I attended a Hockey game last night and all I can say is WOW! By far the best live sport. Non stop action. What can they do to make it better on t.v.? Mic up the boards so we hear louder checks. Make the home goal buzzer louder. Maybe even mic the players. It's awesome!

hockey's fun, but nothing beats the ballpark.

NBA - the game itself has changed so much, it doesn't seem like basketball that I play. It bores me. I do like to see teams going back to a team game and strong defense, though.

NHL - pretty fun live, but the (almost) non-stop action takes a lot of fans out of the game. (low attention span, i guess) too much talking.

MLB - great fun to attend a game (at any ballpark, but especially here in Chicago where we have two nice stadiums), but tends to be more about the food and drink for a lot of people. i enjoy the food and drink, but love to keep score and sit with the old-timers and chat about days long gone.

NFL - my favorite of the major four. especially in Chicago, where fans are rabid and we have good rivalries. the least amount of games of the major four contributes to making it more "special". lots of tailgating...it can be the centerpiece of your week, too.

None of the above.

I voted hockey. Of the big four it has the least amount of down time/TV time outs.

Baseball is always better in person than on TV. Most TV coverage is deplorable and gives you little to no idea of how the team on the field is positioned for defense.

NFL is good, but too many TV time outs. Takes me out of the game.


criquet wasn't an option

This is America. We don't give a fuck about soccer. (And I don't watch legitimate sports anyway, but live baseball games are pretty fun, so that's how I answered.)

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Hockey live used to be fun before the United Center opened.

Going to the ballpark is a gas, but I prefer going to a minor league park.

I've never been to a Bears game, but I used to go see preseason Denver Broncos games in the 1970's. They were awful, but fun.

I have no paitence for basketball, though. It bores me to tears.

I voted NFL. The rules of the sport are designed to make every game as dramatic as possible; and it's probably my favorite pro sport. MLB is a close second for me...it just doesn't have the same excitement factor because of its speed; but there's nothing like hanging at the ballpark on a nice day watching a great pitching duel.

Yet I'm guessing you know what I meant.

Now go put on some shorts and kick a ball around the yard

No, did you mean cricket or croquet?

I'd rather watch darts then any of the "Only four team sports in the world"

Okay, somebody get this limey outta here. Shouldn't you be preparing for the Australian Grand Prix or something?

I second the notion. Pro sports blows. It's only interesting to me when there's someone great playing the game and for all the above I don't think that's true anymore.

Admittedly I just don't give a darn about sports anyways.

Preparing? I'm not racing in it. I will watch higlights of it at the weekend though.

I know you know this, but from the US point of view, the four major pro sports leagues are MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL.

However, an arguement can be made that NASCAR has overtaken the NHL for #4.

I do not understand America's fascination with watching people turn left really fast

Baseball
Football
Hockey
Basketball

I have the most fun at a baseball game so I went with that. But that says more about the preference for summer weather than anything else. Football (americano) is my favorite pro sport but I sometimes enjoy it more on TV. Even though, in person, you get to pay more attention to the action away from the ball (blocking/coverage/etc.) which is a plus.

So yeah, baseball . . . unless it's a Sox game.

Right turns have to be made at my local track.

do they make right hand turns on the other side of the equator?

Hockey's great fun to see in person, whether it's junior, college, or pro. I see maybe one NHL game every two years, and I always enjoy every second of it, watching the warm-up, etc. I was a half hour late for the Avs-Oilers game I saw this season...that was no fun. Junior hockey playoffs have just started up here, so I hope to go to a couple games.

Baseball's completely different, but nearly just as huge an event for me. I haven't been to a game in so long now.

No desire to see an NBA game. It must be weird watching such a tiny court fromt the cheap seats.

Baseball


Hockey







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Basketball

hockey has the biggest gap between enjoyment on tv vs. live. there is simply no way that the intracacies of the game can be translated to tv well enough for the average sports fan to care. while i'd say that hockey camera operators are probably overall more talented than many of their contemporaries in other sports, the game is just too quick.

baseball is tolerable on television, but a nice day at the ballpark is better than any other live sports event.

i've never been to an NFL game, but i see a lot of college games and i'd rather watch it on television. for one thing, most football games are played in cold weather that i don't want to sit in for 3 hours. and there are a plethora of breaks, too.

my basketball-watching is slowly diminishing to just the ncaa tournament.

