The weirdest rules in sports and the absurd stories behind them | Weird Rules Marathon: Volume 2

[@ShynyMagikarp]

Ryan was built for this series, man. He's *so* good at steering the conversation and knowing exactly how to reply to the guest's inquieries. Thanks for making these compilation volumes. Also, shoutouts to the artists drawing the chalkboard stuff. Great animations.

[@4393MonsterSea]

I think the venn diagram of people who subscribe to both secret base and polygon are pretty small but I didn't expect to see Brian David Gilbert sneak his way into one of these. Thanks for putting one in for a niche audience lol

[@dogshake]

There is a video somewhere of Jon Bois playing a game with one of the McElroy brothers. They are both Vox companies so it makes sense, they’re all in the same office (or were)

[@michaelringel273]

I think both forms of content are kind of for nerds but for different fields (sports and video games) so the cross section isn’t too unbelievable

[@MerkhVision]

I’m in that venn diagram! I was real happy to see good ol BDG on here lol

[@m-ballgame-707]

“Basketball is about hoopin, not math” wiser words have never been said

[@SirSketchable]

Is that why the other team always forgets to add 1 or 2 of our buckets every time in pickup and then the game has to stop for a score argument?

[@dfoleyusa]

Brilliant - that deserves its own inspirational poster

[@k-berry8771]

Jon Bois clemching his fist in the distance

[@jamesgaston2745]

I really want the Venditte rule be that both players must secretly tell the umpire which side theyll use and then let it play it out

[@dannycomellas]

I think a coin flip to see which player chooses first might not be the worst idea

[@MerkhVision]

I was thinking coin flip as well

[@TommyVinMI]

Weird rules is the reason i watch this channel. It’s so good

[@joshwilner5622]

Hopefully we get new weird rules soon

[@MerkhVision]

Me too, Weird Rules is my favorite thing from this channel

[@bbehr-uv1ft]

Love how you guys are compiling all the old videos into one. Makes it even easier for me to binge them. Keep up the great work!

[@nbahangtime27]

It means they’ve ran out of content or the original people have moved on to do other projects

[@ToddintheShadows]

You should do the rule MLB used in 1977 to get Ted Turner to stop trying to coach the Braves

[@Kikker861]

pop charts man watches Secret Base? Awesome.

[@dannycomellas]

Whoa... the last person I expected to see commenting on one of these

[@austinarnold025]

Justin tucker holds the record now at 66 yards

[@Bipolar.Baddie]

False. I do and its 1000 yards but no one was looking

[@Nerd1090]

Will is easily the best guest for these, king

[@shawnreap]

On the point of training ambidexterity: Billy Wagner essentially did just that. He is naturally right-handed but taught himself to throw lefty after breaking his right arm as a kid, then just stuck with it. So Will did kinda have a point, though it's probably not as easy as it sounds.

[@GregMcNeish]

My dad is the same, although slightly less successful XD He was a natural lefty, but broke his arm as a kid and had to re-learn how to write right-handed, as well as learning new techniques for a bunch of stuff around the farm. To this day he's predominantly right-handed for most things, although there are some things that he does left-handed, and others that he can do ambidextrously.

[@Para20Site]

The hardest part is not the being ambidextrous. The hardest part is being good enough with both hands to pitch as an MLB pitcher.

[@poindextertunes]

@@GregMcNeishmy pops was forced to use his right hand in catholic school lol he would play table tennis left handed just to fxck with ppl 😂 they didn’t want to see him use his right

[@jakob9614]

My best friend in elementary broke his right arm and then days after getting his cast off he broke his right elbow and basically had a cast on his right arm for 9 months. He’s almost ambidextrous today because he had to do everything with his left hand in a formative toms of his life. Pretty cool if you ask me

[@mykeljewell]

I feel like for better or worst Ben Simmons is the same

[@barryswigart1432]

Ah, phase 2 of compilations. I can't wait for the mega compilation of the compilations.

[@serisothikos]

I love that the Venditte situation is the baseball equivalent of an infinite loop.

[@muhammadwahyuhidayat21498]

ambidextrous pitcher and Black Out Oilers against Bruins In GAME 4 was the best moment in Weird rules.

