Personally, I think watching basketball is almost, but not quite, as exciting as watching paint dry. When my son played in middle school sure, it was fun to watch the kids. But why bother to watch adults prance about throwing a ball at a hoop? Me just don’t gets it!!!
Same here.
My wife had a friend who was close to one of the Seattle Supersonics star players. She got us tickets to a game where we were four rows up at center court in the Key Arena. I remember sitting down with my wife and looking at the cop on the court standing at attention in his smartly pressed uniform and I said to her, “You could place ten rows of guys like him there on the court floor and they would make, as a group, less money than one of the major players on this team.
We watched the game and were bored silly. We didn’t want to be rude, though, and stayed to the end of the first quarter. We had a nice Thai meal at our favorite Thai restaurant a couple blocks north of the Key arena and spent the day doing stuff we wanted to do.
And that is the key. I love sports, but as an activity, not something to watch. The exception is things like riding our motorcycle through Quincy on a warm day and stopping to watch a local little league game. That was very enjoyable. And the game is only part of it. Watching the families and the kids and the simple exposing of local culture was satisfying.