Basketball Goal Games

We all know the names, horse, pig, and many others, but how do these basketball goal games work? Let's go through one and see it we can't clear things up.

Let's start by going through the game, how it is played and how it is a winner is determined. The game of "horse" is probably the most popular driveway basketball goal game. There are two or more players involved. Free throws are usually shot to determine who goes first. The person to go the longest without missing a free throw goes first. The first person takes a shot at the basketball goal from anywhere on the court. If that player makes the shot, then everyone else must shoot from that spot on the court. If the player makes the shot, they are OK, but if the player misses the basketball goal, they are given a letter. With each miss a letter is added. First and "h", then an "o" and so on. The person who reaches the fully spelled word looses, or they are out of the game. The game would continue until there is only one player left. That person is the winner. Any word can be used for the game, the longer the word the longer the game will most likely be.

Basketball Goals - Winterizing Portable Units

Well it is that time of year again, the time when leaves start to fall and the winds begin to blow cols. But what does that mean if you have a basketball goal? If the basketball goal that you have is a portable unit, it can mean a lot.

You see there is an innate flaw in the design of today's portable basketball goals, they are usually filled with water. Though the instructions also stat that sand can be used to fill the ballast base, most people opt for the water choice due to the easy of actually getting it into the base of the basketball goal. But there is a problem with water being used as a filler for the base, it freezes.

That's right, when the winter sets in and the temperatures drop, water freezes, even if it is in the base of a basketball goal. Even more of a problem is that when water freezes it expands, when it expands the base of the basketball goal is cracked. Then come spring time, all of the water will leak out and the basketball goal will fall over, maybe even killing little Johnny. That would be bad! So what do you do?? You need to winterize your portable basketball goal to prevent this from happening.

So you go to the auto store and you buy some anti-freeze and you pour it in the basketball goal base. When the winter comes and the temperatures fall, your water in the base of your systems will remain un-frozen with no problems at all, that is until mom backs over the base of the system and the liquid inside starts to leak out. Now Rover, back from chasing a cat, tired and thirsty grabs a drink from the puddle that has formed around the base of the basketball goal. Happy he goes and takes a nap. Johnny comes home from school that day to find that Rover is taking a dirt nap! He is dead as a door nail. What caused this horrible event, the toxic anti-freeze of course.

The way to avoid this unfortunate set of circumstances is to use Sierra, or any other non-toxic anti-freeze. So this year be sure to winterize your basketball goal and keep Rover in mind when you do it!