Weird sports
doubledragon
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Some weird sports you may or may not know about.
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This has to be the most bizarre sport I've seen. It's called extreme ironing, and the idea is to iron clothes in extreme conditions.
This sports is called cheese rolling. A big block of cheese is rolled down a hill, and you have to keep up with it and not let it pass you.
This is called shin kicking, and the object is to kick your opponent in the shins and the first person to hit the ground loses.
I think the cheese rolling was a yearly story on ESPN as far back as the Dan Patrick/Keith Olbermann days, or maybe it was the Kenny Mayne/Stewart Scott days.
I seem to recall seeing it on ESPN also. π
I remember staying up late at night in the early days of ESPN and watching roller derby, lumberjack competitions, strongman competitions, little go-carts with big wing looking things on them going around a tiny, tiny circular dirt track, all kinds of crazy stuff... man, early ESPN and weird sports definitely went hand in hand. I think the "popularity" of curling and hot dog eating competitions definitely owe a big thank you to the wee morning hours of filler sports programming of the 80s.
I get the cheese and the shins...but i can't comprehend the ironing at all. π€
OUCH! πππππ
I win ...
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Not so much the sport but the name chosen . American Cornholing Championship. You can catch it on espn.
The spikes look better on a lady...i'm not sure why.
I remember the "Cheese Rolling". Wisconsin had quite a dynasty.
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Been gone for 6 years and forgot how to attach gifs and pics. If I remember correctly, I used photobucket.
It's like almost any activity can be classified as a sport? It's a stretch.
Pot hole diving.
In grade school PE we used to call that soccer, the PE teacher would throw down a soccer ball and
shins got kicked a lot more than the ball did.
Hence the reason we called it βKill Soccerβ in Elementary School πππ. ( True Story )
all 4 of those names are people who suck
did you play crab soccer in school?