I love sports. Hockey, football, baseball, you name it. But sometimes when I’m watching ESPN and I watch a golf tournament or something like that, I think there must be possibilities for even better sports out there. And there are already several games that I’d like to see played after being introduced to them in movies. So in honor of making good things even better, let’s consider some of the Best Fictional Sports We Want to See Played.

Quidditch (Harry Potter)

Not to be a big old Harry Potter nerd (then again, who isn’t a closeted wannabe Hogwarts student) but how much would you love to go see a live Quidditch game? Combining the best of contact sports with flying broomsticks, four balls, clubs, and goal posts, Quidditch upstaged pretty much the entire rest of the plot in the Harry Potter films. And when a movie centers around a wizard prodigy, his mega evil nemesis that’s out to get him, and a school where you could get stuffed in a locker with the flick of a magic wand, that’s really saying something.

Baseketball (Baseketball)

Baseketball may be the worst movie of all time— including The Notebook. I mean, you’ve got to be wary of any movie with both Yasmine Bleeth and Jenny McCarthy as cast members. But the game itself, a game of basketball with baseball rules, is fairly brilliant. Now if only we could see a game of women’s hockey with men’s hockey rules about fighting, we’d really have something to look forward to.

Pyramid (Battlestar Galactica)


This game can be played one-on-one or in teams, kind of like Scrabble. Combining basketball and rugby on a triangular court, it brings basketball what it’s really been missing, i.e. a bit more violence. Even better, since the games are coed, it often leads to sex. Nothing says aphrodisiac like throwing balls around apparently.

Rollerball (Rollerball)

In rollerball, the object of the game is to get a steel ball into goals, kind of like soccer. Obviously, that’s pretty standard and none too interesting What is insanely awesome though, is the inclusion of roller skates and motorcycles. The only downside is that people often get murdered in the process.

Kosho (The Prisoner)

When I was a kid, my parents got me a big ass trampoline. It was the coolest thing ever. But while some kids were content to just jump on it or maybe practice flips, I always wanted to do crazy stuff, like use the trampoline to jump over my parents fence into the neighbor’s yard. That’s actually how I became sterile. In Kosho though, you box on trampoline, which means when you take a hit (midair of course!) you really go flying. A-plus for being the most badass game ever.