World Sport played with headless goat carcass - only in Afghanistan!

[The Helper]

KABUL — Is the world ready for a sport played with a headless goat carcass?

Haji Abdul Rashid thinks it is and has big plans: corporate sponsors, television rights and beyond.

"We want it to become an Olympic sport," says Rashid, who heads the Buzkashi Federation.

To understand how ambitious — even crazy — this is, consider the game. Buzkashi, which means "goat grabbing," is a violent sport with virtually no rules. Players, called chapandaz, gallop at breakneck speed over a dusty field, fighting over a dead animal without a head.

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[Prometheus]

Lol? Are they serious?

 

[CysticCraze]

As a human species, we have finally succeeded.

 

[Samael88]

Is that not the same kind of people that must have their animals slaugthered in a special way to eat them?

 

[Romek]

> only in Afghanistan
This.

 

[DogOfHavoc]

This should be televised.

 

[Wiseman_2]

It would certainly be more interesting than most sports we've got now.
I want Deathball goddammit!

 

[FireCat]

That's Just pure :nuts:

 

[sjakie]

Kiterunner, anyone?

 

[Tru_Power22]

Yeah, it's pretty cool. It's kind of like football when one gets down to it.

 

[Avaleirra]

Lol, this will be fun to watch

 

[vypur85]

This is stupid.

> "What about professional wrestling? Why is that acceptable?"

Stupid excuse.


> artificial leather carcass

Probably acceptable.

 

[Ninva]

American propaganda!

 

[Blackveiled]

The first anti-Peta sport.

 

[Jimpy]

American propaganda!

Hegemony!

The first anti-Peta sport.

Yea cause hunting, fishing, lumber jack competitions, racing, and eating competitions don't exist.


Frankly the sport sounds like it would be semi fun to play and to watch. Its just the nature of its goat-carcass origins make us North Americans crinkle our finely powdered noses in disgust.