Originally published at: Professional pillow fighting: the newest combat sport | Boing Boing
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I know I read about this as a sport several decades ago, but I can’t find corroboration on Wikipedia. Instead I found this:
The Guinness World Record for the largest pillow fight was set in July 2015 at a St. Paul Saints baseball game, where 6,261 participated in an event sponsored by local manufacturer My Pillow.[5] The record was later broken in May 2018 at an evangelical Christian concert. 7,861 people participated in the Minneapolis, Minnesota event, which was also sponsored by My Pillow.[6]
My Pillow being, yes, that guy.
I mean, it looks like fun. But ah… the future of sports? This is action? I uh… I want some of those drugs please.
My childhood pillow fights are better depicted like this rather than people happily bouncing pillows around in insurance commercials.
Man, those bean pillows nearly gave me a concussion. Not fun.
Shouldn’t they be wearing pyjamas?
Am I the only one who pictured a different uniform for this sport?
When pillow fighting, don’t slip a frozen bag of corn into the bottom while no one is looking, your older Brother may get a broken nose. Life lessons people…
Yes. They should be in skimpy pajamas, most definitely.
Also, the pillows should not be so sturdy; there needs to be feathers flying at some point. I mean, really
That needs to be in the rule book for sure.
Is there a sword hidden in one of the pillows, now we’re talking pillow fight to the bitter end.
When/if they look to expand the events, we used to go head-first into our sleeping bags and play “sand-worm wrestling…”
One of the lesser known elements of Kirk-Fu, really.
I think if MMA fighters switch to pillow fighting, they’ll likely have more surviving brain cells.
You are describing a scene of a japanese cartoon begging to be made!
“Back in my day we cheered for fighters like Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston. Today’s snowflake generation has professional pillow fights instead! Get off my lawn!”