No kidding, Kidder! For some reason, Sunday was the first time I watched any water polo ever, but it was awesome! Sunday was a catfight between an eastern European team and Canada, I believe. Most of the above water footage looks gentlemanly, but the underwater shots! Yikes! Those girls were ripping, pulling, kicking, elbowing, and gouging like they were fighting over a boy in 4th period high school smoke-hole! All this while treading water considerably deeper than they were tall. And between breaks they were barely breathing heavy! I just loved the penalty box (tell me there is a seat in there!), too, just like hockey.
Being from a seriously rural community (one McDonalds, one stop-light), for fun we used to tread water in the middle of Lake Allatoona and throw rocks to each other, so I pride myself on being able to tread water with the best of them. But there's still no way I wouldn't have been floating to the bottom during this water polo game.
I walked away a couple of hours later thinking, if you're gonna play water polo, You Have GOT To Want It Bad. Dammit, I wish I was 20 years younger, so I could play this sport!
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