*A very slippery, octopus-like creature, the live splatterball is extremely unhappy about its lot in life. And why not? It has a short life span since the object of Splatterball is to score by impaling (spiking) it on a large sharp spike in the end zone. When that happens, the noise of the spike rendering the hapless ball asunder sounds like "Splat," thus giving the game its name. The splatterballs are genetically engineered by a secret process on a platform high above the Plasm stratosphere. *Source: Back of card