WELCOME BACK, SLAMBALL
02.27.08SlamBall redux? The hybrid basketball-gymnastics extreme sport that had a short life on Spike in 2002 and 2003 is being resurrected for a “showcase” season to be taped in June with expectations of selling eight franchises before 2009.
The revived SlamBall’s new season is being financed by IMG, which has joined with its original partners, the producer Mike Tollin and the sport’s creator, Mason Gordon. They have hired Pat Croce, the ebullient former president of the Philadelphia 76ers, as the commissioner.
That video up there goes on forever, but whatever, man. SlamBall's the tits. I guess purists don't like it because there's no history and it was made specifically for TV, but who the fuck likes purists anyway? They're the same people who opposed the forward pass and bitch about every rule change in baseball. True fact: they also want to bring back slavery. Q.E.D., SlamBall kicks ass.
[Link via Sporting Blog]
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Word! it seems like just yesterday i was stoned out of my mind, watching slamball re-run on spike tv at 2 in the morning.
Just this very week some friends and I were waxing nostalgic about Slam Ball, and, I'll admit, slavery.
Wake me up when they bring back, RollerJam AKA the GREATEST stoned TV sport ever.
Hockey and Basketball, Whatever… I mixed the best parts of Golf and Baseball to form my own super sport. I call it NapTime®
I'm so excited, I just blew out both my knees
True fact: they also want to bring back slavery.
Slavery in and of itself isn't that bad. Its the selection process that needs work. If we could base slavery on IQ rather than ethnicity, we might actually be onto something.
Plus, that way dumb people don't have to make any decisions for themselves!
wwsm, then we wouldn’t have any politicians. Will someone please think of the politicians!
Enrico –
pssssssst. I didn't mention the part where 20 "overlords" run everything. Now shut up – you're ruining everything.
WWSM: Have you been watching Rome on HBO again?
(Sigh)
It just isn't the same since they integrated with the Negro Slamball leagues.
/Slamball purist
You know who hates Slam Ball?
Isaac Sosa
Ahh, Tomoyasu Hotei. Is there no YouTube video your music can't be thrown on top of?
I could feel my IQ falling with each trampoline dunk by a guy wearing a helmet and pads.
I thought Slamball failed because the games couldn't go on for more than about thirty seconds without someone getting a serious injury.
Slamball needs folding chairs.
Yay Slamball! Now think!….where did I put that eighth?
I had been wondering what superstar Sean "Inches" Jackson was up to and with this announcement I can confirm it's been absolutely nothing.
Anyone surprised it was founded by a white guy who just wanted to be able to dunk?