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Message: [QUOTE="Demo Square, post: 5029046, member: 10861"] Hey Guys, TBH, I can't stand watching ALL TELEVISED SPORTS for very long. Hate soccer, NASCAR & all football. WNBA is unwatchable with 'bad actors' too. Same with martial arts & boxing, rugby. Hockey? Live maybe. I can watch MLB sometimes, for an inning. Sports were so much more fun to PLAY than to watch in my day, especially with today's loudmouth announcers constantly selling mediocrity to us. They get dumber every year too along with the immorality of the lying press, making up stories & playing the race card. I hate the big money at stake & the unveiled constant commercialism, star & Lakers oversaturation & overexposure of sports like hoops destroying all sports. I hate the UConn players will all be hired from now on. All lost in a money-straight jacket. I mean, many of us dislike 'pretty good guy Lebron' now because TV is all-Lebron, all the time. Overexposure! It wears on us all! I can't even watch a televised college basketball game all the way through. Even this year's championship game. I gotta take breaks from the ugliness & so many low-life players. UConn has been great recently as the lone exception for me. And I never watch anything with the sound on anymore. Basketball announcers have been ordered to explain the game in detail all the way through. Same formula every game ad nauseum. Too Noisy! Ugly! It's absolutely exhausting to listen to. It's the same going to any live sporting event or any sport. The commercial noise never stops. The game is never enough on its own anymore. I remember when it was & fans were smarter about the game, without all the made-up stats of today. The difference between live presentation of sports now & in the 1960's, or even the '90's is crazy. I'm in my 80's now. Can't play anything anymore (except swimming). Watched my first NBA & college games in 1950! But still, after 70 years, I would much rather PLAY in MSG (I did in more than 30 games in NYC high school & college) than watch a televised MSQ game today. So it's not only some disliked sports I list here - but all televised sports have little for me to root for anymore - or even tolerate - today. It's about quality & historical context for me. I wish all the youngsters today who think televised sports are the bomb could have Watched the LA Lakers with Jerry West & Elgin Baylor playing the Celtics with Russ, Cousy, Heinsohn, Sharman, Ramsay, et all on the warped parquet of the old Boston Garden at North Station. THAT was basketball! For all of $2.50 admission for kids in school! Diffrent strokes! Father Demo [/QUOTE]

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