Continuing my theme of days/events in sports that are highly-touted, I'd like to talk about some that I feel are overrated. Once again, this list is biased based on my own personal preference of sport, so it's very much open for debate.
5.) Daytona 500- While I know some about racing and follow it in terms of seeing who wins each race on Sportscenter, it is a very boring 'sport,' if you can call it a sports, which helps land the Daytona 500 at #5. It marks the start of the neverending racing season where the winner of it doesn't usually even count to factor into the race for the cup at the end. The Indy 500, for racing fans, I feel is much more historic and exciting to watch.
4.) The NFL Preseason- Come on guys, like it really matters? The Colts went 0-4 this NFL Preseason. I know that football is king of the sporting world these days and it gets football fans all fired up for the upcoming season but it is highly overrated. The games are poorly played, starters play only a half, and if you're watching you're probably too busy worrying about your favorite player getting hurt. THe NFL preseason is stupid, should be shorter, and doesn't have anticipation aspect that baseball spring training does (it also gets about 10 times more hype than spring training).
3.) NBA All-Star Game- I love the dunk contest, the 3 point contest, but what's the point in playing the game? It ends up being something like 140-135 and the NBA is a sloppy game to watch as it is so when you put 10 ball hogs on the court together it's even worse. It is very over-hyped and the game means nothing and i think it has lost a lot of its valour in the years since MJ.
2.) Super Bowl Sunday- I know I had this on my previous list of best days because it is a fun 'sports' day, however, it's also very overrated. I'ts one day and one game, granted it is the championship game but there's no other sports to watch that day. You also have the chance of it being a bad game and there's nothing to look forward to except for commercials. And if you have 0 loyalty to the two teams (like i'm sure a lot do this year, Steelers vs. Seahawks? come on) it's probably not so fun to watch. We have to wait 2 weeks to watch the Super Bowl, go through the media day coverage and the 6 hour pre game shows and millions of predictions for one game that means little unless you're a big fan or if it is a good game.
1.) The Pro Bowl- Ok, I guess it's kind of obvious that I'm not the biggest NFL fan from my list, but I enjoy football a lot I just think the NFL takes advantage of their standing as the highest-rated sport by over-hyping ever single event, including the Pro Bowl--the most pointless, stupid sporting event of the year. I watch sports everyday, I'll watch bowling, tennis, even ping pong (a very underrated sport to watch on tv) and I'm proud to say I have never watched the Pro Bowl. sure, I've turned it on once in a while but who cares? The season's over, ,many players don't even want to play so they don't get hurt, they don't play hard so it's usually a boring game, but NFL primetime is there and all week is leading up to the big game in Hawaii. IT is completely overrated and shouldn't even be played in the first place.
Id have to take out the Super Bowl on this one and add that rediculous U.S.A vs the world golf event. Super Bowl is cool, even if the game sucks. People come over, eat tons of food, drink tons of beer. We are putting both big screens in the den, one for the game, and one to play Madden on. Weve got about 10 cases of beer and 5 pounds of barbeque, and 10 racks of ribs. Granted you could attempt this at any of these events, but it just seems right at the super bowl. Racing is also pretty cool if you can see it live. I thought it was a joke until I scored a ticket to Talladega. Became a fan for life there.
I think the "all-star" games have it covered.
Let's start with the NFL in Hawaii...has anyone ever seen one of those games?
MLB and the steroid super-stars...a total embarassment...including the clowns who are "hurt".
On to the NBA; there's better ball played on a street corner in Harlem! And everyone is SO COOL!
You can pick several events on the PGA but the FEDEX Cup appears ready to take top rank as useless in it's debut year.
Hockey...what?
As far as NASCAR; it's really not a sport, you yahoos. It's grown-up bumper cars and you mullet-heads pay to see...left turns?
I could go on to #### figure skating, otherwise known as figure skating, or curling (the thing on the ice...not your hair)...OR anything to do with the X-Games. Then there's bowling, 8-ball (or anything on a pool table...except Jenna Jameson), arm wrestling. Damn, no wonder Cheap Seats never runs out of material.
The pro bowl is retarded. Even with the specter of jonesing for some action until the draft, I can't watch it. It is utterly, totally meaningless. The baseball all star game has some meaning, the NBA all star game has interesting events surrounding it and it is the type of game where we can see some ridiculous moves, but the pro bowl is just a big waste of time.
The superbowl could be cool if the non football portion of the game were significantly curtailed. I need the NFL preseason after dying all summer, plus we get to see which young players and undrafted free agents look decent.
Every All start game is overrated, no question. Maybe baseball can slide by, because it is for home field.
The superbowl needs to move to saturday to allow for a recovery day.
My name is Kevin and I'm a sophomore studying journalism at Northwestern University. I've been a die-hard sports fan all my life, and I'm also one of those hated Cubs and White Sox fans (that's just how I was raised, to be a both fan). I'm also a huge Bears, Bulls, and Blackhawks fan. My favorite sports, however, because of its pagentry and passion, are college sports and I'm a huge Northwestern and DePaul fan.
