Talk Derby To Me.

Last night I FINALLY got to do something I've been wanting to do for years: go to the Roller Derby! Chicago's Windy City Rollers (the number 2 team in the country, aHEM) played Portland's Rose City Rollers, and a rowsing good time was had by all. The match was a close one, but in the end we shot it out of the park (rink?) by winning 113 to 73. Woot!

While there are many many things to love about roller derby (the fast paced exciting nature of the game, the relative ease of learning the rules, the awesome music, the female empowerment), my favorite has got to be the names of the players, coaches, refs, and really anyone involved. Beth Amphetamine, May R. Daley, Ruth Enasia, Carnage Wilson, Yvette Yourmaker, and Anne Arkie were some of my favorite players. I also loved Stegascorus and Oedipus Ref(both refs), and Scorey Feldman and Judgement Dave (both on the statistics team).

If you ever get a chance to go see your local roller derby team, I highly recommend it. It's a relatively inexpensive way to have a great time. Whereas roller derby of yesteryear used to all be fake and put on for the show (similar to WWE wrestling), when the game made a resurgence in the early 2000's it was with a determination to legitimize it and make it a true sport. There's nothing fake about it these days. The players practice three days a week, in the evenings after working all day at their regular jobs. The hits, falls, and slips are all real, meaning these women are bad ass. I just love them. :)

Our group

Little kids stood on the sidelines during the warm up hoping to get high fives from the players