An invite was sent out at Chris’ work for a broomball tournament hosted at Brenton Skating Park in downtown Des Moines. I was asked to come and photograph the late night event. For those unfamiliar with broomball it is simply defined as hockey minus the skates. There are 6 people on a team. 1 goalie (see our brickwall below) and 5 others used for offense/defense. The interesting part about this is it’s played late at night. And late at night meant the first game started at 10:20pm and second game was at 1:20am. It was a great time that included zero serious injuries. I consider that a win! We lost the first game but since this was double elimination we had to win the next game to stay in the tournament. So we pushed on and won the second game ending it in double overtime through a goalie shoot out. Props go out to Jariah Walker for landing us the win! Thanks for the good time and enjoy the photographs!
Our Brickwall/Goalie: Jared
He may be slow but he strikes fear into the heart of the opponents: Chris
Broomball bandit: Matt
Walks softly and carries a big stick: Jeremy
More of the crew: Jariah, Doug, Holly and Erin
Flying V?
Jared seriously had about 50 saves. Amazing.
There were people that took this game a little more seriously than others. Custom jerseys and helments? Seriously? They had a game directly following ours so they watched on. One of them turned to his friend while I was photographing and pointed at my camera + lens and said, “It’s a little overkill dontcha think?”. An interesting comment as his whole team had the custom jersey + helmets + sticks thing going on. And this is all for a weekend amateur broomball outing? A cool photograph nonetheless.
Team photo op!
Official sponsor of the game?
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