following on from the kabaddi thread.

which sports should be televised that aren’t?

some of my choices to begin with.

sumo (or martial arts in general)

chess (it’s a sport of the mind)

world championship stare out contests [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWgg20IqibM[/video] 8)

world leaders going at it in the ring (instead of starting wars) 😉 [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTOQUnvI3CA[/video] 🙂

Ski Sunday back to how it was!

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFlmEznsr2w&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/video]
Remember this?

http://www.koreabang.com/2012/stories/park-geun-hye-elected-south-korean-president-netizen-reactions.html

😆 I would watch big brother! Only fun for those playing!

Foxy boxing.

with the arrival of HD, fast small ball sports like hockey and pelota would be good to see more of.

Water sports.

er, mountain biking !! DH, 4x that kind of thing

can we have more road bike racing on the telly as well please? all you actually get is highlights of the tour (and if you’re lucky the vuelta) on ITV4 with the two old d-heads…

Cheese Rolling, of course.

Downhill mountain biking events throughout the world please Mr 😉

Hillclimbing – of the motorcar/bike variety. Excellent spectator sport especially at ‘club’ level with everything from Mini’s, 205’s escort Mk 1’s & 2’s, caterhams, ginetta’s to single seater open wheeled jedi’s, pilbeams, march’s etc etc.

I also think a weather channel would work well here too…

Kickstart was brilliant.

I know this can be touchy on here, but I don’t think mtb makes for very good telly- even most mountain bikers don’t watch the downhill when it’s on so how succesful would that be as a general sport?

The LFL

ladies American Football IN LINGERIE!!!!!!!

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTR95Xkqk_k[/video]

Fox hunting.
Bull fighting.
Seal clubbing.

😉

Downhill and 4x would be great, as would the ski and snowboard versions of 4x.

Used to love the speedway on Grandstand when I was a kid.

Bodyboarding and topless volleyball (ladies obviously)

racefaceec90 – Member
following on from the kabaddi thread.

Missed the thread, did someone want this to come back on TV?! 😡

I’d like to see lots of different types Racing:

Banger racing
street luge
Motocross
BMX
Go-karts

I know this can be touchy on here, but I don’t think mtb makes for very good telly- even most mountain bikers don’t watch the downhill when it’s on so how succesful would that be as a general sport?

I always make the time to watch the WC DH online

But if I was going to televise any MTB disiplines I reckon 4X and Trials would be the best contenders: you need to consider what’s going engage the interest of non-MTBers and how well it’s going to work on TV…

4X – Plenty of action, moto after moto, direct racing with a bit of contact on occasion, shouldn’t require a massive number of cameras or a big production team to cover the whole course (where DH can be a bit more challenging).

Trials – plenty of disbelieving “how do they do that” comments from non-MTBers, relatively easy to cover.

XC – more of a doing than a watching type sport IMO doesn’t make great TV…

DH – I like watching it, but I like the sport average non-MTBer might watch for a bit but ~2hrs of pajama wearing stormtroopers rattling over the same ground won’t hold their interest…

Internet broadcasting for the more “Fringe” extreme sports is a pretty good way of doing it, those who are interested will find it online, those who want to watch football will pay for a SKY sports sub’…