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Little Van’s Rules of Backyard Soccer

I got a ton done yesterday. Built the initial CSS themes for the construction SEO project with my college buddy George, set up the feeder blog (sorethumbsblog.net) for sorethumbsstore.com, chopped up the Climate Skateboards draft into HTML(PHP)/CSS – be sure to click on About Us (that’s literally what they want to use for their About Us page – no shit), and fixed an htaccess issue with the WP blog for sorethumbsblog.net.

There is an undefeated streak in sports that no one talks about – my son’s winning streak in backyard soccer. No one better than Bubs can play the extremely fluid rules to their advantage.

Little Van’s Rules of Backyard Soccer:

  1. Daddy has to kick the ball under the fence wire under the fence wire and it can not bounce over the fence to score.
  2. Bubs has to kick the ball against the porch against the porch or above the porch near the porch to score.
  3. If the ball goes under the porch, you lose all your points. If Bubs kicks the ball and it goes under the porch and Bubs gets the ball, he does not lose all his points. If Bubs kicks the ball, it goes under the porch, Bubs gets the ball, he does not lose all his points and you owe him $5.
  4. If you Daddy kick the ball too high, the opponent Bubs gets a point.

Some call this game-fixing, I call Bubs calls it ingenuity and dominance.

After putting in a healthy gabillion hours into all those projects, Abbe, Rachel, and Rich came over for wine/beers and to talk to Bubs about the books he’s been reading (and his backyard soccer winning streak).

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9 Responses to “Little Van’s Rules of Backyard Soccer”

  1.  Peter Says:
    May 3rd, 2009 at 10:14 am

    Re the “My Cell Phone Company is Evil” video:
    I wonder (well, I know) what probably would have happened if they
    would not have removed that Lithium battery before
    starting the microwave.

    Re the skateboard “about us page”: how old are they?

    Re “little Van’s Rules of Backyard Soccer”: clever ;-)

    Peter last blog post..The royal Belgian greenhouses and palace: a personal visit

  2.  Chris Says:
    May 3rd, 2009 at 11:45 am

    Hmm. Are you sure he’s a kid and not a cat? Those totally sound like cat rules.

  3.  furiousBall Says:
    May 3rd, 2009 at 11:57 am

    Peter – i’m telling you if my son was in charge of the US soccer team, we would be competitive on the international scene

    Chris – that would explain a lot

  4.  Madge Says:
    May 3rd, 2009 at 4:15 pm

    Bubs is a genius.

    Madge last blog post..Taking The Day Off

  5.  lime Says:
    May 3rd, 2009 at 7:57 pm

    yeah, those rules sounds rather familiar….i think we’ve had a game or two like that in these here parts.

    lime last blog post..Update

  6.  Auntie Jaxxx Says:
    May 3rd, 2009 at 8:22 pm

    Hah very cool… I wish I’d been more into sports growing up. :-(

  7.  Jazz Says:
    May 3rd, 2009 at 9:09 pm

    Bubs knows how it goes he does…

    Jazz last blog post..Wherein Jazz realizes that crooked walls do indeed count

  8.  Jazz Says:
    May 3rd, 2009 at 9:37 pm

    Bubs knows how it goes he does…

  9.  tori Says:
    May 4th, 2009 at 9:33 am

    My 5 year old has the same kind of rules to his games. Interestingly enough, when he plays tug of war with the puppy, all his rules make her the constant winner. I guess the smallest one should always win, right?

    tori last blog post..Piggy Flu, Jellybeans, and Comic Books

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