What the dumbest "sport" you've ever heard of?

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Posted: 8/22/2005 10:34:29 AM EDT

Here's my pick: Lava Sledding

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:36:37 AM EDT

[#1]

Before I heard about cup stacking it was golf - but now I'm back to hating golf (and golfers) the most.

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:37:23 AM EDT

[#2]

How about one full of steroid pumped soon to be or ex felons who wear tight pants and chase balls while their fans pay $50 for a ticket to sit in the cold and more$$$$$ for the opportunity to advertise their favorite team on a sweatshirt.

That's as dumb as it gets.

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:38:19 AM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
Before I heard about cup stacking it was golf - but now I'm back to hating golf (and golfers) the most.

Sorry you hate me.

As for dumbest "sport". Professional Basketball. Its not a sport. Is a shoe commercial and a welfare system.

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:38:44 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
How about one full of steroid pumped soon to be or ex felons who wear tight pants and chase balls while their fans pay $50 for a ticket to sit in the cold and more$$$$$ for the opportunity to advertise their favorite team on a sweatshirt.

That's as dumb as it gets.

+1!

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:39:52 AM EDT

[#5]

Baseball. Absolutely hate it.

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:40:39 AM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Before I heard about cup stacking it was golf - but now I'm back to hating golf (and golfers) the most.

Sorry you hate me.

As for dumbest "sport". Professional Basketball. Its not a sport. Is a shoe commercial and a welfare system.

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:41:19 AM EDT

[#7]

How is that any dumber than skiing, downhill racing, or a myriad of other sports where you propel yourself down a hill at high speed?

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:41:55 AM EDT

[#8]

Midget tossing

HH

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:41:59 AM EDT

[#9]

FOOTBALL.

it's the only sport they stop the game every ten seconds or every time someone is "down".

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:42:06 AM EDT

[#10]

women's beach volleyball! absolutely the stupidest, hottest, monkey-spankin' sport around!

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:42:57 AM EDT

[#11]

African tree hockey.

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:44:40 AM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
How is that any dumber than skiing, downhill racing, or a myriad of other sports where you propel yourself down a hill at high speed?

I think it just edges out those you mention. Sure ice is hard, but lava is hard and sharp.

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:45:08 AM EDT

[#13]

NASCAR

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:45:28 AM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
How about one full of steroid pumped soon to be or ex felons who wear tight pants and chase balls while their fans pay $50 for a ticket to sit in the cold and more$$$$$ for the opportunity to advertise their favorite team on a sweatshirt.

That's as dumb as it gets.

I disagree with this. The players are actually just taking an advantage of an opportunity. The fans are the dumb ones.

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:46:14 AM EDT

[#15]

Curling

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:46:41 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
NASCAR

+1

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:47:08 AM EDT

[#17]

+1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 for basketball.

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:47:24 AM EDT

[#18]

Syncronized diving.
WTF? Same dive, twice the fags.

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:47:50 AM EDT

[#19]

Jesus, where can we start???

Umm let's see: NASCAR is definately #1, followed closely by Golf and Football.

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:47:51 AM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
Curling

Definately. +1

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:49:49 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Curling

www.columbuscurling.com/Drop-In%20Curling%2023Oct04%20%2009.jpg

Yeah, that is one for sure. Sheesh.

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:49:55 AM EDT

[#22]

Chess, NASCAR, Ballroom Dancing, Water Ballet, Bridge etc...

Basically, any of the stupid non-athletic BS sports the Olympic committee is trying to unload as legitimate.

Chess is a game of skill, not of athleticism.

NASCAR, hell, a fat guy can drive a car in circles. While I am a Nascar fan, I don't consider it a sport.

Ballroom Dancing...WTF??? It's dancing...what next? Disco??

Bridge? It is a card game. You can be old, fat and drunk and still play. Not a sport.

Forgot to mention any of the X-Games BS on ESPN.

Skateboarding down a hill, jumping off, swinging on a rope into a vat of ground up tires is not a sport. It is what bored kids do when they have nothing better to do.

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:52:06 AM EDT

[#23]

Got to say that basketball slightly edges out football. But if both completely disappeared right now, it might be months before I noticed.

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:52:50 AM EDT

[#24]

I love the bumpersticker I saw that said something like

"Nascar is the only sport that requires TWO balls"

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:54:21 AM EDT

[#25]

I hate any sport involving a ball of some sort.

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:56:32 AM EDT

[#26]

I can't see how anyone who is athletic could find football, basketball, baseball and sports of that caliber dumb. Perhaps the politics/morality of the players on the professional level, but the sports themselves are fun to play. Sounds like we have a bunch of guys who were last picks in gym class

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:56:32 AM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
I love the bumpersticker I saw that said something like

"Nascar is the only sport that requires TWO balls"

Unless the driver is a woman.

But then of course you would have to let the Toyota Camry into NASCAR.

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:56:51 AM EDT

[#28]

anything that begins with "extreme"

also "lawnmower racing"

Posted: 8/22/2005 10:57:44 AM EDT

[#29]

I F'ing HAYTES me some NASCAR!

