Watching Sports in Japan

I was surprised to hear that Japan was actually going to televise the Rose Bowl live, because that is extremely rare. Japan does have ESPN, but it is by far the worst ESPN ever. The ESPN in Japan televise mostly infomercials and K1 fighting than sports.

During the Rose Bowl, I thought I had to go to a sports bar and find a place where they have access to the slingbox. To my surprise, they were actually televising the Rose Bowl live. If I knew that, I wouldn't be going to a sports bar. Anyway at the sports bar, we were making fun of ESPN in Japan at the same time explaining to others who are visiting Japan about the pathetic sports that is televised in Japan.

In Japan, the marathon is televised quite often since Japanese females won the last 2 Olympic medals. Who in the world wants to watch someone run for 1 hour??

Then they televise almost every Ichiro and Matsui games. I can personally understand if 1 channel televise a Seattle Mariners or NY Yankees game, but 4??? 4 different channels are televising the same stupid game!!!! I've always hated the NY Yankees before Matsui came, but now I hate the NY Yankees even more. Every stupid Japanese people are a NY Yankees fan, and when I tell them how much I hate the NY Yankees, they ask me why? In Japan, the most popular player is Hideki Matsui NOT Ichiro, because Hideki Matsui is from the Yomiuri Giants (Japanese version of NY Yankees). I tell them that I am a SF Giants fan and my favorite player is Barry Bonds. Then they ask me why I like a losing baseball team. So my simple answer is, I don't become a fan because the team is winning. I ask them why they like the NY Yankees more than the Seattle Mariners when Ichiro is far better than Hideki Matsui. Their answer is pure and simple, they love the Yomiuri Giants. They have the TV monopoly in Japan, every station in Japan will televise Yomiuri Giants game because it's a monopoly.

In Japan, no one cares about college football. NBA is slowly getting popular. World Wide Wrestling is extremely popular in Japan. Why? I don't know, especially WWF is stage and not an actual sporting event. K1 is also popular in Japan.

I am hoping that when I get my new computer, I can connect the slingbox at my parent's home and watch it through the internet. The only thing I enjoy watching in Japan are cartoons.

Japan might sell nice TVs, but they really broadcast stupid shows.