My company got a foosball table with electronic scoring and sound effects. For a while I had a double league going, complete with randomly drawn matches, standings on the intranet, and an obscenely complicated ratings system reminiscent of the BCS. I was just beginning to appreciate foosball as a spectator sport when work suddenly got hectic, and the league fell by the wayside. But foosball is still a big deal.
Lately the foosmen on the black team have developed an alarming tendency to break in half in the middle of a game and go flying across the room. So far one foosman has lost his head (which is considered a minor thing), while two others have sustained career-ending injuries. No people have been hurt by flying plastic yet, but there are still 24 men on the table, so there's still hope.
Stephen Ng and I are undefeated so far when playing the black side of the table. So far the streak is 4 or 5 games. This is remarkable in that we're not such good foosball players; I went 1-2 or something in league play.
Our foosmen have held up pretty well over the past 9 months that I have been working there, but there is a foos graveyard over on the floor, a thin cardboard box with the corpses of the brave foosmen who sustained all of the injuries you described. I think it is funny, and adds a lot of character, that a lot of the original foosmen (who look vaguely Scandanavian, plus lipstick and miniskirts) have been replaced with inhuman, evil robot foosmen. I'll bring my camera and take some pictures
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Lately the foosmen on the black team have developed an alarming tendency to break in half in the middle of a game and go flying across the room. So far one foosman has lost his head (which is considered a minor thing), while two others have sustained career-ending injuries. No people have been hurt by flying plastic yet, but there are still 24 men on the table, so there's still hope.
Stephen Ng and I are undefeated so far when playing the black side of the table. So far the streak is 4 or 5 games. This is remarkable in that we're not such good foosball players; I went 1-2 or something in league play.
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