Odd Team Sports

PTH2009

There are quite a number of odd team sports around the world

Aussie Rules is similar to Gaelic but its just odd that you get a point for hitting a wide

American Football- how many players are actually touch the ball ???.

The Tetrarch

Netball. Everyone stops.

Irishphotodesk

Underwater hockey... I mean really !!

kalych

Can't be any weirder than dodgeball. There's now World Cups in it:
https://youtu.be/whuulVOawFA

Your Face

Kabaddi.

EmmetSpiceland

“Kabaddi” is a pretty cool sport played in India, and around there.

salmocab

PTH2009 wrote: »

There are quite a number of odd team sports around the world

Aussie Rules is similar to Gaelic but its just odd that you get a point for hitting a wide

American Football- how many players are actually touch the ball ???.

To be fair in Aussie rules if it’s wide you get no points they just have more posts but no crossbar.
Rugby not passing forward would be considered odd if you didn’t know it as a sport.
Kabbadi now there’s an odd sport it’s like chasing.

JohnnyFlash

Botaoshi

PTH2009

Your Face wrote: »

Kabaddi.

Yeah cant understands wtf is going on in that

Same with cricket

ianob7

Calcio Fiorentino

Quantum Erasure

Buzkashi

Mehaffey1

The Tetrarch wrote: »

Netball. Everyone stops.

Only two players on each team are allowed to score as well.

Wildly Boaring

Canoe polo
https://youtu.be/34GQp7UiY1g

JohnnyFlash

PTH2009 wrote: »

Yeah cant understands wtf is going on in that

Same with cricket

Cricket is an easy enough sport to understand. There’s a bit of complexity with scoring in the test series, but the rules of the sport itself are far easier than genuinely complex sports like rugby.

It’s also good to stick on and watch if you’re lying on the couch dying of a hangover. Moves at a gentle pace, and the commentators are picked for their gentle bonhomie and smooth speaking voice.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Aussie Rules is a great game.

Zaph

PTH2009 wrote: »

Aussie Rules is similar to Gaelic but its just odd that you get a point for hitting a wide

As a soccer fan I find it equally odd that you get a point in Gaelic football for missing the goal and putting the ball over the bar.

PARlance

Zaph wrote: »

As a soccer fan I find it equally odd that you get a point in Gaelic football for missing the goal and putting the ball over the bar.

They get nothing for scoring a goal in rugby.

Zaph

PARlance wrote: »

They get nothing for scoring a goal in rugby.

Nor should they until they get themselves a proper shaped ball!

Insect Overlord

Viersljeppen is where it's at.

Edit: ah, I should have paid more attention to the thread title. TEAM sports. Has anyone mentioned lacrosse yet? Or curling?

Vita nova

Quidditch, not just a fictional game from the Harry Potter book series, there is actually a real life version with a governing body, competitions and a Quidditch World Cup championship.

AllForIt

sugarman wrote: »

Curling.

/thread

Richard Hillman

Dressage WTF

Pherekydes

salmocab wrote: »

Rugby not passing forward would be considered odd if you didn’t know it as a sport.

Legally it's not permitted, but forward passes happen in every game.

PARlance wrote: »

They get nothing for scoring a goal in rugby.

Eh, 3 pts. You can get a nearly automatic 3 pts if your opponent commits an offence in front of their goal, but if they commit the exact same offence in front of yours it's different.

Hoop66

There's this - completely mental - one from Japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNVkXNdH2mA

Surprised more people aren't seriously injured or killed.

melekalikimaka

taser football - youtube it, youre welcome

Cookie_Monster

sugarman wrote: »

Curling.

curling is great to play. you really need to be drinking though

Sam Hain

Jai alai, the one from the Miami Vice opening credits. Some might argue that is technically not a team sport but it is literally a killer sport.

the beer revolu

If you were completely unfamiliar with rugby, it would look mind boggling bonkers.

