WOO HOO!!!
We have far too many sports as it is. Check out the freaking X Games. They invent 10 new sports every year for the X Games, and the select nine or 10 people who win medals at the X Games win those medals because they were the only nine or 10 people who were told that the new sports had been invented.
I’m a sports editor. And I already have enthusiasts from golf to rugby to gymnastics to a dozen other little crappy sports acting like I need to drop everything and put them on the front page.
Basketball rules. Football rules. Soccer needs to be banned. I hate covering soccer. There are few worse feelings in the world that having wasted a couple of hours of my life watching a scoreless tie. What am I supposed to write about? All of the lousy shots that either were 10 feet wide or rolled meekly at the goalie? The lousy passes that didn’t come anywhere near their intended targets? Gaah.
They still play this. There’s a Hooverball tournament every year in West Branch, IA: Hoover’s birthplace.