favorite of the big four american team sports

music

"beisbol...been bedy bedy good...to me"

I know that hockey is traditionally categorized as one of the "big four" American sports, but I wouldn't be surprised if NASCAR has overtaken it in popularity.

Baseball is the only one of the four that I follow closely, although I'm kind of a fair weather NFL fan if a team I like is doing particularly well.

NASCAR is more popular than all of these but the NFL I think? it's just not a sport.

football is so much better 2 watch altho im a bigger "fan" of baseball if that makes sense

Baseball regular season vs. Basketball post-season for me.

Heh, yeah, if you divide it up like that Hockey's post season might be the best of all.

I don't watch any sports but I enjoy playing baseball the most. I know that's not what was asked.

baseball > football > basketball > hockey

why do you guys have to make this so difficult????

cause it ain't all one thing or the other, Rorschach

too hard. football is probably the most outright enjoyable and the best for watching on tv/chilling with friends/arguing/playing fantasy. i know the most about baseball, and in a lot of ways it's the most complex/interesting/"deep." i've played the most basketball, it was my favorite when i was a kid, i still get worked up about it in a way i don't about the others. i don't have much history with hockey but it's cool too!

(sorry, that came out meaner than intended)

Hockey. The rest can die in a fire.

haha it made me laugh so don't worry

oh and I voted football

basket > foot > hock > watching paint > base

SB'd you for that

I don't really watch sports that often, but I enjoy following baseball the most.

it's baseball for me. i like the relaxed atmosphere, matches take ages, the world championship in the Netherlands in '05 had this doing nothing on a summer's evening vibe. some good movies about baseball too, can't recall a good movie about any of the others (wait Space Jam) as a small guy i dislike basketball for obvious reasons (that's another + for baseball, these guys same to be of all sizes, even fat!)
hockey is great on consoles (Mallrats!), but sort of useless on tv.
American Football is probably the worst sport ever. Ever ever.

but all 4 don't come close to the 3 best sports: road cycling, football ("soccer")& tennis

Tennis does pwn all of these for me. Sometimes golf, too.

When will it be possible to suggest ban someone from America?

I now hate baseball the way a neocon hates liberals: I just loved it too much to maintain my relationship in light of 1994. And going to Notre Dame a few later made me ripe for radical conversation. So for me it's now

football >> basketball >>> hockey >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> baseball

football>basketball>baseball>hockey

NASCAR is more popular than all of these but the NFL I think? it's just not a sport.

― iatee, Wednesday, May 27, 2009 6:54 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^not really true...nascar's been having a lot of problems lately, i think its ambitions to be dominating national sport were misplaced...lots of sponsors have dropped out and lots of teams are hurting financially...think rating's are down too.

(though i'd imagine it's still way more popular than NHL)

oh yeah, I remember reading something about that.

still not a sport, tho.

Basketball - Playoffs/NCAA Tournament>NFL>College Basketball Regular Season>>>>hockey>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>baseball.

I will never turn down tickets for anything, though.

Wtf was that, Ronaldo?

i prob enjoy watching (be it on TV or in person) basketball the most, prob "keep up" with college football the most. i'm hardly admant about it though. in fact, if football season started a month late i would likely not even notice.

Oh man I watch golf like crazy, that is some good stuff. Not like I deliberately tune in but if it's on I'm hypnotized by it.

baseball is the only one i follow now, i have been a fan of the other three at times but i didn't even know the sonics don't exist anymore until a couple of weeks ago.

You baseball haters make me cry tears of pure acid. Which I am carefully collecting and will eventually throw in somebody's face.

basketball by a million miles. all the rest are hours of boringness with a few seconds of excitement here and there.

baseball is the indie rock of sports

*runs and hides*

football>baseball>basketball>>>>>>hockey

college football is my faves tho

I luv baseball but I think it's pretty easy to understand why some people who don't get the appeal

I've really come around to baseball. I loved it as a kid, more for collecting cards and playing it myself than watching, but kind of grew away from it as I get older. I've been rediscovering it lately. I went to an Orioles game for the first time in over ten years this weekend and it was a really great experience. Relaxing, some great edge-of-your-seat moments, quintessentially American and nostalgia-inducing, beer, hotdogs, peanuts. Loved it all. I've noticed that baseball on the radio is supremely pleasant and comforting too. I like that baseball has managed to maintain a relatively classy, old-fashioned sensibility. It's like Coke in an old glass bottle to football's Mountain Dew in a Big Gulp.

