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Nimitz
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of the last Realm of builders in Apolyton
Feb 2002
time: 23:37
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Heres an intresting article from a DG I was part of. It was about my teams National sport Blockball, and was rather funny.
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Jackson, 1990 BC: Local sports coordinator Edvard Cubit has been removed from his post by popular decree after his less-than-dazzling debut of Blockball. Hailed by Cubit as "the sport by which all other sports will be judged," Blockball had its first public exhibition in the Jackson fields.
The sport, played on a 20 yard by 75 yard field, with two goal posts at each end, consists of two teams of 15 attempting to maneuver a 350 lb. cube of sandstone through the opposing team's goal. Teams may push, pull, or throw the cube from player to player in an effort to move downfield.
Crowd expectations were high at first, with much joyous cheering and revelry. However, midway through the first quarter, the crowd quickly turned hostile, jeering and booing the players on the field. By the ten minute mark, Sumerian Aces captain Lars Larson had managed a stunning downfield rush of 2.5 feet, but the fans were not swayed.
When the game was delayed after a Jackson Miner's sweeper, Tio Axlerod, sustained a severe concussion attemping a take-away, the crowd showered the field with a hail of rotten fruits and small stones, and the rest of the days proceedings were cancelled. Within hours, local representatives moved to have Cubit escorted out of the city, and all teams disbanded.
"I don't think they gave it a chance; we really poured our hearts into this" commented Larson. "I guess it's back to the fields for me. Once my hernia heals, that is."
Said Axlerod, "What game are you talking about?" |
And From later,
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Internation Blockball League Being Pondered
RedBrick, 1280 BC: With the recent discovery of other peoples in the world, the Official Blockball League of Legos (O.B.L.L.) is looking into the possibility of exporting the sport to new cultures, building better relationships and providing entertainment for the world.
Despite low popularity among the citizens of Legos, with crowds often topping out at ten to fifteen, league chairman and power forward of the RedBrick Loggers Tylor Basalt maintains
that the sport has a strong growth potential in foreign markets.
"It's exotic; people like that sort of thing. Besides, I can't possibly imagine that anyone in the world has created a sport more action-packed than Blockball" stated Basalt from his bed at the Jackson Health Centre where he is recuperating from a hernia and pulled quad.
"The Blockball League of the World.. I can see it now; B.L.O.W.
in giant gilded letters atop a mighty colliseum! Who would laugh at us then?" |
Last edited by Nimitz on 16-08-2005 at 15:24
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16-08-2005 15:18
thanks mate 
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