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Fun to see this here. I had the good fortune of participating in the first match of motorcycle polo in Rwanda back in 2007. This continued on for a while and eventually got a writeup in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/sports/motorized-polo-gai...
I’m sure many of us are reminded immediately of the old Top Gear auto football matches:
"The official inventor of auto polo...devised the sport as a publicity stunt in 1911 to sell Model T cars."
Amazing to see how little has changed in 100 years when it comes to competing for attention
Unsurprisingly, it died out "mostly due to the high cost of replacing vehicles". Was it the inspiration for demolition derbies?
Bike Polo is still alive https://youtu.be/CBZgC7u6ji8 and for example https://youtu.be/PxMms5Yh_gI
I guess the modern day equivalent (technology that’s relatively new, unsafe and unregulated) would be electric scooter polo? I found no sign of a sport like this though.
I think kick scooter polo exists. And bike polo[1] is well known.
Rocket League is basically the video game version of this.
What an incredibly bad idea!
To hear it was "popular"...
Was? Not with this attitude!
> though deaths due to auto polo were rare.
Oh well, then...
This photo is incredible
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Auto_pol...