Wide Use of Inflatable Balls
Good as Gold (Stupid as Mud)
Good as Gold (Stupid as Mud) is a song by Pop group The Beautiful South, the second track on their fourth album Miaow. It is one of their more popular songs and is frequently played live. On recent tours, large inflatable balls would be thrown into the crowd during performances of it.
It is often erroneously named, often on file sharing or P2P networks, as "Carry On Regardless", due to a prominent lyric contained in the song.
Bladderball
Bladderball was a game traditionally played by students of Yale University, between 1954 and 1982.
Bladderball was conceived by Yale student Philip Zeidman, owner of a six foot leather exercise ball, as a preliminary event before the Yale-Dartmouth game in 1954, according to respected Yale bladderball historian Sarah Hammond. Hammond traces the name "bladderball" back to a rugby-like game played by Yale students on the New Haven Green in the first half of the 19th century, featuring an inflated animal bladder.
Once each year, at 11 AM the Saturday before the Yale-Dartmouth game, the inflatable six foot ball was rolled through Yale's Phelps Gate onto Old Campus, where a throng of Yale students waited. At the sound of a whistle, teams from each residential college and various extracurricular organizations would fight for possession of the ball. Teams were allowed to use any means at their disposal to seize control. In 1975, the Jonathan Edwards College team attempted to capture the ball using a meat hook which predictably popped the ball, inciting enraged chants of "J.E. sucks!!!" from the other participants; this remains the unofficial motto of Jonathan Edwards College to this day.
Bossaball
Bossaball is a sport invented in Belgium. It is similar to volleyball, but also includes elements of football (soccer), gymnastics and capoeira. Each side of the court has an integrated trampoline, allowing players to bounce high enough to spike the ball, and a number of inflatable barriers. Bossaball clubs exist in various countries including Brazil, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Kuwait, Ecuador and Saudi Arabia.
Good as Gold (Stupid as Mud) is a song by Pop group The Beautiful South, the second track on their fourth album Miaow. It is one of their more popular songs and is frequently played live. On recent tours, large inflatable balls would be thrown into the crowd during performances of it.
It is often erroneously named, often on file sharing or P2P networks, as "Carry On Regardless", due to a prominent lyric contained in the song.
Bladderball
Bladderball was a game traditionally played by students of Yale University, between 1954 and 1982.
Bladderball was conceived by Yale student Philip Zeidman, owner of a six foot leather exercise ball, as a preliminary event before the Yale-Dartmouth game in 1954, according to respected Yale bladderball historian Sarah Hammond. Hammond traces the name "bladderball" back to a rugby-like game played by Yale students on the New Haven Green in the first half of the 19th century, featuring an inflated animal bladder.
Once each year, at 11 AM the Saturday before the Yale-Dartmouth game, the inflatable six foot ball was rolled through Yale's Phelps Gate onto Old Campus, where a throng of Yale students waited. At the sound of a whistle, teams from each residential college and various extracurricular organizations would fight for possession of the ball. Teams were allowed to use any means at their disposal to seize control. In 1975, the Jonathan Edwards College team attempted to capture the ball using a meat hook which predictably popped the ball, inciting enraged chants of "J.E. sucks!!!" from the other participants; this remains the unofficial motto of Jonathan Edwards College to this day.
Bossaball
Bossaball is a sport invented in Belgium. It is similar to volleyball, but also includes elements of football (soccer), gymnastics and capoeira. Each side of the court has an integrated trampoline, allowing players to bounce high enough to spike the ball, and a number of inflatable barriers. Bossaball clubs exist in various countries including Brazil, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Kuwait, Ecuador and Saudi Arabia.
