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Loopyball soccer is your new favorite sport

There isn’t a single thing about this that isn’t amazing.

James Dator
James Dator has been covering a wide range of sports for SB Nation for over a decade, with a special focus on the NFL.

It takes a special kind of mad genius to invent Loopyball soccer, and we praise them for it. The game appears to have originated in Germany and now it’s basically the best sport in the world.

The rules are fairly simple. It’s soccer, but while wearing a giant inflatable zorb ball on your head so you can play bumper cars with other players. The shape means players have freedom of movement from the knees down, allowing them to pop back up uninjured to smack people again.

This is the perfect way for athletes to work out in the offseason without hurting themselves. Tell us you wouldn’t watch the San Antonio Spurs face the Seattle Seahawks in inter-sports Loopyball soccer.

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