At one point in time,ESPN aired a series of competitive matches involving timber sports. Competitors were challenged with chainsawing logs, rolling logs in water with their feet, and everything short of singing “I’m a Lumberjack, and I’m Okay.”
It was a fun little diversion, and I have to say that the program itself was quite entertaining. It was a niche sport of niche sports.
And honestly, I thought it was the most niche of niche sports.
Until this.
Are you aware that there’s a sport that involves competitive plumbing??
No, seriously. The guy you call to unclog your drain because you’ve been pouring your cooking grease in it for the past six years – could actually compete in a battle of plumbing technicians?
You heard me. I said seriously.
This is a YouTube clip of the 2023 Plumbing National Championships, which apparently involve setting up a water tank running pipe to and from it, and other assorted tricks of the trade.
And yes, there was a sequel to this tournament. I give you, God help me, the 2024 Plumbing National Championships. Break out the Teflon tape and hold onto your toilet ballcocks … it’s the sequel that keeps on flowing!!
So … let’s face it. If I’m going to watch competitive plumbing – and by the fact that I wrote an entire blog about it, you KNOW this caught my eye for a while – there’s only two competitors in this sport I want to see.
I want to see the guy from THIS company …
And I want to see the Roto-Rooter man battle this guy.
And whoever survives that matchup … faces off against this mighty mite.
Chuck The Writer 
“Timber sports” have been around since Wide World of Sports, so, yeah. Competitive plumbing? Not so much.
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Thanks for that, Chuck.
The advancements in the art and efficiency of plumbing over time are impressive. But the pace of progress seems to be lagging behind the “miraculous” transformation of those telecommunication devices – from a hard-wired dial wall phone, to push buttons (OMG, it couldn’t GET any easier!), to now having access to the world in your pocket.
Would love to watch kids today try to deal with a dial wall phone.
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