Sports

June, 1976

For a few days every July, the city of San Diego drops the cloak of conservatism shielding it from the rest of Southern California, that enclave of eccentricity that brought you everything from plastic grass to mushroom milk shakes, in order to host the Over-the-Line World Championship (Captain Pizzgums and His Perverted Pirates 6, Muffdivers 3). A couple of thousand sun-struck competitors gather to play a game invented on San Diego's Mission Beach 23 years ago; according to the sponsoring Old M...