Pool Noodle Fight Over the Name Josh Again Attracts Hundreds

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A pair hundred individuals grabbed their pool noodles and headed to a Nebraska park once more this weekend to battle over the best to the title Josh.

The occasion began as a web based joke when Josh Swain from Tucson, Arizona, despatched out a tweet difficult anybody who shared his title to struggle over it. After it took on a lifetime of its personal, Swain turned it into an actual occasion final yr on the random coordinates he included in his unique observe, which occurred to be in Lincoln, Nebraska.

“The keenness from everyone right here was simply unimaginable,” Swain advised the Lincoln Journal Star.

A number of of the rivals this yr donned costumes, together with masks, animal fits and soccer helmets, earlier than heading out to Bowling Lake Park. However that wasn’t sufficient to dethrone 5-year-old Josh Vinson Jr., who defended his title because the No. 1 Josh.

Saturday’s occasion raised practically $21.000 for Kids’s Hospital & Medical Heart in Omaha, and the homeowners of the Josh Cellars wine label pledged to match that quantity with a donation of their very own. The hospital stated it plans to share a few of the donations with the Joshua Collinsworth Memorial Basis that promotes water security with its Josh the Otter mascot who attended Saturday’s battle.

Swain stated he’d just like the make the Josh Struggle an annual occasion however he is undecided if he’ll be capable to stick with it.

“There’s quite a lot of components on this loopy world,” Swain stated. “I believe that the hope is to maintain this pattern going in order that we are able to preserve the nice occasions rolling.”

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