Dodgeball? Really?
I watched the movie Dodgeball last year on a dare and it was about what I expected. Maybe I was underwhelmed because I loathed dodgeball as a kid. It always just seemed sort of cruel to cheer on kids beaning each other in the head at school. Or maybe I'm just sick of Ben Stiller.But apparently, there really is a National Dodgeball League for adults suffering from some sort of masochistic nostalgia. And earlier this year, some kids at Oregon State University created their very own dodgeball team. The team left for Las Vegas yesterday, in preparation for the 2006 Dodgeball World Championship and Convention being held this coming weekend.
On a whim, I checked the OSU intramural sports website and found that they've also resurrected kickball for adults, or at least they tried to last year. The page hasn't been updated since October 2005. Meanwhile, I'm holding out for four-square.
posted by Corvallist at
11:18 PM
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I was the kid who LOVED dodgeball... though, we had a different name for it (so un-pc that I will not mention it in this forum.)
I didn't know about the kick-ball league, this was my other favorite game in school : )
I always asked for "big baby bouncies."
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Unknown, at 7:17 AM
I loved Dodgeball also as a kid. But, unfortunately, an 8th grader catching a ball, or dodging one, backed up suddenly into me, the first grader, knocking me backwards onto the hard cement floor of the gym, knocking me out cold. It was my very first head injury, as a child, although more would come. They didn't call ambulances back then, just threw the child, me, into the back seat of someone's car and took the child home. I think I woke up dazed and confused in the back of that car, but I don't remember anything else, except I got stitches I think.
The next head injury was bizarre. I was coming out of the community swimming pool dressing room, after swimming in the open pool, in a small southern Oregon town, and was almost immediately struck in the forehead by a large rock thrown by some some girl I didn't even know, waiting on some enemy ex friend of hers, only I came out first. The attack messed up my face for most of the rest of the summer. I got made fun of. And that, too, was strange. I was raised an Adventist. Their prophet's maiden name was "Harmon", like mine, and she became a prophet after health problems caused when she was struck in the face when a child by a rock thrown by some other person or child. So why were the little Adventist boys and girls making fun of me, I wondered. Well so anyhow, back then, they didn't arrest kids for such attacks on other kids and so I got no justice out of the rest of my summer getting ruined by a whacko little girl intent on injuring her ex best friend, whomever that may have been. That was my second head injury as a child.
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Strayer, at 1:03 PM
Hahaha, four-square for adults would be great!
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Anonymous, at 1:10 AM
I would absolutely join a four-square league! I even found myself considering the kickball league, except I'd probably have to wear shorts, and my legs are so white I'd blind the opposing team, which wouldn't be fair.
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Corvallist, at 4:25 AM
Let me know when they open up registration for the coed Jacks team. I'm so there!
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Anonymous, at 8:20 AM
You should check out Squarefour.org, they have been around for four years as an adult four square league. One of their women just won the world championships!
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Anonymous, at 3:52 PM
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