[@samfewer8462]

totally forgot brian david gilbert was in one of these lol

[@IROC400]

I love how the stabler and Rodgers situations couldn't be any more different. One was to win a game in one was a SNAFU.

[@itstherealbrace6424]

Ryan is scarily tall for the way he looks sitting down

[@tiddiesattic]

JUSTIN TUCKER holds the record for the longest FG in an NFL game: a 66 yard GW FG vs DET(9•26•21)

[@Gixsir]

But he did it with a whole foot that’s cheating lol

[@justalittlebitmo]

These stories are the absolute best

[@88porpoise]

I am going to say for the Venditte discussion: As pointless as the Venditte - Henriquez at-bat was to the outcome of the game, this was minor league baseball and neither of them were there to win the game they were both there to climb the ladder to MLB and in that case every at-bat counts. Even more so in this case, as this was Venditte's first minor league appearance and Henriquez's first game after getting sent to a lower league. So, yeah both were very concerned with every plate appearance.

[@loufancelli1330]

I'm pretty sure that the "no dunking before the game" rule was in place to prevent a potential alteration of the rim before the game started. Back in the "old days" (like before the '90s) breakaway rims weren't really a thing yet, so if the rims were jacked up it would be a problem. And the difference between that and in-game dunks would be that they don't happen all the frequently during games, but if you could do them before you could end up yanking rims off.

[@Magic_beans_]

And if we take it to the extreme with a backboard-smashing dunk like we saw from Shaq or Darryl Dawkins, that was about an hour delay _assuming_ they saw it coming and had the parts on hand to fix it.

[@morganspriggs4426]

Justin Tucker has the record now guys.

[@msdsez]

He didn't have fingers on his right hand either; advantage? The ball that Tom kicked was a Duke. It's a different ball than the current NFL Official Ball. I had one in the Seventies but couldn't tee it up and make it go that far. He was a great kicker, plain and simple.

[@PKFlashBeta]

The basketball ruling with Maccabi is why point differential is a stupid system in games with point denominations different than one

[@J7041-u7m]

In line with the Holy Roller discussion - can a non-quarterback intentionally throw the ball out of bounds to stop the clock? Ex. A WR is about to be tackled in-bounds thus the clock would continue to run. WR "backward laterals" and intentionally throws the ball out of bounds to stop the clock. It seems like as long as you don't throw forward you could maintain the ball at the spot where it goes out of bounds and still get a clock stoppage.

[@Ishkur23]

A ball or player that goes backwards before going out of bounds is considered a play that ends in bounds, as that is the forward point of progress before he/the ball went out (this also applies to fumbles that go backwards and out of bounds with neither team gaining possession). Therefore the clock will not stop. The only way to stop the clock is to run out of bounds while maintaining forward momentum, as the out of bounds spot is then declared the most forward point of progress.

[@J7041-u7m]

@@Ishkur23 Good to know. Thanks!

[@thetruth1862]

# 234 of things i didn't know i needed in my life : Wierd Rules in Sports

[@ForeverDayGreen]

I love that in the first case Fiba was like "own goals are clearly the problem" when obviously the solution would have been to simply make ot wins count as +-0 for the point differential. They simply overlooked the underlying problem because they were mad at Madrid's creative solution.

[@dfoleyusa]

So I knew some of these prior (Dempsey, Vindette) but lots of crazy rules I hadn’t - love this series guys and the guests are good too. “I’m a gamer not a football player!” 😂

[@Mumbler100]

Weirdest rules for the win

[@cmlyk]

The basketball team from my high school was penalized for pre-game dunking back in the 70s. And a technical foul was awarded to the other team. We proceeded to win by 20+ points once the game started

[@pbfloyd13]

3:47 Tex Shram: _That ain't Fair!_ Me: "Sounds like a skill issue"

[@danield.r.w.2478]

Wouldn't that ncaa rule allow a coach to dunk? Cus' I would love to watch warm ups with just coaches dunking. Who wouldn't love that?

[@88porpoise]

People absolutely can train themselves to use their non-dominant hand. As many left handed people were forced to do in the past. However, to be good enough with both hands to be a major league pitcher is pretty absurd.

