The Resolute

After the bombardment of blogs posts, a hand full of sermons and a steady stream of twitter messages form some high profile Christians¹ I thought I should get into watching some UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) wrestling. So I set my recorder to record the late night UFC matches on HD One, and started watching a few of them last night.

Well, you know what, I was a little disappointed. UFC was presented as the ultimate man sport. But I have some suggested improvements.

First of all, why limit it to only 2 players. Why not have 10 or 20 or, even better, 30 players.

And that toy ‘octagon’ they wrestle in? For 30 players I think it’d need to go full field.

And when it comes to the rules of UFC I was totally misinformed. I thought it was no rules wrestling. But it turns out there are lots of rules. No kicking down there (good rule), no holding shorts, no punching the back of the head, no biting… the rules go on and on.

Although the fights are all over in 30 seconds. That’s not a sport. You take a bit of your pizza and it’s all over.

Here’s a suggestion: You want a good man sport? One that is violent? One that lasts long enough to watch with your mates? One played at a venu big enough for 70,000 other men? One with lots of rules?

Rugby.

1. well Driscoll mainly, but I’m sure there were some others [↩]

Here’s an idea for a game.

Get a rectangular field. Put 2 sticks at either end with a cross bar to form an ‘H’ shape.

Create lots of rules. Then add some more rules. Maybe another rule or 2 for good measure.

2 teams of 15 players. Oval Shaped ball.

The object of the game is not to break rules.

Every time someone breaks a rule then the opposing team has the opportunity to kick the ball over the ‘H’ shaped posts. If they are successful then their team gets 3 points.

Or maybe we could just keep playing rugby and the referees could understand that their job is to facilitate the game, rather than playing infringement officers. No-one likes them.