What does the Sports Hating crowd deem better than sports?

[trumad]

Basket Weaving?
Poem Seminars?
Coffee at Starbucks?
Friends re-runs?
Frisbee with the dog? (Never mind, that might be to sporty)
Monopoly (never mind, too competitive and possibly to capitilistic)

Please...I gotta know... What could possibly be better than watching the great game of American football?

[meti57b]

1. one thing would be, reading the phone book cover to cover with a headache

while listening to Mariah Carey.

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Sex???

:shrug:

[elperromagico]

6. You're good. Why didn't I think of that?

[THUNDER HANDS]

8. as a football fan, I tend to agree

Sex is better than football.

But football is better than foreplay. :D

[SheepyMcSheepster]

3. loads of things.

playing music.
playing online computer games.
talking to people about things other than sports.
watching things other than sports.
actually playing the sport.
cleaning up.
calling your grandma.
learning something.


while i can appreciate playing sports, i don't get into watching a team of people who have nothing in common besides where their paycheck comes from try and beat another team of people who get their paycheck from a different source.

now here is my idea for good football....

take all the teams and make two big huge teams and put them on a huge field that will take days to cross and then let them play football.

[camero]

20. HeHe like George Carlin

Take all 60 players on each side, put em on the field at the same time, and eliminate the rules. Then you'll see some REAL injuries.
lol.

Or NASCAR, where else can you go to see a 30 car pileup without actually being in one. :)

[Robb]

4. I dunno...

Better than watching the great game of American football?...Stapling my lips to a chalkboard? :shrug:

[elperromagico]

5. I'll tell you what: Watching the great game of American football

while stoned off your ass.

Now that's fun.

[RandomKoolzip]

7. Music, sex, comedy, books, love, food, nature, politics....

The infinite, complex, intellectually stimulating universe of performing, writing, listening to, and writing about music, for one- at least that's waht takes up most of my time.

Remove sports and there's really not too big a hole, IMHO.

[jimbo fett]

9. I love having sex while playing football. Or vice versa.

[camero]

21. Someone who had sex while watching the Super Bowl

It was her idea. :shrug:

[jimbo fett]

25. He… could... go… all… the… waaaaay!!! Ooops, penalty for a false-start.

[camero]

27. LOL

No false starts here...lol. I was holding though. :)

Edit: Still remember it, Ravens v. Giants. Boy did my team scooore.

[DBoon]

10. Surfing DU of course!

n/t

[trumad]

11. Sex

My wife tried to get me to have it late in the 4th quarter of a tied ballgame with Danny Marino at the helm... It was the first time she realized that her love potions only worked 90 percent of the time.

[elperromagico]

15. It shows that you prefer

watching a bunch of men running around throwing a damned ball and slapping each other on the ass to making love to your wife. :P

[vi5]

12. Hmmm....If i have to point out the obvious one...

Then something tells me you have bigger issues.

But OTHER than that one:
Mowing my lawn?
Building something?
Reading?
Playing music (instrument of your choice)?
Seeing a band perform live music?
Cutting my toenails?

Pretty much anything other than watching a bunch of overpaid steakheads run after a ball on a field.

[leftofthedial]

13. partial list

sex
music
food
drink
literature
conversation
film

[Red_Storm]

14. Reading idiotic football fan threads on DU ..........

[coolhand27]

16. Here's a scenario

How bout watching a game of football, while having sex, while listening to Mariah Carey, while stoned off your ass?

[elperromagico]

17. Been there, done that,

bought the t-shirt.

[rustydog]

18. I prefer participating in the sports..

not sitting in a bar with a beer-gut since graduation and screaming as if I made th play just shown on TV.

I am not reliving "glory-days" I just like to play basketball, baseball and backyard football.
Why watch on TV what one can do in person.

Why watch some jackoff who got to coast in college getting "gentleman c's" simply because he can block or tackle?And they get millions for playing a fucking GAME!

makes no sense to me. I'd rather play the game than watch from the sidelines. yelling "dude we won!, we kicked ass" like all the TV fans do.

[NightTrain]

19. Music, reading, watching intelligent films, having sex, and...

...the most radical concept of all: talking with other people!

[Whitacre D_WI]

22. I like sports, BUT

I like the arts better. All the arts -- music, film (including good TV), literature, theatre, visual arts, dance, good food, and a well-made drink.



Oh, and I'd rather watch the great game of American baseball than the great game of American football.

