Because Law Students Should Never Sweat
There are a number of factors that go into great intramural athletics, not the least of which is alcohol. Although I have signed the 2Q’s up for Sunday night basketball, I’m dispirited to say the least.
I approached every softball game knowing the other team would score more runs and appear more athletic, but worried I was not. Knowing there were coolers of liquid courage sitting patiently in the dugout meant my teammates and I could avoid acknowledging our physical shortcomings by blaming the booze and pretending not to care.
With basketball, we have no excuse. Unlike softball, basketball requires both effort and athleticism. The 2Q’s posses neither.
As a solution . . . I propose bowling.
For 3 games with shoes it will cost about $8 – 10 / person. I’ve talked to Manager Jimmy and he is going to make sure we get $1 beers for two hours.
I haven’t had an idea this good in years.
posted by Jon Swanburg @ 3:25 PM
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8 Comments:
Swanburg, thank you for signing up a team, and please dont be discouraged about playing, there are a handful of people in this lawschool who have significant basketball experience. Couple that with the fact that there are not any former D1 basketball players attending BU law that I know of, and athleticism doesn't come into play. We briefly had a league last winter and the athletism level was equivalent to that of an old-man game at the local YMCA. Your team will be just fine.
Andrew
hell yeah. hooray for manager jimmy.
Andrew, did you ever see us play softball? We had people throw the ball backwards. I shit you not, on accident the ball would go backwards.
One of my teammates recently informed me that in 8th grade he averaged 1 point per game. A suprisingly good number when you look at points per minute played.
Another one of our players claims to "actually know the rules."
I think we have a chance.
Swanburg, also--there's a bowling place on bosque that does $1 bowling-- $1 shoes, $1 per game, and $1 beer. look into that. There are time/day restrictions, but hey, that's a good deal.
When SBA meets next week we'll throw bowling into the mix of possible fall intramural sports. We're probably going to poll the students and then decide early next week what other sports besides basketball we'll be playing. If it's a dollar per shoes/games we can probably front money for the entire school.
yeah...and remember that one game that you fell down like five times swanburg? just think how much more painful it is to fall down on the basketball court. maybe you should wear some sort of protection...like kneepads and headgear.
im totally afraid of getting hit by the ball.
haha....thomas. you should also be afraid of getting hit by the ground...
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