He just entered the throwzone layer!

I invented a sport. I don't have a name for it yet, but it's pretty awesome. I guess the idea is to play it, or maybe the sport itself is the idea. You pick the one you like.

Anyway, the sport combines basketball, football, soccer, and hockey.

So teams of 5 (three offense, two defense) compete on a basketball court sized field. The idea being you need grass for all the tackling. The offense takes the ball (which is mini football sized) and has thirty seconds to deposit it in a cyclindrical goal about the size of a trash can turned sideways and elevated about 5 feet. There are three levels they can throw from and they get points based on how far away they are. 3 for the farthest, 2 in the middle, 1 for the closest. The defense gets a point for an interception.

The possesion ends when the defense gains possesion of the ball, the ball goes out of bounds, or the shot clock expires. Once any of those things happen, the possesion starts for the team that was just on defense. Those guys have the responsibility of getting the ball to their offensive players who can't cross halfcourt. So it's always two on three in favor of the offense. And you always have 5 guys resting for thirty seconds, waiting for their turn on defense or offense respectively.

The defense can tackle the player with the ball. The offense can run and move and pass as much as they want. Ideally I think the field would have low walls like arena football. Come to think of it, I'm not sure how this incorporates soccer or hockey or is possible in real life....

It should also be noted that this got started when NowEverybody and I tried to invent American Soccer and I decided I wanted an are called a "throwzone layer," just so an announcer could scream the title of this post....