Football's a good time though. Won't knock it too hard. I'll usually tune in during the playoffs.

Basketball's too back-and-forth and high scoring for me to get excited about. Oh hey, another 2 points. Huzzah.

Don't feel like I've seen enough hockey to really comment on it.

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college football is my faves too, I didn't list it because I didn't want to split the football vote

and err "why some people who don't get the appeal"

What really baffles me is my own feelings toward football: hate the college game, love it at the pro level.

pro football = college football with slightly bigger dudes and less exciting things happening

I mean, reggie bush in college vs. reggie bush in the nfl

^feel the same way about college vs pro hoops.
baseball is a great relaxing summer thing. love day games. but there's way too many reg season games and the sport itself is low on action compared to other sports.

listen i love college sports but i always hate that challops about how college is always more exciting, like if you can't vibe off the last superbowl or say the bull/celtics series you don't like football or basketball imo

I was reading ESPN mag's article on the Pittsburgh Pirates earlier today and it said, basically, "small market teams like Pittsburgh can't afford to compete for the top free agents, so they have to try to make do other ways". The article was about why Pittsburgh has sucked since 1992. This is something I love about the NFL and to a much lesser extent the NBA: you don't have to play in a big market to have great players in their peaks. And it's what I hate about MLB.

the last two superbowls were fantastic and the last handful of bcs champ games were awful

but I'll be damned if ANY nfl game in our lifetimes will be able to compare to the oklahoma/boise state game from a few years back

and - one day, a decade from now, when there's a playoff series...

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Yeah, a Div-1A college football playoff will get me interested again.

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i'm just saying it's all football/basketball to me, some games are good and some are not...there's hella bad college b-ball games every fucking day during the season, just like there are bad NBA game

iatee this was in my lifetime (not sure when you were born):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Comeback_(American_football)

er

The 1993 NFL playoff game between the Buffalo Bills and the Houston Oilers (also known as "The Comeback") featured the Bills recovering from a 32-point deficit to win in overtime, and it remains the largest comeback in NFL history. The game is also remembered for being won by the Bills backup quarterback Frank Reich. It was played in Rich Stadium, and was televised by NBC, with Charlie Jones and Todd Christensen calling the action. The stadium did not sell out for this game and was therefore blacked out in Western New York and Southern Ontario. As a result, local fans did not get to see the game live.

I don't think a big comeback is as exciting as the the back and forth scoring at the end of the bs/ok game

coincidentally that game marks the day that basketball became my favorite sport! (houston native here)

In the USA futbol is the indie rock of sports, get it right.

That said I voted hockey, no contest.

yeah, what is equivalent of roids in indierock world??

cocaine?

autotune

i can never decide this, but i think it's hockey

the big soccer fans are all going for hockey, i notice

It's a cultural thing.

politics

Baseball regular season vs. Basketball post-season for me.

Bingo. I love the long trajectories of a baseball season - it's a whole novel every year - but if a team I care about isn't in the baseball post-season it's very hard for me to care, whereas with basketball i'm glued to the screen regardless of who's in it.

However NBA regular season feels almost entirely pointless.

http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:W1g6iQJXXZM_FM:http://www.freeclipartisland.com/clipsahoy/clipart2/as2247.gif

nfl>>>hockey>>>basketball>>>baseball

i also think i now prefer basketball to the other two, which is a big reversal

Voted basketball. Would vote football in a November poll.

^^ whatever, GIL THORP!

hockey >>>>> college football > college basketball > pro football = baseball = pro basketball

in the hockey subdivision:

college hockey > NHL playoffs > NHL

Then again, I went to Michigan, and/thus I prefer college sports to pro every time. Spent 6 straight years of undergrad life going to as many Michigan home hockey games as I could.

Actually, re-arrange that: I would watch college football over anything except college hockey.

And it strikes me that this is the first time in my life that I've lived w/in a mile or so from where a pro-basketball team plays.

I should probably attend a game, at some point.

This is something I love about the NFL and to a much lesser extent the NBA: you don't have to play in a big market to have great players in their peaks. And it's what I hate about MLB.

