June 20th, 2006

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Langley Kid Makes World’s Biggest Ball of Hockey Tape

Apparently a 12-year-old from Langley named Ryan Funk has collected the world’s biggest ball of hockey tape:

Ryan Funk is the kid behind the seven-foot-tall, 845-kilogram (1,862-pound) ball of used and new hockey tape, donated by thousands of individuals from 19 ice rinks across Canada. When the 12-year-old realized an American held the previous record - for a mere 240-pound ball - he figured he’d enlist help to enlarge the soccer ball-sized collection he’d made himself, and along the way raise money for Compassion Canada. His ball and a smaller one donated by Vancouver Canucks players will be auctioned off on eBay to further help the cause.

The Canucks, of course, didn’t need their tape (they did get a new head coach today, though).
Free hug for anybody who can locate a photo of this magic ball of hockey tape–I did a qucik search and came up empty.

Comments: 6 Responses so far

Andrea Coutu
June 20th, 2006
1:24 pm

The Langley paper had a link, so I consulted the official site. It sounds like they haven’t actually built the ball yet.

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darren
June 20th, 2006
2:18 pm

Good find. Hmm…indeed, though the Gazette article makes it sound like it’s already done. Weird.

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Jeff
June 20th, 2006
3:23 pm

So I clicked that offical site link that Andrea posted and saw your 404 page for the first time.

‘Gahhh!’

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darren
June 20th, 2006
3:25 pm

Heh. I fixed that link.

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Gwen
June 21st, 2006
3:38 am

The ball has been built — you can see it in the background of the picture on the official site’s home page and you can see it in the news clip on that site as well.

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kevin
April 24th, 2008
8:05 am

hey man great job on the tape ball!! I love hockey do you..? well any way can you send me a pic of the huge 1,000lb. ball.

thanks,,

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