Classic Sporting Events?

[BlackSolider]

The first thing anyone needs to know about me is that I love football (the American version,) more than anything. I love playing both football and basketball, and I try to do both as much as I can.

I've always wondered if there was any way to bring these sports, as well as others, to Classic. Previously, we had soccer matches to varying degrees of success (the ball wasn't always accurate, and lots of times teams would give up,) and at one point Clel made a pretty fun tri-pong game. Luda made a cool-looking football field as well, but the game itself never got scripted.

So, any thoughts on how we can bring sports events to Classic?
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Thoughts:
I'd love to feature some of the main sports (football, soccer, basketball, hockey, etc,) as part of Classic's appeal to bring in new players, but making a good version of each is the problem. Soccer is the simplest to make, since all you need to have is a ball and two goals. Hockey wouldn't be much more complicted, as all you'd likely need to add is ice. I'd love to have a passing/shooting system for both, but a simplistic version might be more realistic. Basketball would be pretty tough to script, as it'd require dribling, passing, shooting, and somehow having defensive capabilities to occasionally counter them. A football event would be very, very difficult to create if you wanted a lot of depth to it. Anything beyond a simple rugby-styled game might be too complex to create. The most complex thing I can realistic believe we could create was something similar to tecmo-bowl (vids on youtube for those who don't know what it is,) which was a simple version of american football that only used 3 buttons.

Obviously I'm just hoping to have fun versions of all of these sports, but realistic goals might limit us to hockey + soccer. Still, any ideas how to implement/script/simplify these sports is appreciated.

As always, any constructive thoughts are welcome.