Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Basketball Failure

Greetings fellow web-goers! Today I’ve found a golden video focusing on the improper use of basketball hoops. First off, I must say I’m glad to see people failing at basketball; videos like NBA Top 10 Best Dunks Ever make me feel less and less like a man every time I watch them, and only remind me of how much time I waste watching NBA Top 10 Best Dunks Ever videos.

But on an up-note, we can always learn from this Einstein…


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This video comes from Break.com, and what I love about it the most is that it almost works; that’s right, if he wouldn’t have shifted his weight backwards at five seconds into this video it would have become a great success and not fell-- on his face-- and to the Bottom of the Bin as an awesome failure.

With this video it’s hard to give out the “I didn’t see that the first time I watched it” Award because there are so many little nuggets of gold speckled throughout. But I think the most worthy thing is that it looks like the kid is trying to make his way to the top of a church. Compare to this picture:


Notice the same sort of low roof structure of a small community church.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t think a basketball-hoop catapult is the best way to get to heaven. And breaking church property doesn’t help much either.

An honorable mention goes to the guy (most easily seen at :22), to the left of the hoop, who looks like he is holding some type of green padding. Too bad he didn’t put it on the gutter of the building before lift-off.

It’s also great to note that it takes six guys to get this kid off the ground.

Overall, I love this video because there are eight people seen in the video, plus the camera man, and not one of them figured the hoop wasn’t prepared for the G-forces that kid’s butt was creating.

Until next time, here are some more great Basketball failures:

2 comments:

  1. This post made my day. I would much rather watch a semi large group of people fail together at something that clearly is not a good idea than watch people succeed. Creative idea, I really do like it. Bravo, wouldn't expect anything less of you.

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  2. great videos. everyone loves watching idiotic people hurt themselves.

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