Name the wackiest sport you've ever seen

[Skip Intro]

I say underwater basketweaving.

[mopinko]

1. lumberjack competition

caber tossing (telephone pole chucking)

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2. "Sport"? Hog Calling or Dwarf Tossing.

Or Cow Pie Bingo (although that's more like gambling than a "sport")

[Burma Jones]

3. Hurling

Irish take on Field Hockey, but much more violent

[rooboy]

9. Yeah, that's wild stuff...

Having watched lots of sports, the most exciting finish to a championship game I ever saw in any sport was an All-Ireland hurling final about 15 years ago. In 'per head of population' terms, I actually would rate the Irish as the best sportsmen (and women) in the world.

[Awsi Dooger]

30. Definitely Irish hurling

It came to mind immediately. Sort of a combination of field hockey, soccer and Australian rules football.

The most brutal conventional sport I've ever seen. Players interviewed after the game with gashes all over their face, via the crude wooden stick with a slight bend.

I saw one woman buying a beginner hurling stick for her little boy, such a pristine face. Then I envisioned him 10-15 years later, i.e. now, with a couple of teeth and relentless scars.

Another weird one: bowling in Lichtenstein, with the pins attached to ropes that hung from the apparatus.

[Somawas]

4. Bullfighting

at 3 a.m. But a stupid sport any time.

[arwalden]

5. Fast Walking

[DrZeeLit]

Bloodless Bullfight In Arles, France

I can't even describe it.
Guys ran up and tapped the bull on the nose. Bulls even jumped over the inner ring (when they did, the peopled jumped out into the ring). The fense must have been 4.5 feet high -- and over they went. Then around and back into the ring. It was hysterical. I think the bulls got points for that move.

Anyone else ever see it?

[phaseolus]

6. Roller Derby

Redneck-y women skating in a circular track & getting in fistfights. I loved it when I was a kid...

[enigami]

12. I still love it

[enigami]

7. currling?

I dont even know how to spell it. GO SOX

[maveric]

8. Co-ed naked leapfrog

[Eye and Monkey]

10. Buzkhazi

Yes, actually seen. But I've actually done tuk-tuk surfing.

http://www.escapeartist.com/efam29/buzk.html

[MisterP]

27. you don't LIKE calf polo?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. I not only seen it. I played it.

Donkey basketball. You play basketball riding a donkey. Oh you can dismount if you have to chase the ball down but you have to hold the reins of the donkey.

I played in it as part of a charity benifit back in the mid 70's. I don't think they play this any more due to animal welfare concerns.

[sasquatch]

20. My uncle played it when I was a kid in the 90's

:hi:

[woofless]

13. Squinking.

Squeeze a dime between the butt cheeks, and while holding it there, waddle froward and drop the dime into a shot glass on the floor. You ain't seen shit 'til you've seen a crowd of bikers squink.

[Catshrink]

14. Roller Derby....

Always loved it.

[Red State Rebel]

15. I watch a Jump Rope competition this weekend...oy n/m

[The empressof all]

16. Whirly Ball

Sort of like a cross between Lacrosse and Basketball but played in Bumper Cars.

Curling is a close second

[ReadTomPaine]

17. NASCAR

Sorry. <ducks>

RTP

[Lydia Leftcoast]

18. On Japanese TV I saw coverage of a tournament of

traditional swimming skills, i.e. swim meets as conducted in Japan 200 years ago.

It included stuff like one-armed swimming (with one arm in the air), and swimming with weights attached to the swimmers.

[St. Jarvitude]

19. Elephant Polo

TDS ran a news story on it sometime last year.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041019/ap_on_el_pr/iran_us_elections_1

[yvr girl]

21. Do you people not watch the winter Olympics?

Luge. Very odd. Two-man luge. Even odder.

How about Biathalon? Who thought to combine cross country skiing with shooting?

[pres2032]

22. to quote seinfeld:

"how many alpine snipers are into this one"

"the luge, i think, is the only sport where you could have people competing against their will and it'll be exactly the same."

[yvr girl]

23. Good ol' Jerry

Well there were all those Russian spys that fought with James Bond. I know for a fact that there were skiing snipers.

[pres2032]

25. yes

don't want to mess with the russian sniper skiers. i think we even have a winter mountain division, 10th mountian division i beleive. they were the ones sent to the mountains of afghanistan.

[yvr girl]

28. Really, does it matter if they're Russian?

I don't want to tangle with any sniper skiers.

[pres2032]

29. i wouldn't think so

though they do have all that snow. they can get the year round training in Siberia. though i gotta imagine the swiss and swede skier snipers are pretty hard core too.

[HEyHEY]

31. Probably the Finns

Maybe a throwback to the winter war?

[FightinNewDem]

24. Individual Freestyle Umpiring

Anyone who saw the "calls" on Bellhorn's homer and A-Hole's stunt at first knows what I mean.

[HEyHEY]

26. I was at a cabin watching an old school sattelite dish

And I saw guys on roller skates playing some form of hockey with what looked like feild hockey skates.
It was from some country I didn't recognize the language of