Your Favorite Sport, Have one? Options

[HyPN0]

What is your favorite sport? Do you like any sport at all?
Do you like playing it, or just watching it?

Mine's football.
And I don't mean American football, I'm thinking real football (soccer to you yanks )

[stargelman]

I never understood why they call it "American Football". You barely see anyone kick that egg. Plus it's much closer to Rugby than to what is called Football in Europe, thus they should have called it "American Rugby". I've played both for a very little while when we tried out a number of different sports in school, and I like the throwing of the egg and stuff, but looking at those vids and hearing from a number of people who've played Rugby in their spare time I don't think it's something I'd wanna do.

When it comes to playing, my favs have always been Football (Soccer in the US) and Badminton. We always used to play Football during breaks in school, even if it was only a 10 minute break. There was always time for a quick game. I usually played defense or goalkeeper. I think I was ok, unless we had to use tennis balls instead of regular footballs, then I had real trouble catching that thing

When it comes to watching, it's Football, too (yes, still talking about Soccer). For a while, I also watched Sumo regularily. It's really kind of amazing, and I don't use that word lightly. You get to see wrestlers like Musashimaru - weighing in at 440 pounds - graciously jump out of their attacking opponents way like a professional ballerina 1/4th their weight. That alone is pretty amazing. Sumo isn't just about fat man bumping each others. There's a surprising amount of skill involved, not to mention enormous strength and willpower. The techniques used by Sumo wrestlers are very close to that used in Judo. There's throws and special grabs and such things. BTW, it's a great sport for those with a short span of attention: the fights are usually over in significantly less than 30 seconds.

Of course, right now all I can think of is the Worldcup. Tomorrow's the first day of this biggest sporting event of the world. Can't wait!