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 PMOFFICIAL BLUEBALL RULES PROPOSAL FORUM
Proposed theory for Quint structure: Each Quint ends when one team reaches 25 points or above.
1st Quint > 24
2nd Quint > 49
3rd Quint > 74
4th Quint > 99
In the 5th Quint points count double for the team that is behind at the begining of each play. The game is won when one team gets to 150 or higher with a five point lead. If that can't be done at 150 then you must procede to 175 with a 5 point lead, then 200 and so on.
Proposed theory for in game rule changes: A rule can be made or modified mid-game with a majority vote of the 4 original game creators in the active game, coupled with a 3/5 majority of all second generation players in the active game.
Posted by: dfj at November 28, 2005 9:12 PMAgreed.
Posted by: Pdiddy at November 28, 2005 10:02 PMProposed Rule Change:
Style points should be awarded by committee, preferably composed of 3 members: one spectating significant other from the Home Team, one spectating significant other from the Away team, and a neutral 3rd party, e.g. the Boles janitor, Sylvia, or the Swiss.
Posted by: Danza at November 28, 2005 10:03 PMI like where you are going, but it's going to be tough getting that proposition passed seeing as you do not have the power of an original four vote, Mr. My Phone Was Out of Range.
Posted by: Pdiddy at November 28, 2005 10:08 PMOh wait, I was wrong. It's Mr. My Phone Was In The Back Of The Car.
Posted by: Pdiddy at November 28, 2005 10:09 PMIt's Mr. My Phone Was In The Back Of The Car And I Didn't Get Into Town Until 11:15 Due To The Rain to you, Mr. I Can't Get Past 17 In Washers.
Posted by: Danza at November 28, 2005 11:27 PMnot to take sides, but we didn't really start to play until after 11:30
Posted by: dfj at November 28, 2005 11:45 PMI vote we simplify Danza's proposed change by making Sylvia the permanent and only style judge. I've rarely seen an animal get as excited as she did once our plan started to come together.
And Damon has a point there at the end. From 11:25-11:30, we played "Can We Play Football with a Full Power Ade Bottle Without Breaking Any Ribs?" That was a pretty fun game too.
Posted by: Cody at November 29, 2005 12:08 AMThat game of washers was easily 45 minutes long. Good grief.
Posted by: Pdiddy at November 29, 2005 12:38 AMSo wait, you have to stop when you catch the ball, yes? No running with it?
Posted by: Brendan at November 29, 2005 11:01 AMOh no, you run with the ball.
I really need some video clips of this game in action. It's quite breath-taking.
Posted by: Cody at November 29, 2005 12:41 PMI'll get to work on the first Blueball DVD. Of course, it will only include one quint of street Blueball action from Saturday.
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