Looking at the "Big Boss" size pool toys, I'm having second thoughts about discounting the pool toys as possible game objects. That big foam tube wouldn't be that easy to break, and with the price(about two bucks apiece, so for FIRST, maybe like $1. I'd imagine they get at least bulk discounts.) You could afford to chuck one or two every match.Thats like 250 bucks, in a worst case scenario, per regional. Not too bad, considering how many tetras kicked the bucket during play. And they were much more expensive per piece. Now, the problem comes in two parts:
1. Thats alot of stuff to fit into Mike Wade's trailer. It's big...But so are like 500 pool noodles!
2. What happens when the toys get chipped up? The things can probably get beat around awhile before they are completely destroyed, but in the meantime, they'd get chipped up and become less handleable. A tetra was eother broken, or not. Simple as that. A ball was either useable, or not. A bin was either broken, or not. Pool toys are a bit more destructible.
So, I still have my money on footballs, but there might be new light shed on the pool toys.
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