Basketball's the most exciting to watch, but the best time to be had is at a Baseball game.

I'd go along with NoMag here on televised hockey. The other problem with televised hockey is that the horizontal view is really only about 2/3rds of the ice, and you follow the puck. As a result, you miss on some of the big moves off camera-- you don't get to see the defence set up.

yeah, this is a good point. a lot of substantial play happens away from the puck in hockey. with other sports, it's easy to get away with just focusing on the object in play and not lose much.

Hockey on hi-def is amazing. You see much more of the ice.

OLN is ruining televised hockey...they zoom in too close, the camera follows the puck, so it's herky-jerky. Unbearable to watch.

I've always wanted to see an EPL soccer game. If I ever go to England, that'd be top priority. Gareth, you ever been to one?

OLN? EPL?

Premier league games, about 20 or so. Gillingham games; hundreds.

ME NEITHER.






MLB all the way, baby, although i generally dislike pro sports as a rule. i still, however, have a special fondness of beer and peanuts @ the ballpark.

*sigh* ... where's summer?

Outdoor Life Network and English Premier League

my sentiments exactly. for the sport, it's basketball. for the experience, it's baseball.

you'd basically have to get Jesus playing for the Bulls to bring me back to the United Center, anyway..

I may be wrong, but Jesus would very likely suck at basketball, so he wouldn't get me to watch the Bulls again.

At the game, my fave is baseball.

Watching on TV, it's football.

I didn't understand it till I went to a race. I've only done NASCAR races...never any IRL (but I would like to). I've been to the Brickyard 400 the last 4 years, and there is really nothing like it. When all the cars get bunched together, the roar of the engines is so loud she can feel your whole body tremble. It really is pretty exciting. One of the few sprting events where you really don't want to be too close to the track.

are you kidding me?!
Jesus has a great jump shot
you can't defend Jesus

I stand corrected.

If the NHL is played in arenas, why is it on the Outdoor Life Network?

Exactly. At my first game, seeing the plays develop so fast! on such a small surface made me realize how pointless it is to try to watch it on tv. Nothing beats live hockey for speed & excitement--even if the play is sloppy.

Still, I do love me some baseball--going to opening day (SF v Atl) next week! One thing I miss about San Jose is going to the SJ Giants games for about $3. Guess I should go to more As games.

KoKo, you should've included soccer in your poll. Americans may not dig it as much as the others, but it'd have been interesting to count how many soccer fans are here. Just sayin'.


Have you been there J? Has the parking situation improved?

i've seen the Little 5 (bike) race @ IU-Bloomington.

lots of left turns.

after 20 minutes i got drunk and passed out on the lawn outside the stadium.

now that was a good time.

NFL. Now, that being said, my live NFL spectating over the last 15 years has been done in Arrowhead Stadium. Which, I suspect, has an entirely different feel from the spaceship on the lake. I love going to Wrigley - hell, I live 7 blocks down the street, but I'll take a game at Arrowhead any day over the friendly confines. The game is just more intense.

What's worse than seeing a poorly played hockey game is a perfectly executed defensive hockey game, especially by a team I can't stand. The Calgary Flames suck every ounce of fun out of the game.

I try to get up to Infineon as often as possible, whether it be for NASCAR, the NHRA Nationals, the Wednsday Night Drags, or to hit the Kart track. The parking/traffic hasn't improved much for the NASCAR race, which is attended by 130,000 people each year. One just has to go up there hella early. The track is only 40 minutes from my house, so if I leave before 6:30am I can be in the parking lot by 7:30am. If I wait until 9:00am to leave I will be fortunate to get into the lot before the green flag drops at 1:00. After the race is over, forget about it. Just kick back and drink some beer and take in the beautiful wine country scenery, and maybe in three or four hours you will be able to get out of the lot. (Or just try to find your way to the gate 9 entrance/exit and take Lakeview Highway up to Petaluma and double back down the 101. )