The Ocho!
I wasn't too impressed with the movie Dodgeball, but I did enjoy the
niche sports spoofs associated with the mythical ESPN "the Ocho."
Today at lunch, I saw a crowd gathered around the TV, and went to see
what they were watching. On ESPN - the main one, not the deuce - was the world sport stacking championships.
Basically, this is a timed race to stack drinking cups in fixed
patterns (pyramids and such). I could not believe this was on TV. It
was far more outrageous than any of the sports they came up with on the
Ocho. Also, the kids doing it were fast -- a couple were such total
blurs with the cups I thought the tape was sped up. There is no way
you can adequately picture this without seeing it - Click on one of the videos in the lower-center of this page. The kid in the Comcast video on the right is pretty good too. Oh, and get your gear here.
Dave:
I'm glad to see the youth of America isn't wasting their talents on, say, math or reading.
August 24, 2006, 5:27 am