...randomness surrounding Guided by Voices, Robert Pollard, and other great indie rock bands; a quasi objective look at "my" sporting teams; the random horror film; plus other crap as we see fit...all with a Pittsburgh based feel.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

And You Thought The Forward Pass Was Huge...

Every so often, someone comes along and changes the way we look at how a sport can be played. Great men come and change the way the rest of humanity views a sport, and we are all better for it. While we all know of the alley-oop, and west coast offensive, this video below may change gym class races, FOREVER!

You'll speak to kids in twenty years, and tell them of the times you were in school, before this video, and everyone assumed there was only one way to transition in the wheelbarrow race. Those kids will slightly cock their heads and give a listless stare as try to contemplate life before this video. That is how monumental these 19 seconds are to primary schools the world over...



Do you feel that? It's the world changing... evolving... growing. Don't tell me American schools are falling behind. I may have believed the lies before, not now. Not to mention the "And1 Mixed Tape Tour"-esque crowd reaction this move gets. If anything deserves an "OHH BABY!", it's this.

In other news, today is the anniversary of the 1975 of the wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald. If you don't listen to the full song, you're an ass.

1 comment:

Kono said...

Now don't get me wrong i love me Some Gordon Lightfoot, Sundown being one of the best songs of all time, and of course there's nothing wrong with song's with narritives woven within but this song traumatizes me, see i was living on S. Millvale ave above a couple of gay men who loved speed, one saturday afternoon the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald started playing and played loudly on repeat for close to 10 hours,being that i was stoned and drunk and it was saturday night i finally walked down the stairs and pounded on the door only to have the white half of the couple open the door in a t-shirt and nothing else, needless to say it was a bit awkward, i told him to turn it down and he pulled his shirt down over his johnson...