Posted: 8/22/2005 11:01:31 AM EDT

[#30]

Soccer, duh

Posted: 8/22/2005 11:14:09 AM EDT

[#31]

I would have to say Cricket, followed closely by Golf

Posted: 8/22/2005 11:15:12 AM EDT

[#32]

Basketball

Posted: 8/22/2005 11:19:15 AM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
How about one full of steroid pumped soon to be or ex felons who wear tight pants and chase balls while their fans pay $50 for a ticket to sit in the cold and more$$$$$ for the opportunity to advertise their favorite team on a sweatshirt.

That's as dumb as it gets.

+ 10,000

Posted: 8/22/2005 11:23:05 AM EDT

[#34]

I agree with many of the NASCAR votes. It looks incredibly stupid and like George Carlin said "Its the same 5 rednecks that win every year anyway)

Its one of those sports that looks boring to watch but must be fun to be in.

Posted: 8/22/2005 11:23:27 AM EDT

[#35]

Shooting

Posted: 8/22/2005 11:24:15 AM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
Quoted:
I love the bumpersticker I saw that said something like

"Nascar is the only sport that requires TWO balls"

Unless the driver is a woman.

But then of course you would have to let the Toyota Camry into NASCAR.

Look for Toyota in Nextel NASCAR by 2007... They are already in the Truck series.

Posted: 8/22/2005 11:29:16 AM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
Chess, NASCAR, Ballroom Dancing, Water Ballet, Bridge etc...

Basically, any of the stupid non-athletic BS sports the Olympic committee is trying to unload as legitimate.

Chess is a game of skill, not of athleticism.

NASCAR, hell, a fat guy can drive a car in circles. While I am a Nascar fan, I don't consider it a sport.

Ballroom Dancing...WTF??? It's dancing...what next? Disco??

Bridge? It is a card game. You can be old, fat and drunk and still play. Not a sport.

Forgot to mention any of the X-Games BS on ESPN.

Skateboarding down a hill, jumping off, swinging on a rope into a vat of ground up tires is not a sport. It is what bored kids do when they have nothing better to do.

How do you feel about Skeet and Trap shooting as Olympic sports?

Posted: 8/22/2005 11:32:04 AM EDT

[#38]

Posted: 8/22/2005 11:33:19 AM EDT

[#39]

Curling. Professional basketball (watch college - that's the real talent). Skateboarding, snowboarding, BMX. Fun to watch, but it's merely a hobby.

Posted: 8/22/2005 11:35:46 AM EDT

[#40]

Bog Snorkeling

Yes I did say "Bog Snorkeling" It's done not far from where I like. I've never done it or seen it done.
But it makes the News every year and is normaly the daft end item on the local tv news...

Competitors have to complete two lengths of a 60 yard trench cut through the peat bog in the quickest time possible, wearing snorkels and flippers (wet suits optional but advisable) but without using any conventional swimming strokes

Taffy

Posted: 8/22/2005 11:36:40 AM EDT

[#41]

Golf-Basketball-Baseball-Football-Soccer-nascar

Posted: 8/22/2005 11:37:42 AM EDT

[#42]

The sport isn't the dumbest but I think the inventors should have picked a better name: Cornhole

Posted: 8/22/2005 11:38:58 AM EDT

[#43]

Marching Band.

Posted: 8/22/2005 11:41:49 AM EDT

[#44]

Compensated professional sports are all pretty dumb.

Do it for the fun of it.

Do it as a demonstration to show it to others to introduce them to it so they can partcipate, okay I see the value of that, but 'professional athletes' should be guys wroking at 7-11 and playing in the basketball court after work.

Posted: 8/22/2005 11:42:48 AM EDT

[#45]

+1 on curling. SHeesh!

Posted: 8/22/2005 11:47:00 AM EDT

[#46]

You should all be banned.

Curling ROCKS.

Posted: 8/22/2005 11:49:50 AM EDT

[#47]

Competitive eating. Pretty soon it's the only thing the US will excel at.

Posted: 8/22/2005 11:50:47 AM EDT

[#48]

Quoted:
The sport isn't the dumbest but I think the inventors should have picked a better name: Cornhole

tinypic.com/ay376o.jpg

Posted: 8/22/2005 11:53:26 AM EDT

[#49]

any sport with whiney ass overpaid spoiled atheletes, especially the ones that dont respect coaches and spit on referees and umpires! bunch of fuggin animals.

Posted: 8/22/2005 11:54:29 AM EDT

[#50]

Quoted:
You should all be banned.

Curling ROCKS.

Puns aside, curling is fun. Anything competitive can be fun. Who can chuck a rock farther is fun done right.

Still while not everything you can compete in is a "sport", defining the difference between sport and game and whatever is for people who don't like to play, and people who don't like to play shouldn't be allowed to interfere with people who do because they make stupid rules like banning fighting in hockey.

That all said, the stupidest "sports" are the new crap people who can't compete in anything established make up just to get on TV. I understand you and your buddies like ground luge and base jumping. It's recreation, but don't try to raise it's legitimacy up there with recognized things and don't claim celebrity from your world champion status in a global field of 4 dweebs who were knocked out in dodgeball class.

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