What sport has the WORST athletes

I used to play ping pong uphill both ways in three feet of snow. It was a brutal sport.

In terms of participants at the highest level of the game, I might go with bowling. Much less endurance required than golf, these guys are truly slobs with women already competing at the very highest level right along with men...unheard of in most sports.

For the entire US population, I would have to break it up over time. As a kid, baseball, no doubt, it was the only game in town for most, and you basically had to play if you were a boy, so lots of crappy players. In HS (70's for me), I would have to say, believe it or not, soccer; these were kids that could not play football. In the 80's it seemed like it was raquetball; every dick around seemed to take it up, I thought it was more gay than guys doing aerobics.

I know people will go nuts, but right now, in terms of overall participants, I might have to say...running. Anyone seen the slobs at most races these days?

What is the criterion of a good versus bad athlete?

Is it mainly strength and superior fine/motor control so that fat pitchers and golfers could still be considered?

Is it a well conditioned tone fit athlete which would eliminate many professional athletes?

Is it developing a very specialized skill that very few could acquire. That would eliminate giant centers or small distance runners who picked up sport late in life but who's physiology gave them advantage.

HAHAHAHA totally agree

Sumo wrestling

Maybe.. wrote:

hit a golf ball in a hole so far away I can't even see, ect.

Exactly. I have to laugh at anyone who says golf. What a moron. Attend any golf tournament and watch the caliber of play. It is beyond astonishing, probably the highest caliber of play of any sport. As you described you can't even follow the ball. That's how far it goes.

It is the reason elite athletes from all sports are jealous of golfers and nobody else. Tiger and Jordan are very good friends. But in that relationship Tiger holds trump over Jordan, not the other way around. Jordan knows damn well the aura of being the best golfer in the world and perhaps of all time.

Most of the top golfers nowadays are gym types like Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepka. How do you think DeChambeau rose to prominence and 50 extra yards? That's not cheeseburgers. It's lots of simpletons still clutching tired stereotypes and believing what they want to believe.

BTW, attend an LPGA event. You won't be able to follow the ball there either.

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why snowboarding? its pretty tough...

my vote is bowling. fatasses can be good at it.

Snowboarders actually look pretty fit. Aren't they also surfers.

Baseball is not an athletic sport.

Archery

Baseball - lots of just standing around but the most athletic sport of this group.

Billiards (all types)

Bowling

Curling - a little more athletic than some of the others here.

Shooting Sports

Bowling for sure.

Most golfers are better athletes than people think. There are a lot of golfers that participated at a fairly

high level in other sports, baseball and hockey the most prominent of those.

Obviously some of them are wildly out of shape, but that doesn't mean they aren't good "athletes". You don't

necessarily need to be super fit to play professional golf.

The greatest distance runner if all time is about 5 ft tall and 100 lbs.

Come on, Field Hockey and Softball, gives pudgy chicks something to do.

dry hockey wrote:Come on, Field Hockey and Softball, gives pudgy chicks something to do.

Softball I agree with.

Field Hockey, or known internationally as just Hockey, is a very tough game and you need a lot of fitness to play. You do know that hockey is a sport played by men right? Maybe not in the US but in the rest of the world more men play it than women. It's one of the most popular sports in the world. A lot of running and sprinting are involved. You need to be good at running while bent over. Hurts my back just to watch.

No. Just no. Stop.

alpha wrote:

Baseball, golf, curling, croquet...for starters.

NBA by far.

I spent 3 years with a team in LA (staying nameless) organizing travel and hotel logistics.

The amount of spousal abuse, drug abuse, and misogyny is astounding. There’s so much the general public does not know about “stars”.

kinda agree wrote:

I would go with bowling first then golf. Obviously there are exceptions to the rule such as Tiger.

XC is probably the only sport where a 5'3" 102 lbs. guy would be called a stud.

Wrestling too, except its more like 5'1" and 125 lbs.

I very much doubt that Tiger holds trump over Jordan. MJ is the one of (and in my opinion THE) greatest of all time in a sport that's more popular than golf in the US and internationally. Kids all over the world grow up wanting to be like Mike. Tiger is a legend, but MJ is on another level.

junior high sports star wrote:

Where is the law the says women have to be inferior athletically to men? I guess ultrarunning isn't a sport either, since there are some females who could house most males. But of course, this is letsrun, where even mentioning ultrarunning will unleash a torrent of insults.

It's not a law, it is a naturally occurring substance called Testosterone. Going to need your citation on that ultrarunning claim, because its not true. Mens records are faster than women over every single distance. Surprisingly it is an incredibly consistent 9-11% difference too at all commonly run distances (doesn't hold up in obscure longer distances but that is probably more of a sample size issue than the physical gap being different)

AIIez wrote:

Baseball is not an athletic sport.

Is the reason you're not playing MLB is because you're too athletic?

I f you checkout Wikipedia bios, you'll see that many baseball players were 3 sport stars in HS.