Compare/Contrast your Favourite and Least favourite Sport...

Give us your favourite sport...reasons for liking and not liking it,which level,(High School or lower...College,Pro,or unofficial/street/backyard,etc.) and sport heroes.

My Favourite is Hockey
My Least favourite is Basketball

It used to be GOLF until I really started watching TGC when it came to my cable system.. (The Golf channel)

Hockey is just an amazing fast paced game,I have always liked it...

I like mostly professional hockey......

Basketball just seems boring and non competitive......

 

My fave might be tennis, at least while the grand slams are going on. It's crazy how engrossed I can get watching two combatants hit a ball back and forth over a net.
The one I can't stand is soccer. It lulls me to sleep watching two teams kick a ball back and forth down a field for ninety minutes.

 

PARTICIPANT (when younger (I'm 74))

favorite: baseball (hardball)
least favorite: boxing (too many rules)


SPECTATOR:

favorite MLB
least favorite: NBA & synchronized swimming

 

Favorite: Hockey
Least Favorite: Probably basketball

I liked playing contact sports, so as far as playing, favorite was definitely hockey and football was second. Baseball was incredibly boring for me. I would play CF and want to run in and back-up every play in the infield. I couldn't sit still. Not to mention, that you couldn't hit anyone. At least in basketball you could mix it up in the paint going for rebounds.

As far as viewing goes, least favorite is basketball. The game is now chucking up three-point shots and getting rebounds to chuck up more 3-point shots. I rather just watch the last couple of minutes of a game, but then again, with all the fouls, that takes 10 minutes or more.

Hockey to me is the greatest sport in the world, but it's not a great game to view on television. It just doesn't capture the speed of the game. When you're playing, you're going all out for 45 seconds or so. Constantly changing direction. Television viewing makes it look like a much slower sport and they have trouble following the action at times. Plus hockey is such a physical sport. You are drained after you play. It's 100% max effort whenever you're on the ice.

 

full-contact CF isn't impossible..

didn't you watch LAD's Pages collide with Kike' Hernandez in this year's WS??

 

Ha, yeah, I didn't mean with teammates. You're right about CF, but there is always that collision at the plate as a runner....although that seems rare these days.

Pete Rose didn't mind some contact on the base paths. Chase Utley, too.

 

I grew up in Wisconsin and the lake in front of our house became a great hockey rink every year. (With copious snow shoveling effort). Hockey became our winter activity. Unfortunately our high schools in the area ignored hockey as a sport. Not so in Minnesota tho where high school hockey is a very big deal.

 

If only I had an outdoor rink growing up. I would have never come home.

The problem with hockey is that it's an expensive sport. You have to pay for ice time. The cost of hockey stick is astronomical and they don't really last that long. That would be a fortune for schools.