I wonder if Karch Kiraly, Misty May and Kerri Walsh all get together and throw a birthday party on February 9th every year. Well they should, because if it wasn't for the birth of volleyball on February 9th, 1895, they'd be quite out of luck. Volleyball is said to have been born on this day by William Morgan, a YMCA physical education director in Holyoke, MA. Wow. I didn't know they had YMCAs in 1895! Could you get yourself clean? Could you have a good meal? Could you do whatever you feel?
Morgan invented a game called Mintonette, played indoors with any number of players, that was intended to be similar to basketball, but less rough. Apparently for the, uh, less-than-spring-chickens who regularly hung out at the YMCA. The game was a little different back then. There were nine innings and teams did not have a limit as to the number of times they hit the ball before sending it back over the net. That seems odd... I'm seeing a whole lot of people standing around doing nothing until someone decides to give up the ball so the other team can play.
The first country to adopt volleyball outside of the U.S. - Canada. Makes sense. They needed some indoor sports too for the people who didn't like snow sports. (There are others like me - I know it)
Not sure when and where beach volleyball got its start...more on that later. In the meantime, I'm thinking up ways to celebrate the birth of my favorite sport to play. A volleyball shaped cake? Garland made of netting? Candles shaped like knee pads? Wilson party favors? I can't believe the party stores haven't caught on to this. Someone should alert them. Mark your calendars for next year!
February 9, 2010
GaGa for GooGoo
I have an unhealthy internet relationship. I didn't mean for it to happen, it just did. I find myself going back, several times per day, for my fix. I'm a googlaholic. And I don't wanna be cured!
Did you see google's Parisian Love commercial during this year's super bowl? An entire room of rowdy women drinking beer stopped and grew quiet with every google entry that followed the story of an American falling in love with a Parisian while studying abroad. The search covers long distance relationships, flights to Paris, jobs in Paris, churches and wedding invitations until the final entry "how to assemble a crib." And we all melted. Corny? Yes. But we melted just the same.
The irony of it all is that this 50-second ad could be my life! No, I'm not planning to run off to Paris, but I google pretty darn near everything. You know this about me. I just googled "google super bowl ad" to find out the name of the ad and how long the spot is. Google is an invaluable resource and I sincerely don't know how I existed without it before.
Did you see google's Parisian Love commercial during this year's super bowl? An entire room of rowdy women drinking beer stopped and grew quiet with every google entry that followed the story of an American falling in love with a Parisian while studying abroad. The search covers long distance relationships, flights to Paris, jobs in Paris, churches and wedding invitations until the final entry "how to assemble a crib." And we all melted. Corny? Yes. But we melted just the same.
The irony of it all is that this 50-second ad could be my life! No, I'm not planning to run off to Paris, but I google pretty darn near everything. You know this about me. I just googled "google super bowl ad" to find out the name of the ad and how long the spot is. Google is an invaluable resource and I sincerely don't know how I existed without it before.
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