On the List of Bad Ideas...
So this weekend, a small game of football took place in a very uneven yard, in which the turning of ankles and breaking of legs, was highly probable. So somehow, this problem had to be overtaken. Well what would produce more safety in this sport of football (in uneven terrain) than a game of Walking Football. (And no walking does not take away from the game of football, I mean it is an olympic sport (walking that is))... OK... maybe does take away...
Yes we played a game of walking football. And what ensued was one of the funnies things I have ever seen! What was it like? Imagine Monty Python's skit "Ministry of Silly Walks" being in charge of a football league. Yes that should create a clear picture. (If you've never seen this skit, you truly are missing out... here is a 30MB download of it).
But now for the bad news. This theory of no injury from Walking football is totally wrong, sadly I pulled a muscle, and at least one other person injured themselves. So safety in walking football? Hardly. So once again an odd concept come and gone, we probably wont see this one again (kind of like our paraplegic football game).
Comments
Walking Football. On uneven land. And people hurt themselves. How does a muscle get pulled? What did the other person hurt?
I am literally blown away by this. Why didn't you just play Frisbee Football? Playing that on uneven land is a challenge.
Posted by: keats | October 18, 2004 04:43 PM
I know it is hard to believe, but it is true. And when Jeremy says that the ground was uneven, that is an understatement. There were these pipes running along the surface of the ground, like the grass was a mere blanket covering them. And they were spaced very close together; kind of like those cow guards that are in drive ways along fences. Our "hoofs" were twisting and turning, making it almost impossible to run.
And so, Walking Football was invented
Posted by: Autumn | October 18, 2004 06:33 PM
Wellll, Jonathan Waltzer was hyping a football game yesterday but then he went out of town and it never happened. Plus our footbal games here are caled "turkey bowls" and I never get any turkey afterwards. grrrr 'Course I didn't deserve to play anyways because I missed meeting. D'OH. And on Monty Python, anyone here familiar with the skit where two news correspondents are in the middle of a field (I think one of 'em is Eric Idle) and they keep fighting over the microphone, and it just keeps getting more epic until they're chasing each other in vehicles just to get the microphone away from the other? lol Oh man, that one makes my sides split.
"No, on second thought let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place."
"Mrs. Nickerbocker! She's exploded!"
John Cleese: "Ohhhh, that's a shame."
"She was my best friend!"
John Cleese: "Oh don't be silly mother, people explode every day."
Posted by: Dylan | October 18, 2004 07:39 PM