Shattered backboards, infinite timeouts, two-point soccer goals and many more sports oddities

Have you ever ACTUALLY read an official rulebook? Like, for any sport? If not, you're missing out. There is some absolutely wild stuff in there and we can't get enough of them. That's genuinely how we've uncovered things like the specifics around jersey numbers that are and aren't allowed, or language surrounding the safety of players. It's all boiled down in super clear ways that everyone knows exactly how to follow.
Or, knows exactly how to break. We're here to discuss the bizarre moments that have come out just by folks playing by the rules. Enjoy.
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[@bradleymorgan6598]

What makes the Barbados golden goal even better is that at the 83rd minute they were up 2-0 and their goalie accidentally scored an own goal meaning that all the goals scored in the match were by Barabados.

[@aukb342]

We need more wield rules episodes.

[@brotundo]

Agweed.

[@BrothaGoneBased]

Pwetty gooid 👍

[@BruceBoyde]

Absolutely. These are my favorite things that they've done besides the long form documentaries.

[@nails7534]

Supportive comment

[@ericmiller93]

Right

[@TheMarslMcFly]

Weird Rules was how I found SB, so it holds a very special place in my heart. Also the Story with the 2pt Golden Goal once won me a Pub Quiz, so thanks Secret Base! :D

[@EinDose]

I feel like that's the perfect 'pub trivia'-level story, because it's so simple but SO stupid that it's very easily shared and talked about.

[@EverythingTheorist]

Sweet, a Weird Rules compilation! Weird Rules is how I found Secret Base in the first place, years ago, so it'll always be special to me. I know everyone loves Jon Bois and his work (rightfully so), but without Weird Rules I wouldn't have even known about Jon at all, so I'm grateful for that as well.

[@Zanthosus]

I'd love to see you guys cover the only time in NHL history where a player who wasn't present at the game was credited with a score. The gist of the story is that Blue Jackets player Nathan Horton scores a goal against the Stars during a 2014 game, but the games gets postponed after a player collapses on the bench due to irregular heartbeat. Before the makeup game, Horton suffers a lower body injury and misses the game, but his score remains and is credited to him despite him not touching the ice that day.

[@滋榎本]

The game in which Shaq destroyed the backboard twice with dunks during his time with the Magic was broadcast nationally on television, and it was truly amazing. Shaq's dunk shot that day changed the rules of the NBA, he is truly a monster center.

[@mackmpls]

27:45 Simone is a treasure. Awful Squad Jr represent!

[@glenm99]

Take a second to appreciate the punch to the groin at 12:55. That sort of precision strike has gotta be hard to do while falling at full speed.

[@ShynyMagikarp]

Love Weird Rules and love these compilations. I miss seeing Ryan's face on SB videos more and hearing his voice, as much as I love the current cast of voices and faces we do see!

[@sblack53]

26:00 Danny Jansen has a similar honor in MLB this year for being traded by Toronto to Boston between the start of a suspended game and the resumption of that game. He had to catch the AB that he started before the rainout and was subsequently pinch hit for

[@jaxsonbateman]

While I've seen all these before, can nver pass up a chance to rewatch them. This and Rewinder are both just amazing series.

[@tyler-carrington]

25:00 I like how something similar happened in baseball this year

[@thatoneguy8512]

"should not have reasonably anticipated such contact by an opponent" Does this mean that if your opponent does enough late tackles that you should have expected this, then it's okay? I'm imagining a more extreme version of the Saints bounty scandal, where a quarterback is clearly being targeted for bad hits after the down is over, and the refs are like, "Well, you should have known this would happen."

[@Qub3rs]

That Football/Soccer rule is insane... just funny as hell...

[@conlanwebster6182]

When will we see new Wierd Rules videos? It's one of my top 3 favourite KZbin video series!

[@ScarredBert]

I would love actual episodes instead of compilations at this point, feels like we haven’t gotten any new videos for weird rules in forever

[@alexanderboulton2123]

Please, we NEED yall to bring Richard back hes GREAT!!!

