SlamBall: The Best Sport

By captainfish June 19, 2010 2 Comments

During Jeff and Brad's stream yesterday (it's kind of broken), the topic of awesome off brand sports were discussed. Of course XFL came up as well as some other sport that I can't recall. I, of course, chimed in that the single best sport ever is SlamBall. It used to be on Spike TV for a while, but then lost it's contract. However, it's still played and there are lots of videos about it.

It's played on a basketball court with 4 trampolines under each net where the 3 point zone would be normally. The players wear protective pads and are able to check and block like in hockey or football. The inventor basically wanted to recreate video game-esque over the top action in the form of a competitive sport.

The result is NBA Jam style action.

This video should explain the sport and some of the greatness:  

  2:06 has a particularly familiar dunk. You can almost hear the "Boomshakala!"

These should just show off the awesome.  

    

  
So what do you guys think? Great sport or greatest sport?

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