Are you a sports fan or just a football fan ?

Enjoy cricket and NFL too. Occasional slight interest in rugby, more league than union.

Enjoy Olympic events too; I used to compete in swimming, but I admit it's not a great spectator sport. I enjoy track and field too, but no sport has been more diminished in its prestige in my lifetime. Find curling strangely compelling when it's on, and weightlifting. The only Olympic sport that I find really disappointing is fencing.

Really don't like any form of motor sport. Not a fan of golf either, but the Ryder Cup is ok.
 
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Definitely sports fan. In fact I've been off football for a long time. I could happily watch any sport but my main ones are rugby and motorsports.

Both codes of rugby too, but obviously union first
 
We touched on this topic at Coffee Club when @goalscrounger was here in January. Given he lives in Chicago, he has interesting views and gets very excited about the Chiefs (I think!) but it’s apparent that the Boro is still his passion. It’s the same with my son who lives in Canada, who loves Ice Hockey, but still gets up at daft o’clock on a Saturday to watch the Boro stream.
 
Probably not a fan anymore.
Used to love F1 but least interest in the Schumacher days, lost any interest at all when Hamilton got robbed.

Used to watch every football game I could, but now rather go out and walk my dog. VAR and sportswashing, main reasons.
Boxing - turning into a WWE type panto.

I followed darts really closely but it bores me now, I probably will watch again when they start hitting 8 dart finishes.
 
Used to be a ridiculous sports fan, watched everything - footy, rugby (both), cricket, NFL, F1, Aussie Rules, Olympics, Darts.......now it's pretty much just Boro for footy, cricket , NFL and some darts.

Not bothered about the PL or the England National Team......follow the England cricket team. And lots and lots of NFL.
 
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Same as a few others. I'm a Boro fan, not a football fan these days. I do watch some other football but I don't be bothered if I don't see the Liverpool v City match today for example. I do like watching tournament football. I don't support England the same way I do Boro but I like the tournament however England perform.

Outside of football I like golf but mostly just watch the majors and probably more YouTube golf than professional golf. NFL I do watch regularly but it's only on for a small portion of the year and I don't really engage with it at all between the Superbowl and 1st week of the season.

Boro is the only thing I would go online to talk about.
 
Will pretty much watch any football game.
Love watching golf, NFL, the grand tours and one day classic cycling.
The big Darts tournaments are a must (but can never seem to get invested in the Premier league until finals night).
Will watch the Six Nations and Rugby World Cups without being particularly knowledgeable. And will watch Rugby union & League from down under at some daft hour on a weekend morning when I inevitably can’t sleep!
I’ve took the week off for Cheltenham.
And I absolutely love watching the Biathlon during the winter months.
Two sports I used to watch religiously but now never bother with are Tennis & Cricket.
 
I love football, Rugby( League and/ but mainly Union) and Cricket (Only Yorkshire and the ashes)), then I am interested in snooker, darts, NFL, Speedway( would love to see the Grand Prix event at the Millennium Stadium), Ice Hockey. Probably a few others who I can't think of, not including F1 anymore, it feels dead to me after you know what.

Obviously the Boro trumps everything but I'm not even sure it's just a sport thing for me, definitely a lot more than that it goes right to the core of my identity.
 
Definitely a sports fan. Got season ticket for the Boro so go to all the home games but take little interest in any other footy now as it’s all about money and people bigging up the premier league. Would rather watch Italian or Spanish football. Prefer cricket to football whether it be England or Durham. Go to all the Durham championship home games and yeah it’s great when they win but it’s more about seeing a good cricket match and a good social experience too. Watch f1, darts and speedway a fair bit and other sports when nowt else on!!!
 
I do love the Olympics but nowadays I am constantly just questioning the likelihood of drug use whenever anyone does anything remarkable.

Passing interest in American sports, especially NBA.
 
Boro 1st, then other football games, NFL, Horse Racing (Cheltenham next week :) ), Boxing, Ryder cup, Masters, Darts, Moto GP, Ashes is the only Cricket I would watch.
 
Just a Boro fan really

Don't watch any other club matches live , but watch MOTD, EFL Highlights etc

Watch all the World Cup and European Championship Finals matches though

Rarely watch another sport nowadays
 
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Agree 100%
From day one through to now circa day fourteen thousand nine hundred and ten, when people talk about the opposition players & say how good they are I do not compute. How do you know? Why have you been watching QPR before now? Weird.
Also if they were any good, then they'd be playing for Boro.
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At least probably twice a season I find myself walking towards the Riverside having to ask who we are playing - I know the Boro fixture dates , but am not bothered about other teams
 
I only really watch Boro and occasionally England now in Football. I try to watch the big boxing fights,I would watch more but it gets expensive with all the decent fights PPV so I pick the big fights that I think will be interesting and pay for them the other decent fights I watch the highlights. I enjoy watching the Bare knuckle fights with the bigger organisations.
I used to be really into rugby but not as much now.
 
I think I prefer NFL to football these days. I feel lost on a Sunday evening now. Even with football, it's really only the Boro - I'm not watching Man City-Liverpool at the moment. Barney Ronay said a few weeks ago in The Guardian that Premier League football is a bit like competitive knitting, and he's right. It needs blood and thunder, not everyone copy Pep ball.

The only major sport I can't really stand is Formula One which I don't think has realised yet that having the same bloke and the same team win every race is rather dull.
 
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