It’s quite likely you’ve never heard of the greatest team sport in the world.

And before you start to defend soccer, football, basketball and the like, try watching a match of the Kirkwall Ba’, a jaw-dropping version of rugby played twice every holiday season in a small Scottish island town.

What makes it so spectacular?

First off, the game involves more than 300 men split between two clans, those whose family alliances are up (“Uppies”) or down (“Doonies”) the road from St. Magnus Cathedral.