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We need roller derby in Grand Junction
After a week of slugging it out in the news business, I’d sure like to be doing this to relieve a little stress:
If you don’t think that looks fun, I probably don’t want to know you. Ever since I saw 1972’s “The Kansas City Bomber,” I wanted to be a roller derby girl. Much to my disappointment, I found out later it wasn’t a school sport. And I’ve never lived where there was a league.
Maybe, just maybe, I might yet get my chance. Samantha Stiles writes Sunday about a Montrose exhibition game between two teams in the Slaughterhouse Derby Girls league out of Greeley.
There are roller derby leagues in Denver, Fort Collins, Colorado Springs, Monument and Pueblo.
Grand Junction, this is our time.
“RollaRella,” (you even get to make up a cool player name) who started the Slaughterhouse league, said anyone interested in starting a Western Slope league can email her at rollarella@slaughterhousederbygirls.com.
Someone out there must have the organizational fortitude to get this going. Then call me. I’ll try to have a cool name figured out by then.
*Photo of Helena Kallianiotes and Raquel Welch from “The Kansas City Bomber,” a 1972 MGM film.
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