History Main / SeveredHeadSports

** ''Franchise/BillAndTed'';

* ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney'' plays this for laughs, with Evil Robot Bill using Evil Robot Ted's detachable head to play basketball.

* When the ancestor ghosts are celebrating at the end of ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'', the headless one gets his thrown around like a beach ball.

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** In ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'' there is a rule explicitly stating that any object that has been kicked by at least three players in a row during an official football match is to be considered the ball. Guess which kind of object triggered the creation of this rule... (Although [[{{Necromancer}} Dr. Hix]], who'd be qualified to talk about this sort of thing, does discuss the fact that human heads would be very impractical to play football with, as they're heavy and, of course, nobody wants to be bitten in the foot.)
** Earlier, in ''Discworld/SoulMusic'', Jade says the troll sport of ''aargrooha'' is played by kicking a human head with obsidian boots until one side scores a goal or the head bursts. In modern, civilised times, this game is not played (because no-one remembers how to make the boots).
** In ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'', Carrot gets members of the two opposing armies to play football during a cease-fire. 71-Hour Ahmed remarks that a similar game is played by nomads in some parts of Klatch, with a severed head.

* ''Series/{{All That}}''. Amanda and Mark are bowling. But, when Danny loses the ball they decide to play with his head.

* Creator/RutgerHauer vehicle ''The Blood Of Heroes'' features a game of what is essentially Medieval (American) football, but with the severed head of a dog used as the ball, which can only be touched by a player designated as the "quick." This in turn inspired the common UsefullNotes/{{LARP}} game of Daneball (with some enterprising groups actually making fake skulls rather than just using a conventional ball for the dog skull).

* As noted under Film above, a common UsefulNotes/{{LARP}} game is a variation of American football called Daneball, inspired by the Rutger Hauer film ''The Blood Of Heroes''. Although (hopefully) no ''actual'' decapitation is involved, the ball is still traditionally referred to as the "dog skull" in tribute to the film. Some enterprising groups even make fake skulls (using foam, rubber, etc.) for this purpose, rather than use a more conventional ball.

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* John Lequizamo's short-lived ''Series/{{House of Buggin}}'' has a skit about a soccer team using severed heads instead of balls, grossing out their rival team. They have a witch doctor who's job is to find perfect heads, and the unfortunate news reporter commentating the sport [[OhCrap happens to have the right-sized head...]]

* ''Series/{{All That}}''. Amanda and Mark are bowling. But, when Danny loses the ball they decide to play with his head.

Related to OffWithHisHead. See also DecapitationPresentation for another fate of the severed head. Not to be confused with VideoGame/HeadSports

Related to OffWithHisHead. See also DecapitationPresentation for another fate of the severed head.

** Implied in ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'', when 71-Hour Ahmed compares football to a Klatchistani game (probably polo) in which the aim is to get the "object" into the goal. When Vimes questions the noun, he's told it's best to think of it as "an object".

* John Lequizamo's short-lived ''House of Buggin'' has a skit about a soccer team using severed heads instead of balls, grossing out their rival team. They have a witch doctor who's job is to find perfect heads, and the unfortunate news reporter commentating the sport [[OhCrap happens to have the right-sized head...]]

-->'''Guzrak''': ''[[GoodNewsBadNews The good news is, you made the Orcball team! The bad news is...as the ball.]]''

** A deleted scene in "Treehouse of Horror IV" (which was eventually shown in "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular") featured demons using Homer's head as a bowling ball when he spent the day in hell (which then cracked open against the pins and a note came out reading "I.O.U. one brain, signed God").

* In ''Webcomic/GenocideMan'', someone taunts the title character by [[http://www.genocideman.com/?p=121 mailing him]] a crate of skulls from an outbreak of [[BioAugmentation Bio-Augmented]] feral {{Tykebomb}}s he'd quashed years before. Being a ''Genocide Man'', he's... [[http://www.genocideman.com/?p=130 less than fazed]].
--> '''Girii:''' Are you seriously playing golf with ''children's skulls?!''\\
'''Jacob:''' Don't be silly. I'm just practicing my drive. It's not like I could putt with them, their little teeth would be hell on the green.

* Song "�l� Astu Kauppiaan P��lle" (Don't Step on the Merchant) on Finnish band YUP's 1994 album ''Music/ToppatakkejaJaToledonTerasta'' is about severed head bouncing around the town. It once gets kicked by a soccer star.

* In the ECComics story "[[http://cacb.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/ec-comics-foul-play/ Foul Play]]", an evil baseball player is murdered by the members of the opposing team. After killing him, they play a game where they use his head for as the ball, his leg as the bat, his intestines to mark the base liner and his organs to mark the bases. They even use his scalp to dust off home plate.
** In another ECComics story, this happens with a bigamist who is found out by his golf and bowling-playing wives.

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