Fewer playground games captured my imagination like musical chairs. The running, stalling, hoping, dancing, and even lollygagging around a row or circle of empty chairs brought about as much joy and backache as the famed schoolyard game. As it turns out, the adult, sports entertainment equivalent hits the airwaves Wednesday night on the CW in the form of "Oh Sit!" (Still no clue what CW means).
I don't watch a lot of television, but this spin on an old favourite is intriguing. From what I delved from the commercials, previews, and interviews, the humour is in the over-the-top seriousness of its competitors. Team colours, numbered jerseys, and even the tackling provide more than a fair share of laughs. Then again, how often do we laugh when adults play a kid's game like baseball, basketball, football or American Football?
All we hear from the "established" sports in North America, like American Football, are words and sentences like "Kill the Quarterback!", "Pick up the Blitz!", and "The Bills are for real (no, they aren't)!" If there are any scenes of humour and frivolity to be found in any sport, they come from annual follies videos, over-the-top superfan costumes, and former NFL head coach Jim Mora's "Playoffs?!" rant.
It can go over the top though: Naming teams after cities its players never visited, drafting plays on teleprompters on basketball courts littered with trampolines, and creating super stars out of marginal talents that can't act or excel in the original sport the fake sport is based (See Trampoline Basketball). It is nice for a laugh, but compared to the AFL-NFL war it's "Small Potatoes".
Anyway, I will try and film the hilarious hi-jinx that is "musical chairs on steroids" tomorrow night. It could even bring back some old memories of Friday night Youth events at the church ^_^ Without the bodychecking o_O
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