Alter a sport to make it more interesting

[Merkavar]

any ball sport like football, light the ball on fire.

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[Isalan]

Basketball + Landmines = Fun

 

[guntotingtomcat]

IN SPACE! could apply to any of them.
But imagine if golf fields were the size of countries and you had some sort of electromagnetic club that propelled glowing golf balls hundreds of kilometers at the speed of sound, leaving a nice neon glowy vapour trail. In my mind, it is played at night but the field is constructed from a GIANT touch screen (with hills) that records the game stats. And to get to the ball you use a hover craft. And your caddy is a robot. And it looks like Tron!

 

[DrWilhelm]

Take any two team sport, replace one team with Justin Bieber and some fangirls, then replace the other with bears trained to weld chainsaws.

Have you ever met a fangirl? That just wouldn't be fair on the bears.

 

[teutonicman]

Baseball, the baseball has spikes all over it.

 

[madmsk]

Simple, Mike Tyson + Boxing + Live Grizzly Bear.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Take any running sport, and add landmines.

 

[Mr Thin]

Mixed Martial Arts that has actual martial arts in it?

I mean, I watch it, and it's grown men dry-humping each other. At least wrestling doesn't pretend to be otherwise.

 

[Iwata]

Take away the full body armour of American Football players and force them to play Rugby.

Allow NASCAR drivers to turn right every now and again and grow some skills.

Hide a landmine somewhere in a baseball field.

That's about it.

Alternatively, take any american sport and give it European fans, preferably Russian, Welsh or Scottish.

 

[forsinain42]

Mixed Martial Arts that has actual martial arts in it?

I mean, I watch it, and it's grown men dry-humping each other. At least wrestling doesn't pretend to be otherwise.

Your avatar looks familiar...

Ok, football. 10 minutes long, 100 players per side, no goalie and after 5 minutes its MULTIBALL TIME!

EDIT: Just thought of a GREAT one.

Hurdles, but the hurdles are now ultra sharp razor blades.

 

[Mr Thin]

Mixed Martial Arts that has actual martial arts in it?

I mean, I watch it, and it's grown men dry-humping each other. At least wrestling doesn't pretend to be otherwise.

Your avatar looks familiar...

Ok, football. 10 minutes long, 100 players per side, no goalie and after 5 minutes its MULTIBALL TIME!

Always nice to see a fellow Tim Minchin fan.

I'll have to find myself a different Minchin avatar now...

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

The old Victorian rules for football would make for a more interesting game I reckon. Formations are fixed at 2-3-5 and fouls haven't been invented yet. Part of what makes football boring (to me) is the reliance on defence-heavy/forward-light formations which always guarantee that the attacking side is mobbed by an overwhelming number of defenders, and the tendency of players cry foul and require medical assistance if they receive so much as a nasty look.

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

I'd say Basketball is one of the more exciting sports to begin with. However, I would introduce a few detailed improvements:

1: anything goes physical contact.
2: everyone is a ninja.

Recipe for perfection.

Mind you, what actually would be perfection is instead of improving already existing sports, we should just find a way to make Burnout Paradise a real life event. Who wouldn't wanna watch THAT!

 

[forsinain42]

Mixed Martial Arts that has actual martial arts in it?

I mean, I watch it, and it's grown men dry-humping each other. At least wrestling doesn't pretend to be otherwise.

Your avatar looks familiar...

Ok, football. 10 minutes long, 100 players per side, no goalie and after 5 minutes its MULTIBALL TIME!

Always nice to see a fellow Tim Minchin fan.

I'll have to find myself a different Minchin avatar now...

We can share! Also this now looks like just one person talking to themselves!

Ok. Keeping thread OT. Wimbledon but the net surrounds the players, the rackets are cheese wire and the last man standing wins.

 

[Exocet]

Replace horses with tanks in polo,and allows collisions.I would watch the crap out of that.

 

[MrAkuma201]

Make all sports nude. Then more people will watch womens sports I know I will.

 

[Hookman]

Football...With fire!
Cricket...With fire!
Basically, any sport...With fire!

 

[Racecarlock]

I'd take football and make it this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeTXu1jPL4M

Seriously, why hasn't this game been remade or even gotten a sequel yet?

 

[the rye]

Ultimate frisbee...
but the frisbee has bladed edges and the players wear uniforms that attract the frisbee to them, they also wear a single protective glove to catch said frisbee and throw it back at the enemy team. The frisbee will also explode if anyone holds onto it for too long.

Minesweeper except with real people and real mines.

 

[Nannernade]

In the words of Sarge, add polar bears, every sport needs more polar bears.