Cup final here I come

[steven pirie]

That's soccer, for our American cousins.

My team (Everton) is at Wembley this weekend playing Chelsea in the FA Cup final (it's Superbowl but without all the cuddling ). As season ticket holders, me and my boy qualified for tickets and have a hotel booked and now just need the right result! Come on you Blues!

What sports (if any) do you guys support?

[Mercedes]

Uh...I played tennis in high school? I also have an uncanny knack of picking out winning pride fighters, but that's just a gift.

Sports are boring to watch. Hate it.

[kurtnewton]

Red Sox (baseball), Patriots (football -- American football that is), and Celtics (basketball). Living in Connecticut the local teams are either Boston based or New York based. I've always lived east of the Connecticut River (which cuts Connecticut virtually in half). Back in the old days when most sports were always on the radio, I grew up listening to whoever was closest. In my case, it was always the Boston teams. Never got into hockey so I can't tell a Bruin from the Penguin from a Flyer. Also used to like tennis a lot, nowadays not so much. Used to watch boxing, but now it's UFC all the way -- UFC makes boxing look like lawn darts. Will watch golf if Tiger's playing. Oh, yeah, and Playboy centerfold oil wrestling (that's a sport, ain't it?).

[Tall Tyrion]

I know enough about most sports, but don't follow them any longer.

I would go to a live game (especially baseball) but watching sports on television does not interest me.

[Kenwood]

Red Sox and Patriots for local teams. I can't really get into those sports like I used. If the player isn't really famous or on one of those teams, I probably don't know a thing about them.

Aside from that, I absolutely love combat sports. Boxing was always my favorite. My father was a boxer and good friends with Marvin Hagler when I was a wee lad, so I was around it as a kid. In the past 10 years or so, boxing has started to sort of suck. Too much corruption and BS, you know. Good thing I got into MMA in the mid-90s because that is frickin' awesome now!

I also watch bass tournaments on TV. That's a sport! =)

[Guest]

Football - Eagles
Baseball - Phillies
hockey - Flyers
NBA - hate them all
College Basketball - Duke Blue Devils

I love to play basketball, hockey, and am currently in the middle of softball season



Alex

[Tall Tyrion]

Marvelous Marvin! Now that's awesome...

[Kenwood]

Marvelous Marvin! Now that's awesome...

My father has a picture of him and Marvin sitting on a stoop on Newbury Street back in 1975. Marvin is holding a little white baby that just happens to be me. Dude was a boxing hero to me. I was devastated when he was robbed against Sugar Ray. Never fought again after that. He was also devastated. Too bad.

And who can forget the best three rounds ever?



Fucking EPIC! They don't make 'em like that anymore. Now you've got assholes like Floyd Mayweather that talk about being the greatest ever. Pleeeeease!

[Kenwood]

This fight was pretty awesome, too.



Unreal.

[steven pirie]

Well, we were beaten, but we had a good weekend just the same. Had a night in London Saturday night so that was fun...

[steven pirie]

I must admit I like American football, and having been to Philly a few times the Eagles are my team too. Sadly, it was always out of season when I was there.

We did once see the baseball in Houston at the Astrodome (was it the Oilers? It was a few years ago). Not that I understood all the nuances of the game, and it did go on a little for my attention span. Afterwards they wheeled out the Beach Boys for a concert (they were ancient even then!) which was pretty good too...

[Tall Tyrion]

The Oilers were the football team from Huston. They moved to Tennessee and changed their name to the Titans. The baseball team is known as the Astros.

And I agree that baseball games can tend to be way too long. That's why I can't watch them on TV.

[Kenwood]

I love baseball. In fact, if it weren't for my shitty parents I'd probably be a pro baseball player right now. It's the one thing I've always maintained that I was awesome at. I mean, I was really really good. But then the whole drinking thing with my father happened, the family fell apart, I had to join the Air Force, blah blah blah...and there went that dream. =(

I tried to play softball once, back in like 2000, and I sucked! Haha. I played shortstop; figured I'd still be awesome. Nooooooo! I was jumping out of the way of the ball. So I retired for good then.

Anyway, even I can't watch much baseball these days. Who has three or four hours to spend watching baseball...200 days a frickin' year!? Haha.

[kurtnewton]

Hey, there's nothing like mowing the lawn, taking a swim, drinking three glasses of iced tea and lying down on a hot summer day in the basement to watch a baseball game. I'm usually asleep by the fifth inning.

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