Comments on: Contest: Invent the world’s stupidest sport!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 22 May 2007 07:40:12 +0000

Full contact knifesports. The winner keeps the knives, while the loser forfeits a bit of blood. Kind of like poker, only without bidding and with the possibility of losing a kidney. Makes you think twice about bluffing, huh?

By: Cari

Cari — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:54:09 +0000

After several beers on a rather hot and steamy Memorial Day this year, we combined the great sports of Croquet and Bocce into one rousing game of Bocquet. You use the basic rules of each game except bocce balls can send croquet balls and vice versa. Players also became added obstacles. It may not seem like a sport per se, but it is. Oh, it is, my friends.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:13:31 +0000

World Macrame Competition.

First Round – contestants must show knowlege of knot tying -List of knots is given to follow.

Second Round – contestants must recreate a model project with no written instructions.

Final Round – Freestyle macrame (originality counts – must use preapproved knotting materials).

*In all rounds points are awarded for least amount of mistakes and fastest time.

By: David

David — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:56:44 +0000

I was recently reading about the ancient sport of Cuju (an old Chinese that evolved from being pretty much like soccer in it’s earlier form and then in the tang dynasty became a game in wich two teams are divided by a large net, that is several metres tall. On top of the net is a cicular goal about one third of a metre in diameter in which the two teams try to place the ball in only using their feet.) and thought it sounded like it would be a lot of fun, and since my friends and I have been playing a lot of soccer since we diagnosed with world cup fever I talked them into walking over to the basketball court. We devolped a new game we started calling soccer/basketball, but now call broken nose (which will be obvious after the explination).

You have two teams of anywhere up to six on each team. It plays like soccer where you can not use your hands except for one member of each team stands by each baketball hoop and acts as a goalie and can not step past the three point line. There is also another player on each team that can not cross half court and can use his hands only when he is in the paint. Points work,
1 for hitting the backboard past half court,
2 for getting it in the basket past half court
3 for hitting the backboard behind half court
4 for getting it in the basked behind half court and
8 points from getting a basket anywhere inside the three point line around the other teams goal.
We call it broken nose because we have a feeling someone is going to break their nose from a ball getting kicked in their face.

By: Tim Rodgers

Tim Rodgers — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:52:41 +0000

Here’s a soon-to-be popular stupid sport of ‘jello dodgeball’.

Rules
Give each team 4-5 boxes of Jello. (each team gets a different flavor).

Have each team fill balloons with the jello mix (be creative to find ‘just’ the right way to fill the balloons.)

Put the balloon batches in the refrigerator (or freezer if you just can’t wait) and let the jello set up.

When the jello is ready…. play ‘dodgeball’!.

If there are several teams you can even set up a tournament.

To win the game… be the team who has the last person standing without jello on his/her head (or body).

*** Cheerleader jello wrestling is optional ***

By: Peter O'Connell

Peter O'Connell — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:05:07 +0000

For many years I use to go to a local bar in Coconut Grove, Fla. on Thursday nights to play “Businessman Bowling”. The requirement is that you be dressed in business attire. Empty beer bottles are placed on the floor at the end the bar in the same number and configuration as bowling pins. You the run toward the “pins”, dive and curl up into a bowling ball and see who knows down the most pins. This game is even better after happy hour martinis.

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:23:34 +0000

Here you go, taken from Wikipedia:

Kush Lash is a simple backyard sport that includes a Nerf football and a hammock. It’s grown into a favorite past time for many college students. The goal is to throw the football at the hammock from 30 yards away to collect points. Hitting the hammock is one point, bouncing the football into the hammock is three points, and landing the football in the hammock is five points. Players can take turns alternating throws or have multiple sets with multiple throws so long as each player has had an equal number of throws. The standard is three rounds with three throws each. Also, whoever gets the announcer his or her first beer, goes first.

Kush Lash as introduced by College University: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/321964

By: Jonas

Jonas — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 07:49:20 +0000

My brother and I had a game when we where kids that we called air. You take two bean bags and put one of the players head between them. The other player has to lie on top of the bean bags/head to stop the air supply. When the player between the bean bags give up he taps the other player submission wrestling style to give up. Then you change position to see if you can beat the first time. Your not allowed to move when your between the bags. If you faint you loose. Simple and fun for all ages you might want to avoid combining it with drinking.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 05:36:53 +0000

Man, this stuff about the World Series of Poker/Darts and Soccer not being sports is killing me. It’s like, who watchs that stuff anyway? Haha. You guys should be comedians or something.

My idea for a sport would be Extreme Relay Racing. Xtreme Relay Racing is also acceptable. It has to be extreme though. Teams of ten compete in elaborate relay races involving, but not limited to, events like pie-eating, puzzle-solving, clock-making, ring-tossing, and running. The races could be designed differently every time, and anyone at home can play along if they like as well. A good time had by all, and every race can be ended by smashing a pinata (which can be integrated into the race or not).

By: Derek

Derek — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 21:12:36 +0000

SudokuJitsu.

This is an attempted improvement on ChessBoxing (see espn.com for the details). ChessBoxing “combines” two activities, allegedly, but in fact they just play chess between boxing rounds. It’s very poorly integrated.

In SudokuJitsu, two antagonists are given identical Sudoku puzzles. The first one to solve correctly is given the UP position associated with college wrestling. They fight. If the DOWN fighter makes an escape, he gets a wrestling point and they they go to another Sudoku phase to reestablish up/down positions. The UP fighter can also score according to normal wrestling scoring. However, the wrestling rules are modified to allow certain jiujitsu holds, submissions and cranks (armbars, guillotine choke, can opener, elbow crank, etc – but not the rear naked choke as then the UP fighter would win every time), simply because SudokuJitsu sounds much catchier than SudokuWrestling. You can win either by points or by opponent’s tap-out.

So the wrestling/jitsu is the dominant part of the game, but the Sudoku element has a great influence.

There is absolutely no historical trivia or tradition I can refer to, other than the endless, tedious media descriptions of Sudoku as “a mental workout” or “mental gymnastics”. (Hm, that gives me another idea … team rhythmic sudoku … oh never mind.)