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| Jim Bexley Speed - star roof attack of The London Jets |
By the 23rd Century (when The Red Knight was setting off on its fateful voyage) there had been a seismic shift in sports, due to advances in technology.
The two most popular spectator sports now were Zero-Gee Football (a combination of football, American football, rugby, mixed martial arts, and jet packs), known as Aeroball in Europe.
Played in an arena, as shown below, the idea is for the jet-packing wearing players to get the ball into the elctro-spike-protected goals (or 'score tanks'), secured hundreds of feet in the air, up enormous metal poles at each end of the playing area.
Teams of seven, equipped with state-of-the-art jet packs, would defy gravity and common sense every weekend in stadia around the globe to do aerial battle.
The two most popular spectator sports now were Zero-Gee Football (a combination of football, American football, rugby, mixed martial arts, and jet packs), known as Aeroball in Europe.
Played in an arena, as shown below, the idea is for the jet-packing wearing players to get the ball into the elctro-spike-protected goals (or 'score tanks'), secured hundreds of feet in the air, up enormous metal poles at each end of the playing area.
Teams of seven, equipped with state-of-the-art jet packs, would defy gravity and common sense every weekend in stadia around the globe to do aerial battle.
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| Artist's impression of The Berlin Bandits' "Thrill Bowl" |
Famous teams included The London Jets (home to superstar player, roof attack Jim Bexley Speed) and the Berlin Bandits.
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| From the personal collection of Captain Lister, a lifelong fan of The London Jets |
Meanwhile, sports such as cricket and baseball had merged with the technology of the day to create jetball.
A souped-up version of baseball which, like Zero-G Football, employed robotic referees to eliminate the risk of human error (and financial corruption) in the big money world of global sports.
