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18 Weird Rules That Actually Apply In Sports

However unbelievable these seem, they are actual rules.

By Mizuka Ishiwatari

Published 8 years ago in Wtf

However unbelievable these seem, they are actual rules.
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    In soccer, if you score a goal and you take your shirt off when celebrating, you get a yellow card.

    18 Weird Rules That Actually Apply In Sports

  • 2

    In Canadian football, you get one point for MISSING a field goal as long as it has enough distance to land past the end zone.

    18 Weird Rules That Actually Apply In Sports

  • 3

    Ultimate frisbee is self-officiating, as in the players call fouls, travels, etc. Then the player they called it on can contest the call or not, leading to a lot of arguments on the field.

    18 Weird Rules That Actually Apply In Sports

  • 4

    The driver who gets the most mentions on Twitter during a race gets to use extra power (it’s electric Formula racing, so they can do that in software for some amount of time).

    18 Weird Rules That Actually Apply In Sports

  • 5

    In hockey if you high stick it’s a two minute penalty, but if you make the person bleed it’s an extra two minutes.

    18 Weird Rules That Actually Apply In Sports

  • 6

    In USAG club Gymnastics, your sports bra and panties must be either nude or the color of your competition leotard, or else you get a couple tenths off your score.

    18 Weird Rules That Actually Apply In Sports

  • 7

    In USAG club Gymnastics, your sports bra and panties must be either nude or the color of your competition leotard, or else you get a couple tenths off your score.

    18 Weird Rules That Actually Apply In Sports

  • 8

    In Formula 1 drivers cannot substantially change their helmet designs as of this year.

    18 Weird Rules That Actually Apply In Sports

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    In Australia, if the grand final game is tied at full time they come back and play it all over again the following week. Overtime isn’t an option.

    18 Weird Rules That Actually Apply In Sports

  • 10

    Golfers have to sign their scorecard and if there’s a mistake they are disqualified, even though their score is being kept by others for the entire duration of the game.

    18 Weird Rules That Actually Apply In Sports

  • 11

    In Soccer, if you take off your shoe to throw it and hit the ball, it counts as a handball.

    18 Weird Rules That Actually Apply In Sports

  • 12

    In chess there is a rule that a woman has lost a game if she has too much cleavage showing. If her opponent claims this happens, there is a jury who will decide whether the woman has too much cleavage showing or not.

    18 Weird Rules That Actually Apply In Sports

  • 13

    In the NFL, if you fumble the ball in the opponent’s endzone and it goes out-of-bounds, it’s their ball on the 20 yard line. If you fumble the ball on the one yard line and it goes out-of-bounds, it’s still your ball on the one yard line.

    18 Weird Rules That Actually Apply In Sports

  • 14

    The actual soccer rule book explains, that there may be no tree on the field.

    18 Weird Rules That Actually Apply In Sports

  • 15

    In hockey, if a player hits the puck and it goes over the glass without touching anything, it’s a two minute penalty. But, if the puck clears the glass after touching the glass, there is no penalty.

    18 Weird Rules That Actually Apply In Sports

  • 16

    In golf, you can be watching on TV, call in, and point out a rules violation, thereby getting the golfer disqualified.

    18 Weird Rules That Actually Apply In Sports

  • 17

    In roller derby, if you fall and someone trips over you, you get a low block penalty.

    18 Weird Rules That Actually Apply In Sports

  • 18

    In water polo, if you block a shot out of bounds, your team gets the ball, the opposite of almost every ball-centric sports.

    18 Weird Rules That Actually Apply In Sports

  • 19

    Catching the snitch grants 150 points. What’s the point of even trying to score if you get so many points for the snitch?

    18 Weird Rules That Actually Apply In Sports

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