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Comment: From Listener Kurt: When I was working at [a] daily newspaper [in] Norwalk, CT, Icovered a local animal rights group protesting the school district'sdonkey-basketball fundraiser. Somehow it's not a clip Ii held on to,but I can confirm for you. As I recall, there was an organization that'toured' it, setting up the fundraisers for schools.
Comment: From Listener Wendy: I grew up in Morris County NJ, and I went to a tiny little private school.we were lucky to have a gym at all, let alone TEACHERS ON DONKEYS! Damn,what a delightfully humiliating experience for them. Do you think theunion sanctions this? Whaddabout PETA?
Comment: From Listener Steve: Mike, I grew up in Dayton, Ohio. I do not think you are a filthy liar...at least about donkey basketball. While I have indeed heard of and even seen pictures of donkey basketball, there was never an occurance in my school.
Comment: From Listener Jason: I'm originally from the central San Joaquin (pronounced 'Wa-keen') valley of California. And yes I have seen donkey basketball. It was in a HS gym, and faculty members comprised one of the teams. The other team was comprised of the officers of the FFA (Future Farmers of America). Yipes!
Comment: From Listener Andy: I think I smell a big monkeymaker here for the station! I never ever heard of this and am amazed and perplexed by this.
Comment: From Listener Mark: I certainly do not believe you to be a filthy liar, but even after you explained what donkey basketball was, I still assumed that you did not mean the term 'donkey' literally. I seriously thought you must have meant that teachers were standing on the shoulders of other teachers, or some such scenario, which might, in truth, be even more bizarre than a literal interpretation of what you had said. So in a sense I guess I didn't believe you. But I too promptly went to google in search of visual clarification of the phenomenon that you had described. And there I found the incontrovertible and amazing evidence of my eyes. Where did the donkeys come from???... I come from the suburbs west of Philadelphia. I went to a private school,where the mostly rich kids in attendance could have been expected either tospurn such an event or, perhaps more likely, to traditionalize it in someeven stranger way. In any event, I don't think it was actually played atmy school.
Comment: From Listener John: I witnessed donkey basketball in the Liverpool High School gymnasium (LiverpoolNY -- just north of Syracuse NY). It was in the mid-1970s. They had a game on one or two occasions to raise moneyfor some dang thing. It was always teachers vs. celebrity students (studentcouncil folks, cheerleaders, etc.), and they were held in the evening.There was a guy who had a horse truck who travelled from town to town putting onthese games. I've often wondered if he was the only guy in the USA left who didthis for a living.He probably travelled to a lot of places, so a lot of people from that era sawgenuine donkey basketball.I wonder if it still exists -- it seems to involve cruelty to animals, especiallywhen the guy poked a donkey with a pin to get the action going.It really wasn't much fun to watch.Check this out: I don't know if it ever really existed, but my father said back then that he had seen donkey BASEBALL. My memory may be bad about that, though.Don't let them call you a liar!
Comment: From Listener Katrina: I'm not sure if we have any spare donkeys in Australia for ridin' round thegym. In fact I don't even know if we have donkeys here at all. Or gyms.
Comment: From Listener Katherine: DONKEY BASEBALL! I had forgotten about that (but in truth had not heard of thateither, until i probably got an alert that there was a protest happening in thearea . . . )Stupid as these 'games' are, still not nearly as gruesome as dog fighting, etc.,-- crap where the animals REALLY get the &$^#*#@ beat out of them, killed,whatever (all in the name of 'entertainment' I guess)DONKEY BASEBALL reminded me of another *sport* where donkeys (or maybe evenhorses, cows, other four legged mammals too? sorry I am being so vague on this,just do not recall all the details) are forced to dive off diving boards -- andnot just 'regular' diving boards but the 'high dive' type -- YIKES!Don't know if this goes on in our wonderful Garden State, I think I heard aboutit being real popular in Florida? (I know there were protests organized againstthese events, a lot of the animals were seriously injured and/or died)FREE THE DONKEYS!
Comment: From Listener Irwin: No one likes this calypso shit. Cut it out.
Comment: From Listener Scott: Yes, weplayed Donkey Baskeball in Essex County NJ in the 1980s. My only specificmemory is 1985 or 6, sophomore year, and it was students playing. Motherfuckin jocks v. freaks! Yep,band fags vs. jocks. I didn't play because I was an underclassman, butthe band fags won. This is explained simply:1. nobody can ride a stranger donkey, let alone ride one and shoot, so thejocks had no advantage.2. jocks were drunk, and therefore unable to negotiate the, um, physics ofthe thing, while the band was on acid and therefore interested in nothingmore than the 'weird' challenge at hand.I know there were earlier donkey basketball events in My Hometown, but mymemories are foggy. I do believe they were faculty only, and I believethat's because we students were really young - too young to be ridingdonkeys anyhow, and whatever comeback you have to that is, I'm sure, spoton.I'm sorry you got called a liar over this! Maria says she would've calledyou a liar too. She went on to say 'how could you ever do such a thing and not spend the rest of your life talking about it?' Good point, towhich I could only suggest that anything becomes normal once you'veseen/done it.
Comment: From Listener Therese: Hi. We had donkey basketball fundraisers at my high school. They took place in the evening, and you had to pay to attend. Students rode thedonkeys. (Probably teachers too, but I don't recall. I'll have to find mysophmore yearbook.) They added an extra exciting wrinkle -- one of thedonkeys was given a laxative before the game, which resulted in that donkeycrapping all over the gym floor. Then the person riding that donkey would have to clean up the mess for the enjoyment of the assembled student body/community. This must have raised a ton of money, because the phys ed department got pissed if someone walked on the gym floor in hard-soled shoes. I can only imagine what they said when they heard that pack animals were not only going to be trotting all over their precious floor, but defecating on it!I think it fell out of favor around 1989, at my school at least. We switched to Jell-O Wrestling after that.