Is field hockey America's most boring sport?
960802
NO! it's gotta be golf or nascar. Watching paint dry ranks above both of them for me.\n\nFH is cool--it's just annoying when the officials constantly stop the action.
685380
Because its WAY more boring than baseball
1123450
I would have to agree, there is nothing interesting about baseball. I think people like it when they aren't athletic enough to play a real sport.
987096
Yes Canada is better. One reason is there are ice rinks everywhere. They get so much ice time. Brother moved up there. Here in the US there is not much ice time for everyone to play. The other part is the style they play. Canadiens arent power players like the US but they can step up to it if they have too. US tries to use physical play in every aspect. Canada uses speed and finess, but if they need to play physical they can. If you go over to Russia and stuff, you hardly ever see hitting in the games. I think a lot of Canada's success can be based on fans compared to the US. A lot of US fans dont get the sport of hockey and all they want to see is hitting and fights. Canadien fans respect the game and love to see the skilled play and great team plays. I would have loved to play in Canada because of the style. I think Canada has the top style in the world and that is why they are the best. So yes they are much better than Americans, and a lot of good Americans play in Canada before going to the NHL as well.
939528
I think the school system is at fault.  When I think back on my high school days, there was nothing as boring as sport.  Maybe things have changed since then, I don't know. I can recommend the way they do it in Germany.  That is, sport is more or less an activity outside of school.  They have gym clubs, tennis, soccer, ice hockey...you name it.  Most kids join a club.  These clubs have a concentrated program, where they can focus more on each child. At the same time, they get the kids off the street.  The children learn team sports and are kept busy with additional activities. So no more 40 boring minutes of school sport…they usually meet at least 4-5 times a week for two to three hours per day.
1136969
Football (soccer) is the best international sport. Albeit, many Americans don't like it because of the lack of action as American football or Basketball. Same with Ice Hockey since it requires paitence and passing just like soccer.
488499
Field hockey is one of those sports that you'll enjoy more by playing, as opposed to watching it.\n\nI played it as a kid, it's fun because of its' technical rules, which helps to make it a level playing field between average and good players.\n\nAnd it's not so dangerous, the rules are made in such a way, that it protects/prevents players from violent or dangerous play.
1065998
i think MLS also boring!
1134509
Cricket-its a better sport. Football-its just overall boring.
1028732
the whole game is boring
1081191
I hate to be the devils advocate here, but nobody that matters in America likes soccer, or football, or futbol, or whatever other names there are for it. Its viewed in LARGE part to be a sport for children, immigrants, homosexuals, and oddly enough, overpaid, underqualified prep schools. The simple fact is, it sucks. Its nothing at all like the sports we have here, which are, mainly, contact sports (even baseball has more legal contact than soccer). I dont want to waste my time or money watching an incredibly boring sport where a bunch of metrosexuals chase after eachother and a ball (but any contact whatsoever is severely punished), and then they kick that little ball at this enormous net guarded by one dude, but still manage to miss 90% of the time. I mean, wtf?! The scores should be, like, 40-39.
703098
It also depends on where in the world you are wheither it is refered to ice hockey or field hockey.  In Canada and the US as well as the Nordic countries like Sweden, Finland etc... the ice form of the sport is the more popular form practiced so it is known as hockey.  In Britain and in most of the rest of the Commonwealth countries field hockey is more popular so that sport is referred to as hockey by most people.  It's all what people are used to - it's the same way with football/soccer.
66868
I'd assume because it's not as action packed as basketball or football, and not an American sport like baseball.  Hockey follows the same path as Soccer simply because they tend to be the only sports that can end with a score of 1 to 0.  Boring, simply put.
27577
No, a little boring ...more stops that actions ...Soccer's better!!!
721680
It is just not the "IN" sport. Americans are different to the rest of the world. They want contact sports and/or high scores. Soccer is considered neither. World football is not shown much over here so when American think of soccer they think of that pathetic excuse of a league, the MLS. Because the MLS is boring and slow, they think that all soccer is boring and slow. It will take a while to become the number one sport but i think it eventually will. The problem now is the parents. Because they were brought up with baseball, basketball, american football, and ice hockey, they want their kids to play it. I actually know someone in America whose dad wouldn't let him play soccer! All it will take is for the soccer loving generation (in about the next 30 years) to have children and pass on their love for the game, then it will spread like a forest fire. It is definately becoming more popular but at my school, about 1500 people think it is a stupid sport. So that means that when they have kids, their kids will have similar views. One generation is all it will take.
210689
I don't like the sound of "ball hockey"?? I'm glad there's no skates! Good luck.
601273
Hockey is more popular