Bananas and Volleyball

Volleyball season is NOW!  The basketball players have left the court.

I find myself in the stands trying to invent new ways to make volleyball more exciting.  Last week, Randy and I were discussing some of the new rules for this season.  This is the season where each team is given a team monkey.  After the third point is scored against you, your monkey is released onto the court.  If he happens to walk to your opponents court, which he will be trained to do, the girls on the scoring team should beware of the monkey latching onto their legs (yes, he bites).

Of course, each coach is armed with three bananas to try and distract the monkey off of the girls.  While the monkey is creating chaos on the court the game must continue or the serving team risks a delay of game penalty.  

 After watching the first two games of this season, I started to realize that the quality of play is much improved since last year.  There have been several exciting volleys with four or five hits per team before a point is scored.  All this exciting play had me thinking about the sport.

It turns out the monkeys aren't needed to make an exciting volleyball game after all.  I guess that frees up the primates to be used in those boring baseball games.