"If you thought bubble soccer looked stupid" - What ha... happened (October Part two)

"If you thought bubble soccer looked stupid" - What ha... happened (October Part two)

by Dan Salem and Todd Salem (10-18-13)

[Part one - "For some, this is Sport"]

"What ha... happened," where we scour the internet for a crazy sports photo or GIF and someone must try to explain it. Seesaw Sports asks what ha... happened? Monday: Opening statement. Friday: Rebuttal.

Real photos. Real results. But what in the heck happened?

TODD:

I win again young Skywalker, as my fake sport is more fake than yours.

I present to you the following:

Photo: Trampoline Dodgeball!

Title: "If you thought Bubble Soccer looked stupid..."

Description: For everyone who ever thought dodgeball didn't have enough leaping and jumping, it has officially been super-sized. What the bubble did for the game of soccer, the trampoline has now done for dodgeball. Tired of those boring dodgeball matches where no one pirouettes through the air? Not anymore!

Watch a trampoline dodgeball YouTube clip and then you tell me, is this terribly stupid or secretly awesome?

Where did this come from? What ha... happened?


DAN:
Wow. Color me impressed because this is secretly awesome!!

I'm a closet dodgeball fan, as in I think its super fun to play even if I haven't played since high school. There are a ton of leagues in Los Angeles, but moving on. Dodgeball is cool, you get to bean people with giant rubber balls and this is the point! Throw in a trampoline and I'm sold. Can we make this a drinking game too, like softball?

But as to what happened, or how this absurd idea of a competition ever came to light, its rather simple. I credit this gloriously evil game to a fancy pants gym teacher in Texas. Why Texas? Because everything in Texas is big, crazy and wild! Yee Hah! Anyways, so there was dodgeball. You hit people, get hit and the world turns. Then there was the trampoline. Its for jumping. This man (its a man because no woman cares to make something stupid more challenging) found dodgeball too easy and the trampoline too lady like. He strapped on his Texas sized hat, grabbed a big rubber ball and started jumping. Several hours later and we had Trampoline Dodgeball!

Either that happened, or a bunch of drunk frat boys broke into the gymnasium and the rest was history.

[If you missed Part one - "For some, this is Sport"]