Bloganuary Day 29 (2024)

What are your favorite sports to watch and play?

This is easy for me as I don’t play any sports, nor do I watch them.

Don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy watching big matches on tv with friends in a social gathering, like football and rugby. I also enjoy watching the Olympics and tennis but I wouldn’t be following sports daily, it’s just not my cup of tea.

I used to play sports when I was younger but haven’t really found anything that I enjoy enough to play regularly as I have grown older. I love the gym, walking, running, hiking etc but I’m just not really into sports. Maybe it’s the competitiveness that I don’t like or the fact that I wasn’t great at sports when I was a kid at school. Who knows but it doesn’t really bother me. As long as I’m active, healthy and happy, that’s good enough for me.

Happy Monday everyone! I hope you all have a great week and for those participating in Bloganuary, I hope you enjoy the last few days.

Wayne

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  1. I am finding that we are indeed a lot alike, though I am older than you. I don’t play sports either, nor do I watch them, unless it is a big match in soccer (football). I don’t like American football at all, and I know I am in the minority in this country! I played soccer in high school, and I just don’t like the competitiveness that it brings out. I like individual activities like walking, hiking, running, and swimming. I think I am still pretty fit for my age, but not because of team sports!

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  7. Strange as this seems to me now, I played a bunch of sports when I was in junior and senior high school. I just never thought of myself as athletic. And even more surprising now, I think I was pretty good at them. In my day, maybe more so for “girls,” I was not referred to as a jock. I was a pitcher or played second base in softball. I was the center in field hockey. I loved playing volleyball and was a good server. I could not, for the life of me, make the ball to go through the net in basketball, but I played the position of “rover” because I was kinda fast, and good at getting the ball down the court.

    When I left a school, that was the end of playing sports. I really didn’t realize grown ups played many sports. I married and became a mom in my early twenties and work and “normal life” was what I did.

    Move forward in life and in my early-forties I was asked to join two softball teams; a co-ed team with work mates and a women’s team that competed with various government agency teams.

    My first evening playing, after the game, we went to celebrate our win at a local bar, the “Across The Street Pub.” I could not believe my eyes. The place was filled with many teams, all in jerseys of different colors, representing at least fifteen other teams. I just never knew! We played weekly while the weather was good. I eventually retired playing softball when I was forty-seven.

    If there were gatherings of groups of people, I loved it if a volleyball game was played. Yes, I would always join in.

    However, as the arthritis set in, it actually became limiting. I then became a great side-line cheerleader for all those still able to play.

    Currently I have some young neighbors that set up a pickleball court in our roadway. Oh, my heart so wants to play. But, alas, I know I would probably get an injury that, at this stage of my life, would become debilitating. Rah! Rah! Go, Team, Go!!!

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