Why are we still using the term Adult Kickball?

by **Kickbot** » June 14th, 2012, 1:52 pm

"Kickball" describes the sport perfectly well. "Adult Kickball" sound weird and silly.

by **Festa** » June 14th, 2012, 2:11 pm

Kickbot wrote:"Kickball" describes the sport perfectly well. "Adult Kickball" sound weird and silly.

Everyone outside this message board still considers kickball a elementary school playground sport for kids.

by **Kickbot** » June 14th, 2012, 2:14 pm

Festa wrote:
Kickbot wrote:"Kickball" describes the sport perfectly well. "Adult Kickball" sound weird and silly.

Everyone outside this message board still considers kickball a elementary school playground sport for kids.

So what?

by **2_easy** » June 14th, 2012, 2:19 pm

Why call it Women's Basketball? Why call it Co-ed Softball? To me it's the same as Adult kickball? It helps us understand more who is playing.

by **crAsh** » June 14th, 2012, 2:20 pm

Festa wrote:
Kickbot wrote:"Kickball" describes the sport perfectly well. "Adult Kickball" sound weird and silly.

Everyone outside this message board still considers kickball a elementary school playground sport for kids.

This weekend a bunch of Panik'ers were...errr...at the same location...and it was pretty funny that all these 5 year olds were wrapping up playing soccer annnd we were about to go play kickball.

A large crowd of middle school aged boys and their parents gathered and watched us...one can only imagine what they were thinking.

by **PittsBurgheR** » June 14th, 2012, 2:22 pm

crAsh wrote:
Festa wrote:
Kickbot wrote:"Kickball" describes the sport perfectly well. "Adult Kickball" sound weird and silly.

Everyone outside this message board still considers kickball a elementary school playground sport for kids.

This weekend a bunch of Panik'ers were...errr...at the same location...and it was pretty funny that all these 5 year olds were wrapping up playing soccer annnd we were about to go play kickball.

A large crowd of middle school aged boys and their parents gathered and watched us...one can only imagine what they were thinking.

two thoughts they had...
1. WTF?!
B. How can I get those kids on my 5th period team?

by **Hollywood B** » June 14th, 2012, 2:23 pm

Agreed. Nearly every sport started out as nothing more than a kids game at some point.

Kickball is way more interesting than a lot of recently added Olympic sports like Handball for instance.

by **Kickbot** » June 14th, 2012, 2:26 pm

2_easy wrote:Why call it Women's Basketball? Why call it Co-ed Softball? To me it's the same as Adult kickball? It helps us understand more who is playing.

What other products/services/activities can you think of that start with the "Adult" modifier? I can think of a couple.

by **Hollywood B** » June 14th, 2012, 2:29 pm

Adult Entertainment
Adult Toys
Adult Swim
Adult Soccer

One of these is not like the others...

If you google "Adult", the first 20 hits are strip clubs.

by **PittsBurgheR** » June 14th, 2012, 2:31 pm

Hollywood B wrote:Adult Entertainment
Adult Toys
Adult Swim
Adult Soccer

One of these are not like the others...

If you google "Adult", the first 20 hits are strip clubs.

Have you met Ad-Rock? "No, but ive seen him naked"

yup. Adult kickball sounds about right.

by **2_easy** » June 14th, 2012, 2:31 pm

How many people that haven't heard of "adults" playing kickball, have a reaction outside of "the kicks game?"

Pretty much all kickball organizations have "Adult" in their name.

by **Hollywood B** » June 14th, 2012, 2:33 pm

2_easy wrote:How many people that haven't heard of "adults" playing kickball, have a reaction outside of "the kicks game?"

Pretty much all kickball organizations have "Adult" in their name.

Is that because it is necessary or because they all copied WAKA?

by **Festa** » June 14th, 2012, 2:37 pm

Hollywood B wrote:
2_easy wrote:How many people that haven't heard of "adults" playing kickball, have a reaction outside of "the kicks game?"

Pretty much all kickball organizations have "Adult" in their name.

Is that because it is necessary or because they all copied WAKA?

Or because the best acronyms require a vowel.

WAKA
WAAR
NAKID
NAKAD

Where would those acronyms be without the "A"?

by **Kickbot** » June 14th, 2012, 2:37 pm

2_easy wrote:How many people that haven't heard of "adults" playing kickball, have a reaction outside of "the kicks game?"

ok, so what?

2_easy wrote:Pretty much all kickball organizations have "Adult" in their name.

It's called groupthink. People see something, adopt the idea mindlessly and then defend it vehemently, having given exactly ZERO critical though to its value or utility.

by **JellyDogg** » June 14th, 2012, 2:46 pm

Forget "adult." I'm wondering why we can't come up with a better name for the game than "kickball."

by **krabbas** » June 14th, 2012, 2:48 pm

Kickbot wrote:
2_easy wrote:Pretty much all kickball organizations have "Adult" in their name.

It's called groupthink. People see something, adopt the idea mindlessly and then defend it vehemently, having given exactly ZERO critical though to its value or utility.

Welcome to the kickball365.com forums.

by **Festa** » June 14th, 2012, 2:49 pm

JellyDogg wrote:Forget "adult." I'm wondering why we can't come up with a better name for the game than "kickball."

Since we run around bases - we can call it baseball!
Nah. that'll never work. Wait.. we have a big rubber ball - let's call it Softball. Nah. That sounds lame. We can peg people with the ball right? Let's call it dodgeball!

Wait.. it's baseball.. but by kicking the ball.. let's call it Kickball!

by **PittsBurgheR** » June 14th, 2012, 2:52 pm

Festa wrote:
Hollywood B wrote:
2_easy wrote:How many people that haven't heard of "adults" playing kickball, have a reaction outside of "the kicks game?"

Pretty much all kickball organizations have "Adult" in their name.

Is that because it is necessary or because they all copied WAKA?

Or because the best acronyms require a vowel.

WAKA
WAAR
NAKID
NAKAD

Where would those acronyms be without the "A"?

who cares. just look at the ball they use!!1!!!!1!!!!!!11111!

by **kim dude** » June 14th, 2012, 3:00 pm

Festa wrote:
JellyDogg wrote:Forget "adult." I'm wondering why we can't come up with a better name for the game than "kickball."

Since we run around bases - we can call it baseball!
Nah. that'll never work. Wait.. we have a big rubber ball - let's call it Softball. Nah. That sounds lame. We can peg people with the ball right? Let's call it dodgeball!

Wait.. it's baseball.. but by kicking the ball.. let's call it Kickball!

In parts of Canadia it's called Chinese Baseball.

by **Edge** » June 14th, 2012, 3:00 pm

crAsh wrote:
Festa wrote:
Kickbot wrote:"Kickball" describes the sport perfectly well. "Adult Kickball" sound weird and silly.

Everyone outside this message board still considers kickball a elementary school playground sport for kids.

This weekend a bunch of Panik'ers were...errr...at the same location...and it was pretty funny that all these 5 year olds were wrapping up playing soccer annnd we were about to go play kickball.

A large crowd of middle school aged boys and their parents gathered and watched us...one can only imagine what they were thinking.

If you guys still practice at Chilled Ponds, they did the same during dodgeball. Definitely a recruiting hotbed.

by **JellyDogg** » June 14th, 2012, 3:02 pm

Festa wrote:
JellyDogg wrote:Forget "adult." I'm wondering why we can't come up with a better name for the game than "kickball."

Since we run around bases - we can call it baseball!
Nah. that'll never work. Wait.. we have a big rubber ball - let's call it Softball. Nah. That sounds lame. We can peg people with the ball right? Let's call it dodgeball!

Wait.. it's baseball.. but by kicking the ball.. let's call it Kickball!

What idiot named it "hockey" when "skating flatball" sums it up perfectly.

by **Kickbot** » June 14th, 2012, 3:02 pm

kim dude wrote:In parts of Canadia it's called Chinese Baseball.

I'd go with that.

by **Festa** » June 14th, 2012, 3:02 pm

kim dude wrote:In parts of Canadia it's called Chinese Baseball.

That's a weird thing to call it.

It's like calling fried bread dipped in egg mixture "French Toast." It doesn't make any sense!

by **PittsBurgheR** » June 14th, 2012, 3:07 pm

Festa wrote:
kim dude wrote:In parts of Canadia it's called Chinese Baseball.

That's a weird thing to call it.

It's like calling fried bread dipped in egg mixture "French Toast." It doesn't make any sense!

Adult French Toast?

by **Kickbot** » June 14th, 2012, 3:09 pm

Great. So we all agree to stop calling it adult kickball. I think this is a good step forward for the sport.

by **kim dude** » June 14th, 2012, 3:12 pm

Festa wrote:
kim dude wrote:In parts of Canadia it's called Chinese Baseball.

That's a weird thing to call it.

