July is the single dullest month in sports. No offense to baseball and it’s All Star Game festivities, but there’s just not much going on. Meaningful football is still two months away, basketball is a distant memory and the NHL ended in 2004. I nearly slid into a deep depression, until Michael Biehn traveled back from the dystopian future, appeared naked in my living room and introduced me to the savior of TV sports in the future: Toe Wrestling!
Toe Wrestling, which started in 1976 in the county of Derbyshire UK, did itself in 1997 apply to become an official Olympic sport but alas the application was kicked out.
Some believe that as the major sports ask for increasingly high fees for television rights and the recession ‘bites in’ that the future of TV sports might be with the ‘odd sports’.
Odd Sports could be the saving of failed sports channels such as Ireland’s Setanta that recently lost coverage of the Premiership League soccer coverage and have had to cease broadcasting to England.
Wouldn’t you have loved to be on the committee that reviewed that application? I also enjoy the idea of English soccer hooligans turning to toe wrestling because of the recession. Word on the street is they have a pending 500 million dollar contract with the Foot Fetish channel.
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