What's the oddest sport you enjoy watching?

[JT221]

Does professional eating count?

I would think so.

[Iron Maiden]

Maybe not odd but I used to go to Roller Derby games when I was a kid. They used to travel around like a circus. Sometimes they played at the old Chicago Ampitheater or at the local Civic Center.

[JT221]

Maybe not odd but I used to go to Roller Derby games when I was a kid. They to travel around like a circus. Sometimes they played at the old Chicago Ampitheater or at the local Civic Center.

That is one rough sport!

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Maybe not odd but I used to go to Roller Derby games when I was a kid. They to travel around like a circus. Sometimes they played at the old Chicago Ampitheater or at the local Civic Center.

Philly used to have a roller derby team, the Warriors. They played at the old Philadelphia Arena near 46th & Market Street where American Bandstand used to be filmed.

[babyblob]

Does professional eating count?

I watch the Nathans Hot Dot Eating Contest every year and it blows me away. I am close to 300 pounds and 4 Hot Dogs put me out. Yet this skinny little guys are eating like 30 and 40. I dont get it.

[babyblob]

Maybe not odd but I used to go to Roller Derby games when I was a kid. They to travel around like a circus. Sometimes they played at the old Chicago Ampitheater or at the local Civic Center.

We have a team in Cincy. The Cincy Roller Girls. They sometimes show their matches on public access. I love watching it. And I love some of the wacky names that some of the teams have. There was a team called THe Grumpy Grannies made up of ladies in their 50s and 60s. How they played it with out breaking a bone I dont know.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

I watch the Nathans Hot Dot Eating Contest every year and it blows me away. I am close to 300 pounds and 4 Hot Dogs put me out. Yet this skinny little guys are eating like 30 and 40. I dont get it.

When it comes to professional eaters, size and/or girth doesn’t mean squat. One of the most popular eaters in the circuit is Sonya Thomas, a five foot nothing Korean born woman nicknamed “The Black Widow”, and she easily holds her own with the boys. The local sportstalk radio station here in Philly used to hold a wing eating contest on the Friday before the Super Bowl, Thomas participated one year and blitzed the field which, if memory serves, included famed eater, Joey Chestnut.

[JackDaw]

I wouldn’t call either of them “odd” but was a keen watcher of a couple of minority watcher of a couple of sports not often televised these days.

One was greyhound racing, mainly because I loved the dogs, and there was a track 200 yards from my house.

The other was stock car racing…basically whacking big engines into old cars, tuning them up, and racing them round a circular track for a given number of laps. The good drivers starting from the back of the field, and shunting other cars out of the way encouraged. That was non stop action.

[CaptainEurope]

The Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake.

[JT221]

The Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake.

That's awesome!

[caj]

For me, it's lacrosse.

I don't know how they manage to get the ball into those tiny nets on the stick. But it fascinates me.

[JT221]

For me, it's lacrosse.

I don't know how they manage to get the ball into those tiny nets on the stick. But it fascinates me.

That sport is huge in Maryland. They go nuts over it.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

For me, it's lacrosse.

I don't know how they manage to get the ball into those tiny nets on the stick. But it fascinates me.

I occasionally watch college matches on ACC Network, and, it is interesting. There’s also a pro league I do believe.

[MajorHoy]

How about reruns of "Celebrity Bowling"?

[babyblob]

Do the Laff A Lympics count?