Friday photo: Are you ready for some Buzkashi?

Posted By Joshua Keating Friday, February 29, 2008 - 5:19 PM Share

Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - FEBRUARY 29: Afghans play Buzkashi during a weekly game February 29, 2008 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Buzkashi, or 'goat dragging', is played with two teams of horsemen competing to throw a beheaded 30 kg calf, goat or sheep into a scoring circle. The Afghan national sport which was outlawed during the Taliban regime is played from late October to March every year. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

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7:38 PM ET

February 29, 2008

Balls are SO passe...

DULLSTEELPEAHEN

9:59 PM ET

February 29, 2008

Afghans having fun?

After all they've suffered, I'll go with that

JERSE

2:55 PM ET

March 1, 2008

Buzkashi has been around for

Buzkashi has been around for hundreds if not thousands of years. Since finding materials to make balls or other objects to play with is not readily available in Afghanistan - they make use of what they've got - livestock.

It's kind of like polo only instead of a ball and mallets - they use a sacrificial animal to score goals with.

WALRUS

7:00 PM ET

March 2, 2008

Is that Rambo in the background?

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