Quidditch gaining popularity

[nick1985]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/11/12/quidditch-takes-flight-harry-potter-muggle/

"It's part rugby, part dodgeball and part fantasy. But as Harry Potter's magical, fictional game of Quidditch takes off as a real sport, it's only part fun and games."


The pictures are LOL. These nerds are running around holding brooms on their nuts. Looks like a great way to get racked.

 

[dighn]

wow... lightning bolt?

 

[daw123]

Sad bastards.

 

[guyver01]

Well... considering the main piece of equipment in this game include items which do not currently exist:
1 - Flying Broom
2 - magical golden snitch

They're not playing quidditch.

call it broomball or whatever you want... but its not quidditch.

 

[lxskllr]

Well... considering the main piece of equipment in this game include items which do not currently exist:
1 - Flying Broom
2 - magical golden snitch

They're not playing quidditch.

call it broomball or whatever you want... but its not quidditch.

The golden snitch is the hard part. Something on motorcycles could be pretty cool, or maybe horses for the ritzier schools. Maybe something like a full contact polo.

 

[Terzo]

The golden snitch is the hard part. Something on motorcycles could be pretty cool, or maybe horses for the ritzier schools. Maybe something like a full contact polo.

Yes, a thousand times yes! I don't really know how polo is played, but I bet it can only be more awesome by replacing the horses with motorcycles.

 

[2Xtreme21]

you go to foxnews

lol

 

[PottedMeat]

Oh i thought this was about that badass colonel from Avatar.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/11/12/quidditch-takes-flight-harry-potter-muggle/

"It's part rugby, part dodgeball and part fantasy. But as Harry Potter's magical, fictional game of Quidditch takes off as a real sport, it's only part fun and games."

Rugby is no part of this, at all.

 

[zokudu]

My friend at Emerson is on their "world Cup" Quidditch team. Its kind fo sad D:

 

[Dr. Detroit]

I thought for surer I had my calendar wrong and this was some April Fools BS.

Nope - the future of america acting like complete fucking idiots.

 

[Matthiasa]

wow... lightning bolt?

Perhaps but there was some largish looking people in some of those pictures, that could probably take most here.

 

[Nintendesert]

Looking at all the chicks that are playing and having fun with this, it might not be such a bad idea to play this "sport".

 

[BoomerD]

moronic morons...

 

[nick1985]

My friend at Emerson is on their "world Cup" Quidditch team. Its kind fo sad D:

rofl

 

[Fenixgoon]

Yes, a thousand times yes! I don't really know how polo is played, but I bet it can only be more awesome by replacing the horses with motorcycles.

what about polar bears?

 

[lxskllr]

what about polar bears?

I like the way you think :^D

 

[Triumph]

that is so goddamn gay I can't even fathom it. what. the. hell.

 

[DrPizza]

I don't even have to look at the video to know that no matter how geeky/nerdy/dorkish it is, nothing will top grown men dressing up as knights and playing sword fights. I'm not talking about Rennaissance festivals - I'm talking about..

shit, I should just post the facebook pictures of an acquaintance...

 

[sactoking]

I don't even have to look at the video to know that no matter how geeky/nerdy/dorkish it is, nothing will top grown men dressing up as knights and playing sword fights. I'm not talking about Rennaissance festivals - I'm talking about..

shit, I should just post the facebook pictures of an acquaintance...

Playing "Quidditch" or the medieval battle stuff still doesn't hold a candle to LARP'ing in the geeky/nerdy/dorkish continuum.

 

[nick1985]

Playing "Quidditch" or the medieval battle stuff still doesn't hold a candle to LARP'ing in the geeky/nerdy/dorkish continuum.

Yeah but this "Quidditch" bull is played out in public, meaning these losers make a spectable of themselves running around with brooms under their balls for all to see. LARPers usually LARP in their basements where nobody sees them.

 

[crownjules]

So how do they do the whole flying around on broomsticks thing? Seems integral to the game from my limited exposure to Harry Potter.

 

[geno]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APhdCSj-j8Q

 

[ViviTheMage]

So how do they do the whole flying around on broomsticks thing? Seems integral to the game from my limited exposure to Harry Potter.

They run around with a wodden stick between their legs....D:

 

[BeauJangles]

The broomsticks are too much, lol.