What Sport or Sports do you miss the most - Professional, College, Any Sports!!

[Nicosig97]

So what I miss most is F1, is a sport as i always see when i was child, but in the last years i became really huge fan.

F1 is my greatest loss this year, too. I started watching F1 40 years ago, when my brother took me to Watkins Glen. Most of the years since I haven't been a huge fan, but I started watching every race I could about 15 years ago. These days I normally plan my weekends so I can watch Practice, Qualifying, and the Race live. Professional (American) Football would probably be a bigger loss, but the timing isn't there (yet).

Oh me too Davest, it's been about 5 years now as I don't waste a second, before i watched only qualifying and race because free practice they weren't broadcast on TV. The last season i lost only the free practice of Japan because I didn't want to spend the night awake, since there was a storm coming and the performances would have been different, and the qualifications had moved them on Sunday morning in Japan, the night for me in Italy. So in February, for the fist time ever, F1 broadcast the live of all 2 session of test, and i watched all 6 days for 8 hours a day, 4 hours the morning and 4 hours afternoon, but in the last years i followed the test from specialized sites. But still I can't go to a live gp, and even this year I will unfortunately succeed.

[prophet138]

I miss watching pro wrestling with a crowd. Empty arena shows have been super weird to watch.

[Andrew35]

ladies matches sound like your watching porn(the girls are loud and intense), and the other matches stink without crowd reactions and you can tell the stars that thrive on the crowd, the entrances and promos are way off, the ones thriving are the people who usually stink before crowds, it's all weird.

[Nicosig97]

About wrestling, the experience of Gronk in WWE didn't last long, just he's back in business, he's trading from Pats for a 4th pick to reach TB12 to Tampa.

[TheShaft]

Golf courses are closed in my state but since I’m a dues paying member at my home course I’m allowed to walk on the property. Only thing is, there’s no holes for the ball to fall into. I’ve been cock blocked...

[Andrew35]

About wrestling, the experience of Gronk in WWE didn't last long, just he's back in business, he's trading from Pats for a 4th pick to reach TB12 to Tampa.

he stunk as a host of Wrestlemania and ended up being the 24/7 champ, think he saw better option was one more chance at a title run with Brady

[Nicosig97]

Sure, he has chance to win another SB, but depends on how he is physically, if he holds the whole season and if TB12 come back at least like 2/3 years ago, it's confirming the last season was bad only because hasn't good weapons, or he's really in decline.

[Andrew35]

they'll need an o-line, and weapons, what Tampa does in other trades and the draft will be telling. Time will tell if they are contenders or not

[Nicosig97]

Yeah, we'll see

[PeterL22]

Personally, I miss tiddlywinks.

[lance_s]

Personally, I miss tiddlywinks.

Yes, damn! I missed last year's world championship!!

[PeterL22]

Personally, I miss tiddlywinks.

Yes, damn! I missed last year's world championship!!

Mind you, this social distancing/isolation is a great chance to practice my underhand , triple rotation flip ready for next year!!

[lance_s]

Personally, I miss tiddlywinks.

Yes, damn! I missed last year's world championship!!

Mind you, this social distancing/isolation is a great chance to practice my underhand , triple rotation flip ready for next year!!

Is that underhand or "underhand"?

[PeterL22]

Personally, I miss tiddlywinks.

Yes, damn! I missed last year's world championship!!

Mind you, this social distancing/isolation is a great chance to practice my underhand , triple rotation flip ready for next year!!

Is that underhand or "underhand"?

Both really!
I'm told the World Tiddlywinks Federation outlawed that particular shot in 1993 - it came with the regulations on random dope testing for beta-blockers.

[lance_s]

Personally, I miss tiddlywinks.

Yes, damn! I missed last year's world championship!!

Mind you, this social distancing/isolation is a great chance to practice my underhand , triple rotation flip ready for next year!!

Is that underhand or "underhand"?

Both really!
I'm told the World Tiddlywinks Federation outlawed that particular shot in 1993 - it came with the regulations on random dope testing for beta-blockers.

Ah! That would explain the acronym for the World Tiddlywinks Federation - WTF!!

[mikesline]

any sport that looks like that...

Go Dodger Blue !!

missing basketball season too
Lakers Were Best Team When this Sickness Hit --Hope See End Of Season Play Out !

[CaptBunk]

I guess these days, NASCAR and Pro football would be what I miss. There's always one or the other on TV on the weekends. In my life, I've also enjoyed baseball and, to a lesser extent, basketball. I remember that Johnny Unitas was/is my favorite all-time quarterback. Johnny played for the Baltimore Colts in the late '50's/early 60's. We called him Johnny U. He was one of the greatest. When he would scramble back and unleash a long one to Raymond Berry or Lenny Moore, I mean, I would jump up and down in the living room, yelling and screaming "GO, JOHNNY U!" There's an ESPN series called "The Greatest Game Ever Played." I got the copy of the '68 championship game between the Colts and Giants. It was the first overtime playoff game, and is considered arguably one of the two greatest games ever played. I still remember watching it. And, yes, Baltimore and Johnny U. won it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_NFL_ ... nship_Game

I was in Detroit when the '68 tigers won the pennant. Man, what a night that was. Ready for another story?
I was working for AT&T in downtown Detroit, maybe 6 blocks away from Tiger Stadium. Across the street was Lindell's AC (Athletic Club) where some of the Tiger's stars would hang out. On the night in question, the last game (7) was in St. Louis. I had been a bad boy at work and was given 3 days off as punishment. The first of the 3 days, the game was that night. I was out at my friend John's house. It was really looking like the Tigers had it, so we started getting ready to go downtown.

