Broomball
So I signed up for a Broomball team yesterday. What is Broomball you ask?
The official description states: “Broomball is played indoors on an ice hockey rink or outdoors on frozen ponds or lakes with rules very similar to Ice Hockey. Players wear special padded sponge rubber shoes, use a ball which is sized somewhere between a soccer ball and slow pitch softball, and use specially designed manufactured brooms which are made of wood or aluminum. The goal like hockey is to put the ball in the opposing net, a net which is larger than a hockey net but much smaller than an outdoor soccer goal.”
I’m told that here we play a modified version of the game at our yearly company picnic. Our homegrown variant combines aspects of traditional broomball and soccer. We play on a grass field, use a larger rubber “exercise ball”, and have goal lines instead of nets. After you toss in a dash of bloodlust usually reserved for the likes of rugby and back-to-school shopping, a traditional yearly broken bone or two, and voila!
I could use a little skeletal readjustment, I guess. Long overdue.
Posted on July 15th, 2004 under Work • 
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