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Vigorously whipping a plastic discus to and fro during last Tuesday’s game, members of Brown’s Ultimate Frisbee Team were reportedly calling themselves that as if there were any other kind of frisbee team at Brown.
“Men’s Ultimate really pulled out a fantastic win today,” said team captain Grayson Wrutscale, referring to his sport as though it were necessary to distinguish it from against some less-ultimate frisbee variety. “This wasn’t just some schmucks tossing the old circle on the green. Today, we lived up to our name.”
The men’s Ultimate team, now in its fifth decade as a club sport, continues to produce top-notch players, score intercollegiate victories, and call itself ‘Ultimate’ even though there has never once been a recognized sport called Regular Frisbee.
“I’m starting to think more teams should adopt this ‘Ultimate’ label,” Wrutscale elaborated, clearly trying to justify putting an adjective in front of his sport’s name. “I can see it now: Ultimate Soccer, Ultimate Field Hockey, Ultimate Fencing. Something about the word ‘Ultimate’ really hammers home that this isn’t your grandpa’s game of frisbee.”
At press time, members of the Club Squash team were really playing a sport named that.
