https://vo.rs/tags/swamp-football/Recent content in Swamp Football on vo.rsHugoenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sat, 30 Jul 2022 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/encore/swamp-football-world-championships/Sat, 30 Jul 2022 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/encore/swamp-football-world-championships/<p>Take a game of football, remove the pitch, and replace it with a peat bog that swallows your leg to the knee on every stride. That is swamp football — <em>suopotkupallo</em> — and every summer a few hundred teams travel to a remote corner of northern Finland to play it on purpose, at speed, until they can barely stand. It is exhausting to watch. It looks like the most fun you can have with your boots full of mud.</p>