Top 5 Sports That Are Weirdly Perfect When You Don't Care Who Wins
Sports where you can have no team and no clue about the rules and still lose your whole afternoon to the couch.
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PDC World Darts Championship — Alexandra Palace
Three thousand people in costumes sing Chas & Dave while a man in a polo shirt chases a nine-dart finish, and it all just works.
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Tour de France
It's four hours of helicopter shots over châteaux and sunflower fields with calm commentary, and it's the best nap TV ever made.
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Sumo — Grand Sumo Tournaments
The salt-throwing and staredowns take minutes, then the bout is over in six seconds, and the buildup somehow gets you hooked.
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Curling — Winter Olympics
Every four years everyone becomes an expert in sweeping technique by day two, and that sudden shared obsession is the whole fun.
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World Snooker Championship — The Crucible
The quiet is so total you can hear the chalk, and a long safety battle turns out to be stressful in the most relaxing way.