What's the dumbest major sport?

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Posted: 4/25/2013 6:57:30 AM EDT

Your vote for the dumbest major sport. And for clarification I use the word sport as defined by an activity performed by "athletes" that have a sizable fan following.

poll coming

Posted: 4/25/2013 6:58:49 AM EDT

[#1]

toss up between golf and curling.

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:01:18 AM EDT

[#2]

gotta be soccer.

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:02:03 AM EDT

[#3]

Basketball

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:02:21 AM EDT

[#4]

IBTP

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:02:22 AM EDT

[#5]

Handegg.

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:02:25 AM EDT

[#6]

Golf!!!

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:02:52 AM EDT

[#7]

It's neither here nor there, but it blows my mind that rally, F1 and Baja are not wildly popular in this country... but we have NASCAR.

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:03:30 AM EDT

[#8]

When you say "professional wresting", are you talking about studio wrestling, like Hulk Hogan type stuff?
Speed

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:03:46 AM EDT

[#9]

How about "all of them" as an option?

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:04:06 AM EDT

[#10]

Pro wrestling should not be on the list. It's entertainment not a sport. MMA or Boxing they are sports.

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:04:14 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
It's neither here nor there, but it blows my mind that rally, F1 and Baja are not wildly popular in this country... but we have NASCAR.

too many turns

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:04:16 AM EDT

[#12]

Was going to say "golf", but then I saw "Proffesional Wrestling" on there... that's about as athletic as playing an athlete on TV.

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:04:19 AM EDT

[#13]

I've always struggled with spelling "professional".

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:04:28 AM EDT

[#14]

Can't understand how anybody likes basketball......waaaaaaaaay too much scoring with no defense.

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:04:58 AM EDT

[#15]

NASCAR

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:05:18 AM EDT

[#16]

Calling Golf a sport is like calling Checkers a sport. If you can be fat and unfit, it isn't a sport.

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:05:42 AM EDT

[#17]

Nascar

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:06:20 AM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:

Pro wrestling should not be on the list. It's entertainment not a sport. MMA or Boxing they are sports.

"athletes" do it and have a pretty big following, so I thought it should be included. MMA could have been there but it didn't cross my mind.

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:06:25 AM EDT

[#19]

basketball

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:07:34 AM EDT

[#20]

I don't get NASCAR, don't like it either. Watching it is boring. BUT, I have done the NASCAR experience at the Kansas City Speedway and you know, it is pretty physical. I was sweaty and tired after muscling that car around the track so I have to at least give credit where it is due to the drivers.

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:08:09 AM EDT

[#21]

Yes............

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:10:22 AM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
gotta be soccer.

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:11:48 AM EDT

[#23]

what about bowling?

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:13:44 AM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:

Quoted:
gotta be soccer.

Gotta say though you have to be in good shape to play soccer.
You dont have to be in good shape to be a baseball player,nascar driver,golfer,proffesional wrestler and half the positions in football.
I voted for proffesional wrestling btw.

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:14:05 AM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
what about bowling?

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:14:31 AM EDT

[#26]

Poll fail. None of those choices are "sports". They are games.

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:15:15 AM EDT

[#27]

Professional wrestling nudges out NASCAR.

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:15:18 AM EDT

[#28]

Everything in the poll without a motor that makes noise
should be banned from the earth.

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:16:07 AM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
Was going to say "golf", but then I saw "Proffesional Wrestling" on there... that's about as athletic as playing an athlete on TV.

I don't watch wrestling, but you don't really think those guys aren't athletic, do you?

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:16:08 AM EDT

[#30]

Beach volley ball.

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:16:15 AM EDT

[#31]

I have no idea why soccer is not more popular here. It's the only one on the list I enjoy. Fast paced, interesting, and involves quite a bit of skill, and has variety in he play. I think Football is ridiculous.

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:16:50 AM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
basketball

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:18:51 AM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
I have no idea why soccer is not more popular here. It's the only one on the list I enjoy. Fast paced, interesting, and involves quite a bit of skill, and has variety in he play. I think Football is ridiculous.

Go choke yourself.

-ZA

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:19:41 AM EDT

[#34]

NASCAR and hockey are the only two worth watching

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:19:45 AM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:
Handegg.

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Posted: 4/25/2013 7:20:10 AM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
I've always struggled with spelling "professional".

No fair! Picking on the dyslexic kid stuck on a government computer with no spell check built into the browser.

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:21:49 AM EDT

[#37]

I don't care for any of them.

BTW professional wrestling is not a sport.

I like combat sports like kickboxing, wrestling, mma.

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:22:52 AM EDT

[#38]

You can only pick one?

Poll FAIL!

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:23:19 AM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Was going to say "golf", but then I saw "Proffesional Wrestling" on there... that's about as athletic as playing an athlete on TV.

I don't watch wrestling, but you don't really think those guys aren't athletic, do you?

How are the drug testing standards in Pro Wrestling? I doubt a lot of those guys look that way just by picking up heavy shit and putting it down.

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:23:22 AM EDT

[#40]

toss up between basketball and cycling

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:23:29 AM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:

Beach volley ball.

Don't make this into your coming out thread.

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:23:34 AM EDT

[#42]

Professional Wrestling isn't a sport. It is dumb as hell, but it isn't a sport.

NASCAR on the other hand is widely seen as a sport AND is dumb as hell.

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:23:53 AM EDT

[#43]

I chose professional wrestling, but it really isn't a sport. It's something closer to stage fighting. Scripted, choreographed stage fighting.

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:24:14 AM EDT

[#44]

Pro-Wrestling is not a sport it is a soap opera set in a ring.

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:24:16 AM EDT

[#45]

Wrestling

Hockey

Nascar

in that order.

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:25:02 AM EDT

[#46]

Quoted:
I have no idea why soccer is not more popular here. It's the only one on the list I enjoy. Fast paced, interesting, and involves quite a bit of skill, and has variety in he play. I think Football is ridiculous.

Because we are Americans and we like sports where people "hit" things whether it is a person "hitting" another person.
Or we like when the car "hits" another car or the wall.
Hence why football and NASCAR are the most popular sports in America now.

In a few years I would suspect that MMA if they keep marketing themselves correctly will gain more momentum and maybe even become more popular than baseball.

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:26:44 AM EDT

[#47]

I don't know how anything else gets so much as a single vote when "professional wrestling" is an answer choice.

Hands down the stupidest.

Posted: 4/25/2013 7:27:06 AM EDT

[#48]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Was going to say "golf", but then I saw "Proffesional Wrestling" on there... that's about as athletic as playing an athlete on TV.

I don't watch wrestling, but you don't really think those guys aren't athletic, do you?

How are the drug testing standards in Pro Wrestling? I doubt a lot of those guys look that way just by picking up heavy shit and putting it down.

I don't mean the size of them, I was thinking more along the lines of flips and shit they do off the ropes and the actual wrestling/acting moves. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying they're super talented athletes etc, just that I would view them as athletic/athletes.