[Red_Storm]

23. Sex, Music, Books, Movies, Good Conversation, World Affairs, .......

Traveling, Drinking Wine, Being In Love, etc..........

[populistmom]

39. exactly!

Couldn't have said it any better than this!

[qwertyMike]

24. Soccer

:)

[joefree1]

26. I hate watching "Corporate Sports,"

As well as I hate listening to Corporate Rock. However I love to play Sandlot Football. I also love Golf, ...Frisbee Golf that is. Hiking is great too, especially in a foreign country. I want to participate, not be a spectator.

I love the rough and tumble of politics. Especially rallies. When you root for the good guys it's not over at the end of the season.

[VOX]

54. Well said, joefree1!! I don't want the NFL to own my Sundays...

And getting out of the house and "doing" is so much better than passively sitting around in front of the tube.

:toast:

[Cat Atomic]

28. Basically anything but sports. It's a big world, you know.

I like to kayak, sculpt, read, bike... I'm an animator by trade, so I do side animation projects as well.... ehh... lots of stuff.

[trumad]

29. God you people are boring.....

[elperromagico]

32. Hey, if you don't like it, move to Russia.

:beer:

[Cat Atomic]

35. Hey, you're the one who thinks watching TV is a hobby, bro.

:P

Hehe.

[NightTrain]

40. Why are we boring?

Because we can find other ways to spend our time than sitting on our asses in front of the TV set, watching a bunch of overpaid, immature muscleheads in muddy clothes (who some people have inexplicably elevated to god-like status) beating the shit out of each other to possess a fucking ball?!

Has it ever occurred to you that perhaps YOU'RE the one who's boring?

[Red_Storm]

30. No football game could ever be better than ............

Miles Davis playing a ballad
The sound of Carlos Santana's guitar
John Coltrane Live at The Village Vanguard
Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Aretha and Al Green singing to you
a Bob Dylan song
Bill Evans on the piano
Chicago Blues
A human voice and an acoustic guitar
Sweet Soul Music
Jimi Hendrix jammin' out
Little Richard & Chuck Berry rockin' out


and lots of other things.......

[NightTrain]

42. Now, Red Storm is a guy with whom I'd love to have a conversation!

:hi:

[Red_Storm]

43. Cool .......

:)

[TreasonousBastard]

31. Just about anything else.

[DieboldMustDie]

33. Dancing

[maxanne]

34. root canals

grouting tile

enemas

[Logansquare]

36. All of the stuff you mentioned

:-)

[curse10]

37. books, concerts, spending time with my kitties

anything, really.

[NightTrain]

38. Here's another activity that I much prefer to watching sports...

Rolling around naked in honey and sawdust, and locking myself in a cage full of woodpeckers!

[NightTrain]

41. Here's a little more food for thought

In the early 1990s, I was a childcare volunteer at a shelter for battered women. Guess what the busiest day of the year was for its domestic violence hotline? Super Bowl fucking Sunday!

[elperromagico]

45. "Boy, yer blockin' the TV. You'll move if y'know what's good for ya."

[jonnyblitz]

44. damn near just about any and everything. n/t

[greendog]

46. shoveling shit

Given a choice between watching corporate football from a lazyboy recliner and shoveling horse shit, I'd shovel the shit.

[Faygo Kid]

48. Great! C'mon over!

You can take care of the farm business while I pop a cold one and watch the game from my La-Z-Boy. Man, your friends must love you!

[greendog]

50. Sure, I'll take care of your farm business while you watch the game....

...I'd love to!

You pay my travel and lodging expenses and a fair daily rate (average NFL players pay) and I'll be right over. I'll even bring my own shovel.

I'm willing to cover Sundays through the season and Monday nights as necessary.

When do I start?

:)

[ZenLefty]

47. Better than watching American football?

Playoff hockey. Duh.

[Cat Atomic]

49. I'd like to know why all of the "un-sports" things you listed are

sort of femme.

People who have active lives are bound to be in much better physical condition that you TV sports junkies. Watching big guys rough each other up does not make YOU a big, rough guy. It makes you a couch potato.

I've never understood the way so many guys will equate WATCHING sports to masculinity. It's completely passive. There's nothing manly about it.

[AndyTiedye]

51. Dancing All Night

(which also has done more for my physical condition, coordination, etc., than all those sucky sports ever did)

Ride the Music

AndyTiedye

[Piperay]

52. Watching grass grow

(grass as in lawn) and watching tires being rotated is preferable to watching football as far as I am concerned.

[101 Proof]

53. Not a damn thing.

I don't understand that either.