You play with a volleyball. The volleyball must be blue.
You need anywhere from 2 to infinity players per team.
You get five plays to go fifty yards. There's a guy like the quarterback, except he's called the Bouncemaster. Anyone on the team, including the Bouncemaster, can start the play by telling, "Let's bounce it."
Once someone yells that, the Bouncemaster can throw or kick the ball forwards or backwards to anyone on the team (including himself). The player is allowed to catch it in the air or off of one bounce.
As soon as the player catches the ball, he can throw or kick it forwards or backwards to anyone on the team. The play continues until the team scores a touchdown or goes out of bounds.
Touchdowns are worth five points. Extra points are awarded by the style judge for the sweetness of the play/touchdown dance. If a touchdown is scored off of a kick pass, it's double points.
You can play with or without pegs. If you play with pegs, you can get a point for every time you bounce the ball off a defender.
The game isn't played in quarters or halves, but in quints.
The game was born on a drizzly, bleary day when only 4 people showed up for a football game. To make matters worse, no one of us actually had a football. We call it Blueball, and it is poised to become the game of the 21st century.
(As you can see, I was ultra-productive over Thanksgiving. Back to conquering the universe on Tuesday.)
Posted by Cody at November 28, 2005 7:42 PM