Pro sports are boring to watch

women's basketball should die a quick death

HarlemCoug

1/28/20 2:31pm

He said “unpopular”.

Tokolosh

1/28/20 2:32pm

Dan Marino is the 2nd best QB of all time (behind Brady)

Thrill

1/28/20 2:31pm

Wrong. Marino was better than Brady.

chilango

1/28/20 2:42pm

That is unpopular. Everyone knows Marino is 1.

RalphWiggam

1/28/20 2:42pm

Just curious where you'd rank Bernie Kosar?

IdahoCoug

1/28/20 3:00pm

Unranked.....

Thrill

1/28/20 3:58pm

elite gymnasts are more athletic than elite athletes in other sports.

vagabonder

1/28/20 2:32pm

They wanted my 7 yr old to train 20 hrs a week. She is fit, but I said no thanks

jholling

1/28/20 2:54pm

Leyuan James is a commie and should be tried for treason.

IceCreamButt

1/28/20 2:32pm

Seahawks decision to not run the ball was fine. Just bad luck on the outcome

Odysseus

1/28/20 2:33pm

Good preparation by the Patriots

Busiturtle

1/28/20 6:51pm

Passing was the right decision, throwing into congestion to their 5th WR was the

wabluecoug

1/28/20 7:00pm

Do we know if Tom Brady was on the sidelines hitting a garbage can with a bat?

Busiturtle

1/28/20 7:07pm

Professional sports suck!

Boanerges

1/28/20 2:34pm

Hockey and Lacrosse are dumb.

Santos L. Halper

1/28/20 2:34pm

Hockey is awesome

wabluecoug

1/28/20 2:42pm

Golf sucks.

chilango

1/28/20 2:34pm

If a coach/player yells at a ref, the ref gets to talk trash and get in the coaches/players face all game.

slappy

1/28/20 2:34pm

Alex Morgan is very overrated.

Thrill

1/28/20 2:35pm

I actually agree that she is a bit overrated. But not VERY.

JmThms

1/28/20 8:27pm

True. Pretty women get more love from fans and end up being over-rated.

Santos L. Halper

1/29/20 7:42am

BYU women's basketball is more exciting to watch than the men's team and has

BYUtka

1/28/20 2:35pm

This can't be real.

JuicyJam

1/28/20 2:36pm

The disparity isn't as great this season, but the last few with Rose, it wasn't

BYUtka

1/28/20 2:43pm

I’ve gone to several women’s games in person the last few years.

JuicyJam

1/28/20 2:55pm

Well, you are entitled to your popular opinion.

BYUtka

1/28/20 3:01pm

I often watch the women on BYUtv buy the men's game is much better.

Real G Man

1/28/20 3:30pm

Better how? In what way?

BYUtka

1/28/20 3:37pm

You have caused me to stop and think..... The women's game is much better that years ago and can stand on it's own. It

Real G Man

1/28/20 3:53pm

Ice Hockey would be better if the players were riding miniature horses

BoiseBlue

1/28/20 2:35pm

Tom Brady is not one of the 5 best quarterbacks of all time.

chilango

1/28/20 2:35pm

smh

Mrs Featerbottom

1/28/20 2:37pm

If you split his career down the middle both ends would be top 5 QBs in the NFL

MikeDitka'sStache

1/28/20 2:38pm

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Crowd Factor

1/28/20 7:01pm

I wouldn’t go that far, I’d say he’s around #5.

bluecougar1985

1/28/20 6:54pm

Close enough.

chilango

1/28/20 7:15pm

Here are two.

Aircooled

1/28/20 2:36pm

#1 - Thumbs up. #2 - 🙁

BlueVU

1/28/20 2:38pm

#2 is in it's infancy...would take some time to explain

Aircooled

1/28/20 2:41pm

...and drop 80% of your athletic department revenue.

Hawk in the 303

1/28/20 2:40pm

He speaks wisdom.

CougaRad

1/28/20 4:24pm

What could be bigger and better. Ok the better part isn't hard in terms of on

IceCreamButt

1/28/20 7:31pm

Hunger games with the children of Ute fans.

StalwartBraveTrue

1/28/20 11:00pm

UFC/MMA is barbaric and lame.

Ned Schneebly

1/28/20 2:37pm

Barbaric sure. Lame though?

JuicyJam

1/28/20 3:55pm

Golf is a hobby, not a sport.

