It’s the trousers, and the yelling. I quite like watching it on the olympics if I catch it. The players are so skilled.
She should put her 4 year old on Youtube! A Youtube of a person watching a Youtube of another person watching a Youtube. I’d watch!
That would be like John Malkovich entering the mind of John Malkovich.
The Indoor League included shove ha’penny, and had Fred Truman hosting the show with a pint.
back when no serious pro league would have anything to do with espn they used to show things like "the world lumber jack games " pool and bowling were on a lot
ski jumping on wide world of sports ….basically these guys skied down a bob sled ramp and jumped …… every one got injured in some way and abc had the judges call it all a tie
the funniest was watching Minnesota fats job to willie mosconi when fats was supposed to the best ever ……
Funny thing about people watching lets play aka video gaming videos …. the number one you tuber is a guy that plays video games called Dantdm…. hes funny and dosent really play them better ot worse than anyone on the street ……hes just funny most of the time …. usually unintentionally
I was gonna say rock paper scissors…
So instead I’ll mention World Sauna Championships!
Did you see #3 in the nation Mater Dei (CA) vs. #1 ranked IMG Academy (FL) last night? That was a great High School contest. Mater Dei 28-24 over IMG breaking their 41 game win streak.
And that page links to Wikipedia’s page of List of unusual deaths.
That is one of the greatest sporting events I have ever seen.
I remember a Dave Barry column about that. He also did one about people who lifted weights with their body piercings; use your imagination about that. 
Seconded.
I’ll add Dwarf Tossing which IIRC was big in the late 70s and early 80s on Wide World or one of the like shows. I believe it sprang out of the “toughest bouncer” contests; was one of the “challenges” of that almost equally stupid sport. I believe Mr T was discovered when he was a participant in one of those sports.
Or watermelon seed spitting? Yeah, Mike Rowe did that.
Let’s see, either golf or curling.
Waiting for the Canucks in 5, 4, 3, 2…
I currently live within 100 miles of TWO facilities with figure 8 tracks. One of them does BUSSES and vehicles towing TRAILERS:eek: (separately)
I may be going next month, but I don’t think figure8 is on the menu that night. Just some sportsman and a few lower classes, but we’ll see.
Have they ever televised the Shrove Tuesday pancake races between Liberal KS and Olney England? Because that would get my vote.
If you post that, I have to add the “Network Battle Of The T’s and A’s” (potentially NSFW, even though it’s an old SNL spoof).
Campeonato mundial de lanzamiento de rabiosa (world’s hoe throw championship). It’s a joke, but it’s a joke that worked well enough it gets repeated every year. “What’s the stupidest thing we can make a world championship of?”
no, not really. it’s high school football. IMO the only reason it gets televised at all is for the parents, so they can DVR it and try to guilt their friends into watching their kid on TV so they can feel special.
I recall that during the last NHL strike (2004?), we got a lot of spelling bees on Canadian sports channels. Likely because those channels had bought so many hockey games prior to the season, that they had nothing to show during the strike, so the channels were looking for anything to fill the time. Anyway, I also recall darts, snooker, and lumberjack competitions during that time; but it’s the spelling bees that stand out. They showed how desperate Canadian sports channels were for content during a time of no hockey.
Nah, I enjoy watching the games sometimes, and I have no kids in high school. I usually root for my alma mater or another Catholic League Conference team. Remember, the world record for most attended sporting event was at one time the 1937 Prep Bowl in Soldier Field, with an estimated crowd of 120,000. Clearly, high school sports doesn’t have quite the following it did back then, but it’s still reasonably followed, at least in my neighborhood in Chicago. Definitely not just for the parents.