# Does anyone remember this "sport"... **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 17, 2005, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-sport/285231 "2005-01-17T19:51:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![olpeculiar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@olpeculiar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/olpeculiar)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-sport/285231/1 "2005-01-17T19:51:43Z")
…or was I hallucinating? I was but a wee tyke back in the mid-1970s, but I have a clear recollection of this strange comptetion on Saturday afternoon sports. It was along the lines of the early “World’s Strongest Man” competition, in the Bill Kasmier, dead-lifting boxes of gold coins days. The competition I’m remembering involved the participants running an obstacle course through a bar or tavern - jumping tables and so on - until finally smashing through a closed door and ringing a bell to stop the time. I know - even at five years old I was wondering what that was all about. Anyway, The memory of this popped into my head over the weekend and now I’m curious: Does anyone else have any recollection of this, and what it was called? And even more importantly, what was the point? Or did this never happen at all, and I should ask my parents about what sort of sedatives they were putting in my strained peas? ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-sport/285231/2 "2005-01-17T20:46:29Z")
Sounds familiar. Maybe a contest for bouncers. I.E., get to the customer and toss him out the door? ---
**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-sport/285231/3 "2005-01-17T21:24:51Z")
I don’t think you’re hallucinating; I seem to recall seeing that as well. Could it have been NBC’s “Games People Play”? Apparently, that’s where Mr T got his break in the “Worlds Toughest Bouncer” contest. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-sport/285231/4 "2005-01-17T21:25:16Z")
World’s Toughest Bouncer competition, on NBC’s “Games People Play” in 1982. It was Mr T’s big break. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr.\_T](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._T). ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-sport/285231/5 "2005-01-18T00:35:59Z")
I REMEMBER THAT! Mr. T was the Big Black Dude ™ with a Mohawk cut into his 'fro (!!!), hurdling the bar bannister and yanking the bell off the wall. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-sport/285231/6 "2005-01-18T00:40:14Z")
I remember it, too, including the drunk-tossing contest. The tossee wasn’t an actual dwarf, but he was pretty small.