Articles tagged with "odd-games"
Mudball: Football in a Sinking Bog
By Daryl | November 13th, 2008It's been a while since we bought you a variation on the beautiful game like motoball (soccer on motorcycles) or fireball football (self explanatory). But ...
Soccer + Volleyball + Amazing Martial Arts = Awesomeness
By Daryl | February 15th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S375G-dgZw[/youtube] I honestly thought Bob had cornered the market on bizarre variations of football. Once you've seen Elephant Soccer and Bungee Soccer things really can't get ...
The Best of Bob: The Other Other Football
By Daryl | November 18th, 2007Chris recently had the very fine idea that the four (count 'em) people it's taking to fill Bob's blogging boots should all write our own ...
Bungee Soccer
By Bob | November 9th, 2007[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=MS-yo2_H7qE[/youtube] When I first came across the concept of Bungee Soccer I thought it might be a worthy entry into the odd soccer games annuals. ...
Elephant Soccer: Several Tons of Something
By Bob | October 26th, 2007[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=pLF9oxx1DKs[/youtube] This week's addition to the odd soccer sports collection comes from Thailand where elephants are so revered that they are trained to play the soccer ...
From the not Smart Dept.: Bull Soccer
By Bob | October 16th, 2007[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=S98DLLgP6t0[/youtube] Somewhere after lying on the beach, hooking up with sorority chicks, passing out in a tequila-induced stupor and catching syphilis, it is on the must-do ...
Soccer Tennis: 100% Wynalda Approved
By Bob | October 10th, 2007What do Eric Wynalda, Paul Caligiuri, Thomas Dooley, Preki and Marcelo Balboa have in common? Besides being players from an era of American soccer ...
Boot, Boot, Boot the ball gently down the river…
By Bob | August 30th, 2007[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pWoH9KfYIY[/youtube] As we continue to chronicle every possible variation of soccer in the universe, this week takes us to the bucolic town of Bourton-on-the-Water in the ...
Amputee Soccer
By Bob | August 17th, 2007[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=c1PQ4SQSFRo[/youtube] Taking a break from our normally ridiculous variations on the sport of soccer, this week's clip is a bit more inspirational. Amputee soccer has ...
The Footbag Dynasty that is Vaclav Klouda
By Bob | August 10th, 2007It is almost hard to believe that for the past 28 years the International Footbag Players' Association (IFPA) has been holding a world championship. ...
Nakedball: Body-painted models playing soccer
By Bob | August 9th, 2007[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=3P4ICCbQPkI[/youtube] For as much joy as YouTube has brought to the lives of soccer fans it has also brought frustration. The frustration of watching a ...
Akkroball: Part Soccer, Part Spectacle
By Bob | June 21st, 2007It is not very often in life that one can bear witness to the birth of a new sport. Fifty years from now we ...
Vertical Soccer
By Bob | June 14th, 2007This week's entry in our collection of odd soccer games involves a sport that sadly has not caught on yet in mainstream culture. We ...
Underwater Soccer: Diving is allowed
By Bob | May 31st, 2007This week's edition of odd games takes away from terra firma to the sea. Unlike Underwater Football, Underwater Hockey and Underwater Rugby, the sport ...
Bicycle Soccer
By Bob | May 24th, 2007Normally when you think of bicycles and soccer you think about something along the lines of this overhead goal. It turns out that some ...
Kemari: Traditional Japanese Hacky-Sack with Fun Costumes
By Bob | May 17th, 2007If you think those cool kids playing hacky sack down on your street corner or the amazing Mr. Woo invented the game of keepy-uppy, think ...
Ice Soccer
By Bob | May 10th, 2007Last week we introduced you to the exciting world of rollersoccer, the perfect sport to play in between doing the funky chicken and hokey pokey ...
Rollersoccer: Soccer on Inline Skates
By Bob | May 4th, 2007In our continuing quest to document all of the odd games that have been derived from football, we turn our attention today to Rollersoccer. ...
Swamp Soccer
By Bob | April 27th, 2007You know a sport is going to officially make our list of odd games when the world champion is Finland, some of the top teams ...
Car Soccer Demolition Derby
By Bob | April 16th, 2007The video above shows my morning commute only instead of a football picture me on a bike. Actually this might be one of the ...
Calcio Storico Fiorentino: Bare Knuckle Football
By Bob | April 10th, 2007Before football became the civilized and tidy sport that it is today it was Wild in the Streets in both England and in Italy. ...
Royal Shrovetide Football: Wild in the Streets
By Bob | April 5th, 2007We've spent some time looking at odd modern sports that have been derived from football, but what about sports that may have been precursors to ...
Bossaball: Soccer Volleyball on Trampolines
By Bob | March 26th, 2007As far as alternative soccer sports go Bossaball looks much more fun than playing with fire or on motorcycles. Combining the skills of capoeira, ...
Motoball: Soccer Played on Motorcycles
By Bob | March 21st, 2007In the fine tradition of horse soccer and fireball football, Motoball is yet another adaptation of the Beautiful Game. What could be more fun ...
Fireball Football
By Bob | January 30th, 2007If the excitement of watching horses play soccer isn't enough to get your blood pumping, here is another extreme version of the beautiful game. ...
Giddyup, It's Horse Soccer!
By Bob | December 29th, 2006"He's a great soccer player because he throws himself into it. He's so great because he has all of the skills. He side-passes. He ...
The Sport of Sepak Takraw
By Bob | December 14th, 2006Lost in the shuffle of all the crazy plays that took place in the semifinals of the Asian Cup football competition this week was the ...
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