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Do you hate sports so much that you would not attend a game watching party?

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IndyColtsFan said:
Some people just aren't very social. I like sports but in general, I'd prefer to sit at home and watch them rather than go somewhere else.

I made the mistake a few years ago of saying "OK" when my wife wanted to invite her friend (let's call her "Jane") and the friend's spouse to a Colts playoff game at our house. Jane arrived wearing a Dallas Clark jersey and proclaimed to be a hardcore fan.

Jane didn't know shit about football. Nearly every drive, there were questions like: "How many downs do they get again?" "Why are they kicking it away?" etc. She then confessed she had a Dallas Clark jersey because he was "cute," not because she had a clue about his stats, how we played, etc.

When they left, I told my wife that "Jane" was never allowed to step foot in my house again on a Sunday during football season.
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I hope the 49ers make the play-offs, but I will not be happy if they are playing in the game I am holding the party for.

I only like watching 49ers games at a stadium or alone with my son (and, until about 2-3 years ago, not even with my son 😉 ).

MotionMan
 
Just because he has no interest in hanging out doesn't mean he is weird. He may be weird for other reasons, but not because of this
 
Not that weird. Maybe he has better things to do than go to a "game watching party"

Hell I'm a sports fan and the description you gave sounds terrible to me too.

He might just not like you and/or someone else you invited as well, and he just doesn't know how to say it without causing a stir.
 
BTA said:
Not that weird. Maybe he has better things to do than go to a "game watching party"

Hell I'm a sports fan and the description you gave sounds terrible to me too.
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How so?

He might just not like you and/or someone else you invited as well, and he just doesn't know how to say it without causing a stir.
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I know for a fact it is not this.

MotionMan
 
MotionMan said:
He is a little odd and artsy. It is one thing to just say you cannot make it (or, at this point, just acknowledge receipt of the invite, which is all I asked, and RSVP 'no' later). He made it pretty clear it was because he did not like sports.

MotionMan
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Honestly (and I know I am going to get flamed for this but don't care), I don't understand guys who have zero interest in any sports at all. I think it is very, very strange.

With that being said, a lot of guys are married to women who are very controlling and/or bitchy about them going out at all. I had a friend once and I literally had to give him 2 months notice to do anything, even if it was just coming over to my house for brats, cigars, and beer. I remember one day a few years ago (it was in January, IIRC), he sent me a PM and said "Hey, what are you doing on June 15?" I was like "Are you serious?"
 
IndyColtsFan said:
Honestly (and I know I am going to get flamed for this but don't care), I don't understand guys who have zero interest in any sports at all. I think it is very, very strange.
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I agree. [flame]I give women and gay men a pass, but, for some reason, it just seems really odd in straight men.[/flame] (It may sound odd, but it is simply the truth about how I feel.)

With that being said, a lot of guys are married to women who are very controlling and/or bitchy about them going out at all. I had a friend once and I literally had to give him 2 months notice to do anything, even if it was just coming over to my house for brats, cigars, and beer. I remember one day a few years ago (it was in January, IIRC), he sent me a PM and said "Hey, what are you doing on June 15?" I was like "Are you serious?"
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That is not it in this situation.

MotionMan
 
MotionMan said:
I hope the 49ers make the play-offs, but I will not be happy if they are playing in the game I am holding the party for.

I only like watching 49ers games at a stadium or alone with my son (and, until about 2-3 years ago, not even with my son 😉 ).

MotionMan
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When the Colts played in SB 41, I had a small gathering at my house but only with my brothers and my (at the time) fiance. We repeated the same thing the following year as we cheered the Giants on against the Pats.

Wisely, I didn't have one for SB 44 and I doubt people would've recovered quickly from all my screaming, yelling, cursing, etc. 😀
 
IndyColtsFan said:
Honestly (and I know I am going to get flamed for this but don't care), I don't understand guys who have zero interest in any sports at all. I think it is very, very strange.
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I have zero interest in sports. Why would anyone want to watch other people play games? I can see the appeal in /doing/ sports, but not watching them. The sports I like to do are also solo. I'm not a team player. I want all the glory when I win :^D
 
I think the general rule of thumb is that if you are inviting a bunch of people over to watch a sporting event, the social aspect > sporting event.

