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Games are intense. The smallest mistake can lose the contest for you. And since most of us had little or no prior experience with Nok Hockey, the equal footing reinvigorated our competitive fires and built up more room camaraderie than anything that doesn’t involve alcohol...
...Nok Hockey spread beyond our room, as blockmates and neighbors wanted to know what all that noise was (someone thought we were “shooting small animals”). The constant clatter of plastic sticks on wood and our own cursing often carries on into the wee hours of the morning. I even brought Nok Hockey to the Crimson one night...
...truly understand Nok Hockey, you have to appreciate the culture where it was born. When I was younger, my siblings and I used to go to the community pool down the street from our home in Pennsylvania. All the kids from the area were there, and pretty soon swimming turned into roughhousing. After a while, just to rest up, some of us kids would go to the pool grill for munchies...
...after you ordered your burger, fries or mozzarella sticks, you had to wait for it to be prepared. Cold, wet 12-year-olds hate to just sit and hang around—we had to do something. The pool manager had bought a Nok Hockey table one summer and just left it at the grill. So, we would play until our food was ready or until the game turned violent, which wasn’t rare...
Fast forward to 2001. A fierce Nok Hockey battle raged between two roommates and friends, Marc and Matt. Since Marc had beaten several of us in a row, the rest of the room pulled for Matt. It was a best of three, and Marc had struck first...