I agree, except that I still like baseball the most out of the four choices. But man, the fucking New York Yankees. It really does baffle me that anyone could be a Yankees fan. With the money they spend each year, not making the playoffs should be a complete embarrassment. And yeah, teams like the Blue Jays/Pirates/Reds/etc get completely fucked.

"Let's go U.S. Steel!"

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b145/moreno_negro_pa/saddam-yankees.jpg

baseball >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> hoops >>> No Fun League & hockey

I like baseball, but the games are just so goddamn long.

However NBA regular season feels almost entirely pointless.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, May 27, 2009 11:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^ most OTM thing on this thread :((((((

MLB games are on average about 2 hours and 45 minutes long. An NFL game is about 3 hours.

(according to the internets)

don't know much about american sports but baseball seems easily the best of these. Basketball looks good too. American football, i don't know. it's pretty out there. looks like a gladiators style tv show more than a proper sport to me. hockey i have no idea.

I thought baseball was an all day thing like cricket

unfortunately not :(

Useta be, according to legend

basket > foot > hock > watching paint > base

base > hock >>>>>>>>>>> foot >>>>>>>>>>> watching paint >>>>>>>>>>> basket

watching paint = the 5th american sport, apparently

Amusing that so many of the US haters of baseball complain that it's boring, uneventful and lasts forever - cricket anyone?

any problem i have with baseball (and to be fair, i don't *HATE* any of these sports) does not stem from its length, it stems from its lack of variety in gameplay/sporadic action/limited amount of gameplay, hence lack of substance and momentum to the game narrative. still, it's a sport which has its charms.

baseball>hockey>basketball>american football.

I'm not really fond of any of these that much. I like hockey because of the old NHL games from the early 90s. I like baseball because of the caps and the mythology. If I ever go to America again the only sporting event I can imagine attending would be a baseball game. I'd like to go see the Yankees.

football > basketball > baseball > hockey

last two are too boring imo; the last one you can't even see the puck most of the time, useless

Basketball > football > hockey > baseball

Then again I haven't seen a baseball game in 12 years I think and a game of hockey in like 5 or so years. I see exactly one football game every year (Superbowl) but wish I could see more. As for basketball I wake up in the middle of the night to see the playoffs and wish I lived in the US so I don't have to waste a good night's sleep watching sports I enjoy.

basketball > baseball, don't give a shit about the other two.

basketball's by far the most exciting of these to watch imo - so fast-paced, leads change every few seconds in close games, the constant finesse/movement of the ball, the sheer athleticism of the players. i feel like players' personalities show so much more too in basketball. love it.

totally contrasting tho, i love the slow pace of baseball. such a great lazy summer day activity - the whole americana 'baseball' experience' is so great - going to games on a nice day, eating a hot dog, having a beer.

i could never get into football. seems too complicated to me, dunno. sure i get the ultimate point of the game but there's just too many positions, weird terminology, etc. i even went to a huge high school football school that won states all the time, but i just couldn't really get into it.

also, the constant stop-start action in football is fucking annoyyyyyying. the pace is so fragmented, choppy. plays last like 3 seconds then u watch commercials then huddling then boring shots of coaches. honestly seems like the most boring, tedious sport to me.

hockey, yea, i just don't care enough about it to say anything.

lack of variety in gameplay

really, you haven't seen enough baseball

He's probably comapring it to cricket

weirded out by people who describe any 1 of these sports as 'boring'

i would say they all can be boring but really anything CAN be boring

In the USA futbol is the indie rock of sports, get it right.

That said I voted hockey, no contest.

― Suggest this user to be danned. (dan m), Wednesday, May 27, 2009 7:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^Strange that you know nothing about the sport you voted for.

Aw Bill, I'm sorry the Hawks lost.

Can we do a mash-up of the results of this poll with a Google Map that shows where people live? I'm especially curious to see where the hockey voters live, knowing that Dan M and Kingfish are both originally from Michigan.

football >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> basketball > hockey > baseball

I was a baseball fan as a kid, but it really became boring to me after the '94 strike and repulsive to me after the roids.

football > hockey > basketball > baseball. But I'll pretty much watch and enjoy any sport.

Football > Baseball >>> Basketball >>>>>>>>> Hockey

My interest in these sports is directly tied to the long-term quality of Boston teams.

