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Its a new sports show on 5 presented by Ian Wright with commentary by Jonathan Pearce (who else) with Gail Porter as pitchside reporter.

The premise is that a hapless team of unfit fart-a-bouts have to play a team game versus another equally luckless group.

On each side is a "ringer" i.e. a proffesional player of the sport in question, he gets 3 hours to pick (schooground style,) train his team and work out strategy. Then the game begins.

The ringer on the losing side loses his life, while the winner recieves sexual favours from any person present or past (shipped in by time travel) they desire.

Can anyone think of any sports that should recieve the "Ringers" touch?

Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 4 November 2002 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Tennis Mixed Doubles - Andre Aggasi and Heavy Brenda from Kiddiminster vs Venus Williams and Callum Fitzhenry, a four year old from Ashby-De-La-Zouch.

Rowing - two international standard teams go head to head with one shit commoner on board. Will they row to his pathetic lager soaked pace or will they risk killing him by going for Olympic speed?

Synchronised Skydiving - One veteral X-treme World Champion of rad air moves and one extremely scared old dear from Nantwich shoved out of a plane and doing stunts for points.

Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 4 November 2002 17:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Three-legged ski slalom à la Generation Game: ie one experienced 20-something and his or her offspring or parent. Commentary by Stuart Hall.

Pooster (pooster), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 00:39 (twenty-three years ago)

PS: Once we've got a bunch of these together, might be worth mailing them to TVGOHOME.com ... they seem to be floundering of recent times........

Pooster (pooster), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 00:42 (twenty-three years ago)

....Although we might just make the sports section of the Framley Examiner (framleyexaminer.com)

Pooster (pooster), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 00:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Formula Bound-over car racing: for a limited amount of time, anyone convicted of twocking, drunk or dangerous driving can prevent racking up irksome penalty points on his or her licence (if held at all) by going 60 laps with Mssrs Hakkinen, Montoya, Barrichello and Villeneuve ... whose car wheel hubs have sword blades attached to them, like in that film. You know. That film.

Pooster (pooster), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 01:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Celebrity Crown Green Bowls: Richard Branson, Bryan Ferry, Stella McCartney and Jennifer Thingy off "Labyrinth" tackle the Bakewell Ladies' Bowling Club in a nail-biting Third Round.

Pooster (pooster), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 01:12 (twenty-three years ago)

The ProPlus Pan-Cumbria Fishing Championships: semi-professional fly- and coarse-fishermen take on a clinically selected group of narcoleptics in a nailbiting Third Round.

Pooster (pooster), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 01:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Topliss Darts: Computer-selected professionals with the surname 'Topliss' do battle with various 'pro' beer-raddled, gruntingly lower-class porcines in an effort to once again establish some kind of 21st-century heirarchy of wage scales.

Pooster (pooster), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 01:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Shit, Jarlr'mai, what have you spawned here? This could go on for absolutely forever!

I should take me leave, but before I do that, let me posit one more.... (think, think....)

OK:

Ironman academy: 100 of the legion of misguided proles who spent more than 60 quid on phone calls but failed to make it into even the audience of WWTBAM are forced to run up and down Ben Nevis, cycle 60 miles, writhe through 60 feet of estuarine mud in Lytham-St-Annes and, as an extra Kryptonfactoresque task, recite an entire chapter of a random Neville Shute novel. Muttered commentary by various St John Ambulance Brigade members and disenfranchised BBC licence-payers.

Pooster (pooster), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 01:50 (twenty-three years ago)


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