A REAL football enters Bolivian Aerospace

October 18th, 2010: I can’t seem to get too far without having to change plans while walking around the small villages of South America with a REAL football (North American Football). Entering a village with an easily forgettable name – actually for me…every name is easily forgettable. Anyhow, my friend and I took my football and was going to head over to the local cemetery to take a few photos of some stones and to throw around the ball a bit. Not making it more than 20 feet we were stopped by two local kids. They quickly multiplied by the minute growing to team sized numbers.

Trying to teach them how to play a little game of football was a total success – depending on how you look at it. The game of two hand touch became a game that looked a little similar to soccer, rugby, basketball and even a little bit like football. The best was how the kids changed a somewhat slow game at times (American Football) to an action packed event eliminating the end zone and adding a goal keeper to try to block the football from being thrown in. Not knowing enough Spanish to stop the madness and seeing all of the smiles…I didn’t think there was a need to stop them, just join them.