SWC75
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Watching Sports Center, I realize that I'm missing some great NBA playoff games because I'm into spring sports now: baseball and golf, SU lacrosse, with horse racing and auto racing coming up, as well as a boxing match. For me the basketball season ends with the end of the SU season and the Final Four.
Thinking about this, the thought occurred that you tell how much of a fan you are of a sport by how often you watch games in that sport in which you have no rooting interest.
Based on that, football is my favorite sport. On a college football Saturday, I'll watch from noon to midnight, switching back and forth from game to game, unless there's a home SU game. And there have been times I was frustrated by there being a home SU game because it might mean I'd miss part of Alabama-LSU or Ohio State-Michigan. I even get into the high school and small college playoffs. For a few years I was kind of off the NFL, preferring Sunday to be a day of rest. But since I discovered NFL Red Zone, I've had that on Sunday afternoons.
In baseball, I'm mostly watching, listening or going to Chiefs and Mets games. I get he Yankees and Cubs and Braves games on cable but rarely check them out. The history of everything is interesting so I'm into the history of the game but I'm unlikely to have on a Cubs-Reds game, etc. Even when i go to a Chiefs game it's more of a cultural event. I like to spend a summer evening at the ball park form time to time. It's not like the team is trying to put our town on the map in the way SU football and basketball does.
I rarely watch a non-SU basketball game unless it some big confrontation: Duke-UNC, Kentucky-Indiana, etc. When I fill out my NCAA bracket in the spring it's mostly teams I've never seen play. I don't pay much attention to the NBA, except for ex-SU guy, until about the semi-finals and by then I'm wondering why they are still playing in the summertime.
After the Final Four, I'm in a mood to watch sports in which I have no rooting interest because caring so much about football and basketball games for 6 months is wearing. Golf looks so beautiful on my hi-def TV that i'll watch it even if it's not the Masters and Tiger is on the shelf. The triple crown of horse racing and the Indy 500 are just traditional evens on the sports calendar. When they are over, I don't pay much attention to those sports. I like boxing and the Olympics. I get into SU lacrosee if they get to the Final Four.
So I guess football is the sport I'm really a total fan of. The other sports it's all about a rooting interest, the sports calendar or a change of pace.
Thinking about this, the thought occurred that you tell how much of a fan you are of a sport by how often you watch games in that sport in which you have no rooting interest.
Based on that, football is my favorite sport. On a college football Saturday, I'll watch from noon to midnight, switching back and forth from game to game, unless there's a home SU game. And there have been times I was frustrated by there being a home SU game because it might mean I'd miss part of Alabama-LSU or Ohio State-Michigan. I even get into the high school and small college playoffs. For a few years I was kind of off the NFL, preferring Sunday to be a day of rest. But since I discovered NFL Red Zone, I've had that on Sunday afternoons.
In baseball, I'm mostly watching, listening or going to Chiefs and Mets games. I get he Yankees and Cubs and Braves games on cable but rarely check them out. The history of everything is interesting so I'm into the history of the game but I'm unlikely to have on a Cubs-Reds game, etc. Even when i go to a Chiefs game it's more of a cultural event. I like to spend a summer evening at the ball park form time to time. It's not like the team is trying to put our town on the map in the way SU football and basketball does.
I rarely watch a non-SU basketball game unless it some big confrontation: Duke-UNC, Kentucky-Indiana, etc. When I fill out my NCAA bracket in the spring it's mostly teams I've never seen play. I don't pay much attention to the NBA, except for ex-SU guy, until about the semi-finals and by then I'm wondering why they are still playing in the summertime.
After the Final Four, I'm in a mood to watch sports in which I have no rooting interest because caring so much about football and basketball games for 6 months is wearing. Golf looks so beautiful on my hi-def TV that i'll watch it even if it's not the Masters and Tiger is on the shelf. The triple crown of horse racing and the Indy 500 are just traditional evens on the sports calendar. When they are over, I don't pay much attention to those sports. I like boxing and the Olympics. I get into SU lacrosee if they get to the Final Four.
So I guess football is the sport I'm really a total fan of. The other sports it's all about a rooting interest, the sports calendar or a change of pace.
