Back in the mid '90s, I learned to play rink bandy (quick precis: basic ice hockey set up, but no checking, no offside, shorter sticks and ball instead of puck). This was an enormously popular game over here at the time, teams and leagues were seemingly everywhere, to the point where practically every company of reasonable size had at least one team. The Nokia tournament in 1996 (we were a large but not a huge company at the time) was played between 16 teams, that'll be something like 200+ players. Every large town would run several amateur leagues, featuring teams from various works, clubs, or just groups of friends. On top of everything was the more serious business of the national league.
Step forward to the present day and you'll be hard pressed to find much going on at all. The national league has been defunct for a few seasons now, and I forget the last time I saw anyone just knocking a ball around, let alone an actual game going on. Hopefully, this is just a bad patch that this particular sport is going through, and the number of participants will increase in the years to come. I certainly had a whale of a time playing it.
Any other examples of sports no longer in their heyday?
Step forward to the present day and you'll be hard pressed to find much going on at all. The national league has been defunct for a few seasons now, and I forget the last time I saw anyone just knocking a ball around, let alone an actual game going on. Hopefully, this is just a bad patch that this particular sport is going through, and the number of participants will increase in the years to come. I certainly had a whale of a time playing it.
Any other examples of sports no longer in their heyday?
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