Forklift Driving Competition Tour

Idea: To expand the forklift driving championship into a multi-city touring competition/festival, and also expand it to include a variety of forklift and warehouse-related events. Also: forklift events could include obstacle courses (difficult turns, uneven and wet floors, mannequins or robots in the way, etc.), box stacking (speed, height, perfect box alignment), picking up and moving things without knocking over nearby things (kind of like Jenga or a puzzle), team events, racing against auto-pickers (robotic forklifts), etc.; non-forklift events could involve cranes, semi trucks, Amazon warehouse-style manually gathering of items from shelves, etc.; a tour could involve traveling pros competing against each other, amateur events, and possibly allowing amateurs to compete against the pros (like a pro-am); maybe WWE-ify it with foam boxes that are almost guaranteed to tumble down and forklifts that are modified to safely crash

Chris Young (Web: chrisyoungcomic.com Comedy Special Video: Buoyant Mon)
Jae Gonzalez (Instagram: @comedyxjae)
Tom Walma (X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Lucky Undy

Idea: Underwear with sports team logos or colors on them to be worn on game nights for luck. Also: making your friend wear your team's underwear on the outside of his pants as a penalty for losing a bet; giving yourself a wedgie to show your team spirit; complementary undies for couples; questioning whether "undy" is a real word or whether it's always plural, i.e. a "pair of undies"

Jen Frissina (Facebook: @jen.frissina)
Steve Smargon (Facebook; @steve.smargon Intagram: @bipolarmarine)
Bruce Umpstead (Facebook: @umpstead Instagram: @bruceumpstead)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Sports Logo Lawn Stencils

Idea: Giant stencils which come with special biodegradable spray paint for you to stencil your favorite sports team's logo (or university's logo) on your lawn for the day of the game, and then wash it off afterwards with a hose. Also: ideas to prevent the stencils from being used for graffiti; using the stencils to mark parking spots; stenciling other things, such as anime characters, Christmas decorations, or angry break-up messages on the lawn

Lindsey Boersma (TikTok: @60secondswithsatan)
Rheila Grae (Instagram: @rheila81)
Milan Stromile (Soul of Detroit Bi-weekly Comedy Show in Sterling Heights; Facebook: @milan.stromile.9)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Robot Sports Companion

Idea: A robot to play sports with, to shoot hoops or play catch if you're alone, to help you practice or train better, or to fill an empty spot on a team. Also: the robot could help a non-athletic kid advance to a skill level where the other kids would want to play with them; using a robot to teach you to dance; the robot could be hollow to allow you to wear it like an exoskeleton and violate the non-violent robotic software rules

Evan Sasiela (Twitter: @SalsaEvan Instagram: @salsaevan)
Connie Ettinger (Facebook: @connie.ettinger)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Talking Golf Ball

Idea: A golf ball with a speaker inside to play programmable messages to help you find the ball if you lose it, to yell "fore" if it's gonna hit someone, to allow your golf buddies to program your ball to taunt you if you shoot a bad shot, to make animal noises to scare other people away from your ball or to get animals to move your ball closer to the hole, etc. Also: a multispecies golf relay; a golf ball that makes you listen to commercials before you tee off and which vibrates to mess up your shot if you try to skip the commercials; a really, really, really long headphone cord for the "hard of hearing"

Jack Reeves (Twitter: @jackreeeeves Podcast: NoProbcast)
Nicole Melnyk (Twitter: @mcfancyvonpants Podcast Instagram:@noprobcast)
Simon Carlson (Twitter: @its_ah_me_simon)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Racetrack Tow-Rope Snow Skiing

Idea: Snow skiing on an oval racetrack where a metal bar goes across the track about 8 feet above the ground, and several tow-ropes hang down from it and push skiers around the track. The track can contain little bouncy hills and ramps and such. This allows skiing to be done in small parks in cities

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 52

Nolan Reilly (Instagram: @kzquarantineking)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Bro Sportscasters

Idea: Sports broadcasters who act like normal sports fans who drink, curse, and scream in excitement. Also: drunk guy "facts" instead of nerdy sports encyclopedia stats, announcers rooting for a specific team if they want to, Joe Rogan's fight companions but for the NFL, using codenames for teams and players if the NFL won't allow you to act as a sportscaster on a livestream on the Internet

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 32

Mike Ball (Twitter: @IamMikeBall)
Markus Olind (Twitter: @BeardVonMarkus)
Andrew Yang (Instagram: @ndrw.yang)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Innovation Olympics

Idea: A new type of Olympics where each event is designed to promote innovation in human biological enhancement/recovery, sporting equipment technology, or both; events include Human Battering Ram, Vertical Running, Flugtag (human powered flying machines), Artificial Liver Drinking Contest, and Team Pole Vault (where the pole vaulter goes so high they need to parachute down). Also: a moderate amount of danger and serious injury is encouraged because it advances the technology of medicine and physical therapy

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 28

Robert Johnson (Twitter: @blackrob2006)
DC Bradley (Instagram: @dcbradleyonig)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Space Soccer

Idea: A soccer-like sport played in a cylindrical court in the weightlessness of space (inside a spacecraft). The goals would be on each side of the cylindrical court, and players would bounce off the walls like pinballs and try to push a heavy medicine ball into the goal. A team would consist of a diverse group of people, including big strong people and tiny gymnastic people which can be easily tossed around by their teammates. Also: early NFL team purchase prices vs. current value, it could maybe be played in the "vomit comet" airplanes

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 18

Seth Resler (Twitter: @SethResler)
Mike Rich (Facebook: @IAmNumbr4)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Bringing Back the XFL

Idea: To bring back the XFL (Extreme Football League).

Also: the XFL could be the concussion "fall guy" for the NFL, XFL team names.

Note that this was recorded in 2016 (before the XFL came back briefly in 2020)

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 15

Josh Bowab
James Eliot (Instagram: @itsjimeliot)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Gender Equal Baseball

Idea: A professional baseball league where both men and women are equally represented on each team, and cheerleading counts towards the score of the game. Also: which other sports can women successfully compete against men, T-shirt cannons and mascot races between innings, barnstorming, Slamball and other failed sports leagues

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 11

Dan Turco (Twitter: @Dansplaining)
Chris Lazar
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Human Landscapes Golf

Idea (NSFW): A golf course filled with nature that looks like human anatomy (cactuses that looks like dicks, trees with lumps that look like butts, sand dunes shaped like the female body, etc.). The caddies would use a bunch of silly adult golf puns ("if you hook your shaft you could get lost in the bush", "there's a ball washer available after you complete the back 9", etc.)

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 6

Amy Probst (Instagram: @amydetroitrockcity)
Ted Moss (Twitter: @TedMossComedy Podcast: TEDTALKS2much)
Anthony Slanda (Twitter: @Runfromcheney)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

At-Home Fan Referees

Idea: A random sports fan watching a live game in their house is contacted via webcam or smart TV, and given the task of being the referee and making a call in the game. This'll make watching the game exciting because people get a chance to affect the game, but it might destroy your Nana's life if Nana makes a bad call and angers everyone in the community

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 88

Stu McCallister (Twitter: @StuMcCallister Podcast: LMNOPodcast)

Sal Demilio (Twitter: @SALLYD08 Podcast: The Sal And Bob Show)

Simon Carlson (Twitter: @its_ah_me_simon)

Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)