There have always been sports that made sense and plenty that made none. And for every person such as I who has not a whit of interest in basketball and soccer, there are those who disdain my beloved baseball and football.
We all have our favorites, but I think we can all agree that the dumbest sport ever conceived (and worse, played) is ferret-legging.
I hear you asking. What is ferret-legging? It's the weirdest game of endurance ever, unless you can think of something more bizarre than a game where you and others put a live ferret in your pants - with the pantlegs tied around the ankles, mind you - with the point being to see who can stand a wild animal nibbling on their giblets the longest.
And, you can't wear underwear - so there goes your plan to wear steel mesh boxers - and the ferrets must all be fully dentulated, as in, they have to have all their teeth.
The sport, if you will, is said to have originated in England among miners, who really don't have many alternatives for entertainment.
And if you want to go for the world record this weekend, try to beat the pace set by Frank Bartlett and Christine Farnsworth in 2010: 5 hours and 30 minutes, eclipsing Reg Mellor's mark of 5: 26. .
In some quarter among participants, the game is known as "put-'em-down." I can see some claim for calling it "stitch-'em-up."
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