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Deadspin -- Mormon carpeted basketball courts

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Good read. Man, I remember getting burned on those carpeted floors so many times. I also remember playing ball and just falling down inexplicably because the carpet was just weird to play on.

I like the history lesson too.
 
I never minded the herky jerky element of those carpets.....what got me was when the carpet would have those worn down smooth spots that were really slick. We had one of those right where most right handers would go in for layups on a break. Lots of people ate it.
 
Duck Rodgers said:
I never minded the herky jerky element of those carpets.....what got me was when the carpet would have those worn down smooth spots that were really slick. We had one of those right where most right handers would go in for layups on a break. Lots of people ate it.
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Oh yeah! that was crazy. I remember getting the spots around the key too where rebounders would stand during free throws.
 
There is a special place in hell reserved for any bishop/stake president who wanted carpeted floors to discourage people from playing basketball.
 
green said:
There is a special place in hell reserved for any bishop/stake president who wanted carpeted floors to discourage people from playing basketball.
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I had a bishop and stake president who were such dicks. They hated the youth programs so bad, and would tell us how we were so entitled. It was hilarious. One time this dickhead bishop took us all out for ice cream after an activity, and my friend and I showed up a few minutes late because we stopped to help a woman change a tire on her car. We showed up and he chewed us out and told us we couldn't have any ice cream at the arctic circle. So we bought our own ice cream and left.

That bishop also whined about the extra money spent on the new building's hardwood floors.
 
b_line said:
I had a bishop and stake president who were such dicks. They hated the youth programs so bad, and would tell us how we were so entitled. It was hilarious. One time this dickhead bishop took us all out for ice cream after an activity, and my friend and I showed up a few minutes late because we stopped to help a woman change a tire on her car. We showed up and he chewed us out and told us we couldn't have any ice cream at the arctic circle. So we bought our own ice cream and left.

That bishop also whined about the extra money spent on the new building's hardwood floors.
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Mormons weird af.
 
So like the Mormon places that do have hardwood floors, do they not clean them ever or rebuff them?
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
So like the Mormon places that do have hardwood floors, do they not clean them ever or rebuff them?
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They will periodically re-lacquer (?) them. I've ruptured both my Achilles on church hardwoods.
 
I didn't play a lot of basketball on carpeted floors (my home ward was hardwood), but when I was planning my wedding (later canceled), I wanted one of the gyms with carpet. It didn't look quite as weird.
 
My church basketball court was carpet along with my middle school gym. My brother ****ed up his ankle really bad to the point where he wasn't walking properly for a few months. I tell you I do not miss the carpet floors one bit. I distinctly remember the ball bouncing a lot differently on carpet compared to wood.


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