Sorry, it’s been done, to some extent. Hunger artist. Also the basis for a Kafka story.
There is no happy ending.
The main reason there isn’t a helicopter pad anywhere near there: the air is too thin for a helicopter to work. Having a medical helicopter evacuation unit would be very useful if it wasn’t for this problem.
I assume that, in this case, “sport” involves at least one human in the competition; otherwise, the dumbest one has to be something like “hare coursing” (which pretty much comes down to “whose dog can chase down and kill a rabbit the fastest”).
My vote goes to bodybuilding, if it is considered a “sport” - so what if you have muscles? Try using them! Let’s see some weightlifting involved.
I know, it’s a moronic proposal - but in spite of this, it’s something that the OP has been insistent about in the past. That’s what I was referencing.
Can’t remember who said this (PJ O’Rouke?), if NASCAR was like body building, the whole point would be, instead of actually covering thr race, just displaying the winning car.
Even among bodybuilders, I’d rank the ones that work to look really, really fit much higher than the ones that work to look like abhuman freaks.
I recall reading something written by someone who was into building “low riders” which referred to that activity as a “sport.” That just sounded weird to me. I mean if you enjoy fixing up cars to make them look cool that’s fine, but it doesn’t meet my definition of a “sport.”
The dumbest sport to receive serious media attention has got to be synchronized diving.
Wake me when you start using three divers. And for heavens sake, flamboyant up those suits.
Does it strike you as harder or easier than doing those dives solo?
Dressage. Mitt’s game.
Dumbest sport I remember seeing was a segment on Wild World of Sports, featuring some kind of competitive grass cutting. Guys used scythes, and competed to see who could cut the most in a given amount of time. Or something like that. Had to be 30+ years ago, so maybe I misremember the details.
In 2005 a helicopter landed on the summit of Mt. Everest: Article. YouTube video.
Eh, any sport that uses a scythe can’t be all that bad.
I still say golf. It is flat out stupid. The hole is barely large than the ball, and hundreds of yards from the tee. Let’s apply this theory to other sports:
Football, the field is 1 mile long, and you get a first down if you can move the line of scrimmage 100 yards.
Baseball, it’s a home run if you can hit the ball over the wall, a mile away.
Basketball, a basket is still worth 2 points, only the basket is 50 feet up.
Darts, the bulls eye is the just twice the diameter of the point on the dart.
Hockey, the cage is 2 inches high and 8 inches wide.
It’s golf. It’s the only sport no one can actually play well. The best players in the world may never get a hole in one.
I think the exact repeatability makes them more difficult, but I don’t believe the dives them self are their most difficult.
No, it’s a sport no one can actually play perfectly. And that’s a good thing: if you ever got two players who could both achieve holes in one, it would be physically impossible for either to overcome the other, because they have nowhere to go from there.
Noodling-Fishing for catfish using only bare hands.
Several things to add to what has been said. First, so far as I know, no one has ever been killed curling. Or synchronized swimming (or diving).
But I would like to distinguish sports that have a reasonably objective decision procedure and ones that are judged. As far as I am concerned, the latter are not sports. They may be beautiful exhibitions, but they are not sports. The results seem to have been decided by collusion among the judges. They may be highly athletic, much more than curling (my favorite sport, BTW), but they are not sports.
And, although it is not intentional, I find that soccer suffers from the fact that penalty shots can so easily be decisive and often are such close decisions. I would try to tinker with the rules to help the offense. Not so much to make the game more fun, but also to make penalty shots less important.
Then there is the question of athleticism. Soccer players are certainly athletes, but that is not what turns me on. Fighters of all kinds are certainly athletes, but the purpose is to destroy your opponent and there is something sick about that.
Curling is hard. Try pushing a 42 pound stone at a target about 100 feet away within an accuracy well under on inch. And highly strategic. “If I do this, then my opponent will likely do that and then I will have the following opportunity and then …”). Once you understand the strategy, the game becomes fascinating.
I just realized that a lot of this is similar to pool. I never found it that interesting to watch, but I understand that it could be. Bowling, on the other hand, pales for its lack of any strategy. Every pinset looks like every other pinset and most spares fit into a small number of patterns.
The purpose is to incapacitate your opponent. For striking sports you’ve got a point, but the goal of a wrestler is just to make their opponent say “Okay, I can’t wriggle out of this one. You got me.”
Back during the 1992 Olympics I managed to borrow a TV for the first week of the games. Several other sports fans would pile into my dorm room each night, excited to watch some Olympic contests.
The TV producers here in Australia must have been equestrian fans, because while the dressage was on we were shown about 4 hours mind-numbing hours of it every night. Finally it ended.
Or so we thought.
Up next was the three-day event. Which contained more dressage.:smack: