The last week of the Kickapotamus season was filled with high hopes. We were going into our last game with an 0-7 record but we were about to play another 0-7 team. Two winless teams, something had to give! It was also the last week we would be wearing the Red t-shirts of the Bend as our sponsor bar. The Bend isn’t exactly a great bar. I was just on Allen street on Saturday night and every bar in that 2 block strip of Allen was loaded… except for The Bend which had about 10-15 people inside. More than that, as a sponsor they were kinda lacking in the “sponsoring” department. They gave us the red t-shirts that they undoubtedly already had in a box somewhere and that was pretty much it. Yes we played for the Bend and all we got was a red t-shirt. We never received a drink special that I was aware of and prices seemed to go up each week on my Strawberry Daiquiris with the Maliboom boom rum. No Snowflake… bad girl.
I guess Kickapotamus just couldn’t deliver the publicity the Bend needed to justify more than the free t-shirts. We did drink enough there after each game, when the place was empty I might add, to maybe justify something but oh well. Perhaps if we won more games, the word would have gotten out about the place and we’d still have them as our sponsor today. In all seriousness, it was pretty cool to have a sponsor for the 1st time and it was even cooler that we all had on matching t-shirts this season!
So there we were rocking our red Bend shirts one last time and waiting to take on the only other team that “technically” were as bad as we were but it was not to be as the other team didn’t have enough people to play and then out of sheer embarrassment no doubt, those who did arrive, left. Luckily another team was hanging around after their game and agreed to play us despite just playing.
It wasn’t what we expected but hey, we were still playing. So we played this substitute team and I should note that this was the only team we’ve ever beaten in our 2 seasons of kickball. We played our hearts out and we lost again. As always it wasn’t pretty, but also as always it was a ton of fun! Who rocks the party that rocks your body? Well, if you don’t know, now you know. Kickapotamus represent!
We thought our season ended after that game. Technically we were 1-7 since we won a forfeit that last week but on the field we were 0-8 as we hadn’t beaten anyone. We were going to use the couple of weeks off in between our 2 seasons to work on our skills, practice and try to improve a little while the better teams in our league waged war in the playoffs. Little did we know another chapter in the story of Kickapotamus would be written today.
In our kickball league there are 3 divisions: North, Central and South. Last week they had their playoffs and 3 teams emerged as the winners of each division. So this week, or today they wanted the winners to play and find out who the ultimate spring session kickball team is. Those of you who follow sports already know what the problem is, How do you get to 1 from 3? If there were 2 teams it would be easy but 3? Actually if there were 4 teams it would also be easy because you’d have 2 games and then the winners of those 2 games would play each other for the league championship. The problem is only 3 teams qualified for this last day of playoffs.
Enter Kickapotamus. If you needed a 4th team on the most important day of the season, who is a better choice than us? Sure other teams have better records, we have bongos. Sure other teams are more competitive but we could totally out drink them and finally, yes there are more deserving teams but we are talking about Adult Kickball here. The whole idea is silly, ridiculous and purely for fun and who are more silly, ridiculous and fun than us. We embody the spirit of adult kickball and damn it we deserve to be there today where we will most likely get hammered on the field before we get hammered off of it.
We play at Front Park at 6pm today. We’ll be the team in red. Hey and maybe, just maybe we can shock the kickball world today. Viva Kickapotamus!
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