The Badwill Games

In 1980, Jimmy Carter came up with the idea that boycotting the Olympics in Moscow would solve the problem of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Ted Turner did not like the USA leading a boycott of the Olympic Games. He created and then funded the Goodwill Games. He spent his own money to make sure that the athletes who had been training their entire sporting lives with the 1980 Olympics as their goal did not get totally stiffed by Carter's best intentioned, but 100% stupid boycott.

Since then we have had more drug stories about athletes than I can possibly put on a single blog.

So, here is my idea - The "BADWILL GAMES" - the ultimate series of Libertarian sporting events.

If I had all the money that Ted Turner had, I'd form a football, baseball, basketball and Olympic style leagues. Individual athletes would not be tested for anything. In the words of California's Governator they could smoke, snort, shoot, eat, insert anything they wanted to, as much as they wanted, as often as they desired.

The only rule would be, you have to be alive at the finish of your event.

Who ever wins, wins.

For example, in the 100 meter race, if you ran, exploded just after you crossed the finish line , your heirs would get their cash reward. Swimmers could have the water around them boil before they burst in to flames, bicyclers could ride with IV hookups on their handle bars, steroid and amphetamine fueled batters would try and rip the cover off of balls tossed by HGH enhanced pitchers who's arms fly off after they throw a 135 mph fastball.

How entertaining would that be?

The Games would be filled with chemically infused competitors going for it without any rules or regulations whatsoever.

Take what you want, when you want, as much as you want, as often as you want.

Let's see how fast, how high, how far, how much the human body could go using all of the pharmacological technology that we have available to us. I wonder what the 100 meter time would be? How many home runs could be hit? How far could a javelin be thrown?

The "Badwill Games" would truly test the limits of the human body, mind, spirit, self destructiveness in order to see what we are capable of as a species.

No rules would rule.