[@KungFuKricket]

“You can’t do that Bri” 😂

[@Unova39]

If I had a nickel for every time the Lions lost a football game on a walk-off, record breaking field goal I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

[@nmbr1seattlefan]

They could remake the whole "pitcher does something for the first time in 100 years" with Shohei

[@GarrettSexton-c4f]

12 seconds ago is crazy

[@nick1daly]

Fr

[@zkgress]

I love Secret Base. I don't ever want to see this person again! Makes me madder than a striped snake. Keep up the otherwise good work I guess

[@dspsblyuth]

Which person ?

[@sil-80nick]

You’re not allowed to dunk during deadball time because backboards used to get broken and games couldn’t be played.

[@felixtc9655]

Yu darvish practices with his left hand to stay balanced, I think he was only like 6mph slower on his non dominant arm.

[@poindextertunes]

Darvish is a magician 🔥

[@jamesgaston2745]

But how accurate and how much movement does he have from his left hand?

[@petermiloshevski]

That game between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Darussafaka Istanbul actually prompted a rule change with which “the score differense in the overtime won’t be counted in head-to-head matches tiebreaker” So basically now a win in overtime is a “win with 0 points differense”, whether is with 1 or 31 points at the end. However, if both head-to-head matches are finished with one win for either teams after overtime(s), in that case a total score differense (of all the matches played) will be the tiebreaker and the final score in the overtime(s) could have some influence on the standings. This rule was implemented l think in 2018 or 2019. Yes, 3 or 4 years after this infamous match 😁

[@humbletreestump8134]

I got an ad for secret base while watching this video lol

[@kapowjam3462]

Same! Different secret base video started as an ad

[@staidenofanarchy]

"Thats how he knows the general" god tier joke lmao

[@CowSaysMooMoo]

21:00 I'm sure that person with the nail polish on has never thrown a football before

[@WhiskeyFiend]

Should do a weird rules on only the Duckworth Lewis Rule in cricket. Enjoy

[@Alschiv]

We need a rewind on i think 2016 las vegas supercross 250 race zack vs joey

[@waffleking6871]

I had a teammate in high school try and shoot twice at our own basket one game. He missed both times and it only happened because he was so high he forgot which basket was which (his own admission).

[@poindextertunes]

i used to read about Tom Dempsey in an old sports almanac in elementary school 😂

[@jerrymarkarian5326]

The Justin Tucker (66-yard field goal record-holder) disrespect is WILD!

[@noahk909]

When they released the original video, it was several years before he broke the record.

[@jerrymarkarian5326]

@@noahk909 Ah okay that makes sense lol, I was shocked that such a huge station glanced over that one. Thank you for clarifying!

[@bigferd4534]

Seems like any rule in regards to dunking during any point of a basketball game would’ve started with Wilt Chamberlain. Just a guess on my part though.

[@blakeley38]

Rob ray would literally design his equipment to fall off as soon as he was grabbed lol

[@GKQ333]

i feel the hand the pitcher uses would now be resolved by the pitch clock and would make it so the pitcher now gets to make the final decision.

[@pachho808]

Rob Ray won the NHL leadership and humanitarianism award in 1999

[@sweetpepino1907]

I love how the title is "The idiots and savants who forced rulebooks to change" but the first story was about a guy with a disability lmao. I get why this would happen and why it's the title of course, but it's just funny to me

[@poindextertunes]

gotta cast that clickbait 😂

[@Starduckvalley]

You could argue he was a savant, it doesnt always mean theyre not good at anything other than one specialized skill, can just be someone talented. Agreed it sounds derogatory tho

[@dukewilliams7622]

When i was in High School they banded dunking pre game our team had an injury due to pre game dunking so they changed the rule and gave a tech to any team that dunked ..stupid but true.

[@buffaloherd]

I feel like the convo was about to take another twist when you said it was in Denver... couldn't that have an asterisk because, after all, it's a mile high?

[@TheHockeyjock10]

Go watch literally any hockey fight and one of the first objectives is too gain an anchor point on the guy they’re fighting, this is typically accomplished by grabbing the jersey of opponent near the neck. If there is no jersey to grab as an anchor point, you’re very difficult to square up and get a good punch in against. Hockey fight rules are hilarious. One of my favorite players growing up, Douglas Murray of the San Jose Sharks, would toss his helmet basically in intimidation before fights till they banned that.

