Ultimate Frisbee... You know, back in the day it was smoke alot of the stuff in Prop. 19, go out and do something that resembled Football and Soccer and not get a concusion...
Well, in 2010, it is still heavy on the football/soccer hybrid stuff, I would assume that it still has a lot to do with weed, and there are still little to no concused players...But don't let it fool you, it's not anything like a powder-puff football game that you may be visualizing in your head...
And in 2010, there is a National Championship at stake...
Now, back when we would dabble with it, it was a way to get the soccer loving dudes to get out on the field with us, let us smoke all their weed, and hit em' a few times, unnecessarily of course, in those mid-air rugby scrum fumble recovery-esque battles for the 'disc'. Who knew that it would go in this route than the way of the do-do?
It's quarterbacks who can't let go, and receivers who still imagine they are Randy Moss running routes in their driveways. It's soccer types who are looking for anything to legitimize their toughness to the jocks... And it works.
And, it is a sport, which thanks to mass media looking for new things to fill air-time and to gain press passes for(remember Slam Ball?), it is a sport that could develop beyond it's safer than tackle football weekend warriors and Campus crawlers and canibus affecionados who currently enjoy throwing the disc around. And I will have to say, that in the handful of games I took part in back in the day, which were heavy on Russell participation fittingly, I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's on the rise, and soon you may see it played in other locations than Campus grounds or hippie communes...and not all the players will have shaggy hair and phish shirts...
You have a 20 yard endzone to work with, so channel your inner Doug Flutie, with 2 parts Alexi Lalas, and let it fly....
Just remember, it's all in the wrist....
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