The Summer Saucony O’s Office League comes to a close in the Windy City next Tuesday with the Kick Ball Championship game! Venus Zine has led the series in Chicago with 4 wins for the season. My Open Bar is close behind with 3 wins, followed by WXRT with 2 and Mr Design with 1.

Venus Zine may have the championship in the bag, but we’ll still pit them against My Open Bar on the kick ball field to see if MOB can beat the ladies (well, mostly ladies) in yellow for one last “in your face” moment of the season.

Meanwhile we’ll see if underdogs Mr Design — the tallest team in the league, if not the winningest — can score one more win against WXRT to close out the season. Good luck Chicago!

The Saucony O’s summer office sports league is in full swing, and we have a game lineup next week that’s gonna knock your socks right out of your Jazz Lo-Pros.

Monday August 3rd & Tuesday August 4th - NYC teams plays Kubb in Central Park.

Tuesday August 4th - Chicago teams play wiffle ball in Humboldt Park and our Boston teams play steal the bacon at Boston Common (pray for no rain this time!)

Wednesday August 5th - Seattle teams play touch football under the Space Needle while our SF teams play field crumpets at Draves Field.

Now what the eff is field crumpets, you ask? Field Crumpets is a game played with two teams of players which try to score points by hitting the “crumpet” (generally one of those squishy playground balls) into the opposing team’s goal using their crumpet sticks (big fat wiffle bats). Field Crumpets is highly related to the games Field Hockey and Soccer, though it references several other sports. The game also includes various unique rules, many of which reflect the founders’ desire to emphasize fun and silliness over competition.

We look forward to the silliness!

Field Crumpets photo courtesy of fieldcrumpets.com

With one summer game under our belts, last week’s SPUD face-off where Venus Zine triumphed, Chicago’s office teams return to the field on Wednesday July 8th to play Kick Ball. Basically like baseball with cooler outfits, no bats and you know, kicking, it’s sure to be a good time. Get ready Chicago!

Thanks to Venus Zine for the Wheaties Box-ready photo.

Look. If Spud had anything to do with french fries like we thought, Mr. Design would have won the whole damn thing and every one of you knows it.

Summertime is here, and that means we’re ready for another season of the SO-SO sports leage — Saucony Originals Summer Office teams! One of our first events will be next week in Chicago’s Humboldt Park where winter league champs My Open Bar face off against WXRT, Mr Design and returning team Venus Zine in the classic recess game of SPUD.

For those who don’t remember, or try hard to forget the social drama of recess, or simply never played, SPUD involves throwing a large ball into the air, calling a player out by number, and then running like crazy in every direction until that player yells “SPUD!” At that point, it turns into a game of freeze-tag meets dodge ball with a scoring system akin to HORSE. We’ll be nursing our dodge ball and ego bruises afterwards at Crocodile.

Photo by sean@sean-christopher.com