[@PaddyQuiggin]

I love that this episode deals with why you can't give someone three techs and then later how to get aeay with infinite techs

[@kapowjam3462]

Love weird rules. This is a fun compilation.

[@AB-rp6ik]

Props to the Kansas City lineman who had the situation awareness to punch that dirty Raider in the nuts.

[@SHAd0Eheart]

Did Shaq ever bring down one those older collage arena type baskets? The type that were attached to the roof more or less and could be folded backwards over the bleachers at a 45° angle to be out of the way for graduation or volleyball? Anyone know what I’m talking about?…

[@craigwheeler4760]

34:00- you guys do realize, $10,000 in the late 1800s was actually a ton of money. The average person was only getting like a dollar per day. It may actually have been that until 1900, because the $5 work day was a multiple of at least 2 to three on the national average in the 1910s when Henry Ford began it.

[@rogerswab2131]

I'm getting the strangest feeling of deja vu watching this...

[@kalindastrome2182]

Extremely excited to hear a national transportation safety board mention!

[@petroskatsilieris1897]

Fantastic stuff. Excellent work.

[@maxmeier532]

We all know Bubba Smith played football, because we all know about how Polk High's Greatest threw 4 touchdowns against him.

[@fuktrumpanzeeskum]

Now i have the Married...With Children theme song stuck in my head.

[@order3457]

MORE! I DEMAND MORE! I WAS ABOUT TO SELF END BUT THEN I SAW THIS EPISODE AND THIS GAVE ME HOPE FOR HUMANITY.

[@BrentDeJong]

21:44 "38, line" I lost it

[@hermansfood]

You guys HAVE to make an update on Scorigami 70-20 is wild PHINS UP

[@dustinroberson1865]

The change in the rule was to all technical fouls, not just if you call a timeout without one.

[@NitroBird]

I would love to hear you guys talk about Dwight Howard and the No Flatulence rule in the NBA.

[@Magic_beans_]

10:47 Of course it’s the Raiders.

[@josipdolibasic4143]

You forgot to mention that there could be no draw, even though they have played like a group stage (having a table with goal diff), which also, never is the case in football.

[@futball51]

Thought it was a new bunch of weird rules I’d missed

[@united8586]

For the record, the NCAA rule on no numbers with 6 7 8 9 in them have been changed and now it is legal.

[@LoveEatingBricks]

We deserve more weird rules! Weird rules are the best

[@Michaelonyoutub]

I wonder if they changed the NCAA basketball numbers rules due to a ref who only had one arm or something, they couldn't ever signal more than 5.

[@Uruz2012]

ASL has signs for 0-9 that only use one hand.

[@eviloatmeal]

I'd prefer some new Weird Rules, but if you just fed me these same exact videos another five times I wouldn't complain about that, either.

[@MegaZeta]

Today I learned _The Rifleman_ bullseyed a backboard

[@mryamp]

Still waiting for a Racing Weird Rule. Whether that's NASCAR, Formula 1, IndyCar, or Rally

[@robertwilloughby8050]

Horse?😉

[@waxknucklebearingjuice5592]

Burrito rolling ?

[@wendell_stamps]

I need one to explain why the fair catch free kick is on the books

[@ImiriDavid]

Never thought I’d see Grenada on here

[@redowlranchairfield5994]

I thought the "Shattered Backboard" deal was put in place in response to Darrel Dawkins. I still think that's the case...

[@jaxsonbateman]

I remember with the Suns/Celtics one - shouldn't it have actually been a huge story? Ref forgets to give the Suns a technical they're due, and they end up tying the overtime period? +1 point - like they probably would've gotten from that technical - and they win the game (though due to Chaos theory the rest of the period would've played out differently).

[@jenniferreavis7584]

There's a theory that if Bubba Smith hadn't been injured; the '72 Dolphins wouldn't be perfect, since the Colts played the Dolphins that year.

