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8 Proposed Sports for 2012 Olympics
By: addict Created:6-25-2008 List Contest: July

 

There are 2 problems with the Olympics. They are boring, and not nearly challenging enough. These are supposed to be the best athletes in the _world_ yet all they have to do is run in a straight line or hit a ball over a net. I'm proposing to both spice things up and upping the difficulty factor.

Here are some proposed sports for the 2012 Olympics with a Photoshop'd mockup.

Water-Soccer

Soccer sucks because you can't use your hands, and Water Polo sucks because it doesn't have any real athletes. If someone was athletic why would they go for the Water Polo "fame" and "money"? Mixing the two would fix both sports problems.

Motor-Speed Skating

Speed skaters don't go that fast and motorcycle racing on pavement is not dangerous enough. Let's push both sports and see which one can handle the pressure.

And yes...this would probably be the 2014 Olympics.

Volleyball High-Jump

Unlike most sports, the Olympics is primarily watched be females. They need to concentrate on getting more of a male demographic.

For this sport, imagine those hot Brazilian volleyball players getting sweaty, then having to arch over the net and fall into the dirt. I'm pretty sure that would get a 90% male audience.

Moto-Surfing

There's just not enough motorized wave sports. Imagine what could be done w/ a motor on a surfboard.

Tennis Rodeo

How hard is it to hit a ball back and forth. We need to up the ante on this sport and add in 3000 lbs of muscle, horns, and impaling.

Skeet Bowling

This would increase the Olympics viewing audience by both of the bowling fans out there, and make for some excitement on that 7-10 split.

Real "Football"

We need to settle once and for all who gets ownership of "football" and what better stage than in front of the world. Frankly, I don't see why American Football can't just take it away because American Football players are clearly bigger, stronger and more athletic .

Skeet Motocross

This is the perfect union. Motocrossers practice doing all kind of dodging techniques while flying hundreds of feet while skeet shooters are just shooting at straight flying targets. This would make both of their jobs more exciting.

Comments
rudy (guest) says:
6-25-2008 9:36 am

Ice Boxing, get your skates on - lace up the gloves and have at it in the rink!!!


douche (guest) says:
6-25-2008 9:45 am

american football sucks. only the kickers touch the ball with their feet and nobody cares about kickers. how about calling american football soccer and calling football, well, football.


BehindMonkey (guest) says:
6-25-2008 10:00 am

American football players might be bigger and stronger but they're not more athletic. It's a simple game when we play for 8 seconds then rest for 35.


71 cornhusker (guest) says:
6-25-2008 11:32 am

which one would draw a larger audience (both TV and live). Seems to me that football draws millions to stadiums and TV every weekend during the season. Sucker, i mean soccer, draws much less attention and I can't even tell which network carries major leauge sucker, i mean soccer. Think about it!!


1standten (guest) says:
6-25-2008 11:39 am

I'm with you cornhusker...American football is a well played game of strategy...while soccer is basically a bunch of guys running around chasing a ball up and down the field and is excruciatingly boring to watch aside from the few times a game someone actually tries to make a shot at the goal.


rich (guest) says:
6-25-2008 11:44 am

Gee, last time I checked football... I mean soccer(for the outside-of-the-US- sports-challenged) is the most popular sport in the WORLD. American Football is great, the only problem is: it's not FOOTball, i don't think this point has been strecth enough FOOT as the singular of FEET as in you use your FOOT. All I can figure out is that you cannot use your feet for something as easy as kicking a ball... Think about it!!!!


keyshark says:
6-25-2008 12:58 pm

I think the real decider is who has hotter fans. You decide:

Football
College Football
Mostl y Soccer


Leinster (guest) says:
6-25-2008 1:17 pm

Nevermind football and soccer, you want to see "tough guys", check out a rugby match.


Peeeeej (guest) says:
6-25-2008 1:36 pm

rugby wouldn't be accepted in america because all of the mommies wouldn't approve of playing without pads


YNot (guest) says:
6-26-2008 2:18 am

How about Ski-Jousting? (Two Ski Jump Ramps facing each other, with the jumpers going off simultaneously and both armed with lances and shields)


millz (guest) says:
7-02-2008 9:06 am

football is becomeing the most prolific sport in the world. There are about 6 sanctions of the NFL in about 6 to ten countries. Also what about all the foreign players in Europe that play in the NFL Europe league. I know for a fact that there are teams in othewr countries because I have friends that hav played in a game in Japan and are going to play in 7 national games, so dont tell me that Real Football isn't popular.


SportAlreadyExists (guest) says:
7-05-2008 4:01 pm

Hey Rudy... It's called HOCKEY, dumbass.


sneik (guest) says:
7-17-2008 5:22 pm

when the USA made a cheap copy of rugby and decided that men should wear pads and protection all over. Why not steal the name as well? Football! 1.The football is not even a ball 2.The FOOT actually kicks the ball for a few times in the game. Football should own football and american football should be called american rugby or helmetball or something


Husk This (guest) says:
9-29-2008 2:54 pm

NFL Fans- Drunk, fat and Stupid: it's not mystery that the naming convention for "Football" remained static since 1889. Besides, American football is a derivative of "futbol" aka, soccer. Refer to the history...


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