dodgeball

We'll deviate from literature to dodgeball. I just finished watching "Extreme Dodgeball" on some channel I not only didn't know I had, but couldn't tell you what it is.

I know that the movie helped spur some fascination to this ...ah...sport, but I believe the movie came about because there are indeed dodgeball tournaments for adults.

Who ever would have guessed that the dreaded gym class sport, where the jocks got to whip a ball as hard as they could at the nerds, would become a televised, adult sport. "Extreme" no less!

Certainly this is a sport for the nerds. The jocks are either in pro sports where they can express their jock-ness or way too out of shape. The nerds, still wirey and having grown up learning how to avoid getting hit by that pocked, rubber ball now rule.

The game I watched, between Philadelphia something and the New York "Bling" actually went in to overtime. The best part came after the game when they were interviewing the nerd from the Bling who threw the wicked sidearm to get his last opponent out. "How does it feel, having won this?" he was asked.

"This is freakin' great. Pardon my French," he replied.