[@a-dragon-hoarding-teacups]

I think the NCAA has just changed the rule on basketball jerseys.

[@beschutzer42]

Wait. Rifleman Chuck Conors?

[@Modokun]

Is this a reupload? I swear i have seen this before.

[@daleg4192]

Same, i think its a rerun.

[@shadowseek27]

i think we mustve just watched a playlist or something

[@thefreshgingerTTV]

i was lookin for this comment, i was p;retty damn sure i seen this alr recebtly

[@06racing]

They combined some of the videos into a longer version

[@briangruenewald7536]

15:56 Here’s the solution: teach the referees sign language so they can count to 0-9 on one hand. Boom 😂

[@DM_Andy]

For the 1994 Caribbean Cup, spare a thought for Puerto Rico, the true victims of the double golden goal. In a normal group stage, they allow ties, 1 point for both sides. Puerto Rico would already be at 4 points with a win over Barbados and a tie with Grenada, Grenada would have 1 point and qualify with a 2 goal win of their own, Barbados would have 0 points and already eliminated. Then Barbados would have beaten Grenada 2-1 and Puerto Rico would have made the finals.

[@trevorrisk]

This guy has the same voice as Paul Rudd.

[@jessewheinrichs]

Moneyball Oakland A's collapse video please

[@barrysentials7226]

Please do the pistons lakers game in the finals that the lakers won It’s overshadowed by the lain beer call Watch the last seconds- the pistons are bringing up the ball and…

[@michaelhall5429]

Sir Donald Bradman please sb

[@BigBoyJay_69]

Is this just a compilation?

[@andrewfick9380]

Eagles history episode?

[@nw4042]

Oh goodness. Numbers are limited in the NCAA basketball...because the rule writers...can't figure out...ASL. So sad.

[@TheAoalec14]

As a guy named Willy Spanks I find the baseball segment off color and offensive

[@spxncey]

when you have nothing else:

[@kennyk4402]

2 scorigamis in the same week

[@n8rboy]

The NCAA number rule makes me so angry. Deaf people figured out how to communicate 6, 7, 8, and 9 with one hand decades ago.

[@Mr.Beauregarde]

21:45 😂😂🏅🏅🏅

[@lukevacca1537]

With that first soccer rule, I never understood why Grenada didn't just score an own goal to lose 3-2, given they'd go through if they did that.

[@nahometesfay1112]

They did try to score an own goal, but Barbados covered both and there was very little time left

[@zachhamilton8024]

Actually you’re wrong in the NBA you can’t use number 69

[@dereu4heinz669]

1890s = 19th century

[@locke4782]

15:56

[@alexisdlg96]

Go home and make beans???? 🤨🤨🤨

[@FoxMacLeod2501]

It's usually pronounced "chi-CANE-urr-ee." (9:20) That's oddly similar to the previous episode, at 1:10, where he went with grih-NAH-duh instead of grih-NAY-duh. Good times.

[@natereniger8773]

Somewhere around 14 minutes I realized this is a... significant video. Of the sort you can't say on KZbin.

[@falcon1378]

I always wondered why nobody ever straight up just jumped way before the snap and crushed the QB, just because. I feel like it’s happened before it’s just never actually talked about because whoever did it is as stupid as I am.

[@MerkhVision]

Because that would be an obvious offsides and encroachment penalty? Duh lol

[@cs1458]

The only interesting game of soccer ever played.

[@kaisaafegogo7751]

👊😎

[@Tehbestestevasss]

Really wish we'd just get MORE episodes instead of just re-hashing the old episodes again. Just do better

[@uhhhh1225]

Y’all do know that you don’t have to post anything, right? What’s the point of reposting old vids?

[@MrJinkxy]

Goals in football aren't called points. Your coverage of football is, as always, sub standard.

[@ncisfan111]

Re-upload?? Definitely looks familiar

[@tavonbrown9237]

Hmm, with the numbers no grater then five maybe it was for referees to quickly assess a player in a crowded ans loud stadium. 5 fingers on each hand and all.