So how, exactly, does one turn an arcade attraction based on rolling heavy balls into holes and earning worthless paper tickets into a full-fledged sport? Borrow from lots of other sports and pastimes, it turns out. During league play, each team member rolls ten frames, like bowling, and all the teams compete for a seat in the final Sweet Sixteen tournament, like basketball. Teams feature names like That's What Skee Said, SkeeMusketeers and A-Holes in the Outfield, and teammates can win awards such as the "Money Shot," a pin featuring two unicorns having sex in front of a rainbow, which is given out to any player who gets ten balls through the 100-point hole in a single game.
Not too surprisingly, hipsters are responsible for it all. Competitive skeeball began in 2005 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, of all places, and the hipster-ific 'hood now boasts an entire skeeball-themed bar, as well as a national championship.
Could a skeeball bar be in Denver's future -- or maybe even skeeball arena? Who knows? Maybe Denver should invest in the very first skeeball Olympic training center. Then our fair city would really be on a roll.
