With the Sochi Winter Olympics here, you might find yourself disinterested in curling or the biathlon – two serious, very real sports that don’t draw nearly the viewership that these made-up sports would:

First and foremost: competitive snowball fights. This should go without explanation, but I’ll roll with it anyway – teams of five enter an arena with a variety of obstacles and heaps of packable snow. A direct hit eliminates the receiver of said hit. In the wise words of Maximus from “Gladiator,” “Are you not entertained?”

Following the bobsled/luge type theme, perhaps speed sledding would attract many young viewers. Imagine eight full-grown adults at one another’s throats in a series of sharp turns on a steep, icy track. Who knows? Maybe you and I have different definitions of fun.

To test the skills of the world’s best free-climbers, a man-made ice wall in which climbers would race against the clock to ascend it would make for a nice spectacle. Any tactical mistakes could spell disaster with no clear way up – it would be a suspenseful and interesting competition to say the least.

Or, the Olympics could add a Minnesota favorite: broomball. A hockey spin-off where sticks are exchanged for brooms, skates for boots, and a puck for a ball, this sport combines the fun of hockey with the weirdness of people running around on ice.

For now, these should-be sports remain unnoticed by the eyes of the IOC, but maybe one day they’ll find their spotlight alongside speed skating and the  half-pipe in the Winter Olympics.