I've followed the Patriots for years in good times and bad, luckily there have been more good times in the past decade or I may have dropped them after so many years in the wilderness with Drew Bledsoe as QB. Football as a sport is also the most interesting regardless of who is playing. Love the strategy, the athleticism, and the brutality.

The Red Sox I will always love, but they can be damn frustrating. Baseball is great, but can also be dull, it's a zen thing.

The Celtics recent success sparked my interest in them a bit, but they were lousy for so many years that I find it hard to support them wholeheartedly. Plus the quality of NBA games has gone way down over the past 20 years or so.

I just can't bring myself to care about the Bruins.

football > hockey > basketball > baseball. But I'll pretty much watch and enjoy any sport.

― Bill Magill, Thursday, May 28, 2009 11:05 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Friday, May 22, 2009 12:11 PM Site Bill Magill has been permanently banned from I Love NFL.

I guess there is such a thing as loving too much.

"Friday, May 22, 2009 12:11 PM Site Bill Magill has been permanently banned from I Love NFL."

Dude, you should go over to that dump and see how stupid the commentary is. It's fucking hilarious.

baseball... no comparison.

HOCKEY

think another decent poll would be how many ppl have been to a hockey game

the HS hockey games i went to were A+ for action and memories, and i wasn't even drinking beer then. bummed i never made to any gophers games this past winter, but im going to make a point of it next year

football >> baseball >>> basketball >>>>>>>>>>> hockey

i don't understand ppl who are calling any of these things boring. hockey is my least favorite of these list items i suppose. the last hockey game i went to, we all ended up getting up out of our seats and going to a bar in msg to watch a baseball game, on television. in fairness it was a very exciting baseball game.

he last hockey game i went to, we all ended up getting up out of our seats and going to a bar in msg to watch a baseball game, on television

so in other words ur saying it was.... boring?

I've found that a lot of hockey n00bs get put off by things like line changes during the run of play, the icing and offside rules, and keeping track of where the puck is (this last one seems to be more of a problem when watching on TV).

But then again, apparently I know nothing about the game.

Only for your anti-Stevens rants. Other than that terrible black hole, I'll give you some credit

I've been to lots of pro baseball and hockey games and they are always a good time.

I've only been to one pro basketball game and it was really dull. Still, I'd prefer to watch basketball over hockey on TV.

I've also only been to one pro football game, Patriots vs. Dolphins in 1996, the year the Pats lost to the Packers in the Super Bowl. This was the game in which Bledsoe broke his finger but managed to beat Miami with a bunch of wobbly passes. It was probably the greatest experience of my life.

The problem I have with attending many pro sports, especially football, is the time outs. The NFL is essentially a TV-driven league (which is fine with me since I watch the majority of the games that way), and the fan in attendance is given short shrift by all the choreographed stoppages. I like going to baseball games more than watching them televised because the stoppages are totally natural, namely the end or the middle of an inning.

Hockey seems to do an ok job with this. NBA games are notoriously bad because at timeouts youre bombarded with superloud canned music, dopey dancers and shit like frisbee catching dogs or morons shooting crap tshirts into the crowd. Much rather watch the NBA on tv.

NBA games are notoriously bad because at timeouts youre bombarded with superloud canned music, dopey dancers and shit like frisbee catching dogs or morons shooting crap tshirts into the crowd.

haha i love this shit

nba games are a blast

plus it helped that at the q in cleveland the jumbotron dudes were having a really good time, showing all kinds of weird funny cartoons that really didn't have much to do w/ anything

at the last game i went to

I'm also talking from a NJ Nets perspective, so if I lived in Cleveland and got to see LeBron every night I might feel differently. Plus, you're in Cleveland.

This is something I love about the NFL and to a much lesser extent the NBA: you don't have to play in a big market to have great players in their peaks. And it's what I hate about MLB.

this is true to an extent, obviously, BUT ... world series teams from the last 10 years:

new york yankees (3 appearances)
boston red sox (2 appearances)
st. louis cardinals (2 appearances)
new york mets
arizona diamondbacks
anaheim angels
san francisco giants
florida marlins
chicago white sox
houston astros
detroit tigers
colorado rockies
philadelphia phillies
tampa bay rays

that's 14 different teams in a 10-year span, out of 30 teams total. that's not a bad spread. if you add teams who made the postseason but not the world series in those years, you'd have well more than half the teams.