[@ihaka3925]

You can totally train for your weak hand. In tennis its somewhat common. Rafael Nadal, one of the greatest tennis players ever, played on his weak left hand! Also in snooker, high level pros train for their weaker hand as this gives more flexibility on the large table.

[@christopherdeguilio6375]

Brilliant. Very funny

[@LifeOrbes]

I forgotten y'all had BDG on here! GOAT

[@PLFMM]

That auto-basket scene was hilarious…y’all are stupid!😂

[@holstorrsceadus1990]

LFG. Perfect timing with the vid drop as I just sat down on the throne.

[@teen_laqueefa]

Was it a good one?

[@holstorrsceadus1990]

@@teen_laqueefa I ate a ton of spicy meats and rice last night so yeah it was a very productive session

[@Leo.Labine]

Rob Ray was a legend.

[@Scoots1994]

offensive linemen were spraying lubricant on their jerseys and pads so defensive linemen couldn't grab them as easily.

[@diskeyes]

The way these WR gloves are now they’re basically stickum

[@88porpoise]

Sure, but the reason stickum was banned was less because they didn't want it to be useable and more because certain players were abusing it and a ban is far easier to apply that more complex rules with exceptions etc (and from my understanding it wasn't strongly enforced if players weren't obnoxious about it).

[@rogerszmodis]

Im ambidextrous and in minor hockey I abused that and there should have been a rule. In Canada a lot of right handed players are taught to shoot with a left handed stick, I used a right handed stick so a kid on my line would trade sticks with me mid play when we switched sides. I scored so many goals with that it was like cheating right handed I had a more accurate shot but left handed it was much faster. Once I got to highschool the game was too fast to do it.

[@tylerbowling]

@13:13 this is where new pitch count comes in today. And frankly, the fielding team is the defense. They should be able to adjust to the offence. The offence should show first.

[@Cowmilk222]

Favorite line "he's a cop"

[@boredincan]

Mike is such a Yankees fan that he didn't even stay for the end of the video

[@acanofvancampsbeaneeweenee2037]

Fun Fact: Rob Ray now owns a hot dog restaurant. Shoutout Rayzor’s

[@DrFeelinIt]

You can train to throw righty and lefty, ask Pablo Sandoval

[@Oceanz08]

4:40 how old is this clip?!?! Is this before tucker FG was made?

[@abrahammorrison6374]

John Madden had a master's degree from Cal Polytechnic University, SLO.

[@chrissmith635]

I love these

[@williamlietz7535]

Kofi: Basketball is about hooping, man, it’s not about math Kobe Bryant: so the court is actually a series of 45 degree angles, and by breaking down the trigonometry of the game I found the most efficient points to stand at any given situation

[@wrc1210]

Fwiw, when I try to watch this video thru the Comcast KZbin app, it tells me that the video is age restricted. The only way I could watch this video is thru my phone.

[@NayC13]

So the NFL is fine when a disability might hurt someone, but the second someone suggests it may have given somebody an advantage then they gotta do something about it. That's actually disgraceful.

[@montychambliss6254]

The rule is a prime example of ableism

[@zym6687]

@@montychambliss6254 No it's not its to keep people from intentionally hobbling themselves for an advantage. How do you not get that? It's literally for health and safety of the players.

[@sixxjr]

​@@zym6687 That never has, or never would happen. This is ableism. It was one man unhappy with another man for having no toes and wanting to punish him for it.

[@pheo4156]

@@zym6687 with that reach you should be worried about your own health and safety

[@zym6687]

@@sixxjr Not requiring standardized equipment for a sport is just stupid and just shouldn't have been allowed in the first place. It's no different than claiming that the wheelchair marathon record of 1:17:47 is the real record and not the 2:01:09 and that the marathon community is just ableist for separating the two. If there was an exception for people that require wheelchairs in their daily life to use them then the entire competitive marathon scene would be only wheelchair users, and you would definitely get mentally ill people willing to "disable" themselves in order to be more competitive. Most people agre that PEDs are harmful to athletes and are banned for those reasons of a fair competition and health and safety of athletes so they aren't compelled to use them to the detriment of their normal life to be competitive at a high level. The top comment in this thread even acknowledges it had the seemed to be advantageous, and the fact he had a NFL record using a piece of specialized equipment that only he could use that stood for 40 years despite being "disabled" backs that up in anyone with even the most rudimentary understanding of logic.

