Best annual spectator sport events

[desh]

To qualify, an event must refer to one sport or one organized collection of sports, with all games/matches (if more than one) taking place over one or several consecutive days.

1. NCAA postseason basketball tournament, 1st and 2nd rounds
2. Super Bowl
3. MLB Opening Day
4. The final weekend of The Masters (yes, I even like golf on TV; yes, I have a serious problem)
5. NFL Wild Card Weekend (not the next two weekends, because the home team always wins the divisional games, and 2 games isn't enough to make championship weekend interesting)
6. The championship College Football bowl game, always a couple days after New Years
7. Daytona 500

N/A: The NHL Playoffs. They would be around #2.5 for me, except that there's no particular game or weekend that necessarily qualifies in advance as being an annual must-see event. The MLB and NBA playoffs have the same problem.

What am I missing?

Comments

[outcastspice.livejournal.com]

the stanley cup final game? or final few games?

[dredpiraterober.livejournal.com]

I totally agree with the round 1 & 2 of march madness. It's just amazing, with so many games, and so many chances at upsets, and people yelling and screaming and cursing! It's awesome

[fweebles.livejournal.com]

- World cup final
- Wimbledon finals

[pkzimmer.livejournal.com]

My not-so-humble submissions:

1) The Stanley Cup playoffs. This counts as a month and 1/2 of unproductivity for me.
2) The World Cup. All of it, but particularly the round of 16.
3) March Madness opening weekend. After that it sucks, generally.
4) Olympic hockey tourney.
5) Any big rivalry game where I have a stake in at least one participant. Giants-Dodgers, US-Mexico (soccer), Penn-Princeton (bball), 'Niners-Cowgirls, Sharks-Stars, etc.
6) Any rivalry game where I don't have a stake in at least one participant. Duke-UNC (bball), Habs-Leafs, Brazil-Argentina, Yanks-Red Sox, etc.
7) OT of any hockey game. Anywhere. Anytime.
8) The last 10 minutes of the aforementioned hockey game.
9) The rest of the aforementioned hockey game.
10) A "derbi" game in club soccer. Sevilla-Betis, Barça-Espanyol, Chelsea-Arsenal, Roma-Lazio, etc.
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x-billion) Watching paint dry.
x-billion and 1) The NBA.

[pkzimmer.livejournal.com]

Well, any time when I spend more time in front of the TV than in any other activity (including sleeping, if multiple OTs are involved), I call that a continuous event. At least until I pass out from exhaustion.