Alter a sport to make it more interesting

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Take any sport that is performed on a track or a field. Now add landmines to said track or field.

Instant fun.

 

[Norin the Wary]

American Football and add spikes to everything.
Spikes to the helmet, spikes to the shoulder pads, spikes to the bal...
Just turn it into Bloodbowl and everyone will be happy. It would even be healthier than original Bloodbowl, because we don't have to bother about were to keep those nurgle guys.

Would be a little bit less interesting because of the lack of Lizardman, but better than nothing.

 

[Daedalus1942]

Football, but the ball is a famous sport's commentators head, hooked up to electrodes that zap anyone holding it for more than 30 seconds.
-Tabs<3-

 

[RatRace123]

Lacrosse
I'd add a retractable blade to the end of the stick and spikes on the side of the net and make violent moves legal on the field.

 

[Dastardly]

After an entire afternoon of being forced to watch cricket, my mind drifted just to dull the agony of my brain having leaked out my ear and into my pocket.

All I could think of was how much more awesome this sport would be if about half a dozen hydraulic springboards were scattered over the field and camoflauged into the grass. Or if I were watching Blernsball.

So in the interest of making a boring sport less excruciatingly dull to watch....what alterations would you make to them that would give you a reason to stay fixed to the screen?

(PS: I'm not trying to openly bash cricket or any other sport for the fun of it, its just that I find it horribly boring to watch and have a retarded mind.)

American Football, but with a tilted field. Offense has to run uphill, or the field could have a U-shaped curve...

 

[Secret world leader (shhh)]

Formula 1

It would still be Formula 1, but every car would get a single, different counter measure from the James Bond series.

Before every race, each car is randomly assigned one of the twenty four possible countermeasures. The drivers (and spectators) are not told what counter measure they have, merely that hitting the big red button activates it.

One unlucky driver has the ejector seat, F1 cars only have the one seat.

At a stroke Formula one is the most exciting sport in the world. Who has smoke screens? Who has auto targeting shotguns? Who's going to fly three hundred feet in the air on a rocket seat?

Watch and find out!

YES! OH MY GOD YES!

OT: Football. It's the same rules as football but you can get an instant win if you can successfully detach the other team captain's head.

That or replace the ball with a remote detonated bomb that could go off at any second.

 

[similar.squirrel]

The number of landmine suggestions really says something about the Escapist's collective maturity. Why would watching an athlete get maimed be entertaining?

OT: Combine pole-vaulting and rugby into some kind of capture-the flag scenario, complete with a fortress for each team. That could be entertaining. That, or change soccer pitches so you can rebound the ball from the barriers. It'd give a snooker-like element of strategy to the game.

 

[Baron Von Evil Satan]

Full contact Baseball? And perhaps allow the batters to carry the bats around the bases with them?

 

[derelict]

I'd go with making two separate sports play on the same field at the same time. Like, shot put and baseball. Don't try to catch the wrong ball (=

Or nascar and demolition derby...oh wait, they do that already on some of the smaller tracks.

 

[Realitycrash]

Make it so that in hockey, the goal is not to hit the puck, but hit the players. The more teeth you can put past the goalkeeper, the higher the score.

Or just add handguns to golf.

 

[Kotch]

golf as a full contact sport with mines in the rough and bears hiding in the bushes....

 

[Rinji]

... Have you seen Death Race??? Yeah, do this with Nascar.

 

[Sylare]

Football but with ninjas everywere, and they are killing each other, as a matter of fact thats not football, its just ninjas killing each other

 

[Miken Maniac]

I hate basketball. Shooting baskets and playing is OK, but professional/college basketball is stupid to watch.

Make it full contact. Head gear, mouth guards, knees pads, elbow pads. Get rid of contact penalties and goal tending. It will at least make it watchable. Same goes for soccer-football.


Nothing wrong with (American) football except the zebras are terrible. Let the guys play ball.

Nothing wrong with baseball except I think there need to be more time restrictions. Gettign thrown a ball then spending 2 minutes adjusting gloves gets old...especially when you're looking at 3 balls, 2 strikes, 10 fouls.....

Hockey is GTG.

 

[darksakul]

Make the Ball Explosive (regardless OF SPORT)
Make the goals robotic, and will move away from the player trying to score.
Swords, spears, knifes and other weapons are mandatory to play.
Forget Ninjas, make everyone a Spartan.;
If another player fouls you, you get to fight them to the death right there at that moment, right on the spot.
No more 9 innings in baseball, make the game rigidly timed like real sports.
In Golf, you must fight your way to each hole, you got to fight a Dragon before you can score at the 18th hole.
All sports involving water will require piranhas or man-eating sharks.
At random intervals hungry Lions, Crocodiles, bears , tigers or dinosaurs are let into the field.
Like in Pinball, a player can trigger a multi-ball.
Full contact sports have the option of playing in 60 foot tall combat mecha.
The stadium/team is not responsible for spectators being killed during a game, actually each team is required to kill random "innocents" (philosophy here is no one is innocent, not even new borns)
Any sport that calls for horses now gets Grizzly bears or raptors instead
On Sudden Death both teams are executed, no ifs no buts, they both lose.
Replace automobile racing with jet fighters
Losing team at championship match gets their home town nuked

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

Basketball - replace the floor with giant trampoline, oh and have the ball explode when the shot clock runs down.
Figure Skating - add Polar Bears, seriously if anyone can to spins and jumps on ice while being chased by a polar bear they are a true athlete
Swimming - add sharks, see above
Formula 1 - Pedestrians, cyclists and roadworks
Football - Treat anyone who dives like a horse that's broke it's leg and shot them (I hate divers)
Cricket or Baseball - Show anything else on the tv
Bob sled - Nitro

 

[Toasty Virus]

George Carlin did a piece on this.


It's audio online, but whatcha gonna do?

I personally would have basketball played with a flamming ball, and give nobody protective clothing.

 

[Continuity]

Golf, except the golf balls are filled with nitroglycerine. It may not get off the first tee but it would sure as hell be more amusing.

 

[Agayek]

After an entire afternoon of being forced to watch cricket, my mind drifted just to dull the agony of my brain having leaked out my ear and into my pocket.

All I could think of was how much more awesome this sport would be if about half a dozen hydraulic springboards were scattered over the field and camoflauged into the grass. Or if I were watching Blernsball.

So in the interest of making a boring sport less excruciatingly dull to watch....what alterations would you make to them that would give you a reason to stay fixed to the screen?

(PS: I'm not trying to openly bash cricket or any other sport for the fun of it, its just that I find it horribly boring to watch and have a retarded mind.)

Suggestion for Cricket: Make it more like Krikkit, where the balls are actually explosive devices, some of which are capable of destroying the universe.

Else: Take American Football and turn it into real-time Bloodbowl. Then win.

 

[sheah1]

Bloodbowl, anyone?