There were 3 of us in John's old station wagon. We bought a couple 6-packs and headed downtown around 4 P.M., about 10 or 12 miles down Gratiot. As we got closer, there were more and more people. At some point I remember I sat on the rear door window sill holding a beer in each hand on top of the car. We found a place to park and walked over near Lindells. I mean, the streets were already full.

So for the next 6 hours we all hung around on the downtown streets. There were so many people that traffic was pretty much at a standstill. I remember a guy with a box of kotex walking around a main intersection "washing" the windshields of pretty girls cars. His fee? Well, a kiss, of course, lol.

I can remember climbing up on top of something, I want to say a city bus. I mean, traffic was so slow it was easy. When a traffic light would go green, maybe one car might get thru, lol. So, I had another 6-pack in my hand. I remember someone yelling for one, so I threw him a beer. At some point I climbed down.

I remember a small fire in a small shop. Someone called the FD. When the truck came thru, you couldn't even tell it was a fire truck, there were so many people climbing all over it. At some point around 7 PM, we started going to bars who told us they were sold out. We hit 3 or 4 before we started hearing that DETROIT was out of beer, lol. We heard that people were driving up to Flint (about 60 miles) and stocking up on cases.

Johnny and I and the others soon got separated (there were 4 of us,) but we all had a great night. I don't remember how my night ended. I might have found John and his car and rode home, I can't remember. I know my car was out at his house, around 10 or 12 miles from downtown. I only lived around 4 miles from downtown. So, I don't remember. But, from what I do remember, lol, it was the greatest party I've been to.

Couldn't do that these days. For some reason, today's kids think that it's fine to rampage through a downtown tearing it to pieces, destroying cars and people s property. It's a pathetic shame that people can't get together without destruction. In the entire 12 hours of Detroit, there were NO major incidents. You never even saw a cop. Blacks and whites were partying together. It was a great healing process, coming only a year since the Detroit riots, which did damage to the entire area. During the riots. people even cruised up to Pontiac (20 miles) and did some mayhem there. Not like 12th street in Detroit, the epicenter, but bad enough.

Those were the days, my friend. We thought they'd never end.

Great stories. I love to hear people tell real stories, we all have them. You mentioned how things have changed & it reminded me how I would stress to students that only 2 things change in history - 1) Population, & 2) Technology. All generations are different, you and I are becoming part of the "Get off my Lawn!" Club,

[CaptBunk]

Well the thing that I definitely miss a lot more due of this coronavirus and watching sports on TV. The sports is an important parts of my life, i played basketball for 10 years when i was 8 until 17 years, and until i was child i really liked to watch almost every type of sports in tv. So this is the period where more sports restart or enter the clou of many competitions, and know as there is nothing to watch on tv, it's really tough. So what I miss most is F1, is a sport as i always see when i was child, but in the last years i became really huge fan. After, in the same level, have soccer (with the most important championship which Serie A, Premier, Bundes, Champions League, Europa League), all of the rest of motorsport to 2 and 4 wheels, (includes MotoGP, IndyCar, WEC), obviously the NBA Playoffs (this season was really open, and i would see who won the title, and where my Celtics came) and the cycling, so my grandfather was before a cyclist and after a race director, it's always been in the middle of cycling. As almost every sunday went eat to my grandparents, in this period, how George said, every sunday there are the great classics of one day races and we after the lunch see it all the evening. Waiting the start, in May, of the first big stage race our "Giro D'Italia". So i remember when still went in the school, in those 3 weeks I left almost completely the homeworks for spend the whole afternoons to watch the stages in tv, with my parents during the week and in sunday with my grandfather too, and it is something that I do even now, but obviously this year i can't watch this with my grandfather due this shit of virus. In Italy this period in May we call "The Big Pink Party" (pink beacuse is colour of the jersey as wear the leader of the standings), because the movement of this caravan from one city to another brings a lot of joy and joy even for a few hours, and these cities are dressed completely in pink to greet the passage of the "Giro". And just last year the start of one stage was own in my city, and was a really exciting experience see the greatest cyclists of the world, as watch ever in tv, so close, and this year i had repeat this experience, because one stage would start near my city, and almost never two years in a row a stage start or pass near or in my city.
And, how said the Capt, i hope don't get hit the football.

I was High School History Teacher for 30 years and love studying History. Naturally, Italy is a place I know much about the History. Hearing first hand accounts like what you wrote is cool; good stuff. I do watch the Tour de France, the yellow jersey, lol. Be safe,

[WalterB]

you and I are becoming part of the "Get off my Lawn!" Club,

Thanks, Capt. Man you sure got that right, lol

[Andrew35]

Nascar coming back with that 5 races in so many days, and to avoid unnecessary travel, the races will be around the same area, going to be interesting