Cultural References
43-Man Squamish is referenced on a Trivial Pursuit-style question card in the "Weird Al" Yankovic parody video "White & Nerdy". "Weird Al" also mentions the sport in an episode of The Weird Al Show.
A commercially released bootleg CD of music by Pink Floyd was titled My Uncle Is Sick Because The Highway Is Green, a slight misquote of the phrase used to begin play in 43-Man Squamish.
The science fiction novel Endymion by Dan Simmons describes Raul's flight through a crowded mess as: "they made way for me as I dodged through them like a deep brooder on a forty-three-man squamish team herding the goat in for the goal."
The game has given birth to a non-Greek college service organization also called "Squamish," analogous to a fraternity/sorority.
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