| Whirlyball |
The game is a combination of basketball and Jai-Alai, playedfrom an electric bumper car.
Basically you ride in bumper cars. You have a scoop that is designed to catch and toss a whiffleball. There are two teams. Each team is trying to go to the opponent's end of the court and toss the ball through a whole in the backboard. You move around by driving the bumper car and keeping from getting hit or trapped by someone else in their own bumper car. You pass the ball back and forth with your teammates using your scoop. Of course the opposing team is trying to take the ball away from you and score in the whole in your backboard. Let me include a couple of pictures I found of the game. One if from a place in Chicago, the other is from Washington.
It is an odd game. It is a lot of fun and excitement but it can be frustrating too. You can not just drive where you want to go as someone is bound to hit you and keep you from going in that direction. Sometimes you can see the ball on the floor because someone missed it and just before you scoop it up you opponent smashes into you and gets the ball instead. If you are not the most coordinated (sounds like me at least some of the time) then just catching the ball can be a chore or trying to throw it threw the whole can be near impossible. At time you get trapped in a corner somewhere with several other cars and none of you can get going because you are more or less jammed in by everyone else. It is amazing how quickly a game can go by and how fast the 1 or 2 hours you have the court flies by.
I just thought I would bring it up since I do not do a lot of things but some of them are interesting. If you have never played I thought you might enjoy hearing about it. If you ever have the chance to go… go for it. You may get banged around a little but you will have a fun time.
Posted by barman at 1:10 PM::
i have never heard of that nor would i ever have imagined it!
Lime I am so with you. When I first played I never heard of it. And I have not heard of it since and that was over 20 years ago. I think someone needs to advertise. It is definetly fun.
Just wanted to say thanks for the visit over at my/our place.
I agree with Lime ....Never heard of it and I can't imagine who or why they would come up with this game. Although it looks like it might be fun if you remember that your playing the game and not raming into others lol. Hey Bry go reread my blog
I never heard of it, but would like to try it. I hear you were county champ.
Mina you are a lovely writer. Thank you for the visit.
Gab it is fun. Kind of like rush hour without the consequences. Wow I missed a whole post. How did I do that?
Tony did you say chump? I can honestly say I am the best of anyone that has visited this post since no one has heard of it before. It would be a hoot but I do not know I would want to go up against you. I mean you are from New York. That or someone from LA. I would not stand a chance.
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