Ready... DODGEBALL!!!

Tonight, my bride and I went to a Tulsa Talons game. They played against the OKC Yard Dawgz. They won, too - 71 to 49. It was loud, and fun. This brings up two discussion points...

First, every so often the cheerleaders run out to the sidelines and throw free stuff up into the crowd. I was all of 6 rows from the sidelines, but most of the tosses didn't make it up past row 2. C'more, cheerleaders, you've gotta be able to throw better than that! I still managed to come away from the game with a free Talons Towel... it's got the Dodge logo and the Talons logo on it. It's a nifty little trinket, but it's got nuthin' on the Terrible Towels.

Second, and most importantly, tonight was the "First Annual Talons Mascot Dodgeball Tournament". They had Swoop (the Talons mascot), along with:

- A polar bear and a parrot from the Tulsa Zoo
- Chuck E. Cheese
- A "Trojan" (write your own joke here) from Jenks High School
- A shark-headed guy from who-knows-where
- A guy dressed as a cell phone (US Cellular)
- The Carl's Jr. Star
- Two guys dressed as big sodas
- A cow from Chik-Fil-A

There were others, but those are the ones I remember. The dodgeball rules were the same as the ones from the movie.

The whistle blows, and the mascots run for the balls. At least, the ones who had costumes that allowed for a reasonable field of vision. There was a fair amount of stumbling, also. Chuck E. Cheese ran up to the line, and knelt down to grab a ball. Swoop, who already had grabbed one for himself, smacked Chuck hard directly in the face... it was glorious. Chuck was the first mascot out.

In the end, Swoop's team won. It may have been rigged... it seemed like there were a lot of "where are their eyes?" types on the other team. :)