Boing boing
Thanks to the blog at Veer for this tip.
What do you get when you drop a quarter-million super balls down one of the streets of San Francisco?? An amazingly simple and beautiful tv commercial. This would have been an incredible music video too. Great piece of art/advertising here! Check it out at www.bravia-advert.com
FWIW, the song is fantastic too. “Heartbeats,” by José González.
22 comments November 26 2005 10:43 pm | Pepperguy | Grant
OMG! Where did all those superballs end up? Can you just imagine the cleanup? —–But it was a cool idea!
My junior year in high school the student body rained about 1,000 superballs onto the basketball court with 2 minutes left in the first half. If you’ve ever seen the rossford high school gym, you would now how cool the crazy little place looked.
I’m just wondering how the stopped all of them at the bottom of the hill! I wouldn’t want to be driving anyplace below that road!
I always wondered what happened to all of those superballs my kids leave laying around, in the van, under the couch, etc. I’ll bet 10% of those in the picture were at one time in my possession.
Was that really some Rossford High School gym props I saw?
(I know it was, I’m just seeing what we can do to get this site #1 on Google for “Rossford High School gym”. Cause that would be cool and all. You know… Googling “Rossford High School gym”.)
No, you didn’t succeed in getting this site #1 on Goggle for Rossford high school gym Tony. It only comes up #2 for Rossford High school Gym. I don’t know why anyone, let along a Perrysburg grad, would google Rossfor High School Gym.
You know, I’ve never been in the Rossford High School gym. I remember Lazelle and the rest of the Durdens. They played a lot of games in the Rossford High School gym. In fact, didn’t Lazelle light up for the most points ever in a OHSAA tourney game or something, it was on the road, so not in the Rossford High School gym. My boss’ boss went to Rossford High School and played sports, I’ll bet she spent some time in the Rossford High School gym!! Great point Tony!
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You’ve gotta love the Rossford High School gym, despite what those people from up the river try to say. Rossford High School’s gym is awesome!
And yes, LaZelle went for 69 in a tourney game, but we won’t discuss the outcome of that one with P-burgers in the area. And no, it wasn’t at the Rossford High School gym. I wish there were pictures of the Rossford High School gym available somewhere. It’s really a nice gym, that Rossford High School gym.
Back in the day Lazelle Durden lit up Swanton for 50 some points at a high school tournament game. The game was played at Owens not the Rossford High School gym.
I played in the Rossford High School gym in 8th grade. Now that I think about it the game may have been in the junior high gym and not the Rossford High School gym. If Tony could provide a link to some pictures of the Rossford High School gym, maybe it would jog my memory and I would be able to determine if we played in the junior high gym or the Rossford High School gym.
I heard that Manny Durden played a lot of games at the Rossford High School gym. I also heard his family tree looks a lot like Shawn Kemp’s family tree, although neither of them has ever conceived a child in the Rossford High School gym to the best of my knowledge.
Sorry Goose, I have no pics of either the Rossford High School Gym or the Rossford Junior High Gym, although if you’re roughly my age, the Rossford Junior High Gym would have been pretty sparkly and new, and has one of those rubber floors. The Rossford High School Gym is hardwood, and all the bleachers are separated from the floor by a stone wall. And the upper reaches of the Rossford High School gym are very dark, so it is quite possible that any of the Durdens, or anyone else for that matter, could have, and probably has, conceived a child in the Rossford High School gym.
Interestingly enough, I think LaZelle Durden scored 50+ a handful of times in and out of the Rossford High School gym, yet the OHSAA website doesn’t recognize any of them in it’s record book.
It was probably at the Rossford Junior High School gym and not the Rossford High School gym. I don’t recall the rubber floor, but I am fairly sure that it was not at the Rossford High School gym. Despite the location of the game not being in the Rossford High School gym, I distinctly remember guarding a future regular of the Rossford High School gym and Centennial Hall by the name of James Heck. Even though “the Heckster” likely schooled me a few times, we beat Rossford, so oneday my Grandkids will hear the exaggerated tale of me shutting down the former king of the legendary Rossford High School gym.
Ah, James Heck… if I’m not mistaken, he was/is the all time leading scorer at Rossford. Until LaZelle stepped onto the Rossford High School gym floor and took over. Heck’s dad was the coach for the longest time at the Rossford High School gym. The Rossford High School gym was like his office. His home away from home. I can’t remember if Heck was two years older than me or three, but I definitely remember watching him play at the Rossford High School Gym.
Did you know that the Rossford High School Gym is actually housed inside the George Wolfe Fieldhouse? And in fact, they may have renamed the gym, too, so that the Rossford High School gym isn’t technically called the Rossford High School Gym anymore.
I think I was at a wrestling tournament in the Rossford High School Gym, but I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen nor played basketball in the Rossford High School Gym. In fact, I probably couldn’t describe the inside or outside of the Rossford High School Gym if my life depended on it, but I’d certainly try to make something up were that the case. I bet I could come up with something that looked at least a little like the Rossford High School Gym if I had to. What part of the Glass City is Rossford even in? Or is it actually a ‘burb? Do they have a swim team or is Rossford High limited to gym sports? Having grown up on God’s corner of Ohio (northeast for those of you from elsewhere) I’m not even sure I could find the Rossford High School Gym these days.
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Interesting that you are remembering the superball game. It was Maumee at Rossford. I was an assistant coach for Rossford at the time. The year would have been 1994 or 95.
Just remember more than anything the student body counting down from 2:09…. nine, eight, seven,…….. and wondering what in the world…. then……
It rained small super balls…. Technical foul…. complexion of the game changed…. Maumee wins…..
I came across an old scrapbook not too long ago with the Blade article of the game….
Not such a good memory of that particular game.
Interesting that this post is still receiving comments. I found it again by googling “Rossford High School,” not “Rossford High School Gym.” It was over a year ago that I commented as Tony’s Brother, but I think it was still an awesome spectacle seeing those balls rain down into the Rossford High School Gym. Even better was the game at Maumee when we counted down from five with 2:00 left in the first half just to laugh at the reaction of the administrators.
And I’m still not sure if Rossford would have won the game anyhow.
Well….. Maybe Rossford would have won…. maybe they wouldn’t have won….. but I do remember how it changed the momentum of the game.
I dug through my archives of video tapes from that year and found the game. We (Rossford) were winning at the time…. and after the super balls rained down…… it was just over…. even though it happened in the first half. Caith Chapman had a very good game for the Panthers…..
It is still a bad memory for me…… and losing that game definitely hurt our chances at a league title that year……. we finished second… one game out of first….
Peace
It cost Rossford High School a chance at a league title!?!?!
The perpetrators must be tracked down and dealt with. Whoever they are. Wherever they may be. 😉
I will say, for the record, that I kept my balls in my pocket that night.
Just for the record, I found this site by googling James Heck, not Rossford High School or Rossford High School gym. Yes, I’m a bored, pathetic, middle-aged former Rossford student googling old classmates…like James Heck.
Just to keep this going, members of the Rossford basketball team may or may not have actually had a large hand in planning the super ball incident at the Rossford High School Gym.