Calling all Brits..........

[venray]

Could one of you explain this to us "UK Sports Impaired" yanks....
For the life of me I cant figure this stuff out.....

Regional and Festival Sporting Events:

Brockworth Cheese Rolling - Double Gloucester cheese is taken to the top of very steep Cooper's Hill and rolled down it. Several hundred people run and tumble after it trying to keep up, some always travel to hospital afterwards.
Cooper's Hill, Brockworth, Gloucestershire.

Tetbury Woolsack Races - sixty [gentlemen] and thirty five pound [ladies] sacks of wool race over Gumstool Hill between two pubs. Gumstool Hill, Tetbury, Gloucestershire.

Cotswold Olympics - traditional country games such as tug-of-war and skittles plus shin kicking [wearing steel toe caps] competitions. Dover's Hill, Chipping Camden, Gloucestershire.


http://www.chillisauce.co.uk/bizarre_festivals/june/the_cotswold_olympics.php

 

[JoBelle]

hehe
THIS oughta be good.

😛
Jo

 

[venray]

It was actually a story on my local news in Connecticut tonight...so I couldnt resist....

OK guys...explain please....😀

 

[grippedchimp]

The only thing I've ever seen is the cheese rolling. OK, so it is dangerous, and I've seen some really bad injuries when I saw it on TV, but it's definitely hilarious seeing all them yokels, farmers, drunkards and even goths chase after a round slab of cheese down a hill and watch them take huge-ass bumps as a consequence! That said, all those "sports" are held in Gloucestershire. Never seen that shit in London!

Of course, I've seen worse over the pond. Ain't nobody heard of a festival dedicated to chickens?

 

[theshire]

What's to explain? It's some wacky shit! That's about it. Long live St. George! 😀

 

[red indian]

You think thats bloody daft???!!!.........

......have a look at this http://www.doctordanger.com/other/fight.jpg this game takes place just down the road from where I live in Derbyshire. As far as I know, no one has actually scored a goal for years!

 

[DEV]

I've seen some cheese rolling before. It does look rather fun. Also there's this huge football game every so often where there's no rules and no real teams. So it's just basically a free for all!

 

[venray]

Re: You think thats bloody daft???!!!.........

......have a look at this http://www.doctordanger.com/other/fight.jpg this game takes place just down the road from where I live in Derbyshire. As far as I know, no one has actually scored a goal for years!

That's a game? It looks like soccer fans practicing for the next home game....

Ray

 

[BOFH666]

Could one of you explain this to us "UK Sports Impaired" yanks....
For the life of me I cant figure this stuff out.....

Regional and Festival Sporting Events:

Brockworth Cheese Rolling - Double Gloucester cheese is taken to the top of very steep Cooper's Hill and rolled down it. Several hundred people run and tumble after it trying to keep up, some always travel to hospital afterwards.
Cooper's Hill, Brockworth, Gloucestershire.

1882 May Bank Holiday, in the Cotswold village of Brockworth. A couple of lads sat at the top of Cooper's Hill munching on a cheese wagon their mom had packed for a picnic. All was sweet, the weather was fine, the view was great, and the lads were enjoying their dairy lunch. Suddenly, possibly after a tasty morsel, a mole pops up and dislodges the cheese and sends is spiralling down the hill. The lads, still on the hungry side, chase the cheese, and thus a world event was born.

The modern day event takes place using full 25 pounds Double Gloucester, and brings in people from far and wide in the vain attempt to catch it before it reaches the bottom. The hill is so steep that the elegant scenes of sprinting are bypassed by a seething mass of bodies that cartwheel their way towards the bottom.

The event has proved so dangerous in recent years that the police have occasionally resorted to banning it.

In 1997 the Cooper's Hill event had more than 18 serious injuries. One of the more amusing injuries was to a bystander, who stood a little to close to the cheese's flight path. The subsequent sharp knock to the cranium, and the cheese's momentum sent him 100 feet down then hill, and onwards into hospital. Blinding!

Tetbury Woolsack Races - sixty [gentlemen] and thirty five pound [ladies] sacks of wool race over Gumstool Hill between two pubs. Gumstool Hill, Tetbury, Gloucestershire.

The origins of this popular event go back to the 1600s or maybe earlier. In those days, Tetbury was a thriving woolmarket town and Gumstool Hill was the route many drovers used to reach the Market House in the town centre. The story goes that the younger drovers would demonstrate their strength and rnanliness to the young maidens by racing each other up the hill with a pack of fleeces on their backs. We guess that they consumed a few flagons of ale both before and after the racing, a tradition that continues today!

Cotswold Olympics - traditional country games such as tug-of-war and skittles plus shin kicking [wearing steel toe caps] competitions. Dover's Hill, Chipping Camden, Gloucestershire.


http://www.chillisauce.co.uk/bizarre_festivals/june/the_cotswold_olympics.php

See the link 😉

Now could someone from the other side of the pond explain why people watch baseball.... while sober?

 

[venray]

So..in other words..If a pigeon drops his load in a pint near the park, then you Brits will turn it into a national sporting event...ah..I get it now.....🙄


That explains a LOT!!!!!! ROFLMAO!

Ray

 

[Ghost2004]

Baseball

is just an American way of life. Men in tight pants scratching their crotches , chewing tobacco, and playing with their balls! 🙄

Not as good as hockey tho!

A Canadain friend of mine once summed up baseball thus... "it's about as interesting as watching PAINT dry", this said a few years ago and he and I chatted while I watched the Yankees in the World Series and he mailgned them! lol

Ghostie



Split 50/50 Yankees/Mets fan

Try watching HOCKEY sober, my dear. Or PLAYING it without the requisite bevy afterwards.

You guys Do have some incredibly funny festivles.. What I want to be over there for and to witness are the Pagan solsitics and celebrations @ Stonehenge , even tho the cops probably do a lot of crackin down.

 

[venray]

This should explain baseball...

As least as well as I have learned about Cricket....😛

http://coekate.murraystate.edu/kate/month/baseball/default.htm


Basically though, it is just what Ghost said...You sit outside on a nice day and pass the time talkin with friends and havin some hot dogs and beer and just relax..and occasionally you see a great play made somewhere in the process.....



Ray

 

[Knox The Hatter]

Look, you may think it's crazy...but I'm telling you it's not as crazy as a game of quoits after you've knocked over a keg with your friends, and can't even stand in one place, much less straight, and there you are, getting ready to try to get heavy metal rings around a spike...

 

[Knife-X]

I actually know a guy who did the cheese rolling thing once. I mean, the cheese is worth £50, so it must be some good cheese! He didnt win, and Iwent to visit him in hospital. Nothing major though, he was out in 2 days. Broken wrist. Wand why dont people question the highland games that the scottish do? To be, throwing bloody great tree trunks seems a bit more odd than running after cheese! Well, MAYBE.