Most Important Sporting Occasion?

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The ACM-IPC World Championship Programming! ...what? If chess is a sport, then so is programming

 

On a personal level, probably Football. However, it is a lot less interesting if my team (the Pittsburgh Steelers) fail to make the playoffs. I'll still watch the playoffs and the Super Bowl, but it's not the same intensity.

Ah, you bring up a dark day. That was the last Super Bowl where my aforementioned beloved Pittsburgh Steelers were one of the competing teams. They lost to the Dallas Cowboys 27-17, in a game that was much closer than the final score indicated. Two Neil O'Donnel interceptions killed us.

There have been SEVERAL good Super Bowls since that one however. To wit: Broncos-Packers, Titans-Rams, Patriots-Rams, Patriots-Panthers, and Patriots-Eagles. All of those games were decided by a touchdown or less, and were exciting down to the very end of the game. Sure, if you were a Raven fan, you loved the Ravens-Giants, and if you're a Bucs fan you loved the Bucs-Raiders, but for everyone else, they turned off the game by halftime.

 

Midget tossing. It's fan-tastic.

 

Cr*p, I got the number wrong. I meant Super Bowl XXXI. And we gave them XXXII.

 

Football World Cup definitely goes in on a first place. 2nd place is Champions League. I love to see the fight of the giants, but most importantly I love to see our small Danish team as they struggle for recognition on the international football stage.

 

No wonder you don't win then, if you have a small team. You should try playing with 11 players like all the other teams do.

 

My list includes the Stanley Cup playoffs (sometiumes even after my Leafs have been screwed yet again), the olympics and Major international hockey tournaments (when I can get them on TV of course).

 

Olympic Games hands down. I am surprised not many care for it around here. In every games, I dedicate the whole 2 weeks to watching all kinds of sports, even the ones I do not care the least about. I think the Olympics is definetely the highest moment of sports, wherein we can see real athletes displaying their superior physical condition.
I also enjoy watching the Pride tournaments, mainly the finals of the Grand Pix. Even more so when Fedor and Vovchanchin are fighting.

 

Superbowl
March Madness
World Series of Poker

I'm only slightly kidding about the third one.

 

The Stanley Cup play-offs and Olympic Ice Hockey for me.

 

I reckon that the Olympics would gain the most attention, in terms of the shear number of people watching all around the world. My guess is that and the World Cup are the top two.

 

I would agree with Blog, but the Olympics only gets so many viewers because of the colossal number of sports that are involved. No one sport on its own would get that many followers.

 

I don't know if I quite agree with that - most people who I know who watch the Olympics do so solely because it is the Olympics. In most cases they would never actually watch those sports outside of the Olympics.

 

Ah yes, but it probably helps that you come from a country that actually wins a lot of medals. My country is lucky to come away with one or two so the vast majority of the sports are therefore of marginal interest. And even the sports that we do win are not that exciting to watch, like sailing and rowing.

 

Superbowl.

I remember the last play of the Rams vs. Titans. 1 yard short. You could just feel their disapointment as they went off the field.

 

Being a Norwegian, I have to say the winter olympics. But every football game with Liverpool is a great occasion for me, and last year's Champions League final was the greatest sports event I have ever seen.