Uh-oh - you stereotype-breaker you! An American male who doesn't like watching sports on TV? Who would have thought!

Actually there are plenty of events I would certainly not get engaged in at all either - for example, who is going to 'sit and watch' the marathon? Or for that matter, the Tour de France? Surely only those who are real hobbyists about those particular sports and/or real hard-core box-watchers.

But there are also plenty that it seems easy to admire the skill of, like gymnastics, or diving for examples. To me, it will be background noise while I sit at my desk for a couple of weeks, and I might turn around and watch over my shoulder for a minute her and there if there are swimming finals on etc.

The other interesting facet is it has to be the biggest appeal to nationalism out there surely - like a patriotic duty or something to cheer for your country against all others (always problematic for me, not least because I 'have' 2 countries, which are considered arch-rivals in just about everything, especially sports).