Apparently, it's a HUGE kickball league, with something like forty teams. And it's part of a national kickball association. For reals.
I just can't get my head wrapped around it. In fourth grade, the whole idea of kickball was very, very clear to me, though I was not a particularly savvy youth. Kickball was invented by P.E. teachers. It was invented so that clumsy, unathletic children (read: me) who had absolutely no prayer of hitting a small ball in flight with a narrow piece of wood, could at least learn (unwillingly and with no enthusiasm) the basic concepts of sportsmanship and team play. I remember squatting in the outfield, looking for four-leaf clovers amongst the school-yard weeds and hoping one of the big boys didn't kick a ball in my general direction. I seem to recall that my nickname was "Easy Out." These aren't good memories.
So this whole notion of 20-somethings gathering in large groups to play competitive kickball is just boggling my noggin a little.
(I should point out though, that following the games on Kickball Night, there is a very large happy hour at a local bar, attended by hundreds of young single folks. So maybe I DO get it...but I don't see why they couldn't just have the happy hour and skip the kickball part.)
