Broomball?!?

___Today, (technically night, but anyway) I discovered learned played had fun with a game played locally on campus, between dorms. The name of the game (as one may be able to guess from the post title) is broomball.
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___What is broomball?
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___Broomball is a sport played on ice, while wearing regular shoes, where, with a stick with a small 5" wide flat shovel on the end, you try to knock a tiny, 7" in diameter, soft, ball into small hockey goals (about 5' across and 4' high). This is played on a third of a rink with anything that goes into the other two thirds, past the blue third-line, counting as out, where the ball is then passed back in, from the side-line, by the opposite team of the one that knocked the ball out. Since it is a "co-ed" game at least two girls must be on the ice at any time, and any goal score by a girl counts as two points. The rest of the team is made up of two other players (male or female) and a goalie (also male or female).
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___As one might guess, the game is oddly fast and slow, with everyone going as fast as they can without (hopefully) falling. As one might also guess, this means that falls happen at least once per player (a lot more if you aren't very balanced to begin with) and any challenge being met with either cation or reckless abandon.
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___Sound exciting dangerous interesting silly, you'd be right, but it is also a helluva lot of fun...
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___so long as you don't really value your knees. (who needs knees anyway, walking laying down sitting bending and unbending you knees is really overrated anyway)