Sports . . . meh

Facebook is aflame with status updates about the 49ers vs. Saints game.  Lakers vs. Clippers was on at the gym.  I imagine a number of my friends were watching one or the other.  As for me, I've never been interested in sports.  They never clicked with me, which sometimes made me feel isolated when around some of my more sports-enthusiastic friends.  There are a number of possible reasons why I never got into watching sports.  My dad was never a sports watcher, so I didn't grow up in a sports-watching household.  Also, I was never good at sports in school, and I was so self-conscious about my lack of ability and low self-confidence that P.E. became a dreaded part of the school day.  Maybe that disdain for playing sports translated into an apathy about watching them.  This was never really a big deal until high school, when my two best friends at school were big Lakers fans.  I tried to get into watching basketball so I could have more in common with them, especially when basketball games started to get in the way of other things ("Oh sorry B, can't go to the movies today, there's a game on.")  But I just couldn't get myself to care about the outcome.  I'll usually watch the Super Bowl if there's a party involved, but admittedly I'm usually more interested in the commercials and if it's a rock artist performing, the half-time show (I hated the Black Eye Peas performance, ugh).

I guess some might view my attitude toward sports as one of my "un-masculine" qualities, if you want to get into stereotypes.  I'm past the point of caring that I don't like sports, though.  It's really only an issue when I'm hanging out with sports-loving friends, who get into conversations that sound completely Greek to me.  Watching sports seems so time-consuming though, so I'm kind of glad I don't have that on my plate.