Slamball

A fantastic combination of football, professional wrestling, and the all-star weekend slam dunk competition, SLAMBALL gives you everything you could possibly want from a sport. And by everything I mean trampoline dunks and the best goaltending money can buy.

This video will show you the ropes. Pay attention to the rules, and remember SLAMS are worth 3 points, everything else is worth 2.



Here's the slamball dunk competition:



More great slamball action:



A video of some kids playing playing slamball with terrible results. This video is definitely a minute too long.



Try this at home.

Eyeshield 21

Alright. So I was watching the Broncos vs. Chargers game tonight. Not because I'm particularly interested in the outcome, but rather that my fantasy football championship game depends a lot on Jay Cutler and Brandon Marshall doing well and LT failing. It's half-time right now, and the first half has not gone well for me. But that's ok. Because I just checked the score (which is really inconvenient using Yahoo, use nfl.com instead) and unless LT scores 32 more points than Jay Cutler and Brandon Marshall, I'm a winner. Here's hoping.

Speaking of LT, my older brother was watching the game too, and he isn't a big football fan, but he was really impressed by our boy LaDainian. Then he noticed that LT wears an eyeshield as well as the #21, and is the best runningback in the league, just like the protagonist of one of his favorite mangas, Eyeshield 21. I have not read it myself, but it's about American Football and my brother says it's great, and he's usually right about this kind of stuff, so you can read it in English here.

Anyways, my brother and I assumed that there must be some kind of common piece of football lore that would make the best runningback in the NFL and the main character of a manga so similar. But 8 minutes of searching google has yielded no results, leading me to the only possible conclusion. LaDainian Tomlinson reads Eyeshield 21. And likes it enough to model himself after the main character. What a stud.






































I see it. Do you?

Heidkamping

So let me tell you about Heidkamping. Well.






This is Mr. Heidkamp. My senior year English teacher.

It all started out with some friends and I visiting Mr. Heidkamp after school last year. We would just stop by his room and either talk about whatever book we were currently reading, or, if we had nothing to say, stick our heads in the door and say "Heidkamp." This daily ritual snowballed throughout the year, until we were singing covers of songs from any and all genres, replacing just about every two syllable word with "Heidkamp."

Here are some examples so the concept sticks:

"Heidkamp bells, heidkamp bells, Heidkamp all the way"

"Heidkamp on my miiiiiiiiind..."

"Heidkamp's mom, has got it goin on"

After we had done this a few times, the history teacher from the room next door, Mr. Schwartz, started coming in to listen. Thusly, we incorporated his name into songs for one syllable words ala "It's the Eye of the Heidkamp, he's the king of the Schwartz."

Anyways, all of this culminated in me giving a graduation speech all about "Heidkamping" as it came to be known, including 5 different songs and a 4 part arrangement of "Heidkamp in D."

Unfortunately, Mr. Heidkamp wasn't at graduation. He had to watch it on tape much later. But then, after showing the tape to his parents, he became a legend in the Heidkamp family. How good does a teacher have to be to have kids sing about him at graduation? Heidkamp good. That's how.

Well the story doesn't end there. Me and my friends go to college now, but we still carry on the torch whenever we're home. One of those times was today. And since we can only Heidkamp a few times a year, we've taken to singing a really good one, with sheet music and fantastic harmony. Today's was "Don't Stop Heidkamping," off of the Journey classic, arranged by my friend Dan who does a lot of a capella stuff at Yale. What's that you say? You need proof?










Take that.