Oh snap, Eau Claire – those busybodies over in beautiful LaCrosse have a roller derby team. First they have a gorgeously revitalized downtown, and now a roller derby (or “flat track”) team. Volume One’s love of roller derby is hard to quantify. If we had to pick a phrase to describe our astounding affection for the recently resurged sport, we’d have to pick … Michael Bay-esque. Good stuff.

There’s plenty of teams in the Twin Cities. and the Madison circuit is hot, but we didn’t realize a Wisconsin team existed this close to the Chippewa Valley. Yet the Mississippi Valley Mayhem have been rolling around, knocking heads together since 2008-ish. Their second season is just about to start. And we couldn’t be more jealous. With a team so close, it would seem like an Eau Claire team or a Valley-wide team isn’t too much of a stretch. How can this happen? Is anyone interested?

WEAU (which covers LaCrosse) ran a story on the Mayhem, quoting founder Amanda Boucher who says the goal is "To bring some new form of entertainment to the community that this community hadn't seen before we also like to promote women's health and things like that." We like things like that, Amanda, we like them a lot.