Your second favourite sport

[sam4731]

Having put football second and my team being Arsenal (RL: Saints), I wonder what the biggest distance between everyone's favourite sport team and their second favourite sport team.

I know mine will be dwarfed by some AFL fans out there.

[Phil]

Boxing 

[The Hallucinating Goose]

58 minutes ago, sam4731 said:

Having put football second and my team being Arsenal (RL: Saints), I wonder what the biggest distance between everyone's favourite sport team and their second favourite sport team.

I know mine will be dwarfed by some AFL fans out there.

Mine is about 10 miles, between Hull FC and Beverley Town.

[Barley Mow]

1 hour ago, sam4731 said:

Having put football second and my team being Arsenal (RL: Saints), I wonder what the biggest distance between everyone's favourite sport team and their second favourite sport team.

I know mine will be dwarfed by some AFL fans out there.

Having put cricket as my 2nd favourite and regularly watching Yorkshire at Headingley, it's a shame I'm not a Leeds RL supporter - that must be the shortest distance.

[sam4731]

28 minutes ago, Barley Mow said:

Having put cricket as my 2nd favourite and regularly watching Yorkshire at Headingley, it's a shame I'm not a Leeds RL supporter - that must be the shortest distance.

Definitely without actually stadium sharing.

[Maximus Decimus]

3 hours ago, gingerjon said:

Right on cue. A score that is incomprehensible (and actually impossible) to the NFL mind.

 

So let me get this straight, if you can punt the ball out on the full behind the posts you get a point? 

Seems like madness. 

[bobbruce]

Rugby league

Football (Liverpool/England games)

Squash

Cricket (int) Football(any) Golf (majors) boxing F1

Athletics RU Snooker TDF

 

[gingerjon]

1 hour ago, Maximus Decimus said:

So let me get this straight, if you can punt the ball out on the full behind the posts you get a point? 

Seems like madness. 

I don't even think it needs to be on the full.

[Maximus Decimus]

1 hour ago, gingerjon said:

I don't even think it needs to be on the full.

I tried to understand it by reading about it, and I actually thought the idea might be that it has to bounce. That would at least make some sense IMO.

It doesn't seem to happen a lot, but in theory it could be 30 all and you could be 20 metres out with seconds on the clock and just boot it out to guarantee a point. Way easier than a field goal for instance.

[iffleyox]

I’m probably RU (Moseley), then RL (Trin and Cowboys these days) cricket (Worcs) and jumps racing pretty much equal Second depending on time of year.

Edited October 27 by iffleyox

[Gerrumonside ref]

I watch and follow a lot of sports (to my detriment really) particularly since I stopped the sports I played to a reasonable amateur level at one point (football, cricket and tennis).

Depending upon the time of year will often dictate what I would class as my favourite sport, but the reality is I’m open to most things along as there’s good sporting drama about it and I like a bit of variety too.

I often feel at work that I’m missing out on chats about latest TV dramas, but then when I check them out, unless I’m totally captivated by them, I realise I’d rather watch live sport than some duff ‘run of the mill’ TV drama.

 

[gingerjon]

The list then goes:
(1) Cricket
(2) Football
(3) Rugby union
(=) Darts

None of the "others" (I think) hit the same giddy heights achieved by those.

[JonM]

Cricket (although I probably only get to a live game every year or two) then Football (haven't been to watch a game in person for probably a decade now and only rarely watch on tv). I like ice hockey and have been to games here and abroad, but don't have a team that I support. I could imagine being a real fan if there'd been a team in Widnes when I was growing up.

Zero interest in darts, snooker, golf, F1, tennis, boxing. These days, with womens RL, NRL, French RL, games being streamed from around Europe etc. it's pretty easy to just watch RL.

Running is definitely the sport I spend most time on, but my spectating there is limited to watching friends finish races, or being a marshal, or occasionally following online people doing insane ultra events.