In the often brutal world of full-contact foosball, more than egos are left bruised after a game. Sometimes that little fleshy web between the thumb and index finger is, too. Such injuries are a painful reminder of a hard-fought match, especially should one attempt snatch a handful of salty snacks (I need to avoid drug and alcohol references…even really good ones : ) to assuage the pain of a loss. It also makes it virtually impossible to effectively use one’s Ringshot to blind their victorious opponents to ensure they will never win again.

Such was the fate of the IDEO foosball team when they ventured into the friendly confines of Astro Studios for a match. Granted it was a holiday(?) party and Astro did have home table advantage, but what ensued that storied eve was nothing short of a wholesale asswhipping that went well beyond such canned rationalizations for the loss. And speaking of cans, many empty cans of whupass were strewn about the field of battle. All of them Astro-brand Extra Strength Whupass. [Graphic of Astro Brand Whupass—a black and white, industrial grade, generic, old-fashioned whupass? Example. Or a comically flash whupass?]

It was the kind of victory in which no sportsman could rightfully take pride. However, seeing as how we’re not sportsmen and foosball is a table game traditionally played while terribly inebriated, we did, in fact, take an unseemly pride in the win—an unexpected win made all the more surprising by the fact that it appears IDEO has a worldwide foosball pool from which to draw talent.

So, hats off to us and bring it on next year, IDEO! Cheers.