Rant!

With it being a new semester and all, it's a time when a lot of us get to participate in the ever so exciting art of introductions. While most people state where they are from, what their majors are, what their professional aspirations and life goals are, one particular guy in one of my classes states, “My name is Brad, and I love Ultimate Frisbee!”  You like Frisbee?  That’s all you have to say? Since when did Ultimate Frisbee become a defining characteristic of life? Are you really so passionate about it that it adds meaning and importance to your life? You aspire to be only the raddest player of the most asinine sport? More importantly, when did Ultimate Frisbee become the end all of college sports?  Does adding the word ultimate to a simple game of catch make it a sport and let alone the central figure in your existence?

I like the game just fine, don’t get me wrong, but it seems that there is a stereotypical kind of player that is part of an Ultimate Frisbee game.  You’ve got the typical Tool.  That group of 5 guys that are way too into the sport.  They find high fives and fist pumping appropriate at any given moment throughout the game.  These are also the guys who refuse to pass to anyone who hasn’t played every day for the last year.  Then you have the sporty girls.  These are the athletic girls who the aforementioned Tools are vying for because they are just so good at Ultimate Frisbee.  Then you have the other girls.  Those are the girls who come because they really just want attention from the Tools.  These girls have very little experience and just really run back and forth and squeal in tight clothing while no one passes them the Frisbee.  Then, you have the nice guys.  These guys are just there to make those inexperienced girls feel better about themselves.  They will smile at them even if the drop the blasted Frisbee and will shower them with encouragements.  These are normal guys.  I have no problem with them.

Now, I don’t exactly fit into any of these categories.  I don’t really like the ideas a plastic disc being chucked at my face and I can promise you, I will drop it (gasp).  I’d rather not be glared at and ridiculed because I don’t really care.  I think I would rather play a rousing game of ultimate reading, ultimate eating, or ultimate movie watching perhaps.  I would be the best player at those games!  So yes, I do not see how Ultimate Frisbee can be reason enough to deny all other attributes that a person may have and define their existence.  Yes, he may win at the game, but he loses in life.