RdF3

1/28/20 2:37pm

Offsides rule in soccer is dumb. If the field was spread out more there would be

MikeDitka'sStache

1/28/20 2:37pm

If you removed offsides, there would be even less scoring because defenders

darkcoug

1/28/20 2:44pm

Your last sentence is VERY popular with me.

JmThms

1/28/20 2:46pm

Not true.

HoustonCougar

1/28/20 8:40pm

He asked for unpopular opinions. I gave him one.

MikeDitka'sStache

1/29/20 9:10am

Yes on the "if the field was spread out more there would be more goals".

JmThms

1/28/20 10:59pm

Basketball has an inherent flaw in that it is too difficult to ref.

Super Chicken

1/28/20 2:38pm

Explain please? Is it eliminating the block/charge?

Thrill

1/28/20 2:44pm

I just think that it depends too much on instantaneous judgment calls. The

Super Chicken

1/28/20 3:04pm

The inherent flaw I see is that the scoring violates the scarcity principle of

JmThms

1/29/20 10:02am

Male tennis players should get paid more than female tennis players.

mobomanjoe

1/28/20 2:38pm

Because of length of games or because of popularity? I would watch

P-Boy Squad

1/28/20 2:44pm

Yes, they play more tennis.

mobomanjoe

1/28/20 2:45pm

I always thought it should be based on money brought in.

Baron

1/28/20 3:24pm

HRs make baseball boring.

SLC-Warrior

1/28/20 2:39pm

Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant are the two best players ever to play the game.

Hawk Talons

1/28/20 2:40pm

Steve Young was better than Joe Montana.

chilango

1/28/20 2:40pm

Young did a lot with not as much talent around him.

Jeff75

1/28/20 2:45pm

The Dodgers should be awarded the 2017 World Series.

Super Chicken

1/28/20 2:40pm

the Yankees took the Astros to 7 games in 2017. Yanks won all 3 home games and lost all 4 games in Houston. The Yanks

HarlemCoug

1/28/20 2:46pm

Yes. It's a solid solution.

Super Chicken

1/28/20 2:55pm

Holy cow. That would be the most amazing thing ever. End spring training...

COACHdrn

1/29/20 12:36pm

The snitch and seeker should be eliminated from quidditch!

Rich Lather

1/28/20 2:40pm

Snitch is fine. Just add timed periods. Catching the snitch shouldn't end the

frontrowcougar

1/28/20 3:03pm

RE: The snitch and seeker should be eliminated from quidditch!

yahtzee

1/29/20 12:49am

Curling involves great athleticism

Agnostic-alumni

1/28/20 2:40pm

RE: Curling involves great athleticism

Hawk Talons

1/28/20 2:43pm

RE: Curling involves great athleticism

Hawk Talons

1/28/20 2:45pm

I don't know about that, but it can be fun to watch. I want to try playing it

BYUtka

1/28/20 2:46pm

Soccer as a Game is fundamentally and significantly flawed.

JmThms

1/28/20 2:41pm

RE: Soccer as a Game is fundamentally and significantly flawed.

yahtzee

1/29/20 11:38pm

A complicated man. 😁

JmThms

1/30/20 7:38am

Grown men spend way to much time obsessing over teenage boys

BigTex

1/28/20 2:42pm

Yikes.

pink22

1/28/20 2:44pm

Are you a member of the Board of Trustees?

TNT

1/28/20 3:06pm

RE: Your unpopular sports opinions. Go!

cougfanblue

1/28/20 2:42pm

Bronco was a better recruiter than Sitake

darkcoug

1/28/20 2:43pm

I seriously don't know, do people think Sitake is better?

SLC-Warrior

1/28/20 2:44pm

College football is 4 hrs of mostly commercials. Wait that’s a fact.

raines31

1/28/20 2:43pm

Anna Kournikova is the greatest athlete of all time.

credible HULK

1/28/20 2:43pm

Motor sports aren’t sports. They’re hobbies.

pink22

1/28/20 2:43pm

College athletes should not be criticized harshly by adult fans.

chilango

1/28/20 2:44pm

The fact that we all enjoy watching 18-22 year old boys that we have little to

MikeDitka'sStache

1/28/20 2:44pm

Upon review, being BYU fans my age range should have been 22-26, I Apologize

MikeDitka'sStache

1/28/20 2:46pm

Almost all of the sports in the Olympics are dumb.

