I got inspired to start this thread after reading the baseball playoffs thread and some people's reasoning there.
For purposes of this thread, things like sex, eating, discussing politics, etc. are NOT sports hahahahaha. I was gonna differentiate playing sports from spectating - which I really had in mind also, but free speech, so whatever.
Money doesn't have much to do with it for me. Nor does various forms of corruption, allegations of this and that, etc. As a HOMER, it's basically no big deal when our guys do it and just a further excuse to dislike when the other teams' guys do it.
My likes don't go much beyond pro football (obviously), college football, college basketball, and baseball.
I don't like the NBA because there is a clear pattern of league sanctioned favoritism by officials of certain teams (the big cities plus San Antonio and for some odd reason, Memphis). They cheat badly against my two favorite teams: the Bucks and Mavs. What they did to poor Shawn Bradley was downright CRIMINAL.
I don't like NASCAR or any car racing - except for the crashes, of course - who wouldn't like those hahahahaha? Why? It's boring, and despite what anybody says, it's the machine, not the person that makes the difference.
I used to hate soccer - because it's boring - run around and around and around and no scoring - and they don't even let 'em hit each other - much. That has changed a little bit since my grandsons played it, but on TV, it's still boring.
Ditto that for hockey - even though I played it a little bit - except for the fights, of course.
I used to like watching tennis - which I play a LOT - but it's frustrating to see no Americans at all doing good - who cares if damn foreigner A beats damn foreigner B? I still watch the Williams sisters, but that's about it.
I'm less bored by golf than a lot of people. I used to watch it a lot when Palmer and Nicklaus were dominating. Nowadays, there's just too many unknowns to keep track of, and if I can't root for somebody in ANY sport, it's a big "who cares?".
Wrestling - acting, not sport. When I was 12 - 50 some years ago - I used to watch it with my grandma - who really took it seriously, but not since then.
Boxing - I only like it when I can really be FOR somebody. Due to my Philippine connections, I like watching Pacquiao but that's about it.
MMA? Nope, I never got into it.
What else is there? Bowling - fun to play even though I'm no good, but boring to watching - see golf above - nobody to root for.
Olympics: throw out everything I said about boring above; If there is an AMERICAN in it, it's automatically interesting, even soccer, yes, even gymnastics.
Expressing the Good Normal Views of Good Normal Americans.
If Anything I Say Smacks of Extremism, Please Tell Me EXACTLY What.