As a child, I was always puzzled by the Legion of Super-Heroes’ references to future sports like Moopsball, or Commander Riker’s tantalizing references to the gentleman’s sport known as Parrises Squares. The references to strange sports seemed to deepen the world-building, giving us bits and pieces of a greater culture that wouldn’t have been the same had they referenced just plain old football (or worse, “Space-Football.”) Though I’ve never been particularly interested in watching or playing sports myself, the basic rules and scoring strategies have always been fascinating to me, and it’s easy to understand those people who wanted to see an entire movie of just Harry Potter playing Quidditch, even though the rules make that game inherently flawed from both a dramatic and a competitive standpoint. Making things even more entertaining is the ability to imagine Cotton and Pepper calling a game of Brockian Ultra-Cricket on ESPN 8 (“THE OCHO!”), which in turn begs a query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) would have made a great athlete, if not for all that pesky exercise, asking: What’s the best made-up sport of all time?
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Well I have always been a big fan of Calvin Ball. Never really could get it to work when trying to play for more than about 5 min. but it always was a good 5 min.
Rollerball
Good point! High Speed cyborg deathmatch!
As much as I wanted to say Bouillabaseball (from ALF) or Blernsball (Futurama), I have to go with Quidditch.
Or maybe BASEketball.
I’d have to go with Drownball from 8-bit theater. Not only is it hilarious but also not making any sense whatsoever.
Calvinball hands down… that or … nope… Calvinball
Baskiceball
Top 3: BASEketball, Calvin Ball or Blernsball.
Blitzball from FFX. I wanted to play that so badly.
Blernsball from Futurama.
“Face it Fry: Baseball was as boring as Mom and apple pie. That’s why they jazzed it up.”
―Leela
“Boring! Baseball wasn’t.. Hmm… So they finally jazzed it up?”
From moviee: Baseketball
TV: Pyramid from Battlestar Galactica
Misc: Urban Brawl from the Shadowrun RPG? Basically a combination of rugby and urban combat. Think Rollerball combined with Blackhawk Down.
Blood bowl
Car wars
Brockian Ultra-Cricket, You just can’t beat a fine day in the higher dimensions with a nice game based on intergalactic tragedy.
What about The Prisoner’s Kosho? Trampoline martial arts, people. Yes, trampoline.
Death Race 2000.
Carradine. Sly. Cool cars. Babes. Corman.
What more do you want?
FSL tonight! The the sport has everything a nerd needs, Time Lords, Vulcans, Spice. You can’t go wrong with FSL!