Flag Football is taking over the island of Manhattan! From the Lower East Side to the Upper West, NYC Social Sport Club players take the turf every week, meeting each other at the 50 yard line, audibly count “5 Mississippi”, and head straight into the best night of their week. Check out the eight new [...]
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As I was growing up, mostly in gym class, I was always told the first rule of all sports is to “Keep your eye on the ball!” Now I’m a little perplexed. There was a large trend at Flag Football to ignore all that good advice. Check out this member of Hootie and the Throwfish [...]
Team Names: Legion of Boom (Flag), Legion of Information (Trivia) Occupation: freelance writer, rookie author Nicknames: PW, P Dub, “Pretty Paulie”, “Batman” Random facts: Loves chocolate martinis, Battlestar Galactica (the newer version) and Dinosaur Barbecue’s Wango Tango wings; hates bugs; can quote long stretches of 1930s & 1940s Loony Tunes cartoons (especially Daffy Duck)… So. [...]
TEAM PICTURE DAY! Check out these awesome group shots taken by Lois at the first Saturday of Flag this season. What a bunch of good lookin’ people – Frostbite Flag just got hott! Check these players working the field tomorrow at DeWitt Clinton Park. Snow, eat your heart out.
Flag Football is so huge this season, it had to take over four days of the week: here are the Thursday night teams who jumpstart their weekend fun on Baruch Fields and then take our new free shuttle over to Aces to party after! Don’t forget to tag yourself and your teammates in the Facebook [...]
In the first round of Wednesday Flag Football Playoffs, teams gave it all they had to get themselves to the finals, in hopes their T-shirts might color the Hall of Champs. Legion of Boom (Irish) may not have made it to final round of play, but this player made sure not to give it up [...]
This is Wednesday – the youngest, scrappiest and most eager to prove itself a night of passion, thrills and beer. . Here to Huddle‘s cuddly name may cultivate a false sense of security within their opponents, but their sharp teeth and strategic plays will quickly lead them to the head of the field. . Catch [...]
The road to Bar Champ was long, arduous, beery, and at times even Mark Hamill halfhearted streakers stood in the way. Game officials came together, debated, and voted. For the Thursday Flag Football league they named the Dirty JERZ as 2010 Spring Bar Champs. The team stormed Tempest Bar in the lowest cut shirts and [...]
It makes me really sad that I don’t get to hang out at the bar much after games. Every week I meet such cool people in the various leagues I cover, but I don’t hang out at the bar afterward. That’s when you get to hear the good stories, what the game was like from [...]
In George Carlin’s standup routine, “football versus baseball” he describes how football is the game of the mechanized 20th century, contrasting its ominous terms like “grid iron” and “sudden death” with the pleasant pastoral images of baseball. . . . Last Thursday night’s Flag Football games contrasted sharply with Carlin’s description as the most pugilistic [...]
