THE ULTIMATE TURNING POINT...

All apologies to those following my blog as it's been sometime since my last entry.  Interesting news on the horizon for those passionate about the game of Ultimate Frisbee...some know it as Frisbee football...others just consider it an interesting past time to play while sunning on the beaches of Jersey....but I must awaken some of you all to a young and what seems to be savvy group of baby boomers who are making headway into transitioning the sport of Ultimate Frisbee to the next level of high stakes sports events that has been a popular past time on college campuses nationwide for sometime.  The fairly new league Major League Ultimate or MLU has been organizing a new league that consists of teams from New York, Boston and Philadelphia.  You might remember a half hour documentary my company produced on the history of Ultimate Frisbee that profiled and explored the rich history of the sport and it's origins at Columbia High School in Maplewood, NJ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxymC_7LgdY (my Alma Mater) back in 2005....WOW!...How this sport has grown since it's inceptions from the late 60's early 70's in a parking lot at the HS where most people played the sport on asphalt during wintery nights lit up by incandescent lights that made any evening play seem like you were in some kind of misty rain storm....The game has evolved and if this league can overcome so many of the legal hurdles that are out there in establishing who owns the rights to the game and where the money is going to go if it becomes as Mr. Joel Silver (one of the original creators of the sport) once explained to my cameras, "The next Monday Night FRISBEE" sport, which he could never have dreamed would evolve to such a level as it has become today, you might find some big players investing their money into developing it into something that surely could and will take off...I just returned from covering one of the games in Union City New Jersey that had roughly 500 people in the crowd on a beautiful spring Saturday.  The crowd was enthusiastic and hyped and even ready to see this game go to a new level.  They certainly all "got it" and enjoyed the game with a passionate understanding but will this MLU survive and will there be money to make in the long haul knowing that there are already organizations promoting the sport quietly with chairmanships and board members overseeing the direction of many disc sports not excluding Frisbee disc golf and games like "Guts" and "Freestyle" which add a more graceful art of balancing the Frisbee disc into tricks and acrobatic moves that make your heart pump?  The jury is still out on this one but be assured that if the Major League Ultimate organization fails into promoting the sport like the big three, NBA, NFL and MLB you can be assured that there will be others to follow picking up the slack where the MLU might fail if it comes to that.  Don't get me wrong, I'm a skeptic through and through but the next revolution in sports might be coming up soon in determining whether the founders of the sport can keep this league flying into the homes and living rooms of potential fans....This might be the Ultimate turning point for the sport....Stay tuned...There's also suppose to be a new documentary on all of the intricacies and innovations of the sport coming to the US from filmmakers in Germany....It's already a world wide phenomenon....