To be utterly sick of sport

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DH will literally watch it all on the TV

By the time we have taken the kids to all their weekend sports (they are 12 and 10) there are not many hours left at the weekend. Then it’s football, snooker of whatever on the TV. DH just happy to sit and watch this.

unfortunately we don’t have much disposable income at the moment so not really got much cash to go anywhere. We don’t have any access to babysitters.

so given we can’t go anywhere Aibu to feel absolutely sick of sport being in the TV - but knowing there isn’t anything else we can do anyhow?

Have you tried planning your weekends so that you make time for something as a family as well? So, if there's a match he wants to watch at, say 3pm, you go for a walk or do another activity before or after?

Have you tried planning your weekends so that you make time for something as a family as well? So, if there's a match he wants to watch at, say 3pm, you go for a walk or do another activity before or after?

The problem with that, though, is that they usually last at least two hours, including all the blether afterwards - and many of the ones considered important by football fans include a load of pre-match blether too. As you say, 3pm is quite a common time for games to start, ergo the scheduling and much of the 'bonding' culture around them is effectively designed to take up the whole afternoon and early evening. The game itself is just the start - all the celebrations before and after tend to expand to fill most of the day.

Sport in general, but especially football, tends to be based around the assumption that everybody loves it. How often have you heard a man somebody ask a new acquaintance whom they support, without ever feeling the need to either ask first if the person likes football, much less bothering to specify the sport, hobby, activity to which they refer?

As for the fact that 'supporting' somebody can include far more than just following them in sport (e.g. supporting your child through university or supporting a charity close to your heart) - that never even enters their radar. Then, even if you clearly state that you aren't a football fan, they will often decide on 'your' team for you and waffle on oblivious on that basis.

It has got far worse since we got married.

by the time the DCs have done their activities at the weekend (usually by 1pm) there is little time left until the football or whatever else.

I don’t watch strictly or anything else. Even if I did I cannot imagine prioritising watching it over spending time with my family.

get yourself out doing what you want to do and leave him babysitting

I hate watching sport too, but unless it’s impacting on you as a family you can’t really moan that your DH likes to watch it. You need to find yourself a hobby.

I love sport so I don’t share this issue but if DH is watching something I don’t love such as American football or darts I just do something else! Or watch something else. Do you have another tv or a tablet or laptop? Even aside from sport DH and I have shows we watch together and those we watch separately because the other one won‘t like them.

I do find many people who don’t like sports to be quite superior and judgemental about it. It‘s not enough to not like it they have to advertise it and make judgements about people who do enjoy it.

I dont mind watching sport as long as its now all day but then again I grew up with three brothers who watched whatever sport was on (cricket test matches were the worst) so I am use to it, DH and DD are sports fans so I often I will join with them but its not 24/7 in our house, they only fanatics about tennis, we will watch matches like the big football / rugby matches (finals etc), cricket world cup, Olympics though.

I dont mind tennis so if the grand slams are on, I let them watch those matches on the big TV in the lounge, otherwise if want to watch the matches on the tour circuit they have to go watch it in the other room and they dont spend all day watching it, only if its their favourite players or a final / semi.

YABU.

It's not 1997 when if there was Wimbledon, the Open or the Snooker world championship, every other program got cancelled. Plenty of other things to watch, and literally every film and piece of music ever made is available on streaming services assuming you have a second TV or phone or tablet.

It's not clear if you just don't want to watch sport, or want to do something entirely different, but I know the temptation as a sport fan who only gets a few hours a week when I'm not either working or commuting to just spend an hour switching off doing something that requires no planning or brain power.

DH watches sport on the bedroom TV, no sport is allowed on the main TV as I don't watch it. Either get another TV or tell them to watch another TV if you have one

There is no way snooker or cycling would on the main TV as it is so boring, DH is allowed to watch it downstairs when I go to bed, you just need to set the TV rules.

Have you seen that DVDs are (or were) available with aerial views of golf courses around the world?

Golf without the ‘action’

I'd hate this too op. I know too many women who are married to men who spend all weekend either at a football match or sitting in front of sky sports. It's a convenient excuse to get out of looking after their own children really isn't it?

DH watches sport on the bedroom TV, no sport is allowed on the main TV as I don't watch it. Either get another TV or tell them to watch another TV if you have one

There is no way snooker or cycling would on the main TV as it is so boring, DH is allowed to watch it downstairs when I go to bed, you just need to set the TV rules.

That sounds very controlling. Does he also 'not allow' you to watch anything on the main TV if he doesn't like it?

I agree with you that it sounds extremely boring to me, but I presume it's his home as well - and that he's a grown-up and not a stroppy teenager who's refusing to do his homework in favour of watching TV?

Just as I object to sports on TV and certain sport fans wanting to dominate and take over the entire schedule, I also think it's terribly unfair for them not to have their turn at all at what they enjoy.

This made me laugh 😀

lol, DH got a subscr to Eurosport in 2020 & now watches huge amounts of everything sporty. I find him watching all sorts of bizarre stuff. We found out our old neighbour was playing at national level, this way.

Better than most the drama & fiction imho.

If your DC have been doing sport all morning then surely you don't need to be doing stuff in the afternoon. So DH can watch his sport on TV, the DC can do whatever they need to do (homework, play games, watch the footie with DH or whatever) and you can do ..... well anything you fancy really. What's not to like about that?

And obviously her DH should be doing the same, isn't that what you do in relationships!

No. I am not intetested in fishing and dh isn't interested in knitting. There are plenty of things we are both interested in, but they are not things that one of us liked and the other thought they ought to take an interest in! If dh wanted to watch the football, I'd do something else!

The idea of not being 'allowed' to watch something on your own TV in your own home 😮😂

So you don't wanna watch the sport or anything else on the tv. What do you wanna do once you're home from the kids sports? Just do whatever that is?🤷‍♀️

I love taking son to play sports evening and weekends and love watching it on TV too.

I would hate to live in a house where sport watching is the prime method of being entertained. I have steered my children away from sport watching for their entire lives. None of them would even think to watch any. Happy days.

YANBU. DH even enjoys watching darts. All the glamour and excitement of basic Maths, in a giant Wetherspoons. And there never seems to be an 'off season'. And it's always the same two middle aged bald blokes playing.

YANBU. DH even enjoys watching darts. All the glamour and excitement of basic Maths, in a giant Wetherspoons. And there never seems to be an 'off season'. And it's always the same two middle aged bald blokes playing.

Watch this darts 'documentary', if you've never seen it before (or even if you have) - the darts is actually only the side entertainment and not the actual sport itself!

The one that I really cannot ever understand is men who like to listen to cricket on the radio - will often prefer to listen to it, even if they're right next to an available (turned off) telly that's showing the same match with pictures! That really is just listening to people saying random numbers, with the occasional thwock sound in the background. My DS had far more exciting kiddy learning numbers/maths CDs when he was 2!

Even in real life, I've never understood the 'sport' aspect of cricket, when they don't even run to score points: they just whack it and somebody gives them a 4 or a 6 or whatever. Boring though I find it, at least football has actual action and the players expend energy in playing it.

I'm worrying myself now, as, for one brief moment, I considered actually looking online to see if I could get myself a scratchy shirt made up with 'Bert & Mavis' written on the back, alongside a random number, and a big picture of a pie on the front

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll The one that I really cannot ever understand is men who like to listen to cricket on the radio

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