What the hell is "goat polo?"

I'd read several accounts of a suicide attack in Afghanistan the other day. It happened at a "sporting match."

I was eventually able to determine the nature of that sporting match; goat polo.

Goat polo? OK, I get it. I know what polo is; similar to field hockey except you play it while mounted on a horse. I naturally assumed that, given the backwardness of Afghanistan, they played the game whilst mounted on goats.

Boy was I ever wrong!

Apparently they have the horses. According to Al Jazeera it's called goat polo because it's played with the headless carcass of a goat instead of a ball.

Who knew?