and you've got great players on the less-funded teams. roy halladay, e.g.

yeah baseball gets a bad rap for this but looking at the most consistently bad teams over the last decade or so (pirates, royals, expos/nats) basically have management to blame way more than any kind of lack of salary cap or whatever

yeah baseball rich people get a bad rap for this but looking at the most consistently bad teams poor people over the last decade or so (pirates, royals, expos/nats) basically have management bad personal decisions to blame way more than any kind of lack of salary cap social safety net or whatever

uh

max hates gay ppl : (

: (

I'm just fooling around but at least in the case of Pittsburgh a big part of their "bad management" was being unable to sign Scott Boras agents b/c they don't have the money to support those salaries.

not "agents" I mean "clients"

tampa bay had a lower payroll in '08 than pittsburgh.

i mean, obviously being able to pay more gets you better players. but i think its actual effects are exaggerated. it can easily lead to overspending on players past their prime.

tipsy, I agree about overspending on players past their primes (Pedro Martinez comes to mind). But as a fan, these are exciting players to see b/c of their star power, and small markets have very little chance in MLB to see those guys playing at home. That's not true in the NFL, and it's one reason why I can't get with MLB anymore. (Years of hardcore Cub fandom don't help, though moving to the ATL in the late 80s assuaged some of that pain).

lol today i was on a sort-of date with a nice american lady and baseball versus cricket WAS on the agenda

NFL went thru a brief spell in popularity in Ire/UK in the 80's as Channel 4 used to have a highlight show on a monday night. i've watched so many boring superbowls since then, my interest has waned somewhat. although the Giants win in '08 was great fun. watching it with a bunch of Giants fans in a bar in Long Island certainly helped.

hockey is awesome too. very frenetic and madcap. i like hurling a lot too, another irish sport with sticks flailing everywhere.

i like the idea of baseball as a pleasant day out and i've heard it before. i've never really engaged with it properly, i guess. i dont get cricket either. basketball has too much scoring for me, i zone out a bit. last few minutes of a game are always exciting though and i think micheal jordan is one of the most jaw-dropping athletes of all time but i wouldnt really watch basketball generally. btw who was it (in ilx, i think) who said something like american sports is the only working model of socialism? because the drafts make it more egalitarian esp. compared to english soccer (big russian oil baron able to snap up all the great players)

hockey when your team is playing well is the best thing in sports

could you not say that about any sport u particularly like?

yes, but hockey is extra best

baseball, always and forever. then hoops. i've gone in and out of phases. it helps to have a hometown team. football was my deal in jr high, had every football card there was, played some, the seahawks were good. hockety comes in last but that's from lack of exposure more than anything. of all the sports it's the one you need to see in person to get. fights+beer=pretty fucking awesome in person

it can't be understated how much it helps to be able to see the puck

i love baseball, but football is an obsession.

it can't be understated how much it helps to be able to see the puck

when in doubt, follow the play

basketball > baseball > football >>>>>>>>>>>> since when do americans (lol michigan doesn't count) care about hockey?

(nb: I do go watch the local hockey team every so often, and enjoy it a lot, but don't care about hockey at all)

depending who you ask, minnesotans care more about hockey than michiganders

hockey > baseball > college basketball > pro football >>>>>>>> college football > pro basketball

baseball, though, is just different from the others

basketball > hockey > baseball > football

i cant believe all the hockey-ignorant ppl -- one of the coolest things about it to me is the pure momentum a game played entirely on ice skates has -- its like everything is going in fast forward

roids really fucked baseball's placement on this list for me

i like playing touch football but never really enjoyed it as a game to watch

i like finesse & u know about the bears & quarterbacks ... basketball & hockey are all about finesse

"since when do americans (lol michigan doesn't count) care about hockey?"

I'd put 5 other states, if not more, ahead of Michigan in hockey fandom

the ny/nj metro area has a (surprisingly? maybe not given that there are 3 teams) big hockey following

yeah i don't think there's any surprise there. altho i gather from old-timers that it's not what it used to be. (probably because the islanders and rangers aren't what they used to be.)

and speaking of teams not being what they used to be, if you want a prime example of a team's ownership and management mattering more than its market size, i give you...

http://weblogs.wpix.com/sports/thehuddle/image/knicks.gif

the Giants win in '08 was great fun
― Michael B, Thursday, May 28, 2009 8:39 PM (Yesterday)

I fail to see what was so "great" or "fun" about it. More like excruciating and painful if you ask me.

moodles, this might help you:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/patriots_season_perfect_for_rest

since when do americans (lol michigan doesn't count) care about hockey?

