Poor, unsuspecting Britt Swartley. The freestyle aerialist had just arrived at Olympic moguls skier Sean Smith's housewarming party in Woods Cross, Utah, barely setting foot in the front yard when I snagged him to be my Wingyball partner.

Wingyball? Uh, yeah -- it was one of the homemade games Sean's next-door neighbor brought over for his year-late housewarming party.

The object of Wingyball is to toss a "winger" -- an 18-inch colored rope with a Titleist golf ball knotted at each end -- at a white, three-rung ladder made from PVC tubing, so that the balls wrap around one of the rungs. The top rung is worth one point, the middle, three, and the bottom, two. Each player gets three wingers per turn, and opponents alternate throws. Every rung is worth different points, but if one team wraps a winger around a rung already occupied by the other team, it erases the first team's points.

Got it? No? Never mind. All you really need to know is:

1. When landing on the rungs, wingers look like teeny spastic gymnasts on the uneven bars.

2. Wingyball is more addicting than pure smack.

3. And, oh yeah, Britt and I were en fuego.

Eric "Bergy" Bergoust, the reigning aerials Olympic champ, dubs Britt and I "Team Undefeated" after we torch three straight teams. Our Olympic victims include Bergy, Jerry Grossi and skeletoner Mike Cline. Fourth win -- cinch. Fifth win -- cake. Sixth win? In doubt, with the game tied at 20, until some clutch winging by … me. (Cue maniacal laughter.)

Combined margin of victory: 1,215,789 to 3.

With glee, I remember my failed diabolical plan from last September: infiltrate the Sydney Athletes' Village and smack down as many Olympians as possible on the Foosball table.

"I'm starving," says Britt as we head into our second hour of play.

"Oh no, I don't want you be hungry," I say unconvincingly. "You can stop if you want to..." I trail off. We both knew we weren't going anywhere.

Britt shakes his head. "No, that's OK," he says. "I like humiliating my teammates."

Funny, so do I.

E-mail Anne Marie Cruz at anne.marie.cruz@espnmag.com.