This winter…
Use luge when skijoring your bandy.

As the snowy sports are upon us, we wanna give a nod to the odd competitive events that were once a part of the worldwide games. Proving that yeah, we’ll watch anything.

1. Skijoring

A Scandinavian competitive sport where a person on skis is pulled by a horse through a course of jumps, gates, and ring grabs in the fastest time. They’ve also used dogs, reindeer, and motorcycles. I know this is from Scandinavia but there’s something delightfully redneck going on here.

2. Bandy

Popular in Russia, this fast-paced sport is like soccer or field hockey but way colder. Teams skate and use curved sticks to get a ball into the opposing team’s goal. Sounds simple enough, I’m ready to lose my savings sports betting on Sergei Lomanov to sink a three-pointer.

3. Shatterball

A precision sport created in Finland, where competitors must huck a metal ball at ice targets strewn along a field. Whoever gets shards of ice furthest from the original markers gets the most points for the round. Like reverse-bocce but for people that eat Surströmming. Yeah, go ahead and look Surströmming up.