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re: Discontinued sporting events that would be fun to see today…

Posted on 2/4/25 at 9:25 pm to
Posted by FightinTigersDammit
Louisiana North
Member since Mar 2006
46425 posts
Posted on 2/4/25 at 9:25 pm to
Indy, Formula One, and Can-Am used to run at Watkins Glen
Posted by Wulfgar
Member since Jan 2013
2041 posts
Posted on 2/4/25 at 11:12 pm to
Bear Wrestling
Posted by GeauxtigersMs36
The coast
Member since Jan 2018
12493 posts
Posted on 2/4/25 at 11:36 pm to
Miss the Winn Dixie showdown. Skip school and watch baseball all day. What could be better?
Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Member since Nov 2015
39032 posts
Posted on 2/5/25 at 12:03 am to
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Bear Wrestling


I live in a County where it was popular at the turn of the last Century.

Out in the open, in the downtown streets. They'd tie or chain the Bear and man together by hand and paw.

Posted by BCLA
Bossier City
Member since Mar 2005
8956 posts
Posted on 2/5/25 at 12:45 am to
ESPN 24 hour college basketball tip-off (or whatever they officially called it).

Posted by WaltTeevens
Santa Barbara, CA
Member since Dec 2013
11584 posts
Posted on 2/5/25 at 1:40 am to
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MTV Rock N Jock coming back would tickle my fancy.


Dan Cortese and Bill Bellamy must bring some joy back into my life.

Also, I haven't seen "timbersports" in decades...ya know, the shite with the lumberjacks sawing logs and chopping trees, then sticking a board in the place he chopped and climbing on to it to chop another notch in the tree?

That shite was kinda fun to watch at 2 am as a teenager, but I don't have cable so it's been a minute. I'd imagine you can find it all on YouTube tho.
Posted by Obtuse1
Westside Bodymore Yo
Member since Sep 2016
30041 posts
Posted on 2/5/25 at 4:30 am to
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College All Star Game: From 1934-1976, a college all star squad took on the defending NFL champs. The college group managed to win 9, most recently in 1963.


This would be interesting once but if everyone played it would be an absolute slaughter.


For me F1 on the Nürburgring Nordschleife. It would be dangerous as hell but I would love to see it just once with modern cars.
Posted by VernonPLSUfan
Leesville, La.
Member since Sep 2007
17587 posts
Posted on 2/5/25 at 6:08 am to
Donkey basketball, smear the queer, cat juggling, those were the days.
Posted by KiwiHead
Auckland, NZ
Member since Jul 2014
36045 posts
Posted on 2/5/25 at 6:37 am to
I miss The Superstars on Sunday afternoons on ABC.
Posted by Madking
Member since Apr 2016
66753 posts
Posted on 2/5/25 at 7:12 am to
Damn Farrah had those diamond cutters
Posted by DoctorWorm
Member since Jul 2021
1534 posts
Posted on 2/5/25 at 10:46 am to
World Series between AL and NL teams that haven't already played each other
Posted by Harry Caray
Denial
Member since Aug 2009
20329 posts
Posted on 2/5/25 at 11:08 am to
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Not sure how they would keep the fluids from contaminating the beach but would be cool to see them run on the beach again.

Short answer - it was the 30s-50s, and they didn't
Posted by LSUstudent4life
Houston
Member since May 2008
1984 posts
Posted on 2/5/25 at 11:16 am to
Rock N Jock.

IYKYK
Posted by LSUFanMizeWay
Picayune MS
Member since Sep 2014
6497 posts
Posted on 2/5/25 at 2:51 pm to
Coke Snorting
Everclear Consumption
Elephant Testicle eating contests
Flatulence Competition
Posted by Tigeralum2008
Yankees Fan
Member since Apr 2012
17637 posts
Posted on 2/5/25 at 8:40 pm to
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ESPN 24 hour college basketball tip-off (or whatever they officially called it).


That was pretty cool
Posted by Twenty 49
Shreveport
Member since Jun 2014
20903 posts
Posted on 2/6/25 at 8:13 am to
IROC auto racing. Equally prepared cars with drivers from different series (IndyCar, NASCAR, IMSA, World of Outlaws, NHRA, etc.)

Bonus: product spinoffs like this

Posted by Muahahaha
Ohio
Member since Nov 2005
6860 posts
Posted on 2/6/25 at 9:50 am to
Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf matches.
Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
19470 posts
Posted on 2/6/25 at 9:59 am to
"Pros vs. Joes" That was some pretty funny stuff when the average Joe who thinks he's a big time jock tries to take on pros in their field of sport.

Guys who think they can play one on one against a pro basketball player, get in the ring with a former professional boxing champion, score on an ice hockey goalie, etc.

They always got slammed and even the ones that did somewhat better than awful were still pretty poor.
Posted by SammyTiger
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Feb 2009
78332 posts
Posted on 2/6/25 at 10:11 am to
I bet roman chariot races go hard.
Posted by TigerSooner
Member since Nov 2023
3634 posts
Posted on 2/6/25 at 5:32 pm to
Football, basketball, and baseball. What we see on TV is a pathetic attempt at the sports I used to love.
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