Professional sports are associated mostly with a lot of seriousness and competitiveness. Winning and losing could be called the major determinants of any sport with all athletes competing for the winners spot. Not only do professional sports demand commitment and organization they’re also categorized by their highly organized and skill driven nature. Sportsmen are expected to represent the spirit of sportsmanship by being respectful with their competitors and of the sporting officials thereby reflecting the true nature of the sport being played.
On the other hand, this focused and serious arena of professional sports is also a cauldron of countless funny incidents at the same time bringing making these haloed sports celebrities much more real. There has been several instances where athletes or sports celebrities have been found saying dumb quotes which are enough to fill you with your required dose of daily laughter every day. One does often ponder how does a mind which is so channelized, so focused and so talented come up with something that is amazingly and so utterly dumb!
Simultaneously there are some very funny sports contests that occur across the world. These bizarre activities can range from the wife carrying competition for the prize of beer to duck racing to the world coal carrying championships. The wife carrying championship is usually an annual event held in Finland within the month of July. The winner needs to cover a number of obstacles over land and water to win this event for the prize of a new mobile phone and beer for the quantity of the wifes weight!
Oddly, these funny sports have their own list of rules too. In case of the wife carrying competition, the wife should be older than 17 years and must weigh over 49kgs. Dropping the wife or bouncing the wife does include a fine and having fun tops the charts! Funny set of rules
In Tasmania, the annual apple race is organized round the month of October each year. People actually gather together to watch apples race down from the bridge at Hounville to the Houn river.
One of the craziest local sports entertainment could be the running of the bulls, held annually in Pamplona in Spain. The chase lasts nearly a kilometer with people running ahead of a chasing bull throughout the Pamplonas narrow, winding lanes. This risky and crazy events draws in a massive crowd to this particular region each year and also a number of participants do get seriously injured and sometimes killed while taking part in this game.
Everybody has heard about duck racing. But a rubber duck race that raises $1 million to the aid of local charities? The Singapore Duck race is one such crazy annual event that involves 85,000 rubber ducks contesting against each other over the Singapore river. These ducks are initially adopted by people and after that placed into the water. The 1st duck to travel downstream is considered the winner. Duck races also occur in Britain. The Great British Duck Race is one such event in the uk that takes place on the Thames River. The 2007 event smashed the Singapore Duck Race record by racing 165,000 ducks across the River Thames.
Though these events are featured mostly in the local news, it is their popularity and simplicity that has made many of these funny sports famous and notable. At some level, it is perhaps, better to get a good chuckle from seeing a silly event like apple racing than taking notice of and pursuing the supposedly funny drunken brawls of well-known sports celebrities which makes sports headlines.
