Bo-Taoshi: Super Happy Pole Pulldown Sport Time The United States imported $220.8 billion worth of goods and services in the month of April. Petroleum products and cheap Chinese factory goods made up a nice portion of that total, but there’s one thing we haven’t imported yet that needs to come here immediately: Bo-Taoshi. With the NFL set to take Sundays off this fall, perhaps this Japanese military sport can find a home on U.S. television — lord knows once you see it you’ll want to watch more. Details are admittedly scarce, but a loose Google translation and tidbits picked up from other sources tell us that this game played at the National Defense Academy of Japan involves 75 defending a pole and 75 attacking said pole (there are likely quite a few gay porn films from Japan based on this sport, pixelated of course). Deuce of Davenport adds this tidbit about the pole: “It only had to go down 45 degrees until 1973 when the rules were changed to force teams to drop it to a 30 degree angle.” </noscript> Another game: </noscript> Seriously, would you not watch that? That looks like the greatest live sport ever. (via Lenny)
WG 23.05.11 @ 12:31 pm HAHAHA. It starts slow, but boy they really deliver there when the blue team is unleashed. Also, I was wondering how having a white team guy sitting on top of the pole was going to help keep it upright…then he started kicking blue players in the face and it all became clear.