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presidio9 wrote: "What you are decribing is not observation, but ignorance."

How so? I was more knowledgable than a casual viewer and viewed with several "experts" who would answer any question I had and provided more valuable commentary than the TV commentators. I still found golf and soccer boring to watch.

presidio9 wrote: "There are several highly entertaining and popular sports described by some as "boring.""

Just because one person finds something highly entertaining doesn't mean that everyone will. Tastes differ. I'm not offended because you don't like everything that I do and I don't assume it is just because you are ignorant. I find it a sign of insecurity when someone takes offense to another's disinterest in their hobbies. I don't feel obligated to convert everyone to my interest set nor do I feel that they are somehow deficient because they don't have my interests. In this sense, diversity is good.

presidio9 wrote: "They are only boring to the viewer who does not understand them."

Knowledge will not automatically instill interest in the topic. Because my boys like them I know a lot about Tintin adventures, Transformers, and Rescue Heroes. None of these have any intrinsic interest to me (well, of course, except the boys) and as soon as the boys outgrow them, I will avoid these topics.

You even disprove this statement by your own comments. Despite your knowledge of tennis, you find "it has ceased to be interesting..." or in other words, boring.

bttt

I'm telling you my perspective. I know enough about tennis that I was once a fan. The game has changed the point that it is boring to me. You are not, nor were you ever a golf fan. You think that it is boring. Your observation is based on ignorance. I am making an educated one.