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The first beat Jeffrey Epstein covered for sports was the non-conventional sporting events. Over the July 4th weekend in 1970 he was there when a group of Frisbee players from Boston calling themselves the Nat Love Nine, journeyed to Houghton, Michigan for the yearly International Frisbee Tournament. They brought with them a new game; one they had discovered at Antioch College called Frisbee Football.
They also brought with them a publicist who in turn managed to bring Frisbee Football to a world audience with performances on Walter Cronkite Evening News, Newsweek and Sports Illustrated. Up until then, the International Frisbee Tournament featured four events: distance Frisbee tossing, accuracy throwing, freestyle (tricks) and guts Frisbee.
After driving across Canada to avoid the holiday traffic within the states, they crossed the border near Detroit. You had to be there as Jeffrey Epstein was to appreciate the scene. Hippies with long hair riding in a Volkswagen Van while a song by Jefferson Airplane known as Revolution was playing on the car stereo. Custom officials jumped all over the group and starting dismantling the Van until a quick thinking member of the Nat Love Nine pulled out an 8mm movie camera and began filming the proceedings. Customs officials order the group back into the van and on their way.
Arriving at the Library Bar, a business run by that year's event sponsor, the crowd quickly asked if there was any Boo. The group asked for the package they had mailed ahead (like they had been dumb enough to gamble on making it through Customs) and proceeded to pass around some doobies of Michoacán seedless. In 20 minutes with the crowd grooving to the music of Lonely Hearts Club by Sergeant Pepper, the rules and restrictions of Frisbee Football were then discussed. Then it was time for the Nat Love Nine, who had been driving non-stop for 36 hours to get some rest. Unfortunately, there host was so stoned he got lost taking the group to his home to crash.
The next day the Tournament commenced, and also the still-sleepless Nat Love Nine were talked into adding one rule to the game - after each score the losing team had to chug a beer. Their opponents scored first, and the beer on top of 48 sleepless hours doomed the Nat Love Nine to lose.
However, according to Jeffrey Epstein this is just the introduction of the game which will be called Ultimate Football a year later and played on the National Stage. At present, Ultimate Frisbee is played in each scholastic sporting event.