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Three Sided Football

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 2:12 pm
by Doddy
Three teams on the field at once, 8 a side, circular deck with one goal you attack and two you defend.

If you work in town, spend 30 minutes at lunchtime at the Samstag Gallery (at UniSA City West, North Tce). There is a sports exhibition on, the best part of which is a 30 minute video installation showing the creation of a new type of football over a few weeks in Horsham VIC, ending with a demonstration game. The artists convene lots of street conversations and after-training meetings to get the people to design the sport, and then host the game at the end.

It was so cool to see art come to sport, to even think of bending the footy concept this much, and to see just how keenly the footy purists ran with the concept.

Anyway, if you have time, get along, pretty sure its still on for the next 2 weeks at least.

Wouldn't that solve our falling attendances - three team's supporters at the same game!

Re: Three Sided Football

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 2:34 pm
by Wedgie
The ice epidemic has a lot to explain.

Re: Three Sided Football

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 2:46 pm
by Booney
Art.

What is it?

Re: Three Sided Football

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 2:55 pm
by therisingblues
I came up with the same concept when I was about 13.
People told me I was an idiot.
I was so sad....
Anyway I would be interested to see how my "vision" turned out. I'd then like to seek out those who mocked me, and stare at them with a smug look on my snout.
I never envisaged a reduction in player numbers, but it'd make sense to do it.
Other ideas I had were "marathon boxing" over 20 kms, where you have the option of beating the crap out of people who run faster than you, and a four square tournament enlarged to "16 squares" with 2 teams and points allocated to which squares are occupied at the end of each game.
Mock me if you will, but the advent of three sided footy indicates that perhaps these other ideas will also be made real by other thinkers.

Re: Three Sided Football

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 2:57 pm
by Wedgie
Why stop at three sides?
Have all ten play on a decagon. Awesome!

Re: Three Sided Football

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 2:59 pm
by Wedgie
Naked women's tennis would get me watching more.

Come to think of it naked women's any sport would, there'd be some great angles at the scrum in women's rugby! :P

They're things I thought about at 13.

(And still do)

Re: Three Sided Football

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 3:01 pm
by therisingblues
Wedgie wrote:Naked women's tennis would get me watching more.

Come to think of it naked women's any sport would, there'd be some great angles at the scrum in women's rugby! :P

They're things I thought about at 13.

(And still do)

These ideas have true merit.

Re: Three Sided Football

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 3:02 pm
by Wedgie
Car racing both ways at the same time would be cool!

Re: Three Sided Football

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 3:03 pm
by Booney
Use hoverboards from Back to the Future and play in a dodecahedron.

Dodecahedron Football League* (TM)

12 sides, each side only plays one other side, so 6 balls are in play and 12 set of goal posts. Makes for a bit of fun when trying to "go to the fat side".

I'd like to claim rights to this when the league eventuates.

Re: Three Sided Football

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 3:05 pm
by therisingblues
Wedgie wrote:Car racing both ways at the same time would be cool!

With heavy duty lances attached for jousting.
Car jousting! That'd work!

Re: Three Sided Football

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 3:07 pm
by Booney
therisingblues wrote:
Wedgie wrote:Car racing both ways at the same time would be cool!

With heavy duty lances attached for jousting.
Car jousting! That'd work!


How much do you pay for jousting sticks?

Re: Three Sided Football

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 3:10 pm
by Booney
Horse racing with no jockeys. Make it even and the smartest horse would win.

Re: Three Sided Football

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 3:11 pm
by Wedgie
Golf with grenades would be an improvement.

Re: Three Sided Football

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 3:12 pm
by Wedgie
Hockey on ice!
Call it Ice Hockey!

Re: Three Sided Football

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 3:14 pm
by therisingblues
Better, get wild horses to chase the jockeys.
Sorry, I have no idea how much jousting sticks cost.

Re: Three Sided Football

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 3:15 pm
by Wedgie
I'm thinking Christians and Lions.....but mix it with Muslims and Pigs!

Re: Three Sided Football

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 3:21 pm
by therisingblues
Cock fighting maybe?
Had that at prospect this week.
Boom tish....

Re: Three Sided Football

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 3:25 pm
by Booney
therisingblues wrote:Cock fighting maybe?
Had that at prospect this week.
Boom tish....


No mate, they never show any fight.

Re: Three Sided Football

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 3:26 pm
by Wedgie
How about mixing Football with Wife Swapping?
We could call it Glenelg.

Re: Three Sided Football

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 3:32 pm
by therisingblues
Wedgie wrote:How about mixing Football with Wife Swapping?
We could call it Glenelg.

No matter which way she goes she comes out the same.