CardBordWindow

kalych wrote: »

Can't be any weirder than dodgeball. There's now World Cups in it:
https://youtu.be/whuulVOawFA

Great fun to play though.
I was over at the World Cup in NYC in 2018.

kalych

CardBordWindow wrote: »

Great fun to play though.
I was over at the World Cup in NYC in 2018.

Miguel?

CardBordWindow

kalych wrote: »

Miguel?

Dimi?

massdebater

PTH2009 wrote: »

There are quite a number of odd team sports around the world

Aussie Rules is similar to Gaelic but its just odd that you get a point for hitting a wide

American Football- how many players are actually touch the ball ???.

You posted my two favourite team sports! Aussie rules is a great game to watch, always lots happening and some great athletes. I used to hate American football too, before I understood the rules. Especially if you appreciate tactics - it's like a chess match with beast humans

Both sports made even more fun by the draft process so bad teams get first selection of the best players the following year which keeps it cyclical and keeps fans interested. Used to love soccer and gaa but it's the same teams competing every year so gets boring. Only follow Ireland in soccer and my county's gaa games nowadays

salmocab

massdebater wrote: »

You posted my two favourite team sports! Aussie rules is a great game to watch, always lots happening and some great athletes. I used to hate American football too, before I understood the rules. Especially if you appreciate tactics - it's like a chess match with beast humans

Both sports made even more fun by the draft process so bad teams get first selection of the best players the following year which keeps it cyclical and keeps fans interested. Used to love soccer and gaa but it's the same teams competing every year so gets boring. Only follow Ireland in soccer and my county's gaa games nowadays

I like American football but can’t agree with you on Aussie rules I find it numbingly bad.

biko

Sepak Takraw

jmayo

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Cricket is an easy enough sport to understand. There’s a bit of complexity with scoring in the test series, but the rules of the sport itself are far easier than genuinely complex sports like rugby.

It’s also good to stick on and watch if you’re lying on the couch dying of a hangover. Moves at a gentle pace, and the commentators are picked for their gentle bonhomie and smooth speaking voice.

Don't like it ever since fell asleep and got sunburnt watching a live match.

AS for people saying American football is better than Aussie rules, what fooking planet are you on. :eek:

American football is a joke of a game.
A game's duration is 60 minutes, but it takes on average around 3.5 hours to run it.
Oh and the ball is only in play for on average 11 minutes.
WTF.

When the other side gets the ball you change your team from offence to defence .
Only a few players actually ever touch the ball and if you need to kick the ball you bring on a specialist player to do it.

In Aussie rules the ball is in play, every players gets a chance to play it at some stage and they all get to kick the fooking thing if they want.

American football should be done under the Trade Descriptions Act as it involves shag all foot meeting the ball.

And claiming that it is the tactics that make it great is like claiming F1 was improved when they passed each other through pit stops and not racing on the track.


Rugby is weird with a myriad of weird rules when you sit back and analyse it, but at least they don't change the team every few minutes and everyone has a chance to engage with the ball.

PTH2009

quite like Aussie Rules football after watching a few clips

my god its a physical game and kicking a ball of that shape is quite skillful

fryup

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Aussie Rules is a great game.

...for thugs

played by thugs, played on a oval pitch, with an oval ball, 18 men a side, 4 goal posts, you can get away with almost anything as no one gets sent off....its like something a bunch of bored school kids made up during a lunch break - its daft!

arybvtcw0eolkf

Judo team competition might look a bit brutal I guess. I've fought some really close club mates, usually I'll shake hands before stepping onto the mat ''Friends again in five minutes, lets have fun'', then go hell for leather trying to throw, strangle, joint lock or pin your mate for the fight.

Big hug at the end

That horsey polo is a bit weird I guess. I've watched it a few times in the Phoenix Park, thought it was a load of gick.

Zebra3

sugarman wrote: »

Curling.

First thing that came into my head when I saw the thread title.

Bizarre nonsense.