Ideas to Improve Sport

[Ming the Merciless]

@Drago posted "Marathon - competitors should eat nothing by Marathon bars for a week prior to each event."

It would be an interesting new sport to see who could invent a time machine first to go back and get some since they've been called Snickers for years. (Though I much prefer the name "Marathon"). Although sometime in the last couple of years there were some limited edition Marathons available. Like just about everything, I thought they used to be bigger.

You need to keep up, relaunched as Marathon in Morrisons stores in 2024

 

[cyberknight]

Football - anyone laying on the ground clutching their extremities in (usually feigned) agony should be given the next three games off on zero pay to recover.

F1 - at least one pit stop must be done by KwikFit while the driver sits in a dingy waiting room reading a two year old campervan magazine.

Cricket - at random points in the game the ball should be briefly substituted with a live hand grenade.

Marathon - competitors should eat nothing by Marathon bars for a week prior to each event.

Bowls - competitors should wear 8" high heels.

Curling - the broom should be replaced with a pickaxe.

Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy.... Krikkit wars....

 

[roubaixtuesday]

As a golf course is a deliberately wilful misuse of a rifle range make it dual use. Should speed up the golf.

I recall years ago reading about a version of golf which actually sounded like a sport.

The rules were a bit like showjumping: You were timed over 18 holes, and had time added for every shot taken (say, a minute).

You can choose how many clubs to take (obviously, less clubs = faster running between shots)

Sounded far better than the current version.

Ah - through the miracle of google: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedgolf

 

[secretsqirrel]

Marathon - change the name to Snickers

 

[lazybloke]

Darts - add a running element, because most of the competitors look like they need it.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Add 100m shortcuts to tracks for runners who get there first in the 10,000m

 

[lazybloke]

Bobsleigh, skeleton bob, luge: make the tracks more interesting by having a simultaneous start in multiple lanes, with crossovers. Also, loop-the-loops.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Madison racing - Team mates race round the track in opposite directions.

 

[a.twiddler]

You need to keep up, relaunched as Marathon in Morrisons stores in 2024

Wot I said. Limited edition. Also in 2019. It was Morrisons where I bought one, didn't realise it was so limited at the time. Anyone know where I can get hold of a Flux Capacitor?

 

[Punkawallah]

Controversial one? Road cycling - riders should be allowed to try and get their competitors off the road by giving them a good boot or hitting them with a big stick.

And this is different from the current sport how? :-)

 

[Stevo 666]

And this is different from the current sport how? :-)

The big stick? 🙂

 

[Seevio]

As I mentioned in a long ago thread, there is no sport that couldn't be improved by randomly adding a bear.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Wot I said. Limited edition. Also in 2019. It was Morrisons where I bought one, didn't realise it was so limited at the time. Anyone know where I can get hold of a Flux Capacitor?

Good job it is in stock then

https://groceries.morrisons.com/products/snickers-marathon/114113409

 

[biggs682]

Cycling - clothes that can withstand contact with tarmac

 

[Animo]

Rotating dartboard