Murderball

I watched the movie Murderball tonight. It's a documentary about quadrapalegic rugby, following the US Wheelchair Rugby team. They changed the name from Murderball, because it was tough to get corporate sponsors with that name. These guys are amazing. They are as tough as any non-wheelchair rugby team and they beat the hell out of each other. They've got thier chairs decked out mad max style and hit each other full force, throwing themselves all over the place. It really gave me a new understanding of what goes on in the brain of someone in a wheelchair for life, along with some of the paralympic activites which I'd learned about from my work with the USOC. The movie tracks one of the guys (shown in the poster above) named Mark Zupan. This guy is a bad-ass, tough as nails who you just love to watch in this thing and would love to hang with over a beer. In the beginning of the movie, they interview some of his friends who explain (like any good friends would) "Mark was a prick before the accident — don't point to the wheelchair. He's just as much of a prick as he always was."