HuskerFan2

1/28/20 2:45pm

Marcus Allen is the best football player of all time.

Jeff75

1/28/20 2:45pm

Kobe is way overrated. I would not put him in the top 10 all time.

CopperLix

1/28/20 2:45pm

If Jordan didn't exist Kobe would be seen as Top 5 of all time, but because of

MikeDitka'sStache

1/28/20 2:47pm

Kobe is easily top 5 and can make a case for top 3.

RalphWiggam

1/28/20 2:49pm

Wut?

TNT

1/28/20 3:01pm

As a lifelong Laker fan I agree. He's the 4th or 5th best Laker of all-time

AZ Coug

1/28/20 10:22pm

Competitive sports should be decoupled from colleges.

frontrowcougar

1/28/20 2:45pm

Kobe Bryant is a rapist and the post-death adulation is over the top.

mrphotogenic

1/28/20 2:49pm

All I know is when I die I hope to be remembered by my achievements and not my

MikeDitka'sStache

1/28/20 2:51pm

The lows can't be ignored.

Jeff75

1/28/20 2:52pm

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RalphWiggam

1/28/20 3:58pm

In what court?

pink22

1/28/20 8:39pm

BYU Football was dumb to stop the firesides and the change has been a net

BYUtka

1/28/20 2:51pm

The fireside were fine but many players did not attend them. Was a Bronco thing

PortlandBlue

1/28/20 3:04pm

How have firesides changed this team at all?

IceCreamButt

1/28/20 7:34pm

The lack of firesides has negatively impacted them.

BYUtka

1/28/20 8:20pm

How?

IceCreamButt

1/28/20 8:27pm

Lack of focus, purpose, and other potential blessings that came from putting the

BYUtka

1/28/20 9:02pm

Tiger Woods padded his record against weak competition

RC Vikings

1/28/20 2:51pm

(unpopular in the US) Soccer is the best sport above all - even football

hadmonster

1/28/20 2:51pm

Any sport that regularly ends 0-0 cannot be the best sport above all

MikeDitka'sStache

1/28/20 2:53pm

I separate its structural flaws from it's fantastic nature

JmThms

1/28/20 4:12pm

the flopping is so off-putting. can't watch such great athletes act like babies... it's not for me....

HarlemCoug

1/28/20 6:50pm

Following sports was more fun when we all relied on Sportscenter for news

Joe Banks

1/28/20 2:55pm

James Harden is a cheater

gurt

1/28/20 3:01pm

Popular opinion. We all agree with you.

mobomanjoe

1/28/20 3:05pm

Bowl games are awful and should go away

Remigius

1/28/20 3:08pm

RE: Bowl games are awful and should go away

Santos L. Halper

1/28/20 3:12pm

Championships are overrated in determining greatness

Baron

1/28/20 3:11pm

Most certainly in team sports, particularly football

atlcougar

1/28/20 3:40pm

This is how all coaches should treat youth sports and why we get our butts kicked in Soccer

RdF3

1/28/20 3:13pm

Lol. Interesting methodology.

JmThms

1/28/20 4:13pm

Replay has ruined football and should be eliminated.

Nathanael Greene

1/28/20 3:18pm

The NFL is football for people who know nothing of football

JollyGreenGiant

1/28/20 3:19pm

Dallas Cowboys silver isn't really silver

run26

1/28/20 3:30pm

!! BRING BACK THE SONICS !!

lightmann

1/28/20 3:38pm

NBA and MLB seasons are much too long. NFL is just right as it is, don't make it any longer or replace pre-season games

lightmann

1/28/20 3:40pm

Roger Federer padded his record against weak competition before Rafa and Nole

chilango

1/28/20 4:09pm

Sideline reporters (especially female) at CFB games are totally useless.

Santos L. Halper

1/28/20 4:23pm

Tom Brady is dang lucky to have had Bellichick as his coach. Without him he'd be a great qb but nowhere near the GOAT

byuluvr

1/28/20 6:45pm

Spot on. I’d guess he’d have been Alex Smith type of qb.

bluecougar1985

1/28/20 7:06pm

Pro sports are boring to watch

Crowd Factor

1/28/20 7:02pm

I have a ton of unpopular opinions on sports. i made a vid talking about them.

afraazali

4/24/20 1:26am

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