Oozeball

Oozeball? Volleyball, played in the mud. Obviously. What more do you need to know?

In that case, you'll be happy to know about this website devoted to Oozeball Information where you'll find a sample T-shirt design, printable rules, and the always reassuring printable medical release waiver.

Yes, Virginia. They play it in the mud. They've been doing it for years. Decades, even. Mostly in colleges. As evidenced by this two year-old article describing the 12th annual University of Chicago "Oozeball Mud Volleyball Toruney."

And it's a beautiful thing, the fun to be had trying to play a competitive game of volleyball when you're all ankle-deep in mud. The sheer, slippery, almost-impossible oozefulness of it all It makes me wonder why we haven't heard more about games like Ooze Football (though there is that "get tackled and drown" thing to be worked out), or perhaps, Ooze Golf? Though teeing off might be fun, there's that always annoying "find the ball" problem. Ooze Basketball? Dribbling would be less than rewarding. Ooze Baseball? Ooze Kickball, perhaps.

It would lead one to conclude that of all the sports that might be fun to play in the mud, volleyball is probably the funnest. Why, those clever, Oozeball-playing, college kids!