:12 AM
An exciting basketball game with sweet seats
fuldstændigamok
09-07-2008, 06:42 AM
Football (the real one), no contest. Be it a league game, an International one (even better) or the best, a Champion's League game.
Rugby is a close second.
chaos2015
09-07-2008, 06:43 AM
never seen hockey live so i'm gonna say basketball
Blitz
09-07-2008, 08:50 AM
I've been to Hockey, Football and Baseball games and I would have to say that I enjoy watching Hockey live, the most.
scraty55
09-07-2008, 08:51 AM
professional sports are shit. college football and world cup soccer are the only sports that i can watch and enjoy
merlin13
09-07-2008, 09:27 AM
Three years ago I took my wife to her first hockey game. My Flyers beat the Hurricanes but she had an awesome time. She now likes the Hurricanes but only because of Brind Amour. We try to go to atleast 3 or 4 games each year.
zaphrodesiac
09-07-2008, 09:27 AM
Boxing by far. Even though I'm not a hockey fan, I really enjoyed seeing the couple St. Louis Blue's games I was lucky enough to go to. The first time was during the Shanahan/Hull days and they put on a good show.
VoxAngelikus
09-07-2008, 09:44 AM
No NASCAR option? [/sarcasm]
merlin13
09-07-2008, 09:48 AM
When I was a kid in South Jersey, there was a fighter named Mike Rossman who was supposed to be the next big fighter out of Philly. I got to see a lot of golden gloves fights but not any pro bouts. I do remember going to a lot of Flyers Games back in the days of The Broad Street Bullies. Like the old saying goes " I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out. " .
Le Goat
09-07-2008, 11:29 AM
I love football, it is my favorite sport, but the last few Dallas Stars games I have gone to have made me a live hockey fan. The game is fast paced, the fans are fucking nuts and it is an all around good time.
I concur with this. I'm a huge baseball fan, I played it for 13 years and still play as much as possible, so going to a game is just therapeutic for me... but I went to two Stars games last year (one regular season, one quadruple OT Game 6 vs SJ) and I've never, ever been more sore/hoarse/tired than I have after. Great shit.
there is only one clear answer. hockey.
those that didnt pick hockey probably want to see McCain's VP naked. idiots.
Ha ha! That's funny.
zaphrodesiac
09-07-2008, 12:26 PM
Obviously most of you have never seen a live boxing match.
It doesn't have to be in Vegas to count. Shit, I've had more fun at the Toughman shows than at any of the hockey games I went to, not to devalue them. Butterbean was the shiiiiit.
BIG PIZZLE
09-07-2008, 12:28 PM
Butterbean live would be aweosome.
Superhuman
09-07-2008, 02:37 PM
Although it's my 2nd favorite sport, football is the worst to watch live. Even worse than baseball. Yes, I just said that.
nuclearjew
09-07-2008, 02:47 PM
Football is awesome to watch live, though I prefer college to NFL live. The Civil War game I went to last year was probably the best sporting event I've ever been to.
Football is awesome to watch live, though I prefer college to NFL live. The Civil War game I went to last year was probably the best sporting event I've ever been to.
Even though the Ducks lost... Amazing fucking game though.
Archetype
09-07-2008, 02:51 PM
Hey, what the hell is this, I clearly voted for sex with men, not this "hockey."
thestronz
09-07-2008, 02:53 PM
With hockey, the game is more entertaining and the atmosphere during the actual game is amazing.
However, on the whole, I think football takes the cake for the greater experience overall. There's nothing like road trippin to a game, tailgating, and then experiencing the game live.
wacker
09-07-2008, 03:00 PM
Hockey is a zillion times better in person. The TV is not able to show the whole game as it is being played.
nuclearjew
09-07-2008, 03:06 PM
Hockey is definitely a sport you have to see live.
I’d say ski touring in high mountains is the best sport I experienced alive, but I figured out that in American English "sport" means something that you watch, not actually do.
http://www.paraglidingholidays.com/wintersports/images/snowboard-holidays.jpg
Fletch
09-07-2008, 03:12 PM
Hockey is the best sport live, but a big time college football game is probably the best overall experience. Tailgating all day, cheerleaders, drinks...
