Alter a sport to make it more interesting

[Gentleman_Reptile]

After an entire afternoon of being forced to watch cricket, my mind drifted just to dull the agony of my brain having leaked out my ear and into my pocket.

All I could think of was how much more awesome this sport would be if about half a dozen hydraulic springboards were scattered over the field and camoflauged into the grass. Or if I were watching Blernsball.

So in the interest of making a boring sport less excruciatingly dull to watch....what alterations would you make to them that would give you a reason to stay fixed to the screen?

(PS: I'm not trying to openly bash cricket or any other sport for the fun of it, its just that I find it horribly boring to watch and have a retarded mind.)

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Football, but the defenders are tigers.

Hopefully they'll eat all the bastards.

 

[drbarno]

If football used a spiked ball and players routinely kicked it into the other player's face.

I'm pretty sure adding hidden springboards would make any sport more interesting to watch.

 

[hittite]

Replace the ball (in any sport) with a live hand grenade. Instant excitement.

Edit: Red vs Blue's take on this.

 

[Taxman1]

Baseball, instead of playing ball, you would just beat the living shit out of each other with the equipment.
Turning baseball into this underground sport.

 

[Levi93]

Put the high jump/ triple jump/ long jump range in the area as the javalin range.

 

[Dwarfman]

Force Grid Iron players to not wear armour and grow a pair.

As for Cricket I have two options:

- Go back to where it all began county cricket. There was a fair or a party and in the middle of the green a game of cricket was going on amidst it all. You were dancing, drinking, eating, kissing the woman you love and every now and then you turn your head and clap your appreciation for a good knock ao ball.

- Get rid of one day matches. Replace them all with Twenty Twenty. Then Replace the long and ardous five day Test Match with a series of five Twenty Twenty matches. As a spectator sport the game would improove considerably. And get rid of the cheerleaders! THey have no place in Cricket!

 

[Phlakes]

Put the high jump/ triple jump/ long jump range in the area as the javalin range.

Or the archery and rifle ranges, if they have them.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

Simplifying baseball

Strikes are a point

Hitting the ball to the left/center/right field is 2 point if
caught(opposing team) 1 point if not caught.

A base is a point, retuning to home 10 points

Home run 10 points

Out of bounds 1 point to opposing team

Bunts 1 point to opposing team

Hitting the player with the ball 5 points to opposing team

Every 3 balls is a point to the opposing team

Every 15 minutes the teams change position.

A game would last an hour and a half at most, would that make it less like nascar and more like basketball/football?

 

[ImmortalDrifter]

Allow fist fighting. 'Nuff said.

 

[Tharwen]

Take any sport, then add bears.

I guarantee that it will be more exciting.

 

[BlastedTheWorm]

Allow fist fighting. 'Nuff said.

Doesn't Ice Hockey do that already?

Any sport would be more interesting if you added constant gunfire and landmines.

 

[Levi93]

Put the high jump/ triple jump/ long jump range in the area as the javalin range.

Or the archery and rifle ranges, if they have them.

I was thinking this aswell but yeah, not everywhere has them.

 

[ImmortalDrifter]

Allow fist fighting. 'Nuff said.

Doesn't Ice Hockey do that already?

Any sport would be more interesting if you added constant gunfire and landmines.

Well yeah, but I'm talking about soccer etc. Like when that french guy head butted that dude, that guy (that got head butted) under regulation could have gotten up and beat the living shit outta said french guy.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Football, but in planes.

Planes with machine guns.

 

[therandombear]

Alter football(Soccer)...Like this

It's in Norwegian, but texted in English

 

[Mr Shrike]

Wimbledon...

But with a hand grenade.

 

[minisammy]

Behind every 100 meter sprinter, should be a starved cheetah.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Formula 1

It would still be Formula 1, but every car would get a single, different counter measure from the James Bond series.

Before every race, each car is randomly assigned one of the twenty four possible countermeasures. The drivers (and spectators) are not told what counter measure they have, merely that hitting the big red button activates it.

One unlucky driver has the ejector seat, F1 cars only have the one seat.

At a stroke Formula one is the most exciting sport in the world. Who has smoke screens? Who has auto targeting shotguns? Who's going to fly three hundred feet in the air on a rocket seat?

Watch and find out!