I don't invite people over to watch my team play. I have invited people over for other sporting event parties where social > sports, just not with MY team playing. It's not fair to my guests nor myself.
 
I would go to a party with bunch of guys watching sports, but I would be leery about going to a party with a bunch of guys watching opera. And if the sports is synchronized swimming, I'm not going either.
 
lxskllr said:
I have zero interest in sports. Why would anyone want to watch other people play games? I can see the appeal in /doing/ sports, but not watching them. The sports I like to do are also solo. I'm not a team player. I want all the glory when I win :^D
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I grew up in a house with diehard sports fans. Pro football and college basketball were the sports we always watched growing up. Before we had the Colts, we were Bears and Cowboys fans (I still have a soft place in my heart for both, but I do enjoy laughing at Jerry Jones). Mom was also a Baltimore Colts fan from when she was a kid. My dad was a big baseball fan and I played the game as a kid and even used to watch baseball on TV occasionally, but I got tired of it.
 
I might turn down the offer if I really hated sports. I see where you're coming from but I understand his position too. If I were invited to a party where people would by, say, tasting wine or watching Glee, I'd probably decline as well, even if I knew most of the people who would be there.

It's hard for me to put myself in that position because I like sports.
 
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I grew up in a house with no sports fans. That alone should go a long way in helping you "understand" why I don't care about sports at all. I played baseball one year and hated it. No more sports for me. Ever.

I'm not a very competitive person to begin with, so that's why I don't play, and wasting two hours of my time watching a very uneventful game is not my idea of fun; never mind that I don't respect pretty much any pro athletes.

That said, though, I do enjoy seeing video clips of extremely good (or bad 😛) plays.
 
I have zero interest in watching sports, but I can see the appeal. When i was a kid I loved baseball and basketball, I just have no interest in it now
 
Beev said:
I grew up in a house with no sports fans. That alone should go a long way in helping you "understand" why I don't care about sports at all. I played baseball one year and hated it. No more sports for me. Ever.

I'm not a very competitive person to begin with, so that's why I don't play, and wasting two hours of my time watching a very uneventful game is not my idea of fun; never mind that I don't respect pretty much any pro athletes.

That said, though, I do enjoy seeing video clips of extremely good (or bad 😛) plays.
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While my parents do enjoy sports to some degree, in my house growing up it was a very rare thing to see sports on tv. Sometimes my mother would watch baseball. Occasionally (but very rarely) we'd go to a baseball game. When the Olympics were here in 1996, my parents didn't get tickets to a single event. When the Falcons were in the Superbowl in 1999 I don't know if my parents even watched it. I never played any sports past 1st grade where I played a year of soccer that I hated.

However when I started college at Ga Tech I quickly became a huge football fan. In recent years I've started watching NFL more as well. In truth I don't see how anyone can anything but love watching football (the real stuff, not what foreigners call soccer). I can watch baseball if I'm at the ballpark. I can watch basketball during the playoffs if the Hawks are in it or during the NCAA tournament. I can watch tennis or gold for short periods of time. I can't watch soccer as nothing happens.

It's actually amazing how many of my friends who are very nerdy love watching football with me. My main group that watches games had to stop inviting one person who would show up to hang out but refused to learn the game and kept asking the same annoying questions.
 
You are planning a party around an event. Why not have the get together at a different time? You are making football the main event and structuring the party around it.

I wouldn't go unless I had some good friends who were going to be there, and I'm a pretty social person. It isn't just that you are watching football. You are planning the event around the sport, meaning that there will be a lot of people talking about sports, which I cannot stand.

Next time, if it really isn't about football, then don't plan the event around a football game.
 
MotionMan said:
He is a little odd and artsy. It is one thing to just say you cannot make it (or, at this point, just acknowledge receipt of the invite, which is all I asked, and RSVP 'no' later). He made it pretty clear it was because he did not like sports.

MotionMan
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Maybe you should change the event to an outing at the MOMA, if that makes him more comfortable?
 
IndyColtsFan said:
Honestly (and I know I am going to get flamed for this but don't care), I don't understand guys who have zero interest in any sports at all. I think it is very, very strange.
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Well there are better things to do this day and age so blame the internet / porn. 😀

Plus what kind of hours does he work as this could be hard asking a guy to do that if he works a lot and wants to do better things on his day off?
 
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