Charger Sports

When Charger staffers dream, strange sports happen

Brandon Grissom and Doug Hensley, Charger Staff

There is an exciting, new sport that is sweeping room 224 at Cookeville High School. It combines the athletic ability in basketball, the strategy of chess, and the sheer violence of hockey. What is this wild and wonderful new sport you ask? The answer is very simple--the game is chairball.

The rules are very simple and easy to remember. The game consists of two players. One stands in a chair and throws a ball toward the trash receptacle in the corner while jumping from the chair. If the player makes it to the floor before the ball enters the receptacle, a call of “safe” is made, and the player must continue. If the ball makes its fantastic journey to the can before the player touches the floor, the player loses his turn and his opponent gets a ball-in-hand, meaning that he can shoot from anywhere in the room.

If the shot reaches the waste basket, he receives one point.

If the player has not made a minimum of seventy-two complete laps to the judge’s satisfaction within ten minutes, the player must forfeit the game. The first player to reach the points equivalent to the year of his birth ( ex: 85, not 1985), plus his shoe size, is declared the winner.

If you can master these simple rules, you too can have endless hours of fun playing chairball. If not, feel free to drop by the Charger room for a hands-on demonstration.

Of course, chairball is an imaginary sport. We actually work hard in newspaper class. Just ask Ms. A.

Besides, if we actually tried to play chairball in class, we would fail newspaper class at the very least or end up no longer members of the elite Charger staff next year!

~Article prepared for web by Steven Linger and Joy Wheeler~