Your organized sports as a kid?

Postby **columbia** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 7:49 pm

What did you play?

Football: Age 7 through 8th grade football
Baseball: Age 7 through Pony League

I played some random rec. league basketball and endless amounts of street hockey. I would have loved to have done the real hockey thing, but that was for rich kids.

I drifted into cross country in HS, as I was tall and skinny and it only cost the price of a new pair of running shoes every year.

Postby **Gaucho** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 7:54 pm

Fußball.

Postby **meow** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 7:56 pm

Poll?

Postby **MR25** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 7:57 pm

Baseball: age 4 to 12, then attempted comeback at 14.

Basketball: age 13 to 18

Golf: 10? to current

Ultimate frisbee: 15 to current

Hockey: 20 to current

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:00 pm

Ultimate frisbee...? How did this thread get off the rails so quickly...

Postby **columbia** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:00 pm

Poll?

MIMH-style, intramural volleyball narratives are more interesting.

Postby **slappybrown** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:01 pm

Hockey football baseball basketball and soccer

I wish I would have learned to golf as a kid for professional reasons bc trying to learn as an adult is impossible/golf is fckiiing terrible

Postby **Viva la Ben** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:04 pm

Baseball from 7-12
Football from 12-18

Watching my kids enjoy soccer, I wish I had played that instead of baseball.

Postby **meow** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:06 pm

Poll?
MIMH-style, intramural volleyball narratives are more interesting.

Oh man. You’re right

Postby **meow** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:07 pm

Hockey: 3 - 26
Baseball: 5 - 15
Golf: 16 - Pres

Postby **columbia** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:09 pm

I played a lot of golf on the 9 hole course in South Park, as I could walk there with a bag of odd numbered clubs + 3 wood + putter.

Postby **meow** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:11 pm

Good point. My golf game coincided with my ability to drive now that I think about it.

Postby **tifosi77** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:11 pm

I did one season of T-Ball and found baseball endlessly dull, so I stopped that.

One day of varsity football tryouts, during which I broke a finger (nearly off).

IM volleyball

School didn't have a hockey team until many years after I moved to CA (wasn't even a rink in Altoona until like 2000), but I played with all the guys who went to schools that did have teams. Made 'JV' at Penn State (which was a bit of a joke, cos there was no 'V' at the time). But I couldn't afford to travel, so I only played home games. IM hockey and many concurrent beer leagues, and then ongoing beer leagues up til around 11 years ago when I 'retired'.

Interestingly, I looked up the rates for my old league in LA, and it's now $8,600 for a team (minimum 13 skaters) or $661/skater for up to 20 skaters. Whooooo.

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:11 pm

Soccer: 3-24
Hockey: 4-7
Basketball: 6-10
Wrestling: 6-12
Track and Field: 14-17
Tennis: 10-17
Baseball: 5-15
Golf: 16-present

Postby **count2infinity** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:33 pm

Soccer: 4-25ish but thinking about starting back up
Baseball: 5 - 15
Basketball: 6-12
Wrestling: 6-8
Golf: 16-Present
Inline Hockey: 18-20
Racquetball: 21-24

Postby **meow** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:37 pm

Soccer: 4-25ish but thinking about starting back up

With a pregnant wife? Ha. Haha. Hahahaha

Postby **willeyeam** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:38 pm

Here we go

Baseball 3-22
Softball 23-present
Basketball 13-15
Hockey 5-10, 17-present
Golf 7-present
Wrestling 9-11
Football 7-10
Soccer 5-17

Postby **willeyeam** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:39 pm

Good point. My golf game coincided with my ability to drive now that I think about it.

Well if you can't get off the tee, you won't have much of a golf game AM I RITE

Postby **count2infinity** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:39 pm

Soccer: 4-25ish but thinking about starting back up
With a pregnant wife? Ha. Haha. Hahahaha

Organized pick-up games for an hour or two once a week for an 8-10 week time frame? It's doable.

Postby **meow** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:40 pm

Good point. My golf game coincided with my ability to drive now that I think about it.
Well if you can't get off the tee, you won't have much of a golf game AM I RITE

I fricking hate you rn

Postby **willeyeam** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:41 pm

I lold

Postby **columbia** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:42 pm

Soccer: 4-25ish but thinking about starting back up
With a pregnant wife? Ha. Haha. Hahahaha
Organized pick-up games for an hour or two once a week for an 8-10 week time frame? It's doable.

A friend invited me to a regular pickup game in South Philly, which involved a lot of nice gentlemen from Mexico. It was a great time, but I chose not to embarrass myself again.

Postby **slappybrown** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:42 pm

Soccer: 4-25ish but thinking about starting back up
With a pregnant wife? Ha. Haha. Hahahaha
Organized pick-up games for an hour or two once a week for an 8-10 week time frame? It's doable.

I did this once a week with two kids and a working spouse for years and have only just stopped because i am an old.

Postby **Willie Kool** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:05 pm

You know I've played a lot of golf
Oh Lord, I've bowled a lot of frames
But I never played nothin'
That would jostle my brain
You know, I've seen a lot of people walkin' 'round
With CTE in their eyes
But the coach he don't care
Ah, if you live or if you die...

Postby **dodint** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:34 pm

in order:
Soccer
Baseball
Football
Dek Hockey
Ice Hockey

Soccer was one game when I was 6. Haven't changed my mind on that one in 29 years.