International I Hate Sports Club

I'm starting a new topic since it diverges from a comment Recovering_Fan made in another topic, and I wanted to address it more fully. Now, I'm posting this with the realization I'm a relative newcomer to this site, and my opinion may not count for much. But hey, it's a forum, right, where opinions ...

From the manifesto on this site, it's pretty clear that collecting baseball cards is frowned upon (which is to be expected on a "Sports Suck" site! :) ) I haven't personally collected any sports cards in nearly 20 years, but I do have a fairly sizable collection from the late 70's/early 80...

That is a good question, because it hasn't always been this way. I bet if you thumbed through various old novels you would find guys who were into a variety of different hobbies. Back in the old days, no one sat around just passively watching sports, and not every member of the British upper classe...

I prefer to sheepishly make excuses that I was doing something else that night, but chaque a son goute . :) I've found that in situations where you don't want to become involved in a discussion about something, and it's with someone you see regularly (co-worker, relative, friend, etc.) it helps to ...

On one of the forum posts on this site, the "Faking Sportsgasms" site was brought up. I checked out that site, and the guy apparently hasn't posted since last spring (maybe he became a sports fan or he just decided to quit faking it! LOL), but the gist was, that in order to fit in at work ...

Just ignore the sports networks. Remember - every silver lining has its cloud. Package deals are meant to appeal to everyone, and sports fans do make up rather a large proportion of the TV watching population. Just memorise which numbers the sports channels are on and don't go there. Things aren't ...

I'm not quite sure how recovering_fan , a similar ex-sports fan like yourself went off the sports mania but I'm willing to bet it was something similar: the more boorish and extreme sports fans trash talking all other interests that enter any conversations they're involved in. That was definitely p...

OK, as we all know, we have been getting more and more new members now who are ex-sports fans, people who use to love sports, but for some reason, they no longer care about sports. Sorry for the late reply -- power outage and painting project got me sidetracked! I can think of many reasons why this...

Hello again all! I wasn't quite sure where this topic fit, so I decided to be a radical and create a new one..LOL. Most of my story is on the Letters page, so I won't reiterate it all, but did want to provide some additional details. (Thanks to Earl and Ray for the welcomes and responses on that pag...

I didn't even know who Tucker Carlson was until I read about this this morning, but I will say this about Michael Vick: The man committed a federal crime and served a prison sentence. Granted, he paid his debt to society (at least according to the law) and all that, but honestly, if that were me or ...

(For reference purposes, I'm the "recovering addict" who recently posted to the Letters page.) I am in a hiking meetup group, and one of our leaders has decided to undertake a study of sorts, to see if she can become as physically fit (in terms of normal body weight, blood pressure, heart ...