Muggle Quidditch

[Carol]

Kemper wrote:
>
> From CBS's the Early Show:
 http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3976918n&channel=/sections/earlyshow/videoplayer500202.shtml
> 
> and
 http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3976932n&channel=/sections/earlyshow/videoplayer500202.shtml
 
> I would play.  I wish someone would start a city league...

Carol responds:

I watched it on "The Early Show" this morning (purely by accident--I
had no idea that segment would air today). I thought that the human
Snitch with the sock on his back was rather silly (especially when the
middle-aged weatherman attempted it--though his gold jacket was
"cool"). I think the idea, suggested somewhere, of a toy helicopter as
the Snitch better. 

Poor Muggles! Can't get off the ground and have to catch the Quaffle
(was it a volleyball?) one-handed because the other hand is holding on
to their supposedly state-of-the art Nimbus 2000s. (Haven't they read
the later books?) At least the Bludger didn't look dangerous. It
reminded me of those red rubber balls (the kind that hit the asphalt
with a high-pitched "ping!") that we used to play dodgeball with when
I was a kid.

Fun to watch for a little while (five minutes!), but I can't catch
with two hands, let alone one, so I'd never attempt to play even if I
were years younger.

Carol, noting that Leaky also has an article about college Quidditch,
including a coed team called the Mollywobbles