Team Saucony isn’t your typical sports team. It’s a league of true Originals. It’s a place to come together and play the sort of sports that don’t require cleats, pads or helmets. It’s less about the goals you score, and more about the hang.
Think ping pong, kickball, shuffleboard. We’ll hook winners (and losers) up with plenty of Saucony Originals gear and document their triumphs and tribulations on our website.
We’ll also be touring the country and making appearances at local music festivals and parties to give away Saucony Originals while organizing impromptu staring contests, thumb wrestling and other competitions. You might have to set your drink down for a couple minutes, but it’s a small price to pay for the eternal glory of being good at stuff no one else really knows about.
This Sunday at the McCarren Pool, don’t miss one of your last chances to say, “Before they turned it into a pool again, I used to go there and get totally sunburned, drink a few brews listen to bands and play Dodgeball. Man… my life has really never been that good since.”
The Felice Brothers
with Langhorne Slim
Eli “Paperboy” Reed & The True Loves
Deer Tick
DJ Kool Kear
As you (should) know by now, the top dodgeball players of the day win FREE SAUCONY JAZZ ORIGINALS. So in addition to the games being crazy (bizarrely intense) fun, you could walk away with (a certificate for) a free pair of kicks!
Even the rain was too scared to play dodgeball this week.
With the return of some of the best regulars this week, the rain held off, despite threats.
This Sunday was once again a memorable one. Three- time MVP this year, Brandon (Care Bear), was in a motorcycle accident and couldn’t play, but he did lend a hand as one of the best refs we have ever had. Big thanks to him and all the other refs.
A sight for sore eyes, the ‘wizards on vacation’ returned from St. Bart’s. They were the jerks in Hawaiian shirts and jean cut offs who dominated the court.
Dodgeball at McCarren Park Pool have even caught the eye of GOOD Magazine who will be shooting Sunday August 17. Everyone wear your best threads, you know I’ll be in my Sunday best as always.
See you next Sunday.
This week has been dodgeball crazy.
Sunday was epic.
The line to get into the pool started forming at 11 o’clock.
Yeah, crazy, three hours before the gates open, that is how good the line up was this week.
MGMT and The Ting Tings killed it.
The pool reached maximum capacity around 5:00 despite the rain, which was a much needed cooling agent for us dodgeballers.
In addition to that, Brooklyn’s own took home the championship at the Battle for Brooklyn Tournament the day after, on Monday. So many funny aspects to that, Brooklyn took over and won a Manhattan tourney. Even though many of our all-stars including Jackie & Little Liz (care bear), Shawn & Dre (care bear), Eric and yours truly Shirtless Tom (BKKB) were all sore from the pool the day before.
Thank you to all who helped ref, most of all Ben “Bubbles” Hanyes.
As you all know it has been a HOT summer at the pool this year. There is one guy, though, who knows how to keep things cool. Whether he is on the court playing or keeping all the players in check this guy has figured out all the good ways to keep the heat out.
We wanted to pay tribute to this skill picked up over years at McCarren. Check out some of the pics below so that you may begin your quest to be as cool as Shirtless Tom.
The back of neck ain’t dirty, but it is sun burnt.
This past Sunday was great.
The water, red bulls and beers kept everyone going through the hottest Jelly NYC Pool Party yet this summer.
Despite the heat, some players stood out as giants among men.
Brandon made a triumphant return after missing last week.
Fat Jelmer kept the morals scared for their lives and 5 cats actually flew in from Sweden to play dodgeball in Brooklyn.
Another first set this past week was the first time we have ever had to father son teams on the court at the same time.
All and all- great weekend.
This coming week is going to be amazing, can you say: MGMT.
Team Saucony isn’t your typical sports team. It’s a league of true Originals. It’s a place to come together and play the sort of sports that don’t require cleats, pads or helmets. It’s less about the goals you score, and more about the hang.
