Competitive Knitting League?

As some of you may know, my husband is a competitive Mountain Biker.  He bikes with a circuit called the Eastern Fat Tire Association.  Late last summer a company called Bike Man picked him up for sponsorship.  He doesn't get paid to race, but they do offer him some deep discounts on their products, and he occasionally gets to try cool things to review.

As I was out walking this evening, I got to thinking about how great it would be to be sponsored by a yarn company.  Wouldn't it be cool if Berroco, or Plymouth, or Alpaca Direct, or heck, even Lion Brand would sponsor me?  Or maybe a yarn shop, like Needle Rock or Knit Picks?  I could wear their logos whenever I was knitting, and I could emblazon their decals upon my website and blog.  I could blog about their products and offer online workshops.

Hubs and I are both pretty committed to our respective obsessions.  I guess the difference is that he's visible, and he competes, and he wins things.  I'm competitive, but I don't technically win things.

So what if there was a competitive knitting circuit.  We could have our own cool acronym like NECK (New England Competitive Knitting), or APT (The Association of Pickers and Throwers).

We'd have races with exciting live webcasts! Team events!  I can just see it now--one team brings in a ringer--one of those peruvian knitters with the yarn thrown over their shoulders who can knit a stuffed animal in a couple of hours.  Fights break out.  Someone gets stabbed in the eye with a double pointed needle.

There would definitely have to be some ground rules.

Oooh!  We could have an event called Queue knitting!  You'd have to get in a line at the DMV or the bank or at an amusement park, and see how many rows you could knit before you got to the front.  We could do Traffic Jam Knitting!  Nursing Knitting (penalties for stabbing your baby with a knitting needle)!  Birthday Party Knitting!  The possibilities are endless.

Am I the only one here who sees a huge untapped market for this?  It would be mere moments before ESPN picked us up--for sure.  And from there?  Olympic knitting?  Special training?  A hand exercise regimen?  Oh yes!

I should clearly stop walking.  All of this thinking--bad.