Hurling could be the coolest sport you don’t know

[barryqwalsh]

Hurling might be the coolest sport you’ve never heard of. Played with a ball one must balance on a kind of lacrosse stick without the net pouch, while sprinting up and down what looks like an oversized soccer field, players must dodge other players who, also wielding bats, try to smack the ball away from you before you can turn your stick into a bat and whack the ball into a big hockey net or between football goal posts. Catch all that?

Hurling could be the coolest sport you don 8217 t know - The Washington Post

 

[barryqwalsh]

US ARMY HURLERS


They were tired, thirsty, all of them soldiers happy to be headed home to New Hampshire. The troop carrier out of Iraq stopped briefly in Shannon to refuel, and Ireland being what Ireland is, even in the wee hours the airport bar was open — and this curious game of hurling was playing on the TV.

“We had no idea what we were looking at,’’ recalled Eddie Clements, one of the National Guard soldiers whose life in that moment some nine years ago veered sharply to a whole new world of sports. “It was kind of like, ‘Hey, hurling, OK, what’s that? That looks pretty cool.’


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Irish sport of hurling - Two Fields One Team

 

[Moonglow]

This is my first thought on hurling:

 

[Toro]

I agree. I saw this sport many years ago. It's awesome.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Hurling might be the coolest sport you’ve never heard of. Played with a ball one must balance on a kind of lacrosse stick without the net pouch, while sprinting up and down what looks like an oversized soccer field, players must dodge other players who, also wielding bats, try to smack the ball away from you before you can turn your stick into a bat and whack the ball into a big hockey net or between football goal posts. Catch all that?

Hurling could be the coolest sport you don 8217 t know - The Washington Post

Brought to you by the 'Make Beer Pong an Olympic Event Committee'

 

[Moonglow]

Hurling might be the coolest sport you’ve never heard of. Played with a ball one must balance on a kind of lacrosse stick without the net pouch, while sprinting up and down what looks like an oversized soccer field, players must dodge other players who, also wielding bats, try to smack the ball away from you before you can turn your stick into a bat and whack the ball into a big hockey net or between football goal posts. Catch all that?

Hurling could be the coolest sport you don 8217 t know - The Washington Post

Brought to you by the 'Make Beer Pong an Olympic Event Committee'

But first you must beat some faces with your hurler...

 

[barryqwalsh]

There are more injuries in America Football and Ice Hockey, than Hurling.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Hurling might be the coolest sport you’ve never heard of. Played with a ball one must balance on a kind of lacrosse stick without the net pouch, while sprinting up and down what looks like an oversized soccer field, players must dodge other players who, also wielding bats, try to smack the ball away from you before you can turn your stick into a bat and whack the ball into a big hockey net or between football goal posts. Catch all that?

Hurling could be the coolest sport you don 8217 t know - The Washington Post

Brought to you by the 'Make Beer Pong an Olympic Event Committee'

But first you must beat some faces with your hurler...

Can borrow a polo player's 'wonker'

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

It's an Irish game, so you're supposed to play it drunk.

 

[HUGGY]

 

[barryqwalsh]

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[westwall]

Naaaahhh, this is the coolest sport most people have never hear of....