sports

Hello! Welcome to a thread I created for myself to explore and inhabit my strange fascination with sports. I initially contemplated so many times to start up my own threads to start a timeline, but instead of always starting and creating dead threads, I would just make my own where I can dump...

In 1977-78, The National Hockey League was considering adding 8 new teams. Those teams were all from the rival World Hockey Association (WHA) and were the Edmonton Oilers, Hartford Whalers, Winnipeg Jets, Quebec Nordiques, Houston Aeros, Cincinnati Stingers, Indianapolis Racers and Birmingham...

Before he was famous as a music industry executive (and notorious as a violent psycho), Suge Knight was a football (or handegg) player. Though he did get invited to the Los Angeles Rams training camp after college, he was cut by them during camp (but he would become a replacement player during...

As we all know, Björn Borg, the famous Swedish 'Iceman' of tennis, was one of the most successful mens' tennis players in history. After having dominated the game for most of the late 1970s, he faced a new challenger in John McEnroe, who defeated him twice at Wimbledon 1981 and the US Open...

I remember a video or maybe of Florida Panthers player Justin Bieber playing guitar as a young child. One of them is below. It actually makes me imagine what if Justin never got into hockey like IOTL. What would both the NHL and music worlds look like if Justin was a music star rather then a...

IOTL, Football has become the most popular sport in the world and played in 200 countries while Cricket, the second most popular sport, is played in a small number of mostly Commonwealth countries. Probably using a Pre-1900 POD, how could Football be a sport popular mainly in ex-British...

“You could honestly just have three teams in the World Cup. Whoever wins Europe, Brazil, and the United States.” - Gary Lineker “There are two types of people in Washington. The football players, who will just ram and ram into the opposition and hope it breaks. And the soccer players, who dance...

The bidding to host the 2030 and 2032 Olympics is quite different from previous Olympic bidding processes. For the first time multiple cities and entire regions are allowed to place joint bids. This is being done so as to spread out the enormous cost of hoisting the games and hopefully reduce...

Hey folks, an idea I've toyed with for years, seeing if there is interest in following such a TL or in collaboration. Would cover the entire origins and development of Canadian Rugby/Canadian football, with the major POD being the 1929 season. For those of you who dont know, this is the first...

Episkyros was an ancient Greek contact sport. It was played between two teams of 12 players each, 14 in Sparta, where it had different rules. Do you know if there was a way to get episkyros into the Panhellenic Games, like the Olympics? Or to have something similar to a World Cup during the...

How do we make it so that the National Basketball Association allowed both men and women to play in the teams as equals?

Hey everybody!!! The following ATL is an attempt to build a TL that reflects the full extent of how pop culture has affected the culture world we live. As such, please feel free to add your favorite PODs for film, sports, television, video games, and other forms of entertainment... POD...

Intro: For the last half of the 20th Century, the Nebraska Cornhuskers were one of the most dominant teams in college football. With five national championships, winning seasons every year from 1962 until 2003, and at least 9 wins a season from 1969 until 2001. While there are many reasons for...

I was going to make an alternate NFL Timeline that has Patriots over Giants in 2007 Super Bowl (so the Pats get a complete perfect season). Would large amounts of the team retire wholesale, having reached the top of perfection peak and having nowhere to go but down? Anyone willing to help with...

THE HISTORY OF PROFESSIONALISM IN RUGBY Part 1: The only sane choice... At the end of the 19th century, the sport of rugby was on the brink of a civil war. https://rainbowdesign.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/RFU-logo.png Founded by 22 influential clubs from Southern England on 26 January...

Welcome Back to the Arcade, ladies and gentlemen! I'm your host, Awesome Sauce and this is a reboot of the Turing-Nash TL. This time around, it isn't just pop culture, now everything is allowed (as along as it is not ASB or violate the rules of this site) on this thread (of course with my...

Since sports have been around for millennia, I thought we could use a pre-1900 equivalent of this other thread.

hey there sports fans! so many timelines involving the USA being more interested in sports like soccer and rugby have almost the same POD: American football being banned by teddy Roosevelt in 1903. while it's all fun and dandy, not to mention very cliche...this time, let's ask ourselves the...

Most people have at least some knowledge about the large problem of "hooliganism", the practice of much crime, looting, and fighting in association football worldwide, with well-publicized incidents dating back nearly a century. What surprises me most is that, with some notable exceptions...

so, the goal is pretty much the title. That is at least in Europe try and keep that popularity of combat sports and figting tourneys popular e.g. jousting and pugilism. While it doesn’t have to be these things any real form of combat sport is counted such as boxing. Making it the most popular...