It's like calling fried bread dipped in egg mixture "French Toast." It doesn't make any sense!

I didn't say it made any sense, only that that's what it's called. It seems completely arbitrary other than maybe that the Chinese claim that they invented the roots of soccer before the English did.

by **The Scorekeeper** » June 14th, 2012, 3:23 pm

i just added 3 new team names to my suggested list.

Chinese Baseball
Adult French Toast
Sociological Bouillabaisse

by **Zak** » June 14th, 2012, 3:52 pm

Adult Language, Adult Beverages, and Adult Situations.

Opinions expressed in this post are Zak's and Zak's alone. Except when the voices in his head take over then they aren't even his.

by **Kolanko_25** » June 14th, 2012, 4:24 pm

How about Unadulterated Kickball?

un·a·dul·ter·at·ed /ˌənəˈdəltəˌrātid/

Adjective:
Not mixed or diluted with any different or extra elements; complete and absolute: "pure, unadulterated jealousy".

by **Static** » June 14th, 2012, 5:14 pm

Festa wrote:
JellyDogg wrote:Forget "adult." I'm wondering why we can't come up with a better name for the game than "kickball."

Since we run around bases - we can call it baseball!
Nah. that'll never work. Wait.. we have a big rubber ball - let's call it Softball. Nah. That sounds lame. We can peg people with the ball right? Let's call it dodgeball!

Wait.. it's baseball.. but by kicking the ball.. let's call it Kickball!

Ummm...it already has another name...buntball. Duh!

I typically use the term "competitive kickball" when describing what I do. If we're gonna keep calling it Adult kickball, the uni's need to be a lot different. Plus I expect to start fixing some copiers.

by **YourPness** » June 14th, 2012, 9:58 pm

Oakley. I'm gonna be playing in GKO with an ADULT kickball team.
There's gonna be debauchery and all kinds of inappropriate stuff happening.
We should put some adult ads in the Hotlanta naughty page papers.
TEAM AMERICA SHALL PREVAIL!!!

I'm not really sure what. Probably sobriety.
Or getting into eliminations. Not sure.

by **Kickbot** » June 14th, 2012, 10:03 pm

Your should wear Adult diapers. Spare yourself some aggravation and roll like an astronaut.

by **Duff** » June 19th, 2012, 11:08 pm

Unless you push 'youth kickball' towards the forefront, 'adult kickball' will remain.

Ideas...

Funball
Krunkball
Ballympics
Alcoballism

by **Karl** » June 20th, 2012, 7:41 am

What about 'competitive kickball' as opposed to adult kickball? To me, kickball by itself is inherently childish. When you say its competitive, it seems to get a reaction that you take it just a bit more seriously.

For instance, "I play kickball" is usually met with, "Oh nice, I played kickball in a league one year/middle school." Whereas "I play competitive kickball" is usually followed by "_Competitive_ Kickball? What's that even mean?"

by **Kickbot** » June 20th, 2012, 8:43 am

Karl wrote:What about 'competitive kickball' as opposed to adult kickball? To me, kickball by itself is inherently childish. When you say its competitive, it seems to get a reaction that you take it just a bit more seriously.

For instance, "I play kickball" is usually met with, "Oh nice, I played kickball in a league one year/middle school." Whereas "I play competitive kickball" is usually followed by "_Competitive_ Kickball? What's that even mean?"

+1

by **Zak** » June 20th, 2012, 8:52 am

Not all of us are playing on that level 100% of the time. Competitive kickball does not properly describe the sloshball game that happened in Austin.

by **Karl** » June 20th, 2012, 9:16 am

"competitive sloshball"

by **Static** » June 20th, 2012, 9:34 am

Karl wrote:What about 'competitive kickball' as opposed to adult kickball? To me, kickball by itself is inherently childish. When you say its competitive, it seems to get a reaction that you take it just a bit more seriously.

For instance, "I play kickball" is usually met with, "Oh nice, I played kickball in a league one year/middle school." Whereas "I play competitive kickball" is usually followed by "_Competitive_ Kickball? What's that even mean?"

Static wrote:I typically use the term "competitive kickball" when describing what I do.

Hmmm ^. Yup...I'd agree with that...and have gotten that exact reaction/question. Always a great segue into speaking about the Circuit.

Zak Loaded wrote:Not all of us are playing on that level 100% of the time. Competitive kickball does not properly describe the sloshball game that happened in Austin.

That was just awesome. We're playing sloshball tonight. I can only hope it's half as fun as Austin.

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