Not Just For Breakfast Anymore!

Lon Smith, Modest Mouse, Footbag - Boo Yah!

What the hell does that mean?!

I don’t often report on the exploits of footbag freestyle but there is sometimes a happening so BIG that it’s more than just freestyle, it’s footbag in general and we’re part of that for sure.  This is one of those times.

First the video and then, if you care, I contribute some babble below.  This Modest Mouse video stars Lon Smith.

It’s so big that I’m not entirely sure it’s real.  Perhaps this is some editing trick.  I doubt it though and I guess the video will have its official premier in the next few days on Modest Mouse’s myspace page. 

So, perhaps this isn’t footbag’s break-out moment.  Maybe footbag is and always will be an alternative sport and this isn’t where we go mainstream and start pulling all the big sponsors.  Does footbag even want that?  I don’t think it’s possible anyway.  Besides, I love footbag the way it is.  Not that I don’t want to promote the sport and see it grow.

I think of footbag like this…

Footbag is a theatre show to the stadium concert.  Perhaps even a smoky night club.  Okay, a garage band… in the garage… a one car garage.  But the band is bad ass!

Footbag is a little big city.  Well, still just a little city.  Okay, a town… in the middle of nowhere… a little town.  But it’s a bad ass little town!

That’s footbag to me.

Don’t give us any bull@#&* hype!  We don’t want it and we don’t need it!

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