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1. Ryan
   October 26th, 2007 at 3:21 am

   you forgot ESCALATOR OLYMPICS

2. violet/riga
   October 26th, 2007 at 3:47 am

   Aztec Paddleball features in the fantastic animated film The Road to El Dorado, including the sacrifice.

3. anuj
   October 26th, 2007 at 3:58 am

   Ridiculous….asians are crazy!

4. The Billiards Sports Dude
   October 26th, 2007 at 4:08 am

   Sorry..i will stick to billiards and pool

5. mart
   October 26th, 2007 at 4:15 am

   “Icelandic “sagas” - histories of the Vikings that were passed down orally for hundreds of years before finally being transcribed in the 1900s”

   This is not true. The sagas were not oral compositions (although they may have drawn on oral tradition) and they were written down in 13th and 14th centuries, not the 1900s.

6. jeroenemans
   October 26th, 2007 at 6:05 am

   isn’t ‘Quidditch’ the most popular sport in our modern saga’s (i.e. Harry Potter)??? Shows how much credentials the extreme cricket deserves

7. kid icarus
   October 26th, 2007 at 1:01 pm

   what about camanachd (http://www.shinty.com/history.htm)? i wonder if that’s what they are referring to with the x-treme cricket….

8. beerorkid
   October 27th, 2007 at 7:33 pm

   We just vacationed in the yucatan and went to an eco park called Xcaret where the evening show involved two teams plating the Aztec game. Was quite cool and difficult.
   http://www.xcaret.com

9. lalala
   October 27th, 2007 at 8:54 pm

   Oh, I’m sure there were many more violent “games” throughout the ages.
   Just seemed like a crappy list. You forgot the Romans.

10. Tom Asquith
    November 4th, 2007 at 12:55 am

    Given the Aztec entry, as a former teacher of Canadian history, I’m surprised that lacrosse didn’t make the list.

    I’m not talking about the wimpy modern version mind you — even with its concussions, fights and smashed arms.

    I’m talking about the ‘baggatway’ version played by the Plains, Algonquin and Iroquois Indians. It was a game lasting for days, played on massive pitches, between warriors. (It was more than common to see broken limbs, blood, and even fatalities.) Also, let’s keep in mind that these games were often played as a religious rite — on a massive scale — with entire tribes, and it is rumoured even entire Indian nations being involved.

11. Bill Bratski
    January 15th, 2008 at 1:57 pm

    I went to Chichen Itza where they played the Aztec paddleball game in Mexico. The tour guide explained that the Mayans, not Aztecs, would sacrifice the head of the winning team’s captain, not the loser. The gods demanded winners not losers, and it was a great honor to be killed after winning the game. So it doesn’t really give new meaning to “sore loser”

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