[@YaBoyHam]

I know I'm years late, but Will is technically right. Evidence of such can be found with Macho Man Randy Savage, aka Lenny Poffo. I forget the specifics, but he had an Injury to his dominant hand that made him switch what hand he used.

[@DrewStice-ht4zx]

Keeping it hundo to the onedo

[@jonathanspears3484]

But what if I wanna build a snowman?

[@stevenvegdahl9845]

Great video! One pronunciation issue. As an Raider fan from back in that era, I always heard announcers pronounce Banaszak as BAN-a-zak, as opposed to BAHN-a-zak. See, for example, the 5:15 mark of kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKKQnHiDad6JZ6s.

[@kramerandhyde]

Bummed that the Kenny pickett rule didn't make the list.

[@nolan6068]

Hey that’s the guy that’s read every Halo novel!

[@rootwalla-k4p]

My wife made me write this following comment: in the next edition, they should include weird rules in pickleball, since it's sweeping the nation.

[@HighpointerGeocacher]

Dunking was banned in college and high school basketball from 1967 until 1976. This is sometimes called the "Lew Alcindor Rule" as it was attributed to the dominance of Lew Alcindor, who later became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slam_dunk#Lew_Alcindor_rule

[@DJPrince2032]

You can 100% train to be ambidextrous, doesn't mean you'll be as good at whatever you're doing as your dominate hand, especially if you start later in life. But there are some people who are more naturally ambidextrous. Fun fact, by doing so, you can create new neural pathways in your brain.

[@RobertF-zj2rm]

really great audio

[@paysonfox88]

15:00 Pat venditti turned out to be a below-average player. The guy I like the new rule for his physiology, is the Superstar shohei ohtani. Last year they put in a rule for him saying that the pitchers could stay in the game as a designated hitter after he left the mound.

[@zachshipstead5247]

Doesn't Justin Tucker have the record now?

[@JamesSonOfBaboonzo]

yeah that was recorded and originally posted years ago.

[@kylerwilhelm1638]

Didn’t the dunk rule also have an impact on the Nova vs Carolina championship game? I think Carolina made both free throws

[@elijahbah474]

“This is good “

[@SimGunther]

4:43 Thought that Justin Tucker broke that record in Detroit with a 66 yard boot. Still can't beat that 69 yarder in 1976, but it doesn't count since it was in college...

[@Oceanz08]

This clip must be 1000 years old lol

[@BuildHousing]

Tucker broke the record after the original video was recorded, but before this compilation was released

[@stylekiller21]

I miss the polygon collabs

[@holyhandgrenade5]

Brian David Gilbert jumpscare

[@DaYoda191]

Alright I need someone to explain the intentional fumble to me. I understand why the Raiders fumbled it intentionally, QB going down, ok I'll throw it and maybe someone will get the fumble. But why did they need to kick it and make it look like an accident then collect the fumble in the end zone? Why not just scoop up the intentionally grounded ball and run it in? What's the point of the long con to make yourself look ridiculous?

[@dspsblyuth]

Because a fake fumble is really just an illegal forward pass

[@tidritblag9877]

Wasn’t it soon after that video that Matt Praeter got his DUI? Karma.

[@clib542]

you aren't born ambidextrous, throwing is a learned skill.

[@redteddy135]

On the ambidexterity thing, lebron is a lefty by nature, but shoots right handed because he was copying all of right-handed legends that he watched when he was little. so it's kinda possible to just train ambidexterity.

[@TheCambo31]

Almost every soccer (football) player trains some amount of ambidexterity with their feet. It's practically a requirement in the pro leagues to be able to pass and shoot accurately and powerfully with both feet.

[@georgefrench6876]

Did Dan Otten have a quadruple double? Assist points rebounds and fouls?

[@jimmy13morrison]

Half a foot with appropriate shoe wear for the disability: unfair advantage Being 7'6": its perfectly normal

[@poindextertunes]

7’6” guys still wear the same equipment as the rest of the league… why is this so hard for ppl to grasp 😂