I can respect that. I admit I am a lot harder on sports than I should be. I guess my problem is I can't really see anything all that intelligent about a bunch of guys throwing a ball around. But, I don't hesitate to admit that it is a perspective problem on my part. As you said, it is something you understand, and I don't. Not because I lack the ability, but rather, because I lack the interest.

I guess it is really the sports loving morons who enjoy being morons that you mentioned that turns me off of sports so much.

Baffling even to myself, I do somehow enjoy real football, i.e. what everyone else calls football and Americans and Aussies like to call "soccer" (I don't care a thing for it when played by Americans though, they have a weird way of making it less entertaining IMHO). Not sure why, but I could hardly find anything less enjoyable to watch than American padded rugby, this probably has a lot to do with the fact that everyone has always expected me to like it. I am tall and wide shouldered, so during my school years it seemed people were always bugging me and asking why I never tried out for the football team. Now in my adult life I am always asked what team I like, or what I thought about "the game last night". People just assume it is the sort of thing I should be into, and for some reason that makes it feel more like a bother to me than something I am content to follow my usual live and let live philosophy with. Kind of like the fly, I have nothing against flies, but I resent them when they are buzzing in my ear or drowning in my beer... or beating their heads on my window.

Going to live baseball and basketball games on occasion can be quite enjoyable to me. And of course I enjoy playing baseball and basketball myself, though a quick paced game of racquetball is more my thing.