Jamie Mottram's Sports Blog - www.misterirrelevant.com

Since the forecast in DC is snow-to-ice and Mrs. Irrelevant hasn't put me to work yet (we're painting the living room "cozy cottage" beige), here's a two-minute clip showing you how to create an air hockey table ... on real ice. You can pull it off -- mini-Zamboni excluded, I'd imagine -- for under $50, which is something I totally should have done in college.

Speaking of college, my sophomore and junior year roommates and I bought a $200 Sportcraft foosball table (the wooden kind with one goalie rather than three), effectively launching four straight semesters of playing a stupid game rather than chasing co-eds. However unbelievable at foos we may have been, that decision still goes down as a tragedy.

Update: Mrs. Irrelevant says, "It's not beige. It's a cream color, or off-white." So I suppose it's time to get to work.

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• #2 Comment from bullmaccarthy 
  2/25/07 5:37 PM | Permalink

  I'd like to put in my 2cents...as I was one of the key members in the decision making that went into all decisions at Cantrell.  I'd like to believe that the particular Foosball table in question led to many more quality conversations & drink outings than chasing chicks who'd been had by half of SAE and/or Lambda Chi.  The best of times were Cantrell parties in the Fall with a Keg on the porch out back, pledges bringing you beers and you and I, Mr. Irrelevant taking any two wannabe's who walked through our front door.  Only rule of advice for furture college kids putting in a foosball table in their dining room, don't let a fat gymnist drink too much and do sumersaults on the 2nd floor if it's directly above the table...you may have a light fixture fall and ruin your game!
• #1 Comment from monponsett 
  2/25/07 12:04 PM | Permalink

  You need to stake of one area in the house- and it's most likely going to be in the basement or the garage- and set it aside as the kind of place you can hang a Taylor jersey or set up a Spy Hunter game. She'll resist at first, but her friends will explain it all to her.
  
  If she resists longer than usual, injvite your fattest, most obnoxious friend over for a NBA Thursday Night doubleheader, and serve chili and tequila. She'll build you a wing herself.
  
  I don't know what sort of voodoo Sportz pulled to get his wife to let him have a Sportz room (and the 9" dealbreaker could be a possibility there), but you might want to discuss strategy with the man. Whatever he did worked.