Also known as "Florence Football" - one of the greatest games ever invented

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Mar 2, 2021
12:20:45pm

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Greco-Roman Basketball: What the world needed and didn't realize it at the time

Indy Coug Loquacious Lummox

3/2/21 10:20am

This is their head coach:

Indy Coug

3/2/21 10:23am

Bloomsburg University alum!

gangbusters

3/2/21 10:27am

I saw an illegal screen

shimmy

3/2/21 10:23am

I can feel the floor burns through my monitor

CommodoreCoug

3/2/21 10:23am

Looks like the New York Knicks circa 1995

Greg Kite's 'stache

3/2/21 10:24am

Playing the Detroit Pistons

ColoSpgs

3/2/21 10:26am

Looks like how most wrestlers here play basketball

Grit for Brains

3/2/21 10:24am

Looks like they’re playing by the NBA’s travel rule

Texas Hammer

3/2/21 10:24am

Thought the exact same thing.

Bin01015

3/2/21 3:04pm

Reminds me of a game we used to play in elementary school called Smear the

m0resn0w

3/2/21 10:29am

Recess football FTW!

Soupie

3/2/21 10:38am

Ty Detmer credited that game for teaching him how to avoid the pass rush

AZ Coug

3/2/21 11:09am

I was going to reference that name a few days ago when my kids were essentially

BYULAWGUY

3/2/21 11:09am

Maybe it was a different game but we called it Sharks and Minnows

BYUFootballisBack

3/2/21 11:46am

Not the same game at all

jcase16byu

3/2/21 12:25pm

One guy is the shark in the middle, the rest are minnows, and the shark has to

BYUFootballisBack

3/2/21 12:46pm

No in smear the [offensive word that rhymes with smear]. All the minnows attack

Powerbait DPM

3/3/21 7:45am

Ah that's right, we liked this one better cause it eventually built up to that

BYUFootballisBack

3/3/21 9:38am

And sharks and minnows was a tag game. Unless you upgraded it into tackling lol

jcase16byu

3/3/21 12:37pm

Forgot about that game!

ColonelMustard

3/2/21 12:31pm

Any excuse to wear a onesie.

HenderCoug

3/2/21 10:29am

So...looks like the Cedar Grove 4th ward ball.

RalphWiggam

3/2/21 10:29am

So someone has commercialized church ball in other words?

ordinary tri guy

3/2/21 10:31am

Don't let 80k see that

Gustav

3/2/21 10:37am

These are CBers who think they'd score on Rudy Gobert

Blueto

3/2/21 10:40am

Let's make a lift slam onto the hard wood! Okay, remove the mat! Wait, no mat?

BYU I Bleed Blue

3/2/21 10:41am

Is this another Russia one?

TNT

3/2/21 10:43am

Reminded me of church ball

Loafer

3/2/21 10:43am

They took basketball, got rid of dribbling/traveling, added in tackling, and somehow made it look boring to watch.

durandal

3/2/21 10:43am

What would the Internet be without videos from Russia, baby!!!!

Iman23

3/2/21 10:44am

You know who would be great at this sport?

TADOW

3/2/21 10:47am

That's called church ball. I'm sure the Greeks and Romans got the idea from

NOCAL_YFAN

3/2/21 10:47am

So, rugby with a hoop?

Traveshamockery

3/2/21 10:55am

What exactly are the refs doing?

Coach's Dad

3/2/21 10:55am

lol, with endless holds and no need to dribble, you should score every time

Hill4Heisman

3/2/21 11:02am

That is GOLD!!!! Greco Roman and maybe freestyle, Thought saw some leg riding 🙂

ImuaKahuku

3/2/21 11:35am

Could be cool if played on a mat and no engaging with someone who is in the air.

QBarrister

3/2/21 11:41am

I had a Teachers Quorum advisor that let us do this with boxing gloves.

AzCugrFan

3/2/21 11:48am

Blue team don't need no stinkin kneepads. In mother Russia, hoop shoot you.

Bluedarts

3/2/21 11:49am

Watch Ep 1 of Netflix's Home Game - Calcio Storico is a rougher version of this

Tricky

3/2/21 11:54am

Also known as "Florence Football" - one of the greatest games ever invented

AZ Coug

3/2/21 12:20pm

Looks like the NBA during the Laimbeer years

Samuel Hall Society

3/2/21 12:04pm

I needed to see this today!

byuod

3/2/21 12:11pm

The score at the end!

TheoHux

3/2/21 2:13pm

MISSION BALL

niqmadu

3/2/21 6:10pm

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