I saw Competition Checkers on ESPN once. Sadly it was nothing like it is on sitcoms where one player is able to somehow jump 10 checkers at once in a single move.
Hell, you didn’t even mention Phil Gordon or Phil Galfond. The hell is it with Phils? I’m convinced if I change by name to Phil my poker skills will be twice as good.
Sounds like a sport to me. Possibly not a spectator sport.
The great thing about Luge - it’s possibly the only sport you could do involuntarily - and still win.
‘No! No! Noooooooooooooooo!’
‘Whattya mean - I won?’
Or it could be won by someone who was already dead.
‘Today, George Kalas won his 76th straight world championship in Luge when teammates strapped his limp corpse onto the sled and sent him down the track’.
Rather than continue killing off Russians, the Finns give the world kukkamekkokorkokenkäsuohiihto.
I have played (real) golf with this guy before.
1960’s Putter of the Decade!
Do youtube count? How about this then? (Ping Pong using a large ball, and your head as a paddle)
Football. Any form.
Impressive how they can remain balanced and coherent after a few rounds of that. Not to mention resist the undoubtedly powerful temptation to escalate. Real professionals.
Hey, start off with the animal and add some wheels - Roller Bullfighting!
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Sorry, got distracted.
What I really meant to say was, back in the day Fred Trueman, who really was one of cricket’s greats, hosted an appalling TV show called Indoor League (The Indoor League - Wikipedia). This was a veritable compendium of (televised) stupid sports.
"*The Indoor League was a pub games competition series that was produced by Yorkshire Television and aired from 1972 until 1977. The programme was hosted by England cricketer Fred Trueman. The first series (1972) competition was first transmitted by ITV on Thursday 5 April 1973 at 1 pm and ran for the following 6 weeks…
Trueman often wore a cardigan whilst smoking a pipe throughout his links. He always ended the show with the phrase, “ah’ll see thee”.
The show featured many indoor games, the majority of which were pub games, each of which had a prize of £100 for the competition winners. The sports included darts, pool, bar billiards, bar skittles, table football (a.k.a. foosball), arm wrestling and shove ha’penny amongst others.* "
Whew.
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Drone Flying
Pigeon wrestling.
Okay, that’s not a sport - I made that up. But perhaps it should be a sport? I can assure you: it would be pretty stupid.
They just need to make the courses harder so that we get spectacular crashes.
Now that I think about it, they need to make a kind of Rollerball-type drone sport. There are already robot fight. Or teams of drones fighting each other with airsoft/paintball guns (in an enclosed area).
Two pigeons wrestling each other or a man wrestling a pigeon?
Or maybe two men in pigeon costumes trying to wrestle but their arms are inside big fake wings so no grappling is possible. (I’d probably at least want to see that once if it existed.)
Sounds like motoball, which was featured in the Turner-created Goodwill Games, but dates back to the 1930’s.
I’ll add sport stacking to the list of nominations.