Alright, so a few weeks have passed since the big game, but I would like to write a tribute to my new favorite intramural sport... kickball.
Kickball is undeniable fun. I mean seriously what a game! I had the privilege this year of being part of a coed intramural kickball team and now I am hooked. BYU has some crazy rules but that just adds to the craziness of an already unconventional game. Here is why coed kickball is so stinking awesome:
1. Nobody is the authority. I had never in my life heard of kickball league before I came to BYU. How does that make it awesome you ask? Well since I have never heard of a league before there is a good chance nobody grew up playing kickball outside of gym class. This means that nobody is really well schooled in the game or in other words nobody is any good haha.
2. If you take the game seriously you look like a joke. Since the game is coed and nobody has really ever played before, anyone who turns into a hothead looks like even more of an idiot than they normally would. The fact that the game is rarely played also means that you don't have the classic underachieving high-school-headcases proving to the world that they really can play. If you have ever played pickup basketball at the RB you know exactly what I am talking about, "Blah blah blah if coach would have put me in we would have one state!" nobody likes that guy and Kickball annihilates his existence.
3. If you do not have fun playing kickball you are probably borderline depressed. If he were still alive I would nominate the inventor of kickball, Nicholas C Seuss, for the Nobel Prize! I may have gotten a little carried away, I guess we could toss an ESPY his way or something. The game is filled with excitement from people getting hit in the face by a utility ball to out of control pop-flys that not even Kenny Lofton could track. Not to mention the out of control base running compounded by unavoidable throwing mistakes. Even if the ball does not get kicked your direction you end up getting caught up in the craziness of the whole charade.
Our team advanced to the finals of the intramural tournament after we received a forfeited schedule, but sadly our season ended in defeat. The best part of the whole season was that you just had to have fun because who really takes kickball seriously? Unfortunately we will have to wait till next year to play again, but if anyone wants to play a little pickup kickball count me in.