Claydon
09-07-2008, 05:33 PM
oh yah...
golf
medlar
09-07-2008, 05:38 PM
I went to my first live Canucks Hockey game two years ago and watching it live three rows back from the ice is pretty exciting. Lots of action.
I will almost say it surpasses watching a live soccer game.
Alcestis
09-07-2008, 06:09 PM
No NASCAR option?
I would have never guessed. *wink*
Mustard
09-07-2008, 06:16 PM
NASCAR, golf, bowling, porn, they all fall under the "Other/Write-In" option.
The reason I didn't give them their own option was because they would garner few, if any, votes. Though in hindsight I figured that basketball would have more votes...
Fletch
09-07-2008, 06:50 PM
Now that I think about it, there is really only one answer...
http://www.coedmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/cook-barnett-australia.jpg
marquis
09-07-2008, 07:22 PM
hockey is hands down the beat sport to watch live. i don't know why but the game looks different on TV. One cannot appreciate the speed, size, and skill of these players fully until you see them in person.
BIG PIZZLE
09-07-2008, 07:24 PM
Now that I think about it, there is really only one answer...
http://www.coedmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/cook-barnett-australia.jpg
Most beach vollyball players only look good from that angle.
Marshy
09-07-2008, 10:48 PM
hockey can change in an instant and by one players decision. its truly a game of angles and luck which is why its hard to repeat as champs.
emthreepeeoh
09-07-2008, 10:51 PM
Hockey by far. Went to my first hockey game a couple years back, sat in the upper level at the United Center to watch the Blackhawks. It was like Deadwood up there--it was awesome.
Swurgen
09-08-2008, 02:54 PM
Football is awful live. You people need to separate football the game where there's one little clump of action that is frequently really far away from you and football the event (tailgating and all that shit).
Swurgen
09-08-2008, 03:03 PM
I’d say ski touring in high mountains is the best sport I experienced alive, but I figured out that in American English "sport" means something that you watch, not actually do.
http://www.paraglidingholidays.com/wintersports/images/snowboard-holidays.jpg
In America we know how to understand questions as they are given and we also have a name for people who consider modes of transport to be sport...we call them rednecks.
^ So what was the question again?
I'm not saying that gulping popcorn and guzzling beer on a sport stadium isn't fun – but that doesn't constitute a sport. Check a dictionary, tard.
Bastard
09-09-2008, 02:10 AM
The best sport to experience live would be roller derby. Sluts on skates.
Swurgen
09-09-2008, 02:14 AM
^ So what was the question again?
I'm not saying that gulping popcorn and guzzling beer on a sport stadium isn't fun – but that doesn't constitute a sport. Check a dictionary, tard.
OK so 70 other replies took it one way but you're right. Experiencing a sport live is exactly the same as playing it in the back yard with friends. Everybody else is wrong.
OK so 70 other replies took it one way but you're right. Experiencing a sport live is exactly the same as playing it in the back yard with friends. Everybody else is wrong.Wow, 70 replies? Being in minority makes you wrong, right?
OK, the experience of watching sport alive could be awesome, even if I prefer to experience sport on my own.
I decided to read the question literary, even if I knew what Sink meant. Got it?
EDIT: I love porn, yet I prefer to fuck for real, at least sometimes.
Mustard
09-09-2008, 04:01 AM
Weeping Jesus on the cross...
Wait... you experinced that alive?
You're making that up, aren't you?
Mustard
09-09-2008, 04:07 AM
I'm going to set the building on fire.
NHRA Top Fuel drag racing.
The noise and speed of those cars is unreal and is NOTHING like watching it on TV. When the light turns green your vision blurs and you feel pressure on your chest as 8,000 HP comes alive. 4.5 seconds later the dragster is going 340 MPH (530 KMH) and crossing the finish line. The 0 to 100 MPH is under 1 second.
Keep in mind that I can't watch more than a hour of it on TV, but I can spend an entire weekend at the track watching these things fly down the drag strip and never once be bored.
Tractor Pull > Top Fuel drag racing
Kilgore
09-09-2008, 09:48 AM
I wish I could say Football or even Basketball but I've been to one nascar race and it far superior as far as overall experience. I'm not even really a fan, but pull for the local boy, Greg Biffle.
Mr. Brown
09-09-2008, 11:25 AM
College football. A homecoming game or big rivalry game, there's nothing like it.