Professional sports are related mostly with a lot of seriousness and competitiveness. Winning and losing can be known as the major determinants of any sport with all of athletes competing for that winners spot. Not only do professional sports demand commitment and organization they are also categorized by their highly organized and skill driven nature. Sportsmen are expected to represent the spirit of sportsmanship by being respectful of their competitors and of the sporting officials thereby reflecting the actual nature in the sport being played.

On the other hand, this focused and serious arena of professional sports is also a cauldron of several funny incidents as well bringing making these haloed sports celebrities a lot more real. There has been a number of instances where athletes or sports celebrities have been found announcing dumb quotes which are enough to fill you with all your required dose of daily laughter each day. One does often wonder how does a mind which is so channelized, so focused and so talented come up with something that is amazingly and so utterly dumb!

Simultaneously there are some very funny sports contests that take place around the globe. These bizarre activities can range from a wife carrying competition for the prize of beer to duck racing to the world coal carrying championships. The wife carrying championship is an annual event held in Finland within the month of July. The winner needs to cover a number of obstacles over land and water to win this event for the prize of a new cell phone and beer for the quantity of the wifes weight!

Oddly, these funny sports have their own list of rules as well. In the case of the wife carrying competition, the wife should be more than 17 years and should weigh over 49kgs. Dropping the wife or bouncing the wife does add a fine and having fun tops the charts! Funny set of rules

In Tasmania, the annual apple race is organized round the month of October every year. People actually gather together to watch apples race down from the bridge at Hounville to the Houn river.

One of the craziest local sports entertainment could be the running of the bulls, held every year in Pamplona in Spain. The chase lasts nearly a kilometer with folks running ahead of a chasing bull throughout the Pamplonas narrow, winding lanes. This dangerous and crazy events attracts a huge crowd to this region each year and also a number of participants do get seriously injured and sometimes killed while participating in the game.

Everybody has heard about duck racing. But a rubber duck race that raises $1 million to the aid of local charities? The Singapore Duck race is one such crazy yearly event which involves 85,000 rubber ducks contesting against one another over the Singapore river. These ducks are first adopted by people and then thrown in the water. The first duck to travel downstream is regarded as the winner. Duck races also take place in Britain. The Great British Duck Race is one such event in Britain that takes place on the Thames River. The 2007 event broke the Singapore Duck Race record by racing 165,000 ducks across the River Thames.

Though these events are featured mostly in the local news, it is their popularity and simplicity that has made many of these funny sports famous and notable. At some level, it’s perhaps, better to get a good laugh from seeing a goofy event like apple racing than taking notice of and pursuing the supposedly funny drunken brawls of well-known sports celebrities that makes sports headlines.