You guys have been smarting ever since the Metropolitans folded in the 1920s.

I'd put 5 other states, if not more, ahead of Michigan in hockey fandom

Really? This only heightens my curiosity.

I definitely had a "wha?" moment when I went away to college in Michigan and suddenly met all these fans of hockey and Barenaked Ladies.

michigan = canada?????

most of the upper Midwest = Canada!

I'd put 5 other states, if not more, ahead of Michigan in hockey fandom

lol crazy talk, I can see MN and *maybe* MA, but after that I don't know where you're going with this.

MA, MN, MI, and NY are the only states that are have their own designation under the USA Hockey organization, i.e. that are not part of regional conferences. This is due to the high amount of players in those states.

You could make arguments for ME, NH and VT but I'm guessing there are more skiers there than hockey players...?

moodles, this might help you:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/patriots_season_perfect_for_rest

― iatee, Friday, 29 May 2009 19:52 (31 minutes ago) Permalink

;__;

"lol crazy talk, I can see MN and *maybe* MA, but after that I don't know where you're going with this."

Whatever dude, I'll make sure to run my posts by you before I hit send.

or you could just name some states?

MN, Mass, Upstate NY, Wis, North Dakota, Alaska, NH-just based on the us born players from my college hockey team. Non-scientific, sure , but my point was that Michigan is not the place in the US where hockey's popular. Hell, there's as many guys from Illinois as there are from Michigan on your dumbass Red Wings.

http://www.fromtherink.com/2008/12/9/687282/where-nhlers-come-from-the

look at those graphs!

Michigan has 24 NHLers born in the state playing this season, led by Brian Rolston, Brian Rafalski, Mike Modano, Doug Weight, Ryan Miller, David Legwand, Ryan Kesler, Jeff Finger, David Booth and Vezina candidate Tim Thomas.

I played junior hockey with this guy, he didn't even move on to the high school level like everyone else, he went off and played crazy AAA travel midget or something.

lol maple leafs

Are we talking strictly pro sports here? If not: college football. If so: hockey (yeah, I'm from Michigan lol)

we're counting college-level

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

so happy basket beat base

I'm surpised that football didn't run away with it.

aw basketpaws, sooo close yet no cigar :(

hockey - for minnesotans, michiganders, massholes and other such canadian weirdos, plus the violent and/or closeted/repressed
football - for southerners, midwesterners, bridge and tunnelers and other such suburban fatsos
basketball - more urban and therefore better than the two above, but lost me when it got boring and lost its grace and my hometown heroes
Nascar - requiring more exertion and/or precision than some of the others, it's totally a sport even if machines are involved, but i'm kinda bored by it now tbh; last week's race was ok, and considering one this weekend, but probably not
baseball - for everyone, not always the most exciting, but the classiest and best of all (so long as the less-populist tennis doesn't get to play)

hockey - almost no blended haircuts
football - minimal number of blended haircuts
basketball - average number of blended haircuts
Nascar - above average number of blended haircuts, but starting to decline
baseball - ideal number of blended haircuts

"hockey - for minnesotans, michiganders, massholes and other such canadian weirdos, plus the violent and/or closeted/repressed
football - for southerners, midwesterners, bridge and tunnelers and other such suburban fatsos"

^utterly moronic

oh yeah, they;re for dudes who like hookers too

^i repeat, utterly moronic

After all this time, I finally found an occasion to want to suggest ban gabbneb.

http://wayneandwax.com/wp/images/truth-hurts-crop.jpg

i would like to point out that i have been offtm in this thread

https://twitter.com/BrianPickett/status/756134629493571586

isn't that like the finnish version of baseball

i remember watching some videos on youtube a few years ago, it looked p dumb

haha @ gabbneb upthread taking such care to be seen appreciating nascar after writing football and hockey off as flyover circuses

yeah that's bizarre, what a rube.

i would list the big 4 in this order:

baseball
football
hockey
basketball

and nascar is good ... for me to poop on

apologies to Canada for the relatively low placement of the two sports invented here

The sports equinox:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/today-is-the-sports-equinox/