My understanding is that the vast majority of people are not into mass market spectator sports. Apparently attendances at cultural events are far greater than those for football etc.
The problem is that spectator sports are a block of people where everything else is scattered around small groups and individuals so the political and marketing clout of the mass market is going to win every time.
I guess that's why I actively dislike mass market stuff when I bother to think about. They ram it down our throats and spend our tax dollars on it even though we're not interested in it.
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Unusual you should ask kiwi, as you are involved in some level of activity. However I find it rather unusual that people who don't like sports like you have mentioned, these become very passionate int telling one and all on and on and on they don't???
Same with those who are leaning towards atheist slant They go on and on and on and on about it. 
You nailed it Mineral!
You want me to tell you all the stuff I don't like; Aussie hiphop, cucumber, umm...who gives a f*ck?
Sport is social engineering, look at what is happening in 3rd world countries.................. Soccer is heavily promoted by the power within to keep the peeps happy, remember your history classes and the romans and the circus games? I think mass sporting events are very similar and as no one get killed in the arena the idiots supporters (hooligans) have a good old fight after the game.
I can't stand mass sport!
"Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt", roman poet Juvenal first century AD.
Nothing much has changed!
Select to expand quoteFormulaNova said..needsalt said..Jas71 said...
I think the question should read what is wrong with them. I do the same. life is about experiences and they don't come from a tv.
But reading and posting to online forums is so super duper active and getting out there?? 
I'm not sure that anyone on Seabreeze should be knocking people who watch TV. I'm not sure why anyone would feel the need to knock and compare?? Life would be pretty boring if we were all the same. I'm sure the footy fans aren't all sitting round bagging out people who are into water sports. In fact if they saw water sports on TV, they'd probably be inspired and stoked.
I don't know about that. I have had people ask 'do you follow the cricket?', 'do you follow the tennis?', 'do you follow the footy?', and my answer to all of them is no. A few times I have had the reply 'well you aren't very sporty are you'.
What? Watching TV is 'sporty'? Well I guess it means you like to watch sport, but its a bit different to playing it or getting out there and sailing.
I guess the reality for most of the population is that once you reach a certain age, you should be watching sport and not playing it. I guess, as you have said 'each to their own'. It's just funny when people tell me I am not 'sporty'.
People, in kiwi land if you don't watch the footy (Rugby union they tell me after I ask)
They think there is something wrong with ya and that is ridiculous. I am not going to study and pretend I am into footy just to fit in and look like a normal bloke and hells bells we are the best in the world. Some wise man once said "dont follow everyone else, Paddle your own canoe" or something along those lines. 
