ESPN 8 The Ocho

[Grant Lamontagne]

While in Toronto earlier this week I had some time to sit and watch TV, and amusingly enough, ESPN 8, aka The Ocho, was showing some axe and knife throwing events.  Naturally I watched them and really enjoyed the show.

But what was even cooler was the channel it was on- the Ocho.

For those who don't know, or don't recall, in the Vince Vaughan movie called Dodgeball, the games were broadcast on ESPN 8, the Ocho.  It was a channel dedicated to lesser known sports, a category that axe and knife throwing definitely falls into as well.

But here's the cool part- ESPN 8 didn't exist at the time. 

In fact, ESPN was just debuting ESPN 2, known as The Deuce so they could cover some non-mainstream sports.  The Ocho was, at the time, a fictional station and a spoof of The Deuce.

And now, years later, The Ocho actually exists, and is showing lesser known sports just like in the movie!

I think that is very cool and I wanted to share it with all of you!

Def

[powernoodle]

Life imitating "art".

[BPRoberts]

There's a bar near me that usually has it on at least one TV on it. They've gotten a little cornhole heavy lately, but usually something good.

[Grant Lamontagne]

There are a lot of ways to take that post, but I am going to assume that means the game where you throw beanbags or similar into a box with a hole on the top!   

To me, nothing is funnier that a joke that is so perfect that it becomes a reality- kind of the the Thagomizer.

For those who aren't familiar with a comic strip called The Far Side, the gist of it is that cave men named the spiky tail of a stegasaurus "the Thagomizer" after "the late Thag Simmons."  Not having an actual name for it, paleontologists simply started calling it the Thagomizer after the cartoon was published, and now it is the officially regocgnized term for a spiked tail.

 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer

Def