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What is your favorite sport?

What is your favorite sport?

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Hockey is my favorite, really the only one I pay attention to. I like the fast pace of the game and the physicality. I boycotted the NHL last year due to the lockout but I'm back into it for next year. Woo!
 
As solo performer: hiking/orienteering/skiing (not downhill, but on snow tracks) and cycling. I don't watch sports.
 
My favourite sport is motor sport which is not on the list also I like rugby both union and league which also is not on the list which i find surprising.
 
Quidditch and Drum Corp International. Yes, I consider drum corps a sport. I am a band geek, after all. I really hope Carolina Crown takes it home this year. Their show is absolutely beautiful this year! (My favorite corps is Santa Clara Vanguard but I'm a bit tired of Les Miserables because the movie came out and now a bunch of productions of it are happening locally. Lol)

And quidditch is because I'm a Harry Potter kind of person. ;)
 
Wrestling is always gonna be a favourite for me, I grew up watching it with my nan, she once told me it is a "soap opera for men".
People say its fake but it takes more, far more, skill to do what they do nearly every night and not hurt each other, beyond a few occasional accidents.
 
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Currently: (ranked in order)

Baseball
Football - I mean, American Football
Basketball
Hockey
Soccer.

So long as a team has a chance to win, I cheer for them.
 
I was addicted to American Football until I started working weekends. I was even in a pool and won $185 once. No, I'm not a big gambler (paid $10 a week to be in the pool), but I am an armchair quarterback! I would also like for someone to teach me basketball (maybe when I get a "hunny" he'll teach me!). ;)
 
Football and UFC! I can't believe UFC isn't listed!!! Holy yeggs and Green Spam! Bruce Lee would be insulted... ;)
 
As a spectator: basketball, even though I have no clue about the strategy terminology. Also fun to play, albeit not #1.

As a participant: curling. Unfortunately, the building I curled in no longer exists. :( (Can't afford the fees anyway.)
 
Sportster said:
It's fascinating how they can maneuver the stone by brushing the ice. That's one of those things I'd like to try once.
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This reminds me of the Broom Wars of the early 1990s. Yes, this was kind of a thing. Kevin Martin walked into Worlds (1991, IIRC) with the simplest game plan:

1. Get a 2-point lead.
2. Remove every rock the opponent throws for the rest of the game.

(And that is why the Free Guard Zone was invented. :D)

If things weren't going to plan? It was time to put away the brushes (which were actual hair brushes at the time as opposed to the foamy things they have now) and bring out the old-school corn brooms to put junk on the ice and make things a bit less predictable. But the combination of FGZ and some other rule changes put a kibosh to that.
 
Sportster said:
Broom Wars? You have me at a loss. I Googled it, but it brought up a bunch of Harry Potter references. I enjoy watching curling, but I am by no means an aficionado. You'll probably have to elaborate so I can better understand.o_O
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I don't recall it ever being called Broom Wars; that's just my term. Basically, there were teams that would change their brooms mid-game in order to change how the rocks behaved. The theory was that using the old style corn brooms would throw more junk on the ice and make the rocks move more. Then the rule-makers decided to make changing brooms mid-game illegal. The End.
 
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