Many said it couldn’t be done. Seattle WeekLings win the tournament? Certainly not! Four Square = won it! Way to hold ‘em off, Brian!

J-A-Z-Z = lost, but we didn’t give up without a fight! And incredibly big CONGRATULATIONS & THANK YOUS to KEXP for beating Bumbershoot!

Well, Summer 2009 will go down into the history books! Here are the Seattle Saucony Summer Superstars — Seattle WeekLings!

Throw up the ball, run like hell and try not to get hit.

Seemed simple enough. We beat the tar out of the other teams for a couple games; let them win a couple. And at the end of it all, we’re still friends.

Tomorrow our Seattle Office League competes in its season championship — the ultimate playground tournament! Not content to leave the playoffs to a single game, we have KEXP, Bumbershoot, Easy Street Records and Seattle Weekly competing in three rounds of playground madness.

Round 1 - Four Square! This 15 minute lightning round of our favorite twee playground game will determine the order for the second battle which is…

Round 2 - JAZZ! It’s like HORSE but jazzier, like the Saucony Jazz of course.

And if there is a tie-breaker needed, or if everyone just can’t get enough, we’ll have a final Round 3 of DODGE BALL!

Bring your A-games Seattleites. Bumbershoot and Seattle Weekly may be in the lead right now, but tomorrow night we’ll see how it all comes down. 7pm at Cascade Playground - 333 Pontius Ave N. Celebratory tamales at Bandits after.

Man were we tired after a game the two hand touch football game last Wednesday.  A whopping 6 Seattle Weeklings showed up and brought their “A” game.  But since it was a 6 on 6 game, we were stuck playing the ENTIRE time with no substitutes, and a limited water supply.

We played the energetic Easy Street Records and battled it out play after play.  Despite the miraculous hail mary touchdown catches and awesome interceptions by both teams, the game ended in a 12-12 tie.  Both teams were hungry for the win and decided to take the game into overtime.  But with the overall tired-ness of everyone and Bandits calling our names, we were content settling with a tie on our record.

Needless to say, it was a fun night and a great workout.  And I’m sure I wasn’t the only one sore the next morning.

As the regular season starts to wind down for the Seattle SOSO league, the games get rougher. Two-hand touch football saw the Seattle Weeklings pitted against Easy Street Records on field #1, and 2 time champions Bumbershoot went toe to toe with the determined crew from KEXP on field #2.

Turnovers plagued both the Weeklings and Easy Street early on. On their first possession, a lazer beam of a pass from the Easy Street QB ricocheted off its intended target only to fall right into the hands of their opponent. It was going to be that kind of night. With each team scoring a single touchdown and failures to convert an extra point, the teams were tied 6-6 at half time.

Seattle Weekly holds on to the ball with everything they’ve got left.

Easy Street comes prepared with Easy Street Beverages ™.

The second half only brought more evidence that the caliber of these two teams matched play for play. Refusing to end the game in a tie, Easy Street and Seattle Weekly abandoned their short game and lobbed their passes into the end zone hoping to find their target. This happened maybe twice.

TOUCHDOWN.

Seattle Weekly maneuvers for the kill.

Easy Street’s one touchdown in the second half was answered in kind by a hail mary pass by the Weeklings. The 12-12 tie led to a sudden death match. Nobody scored.

Meanwhile, on field #2, Bumbershoot and KEXP scored touchdown after touchdown. With the taste of their first victory of the season so close to their grasp, KEXP defended their endzone against the ferocious Bumbershoot Hot Dogs. But alas, KEXP’s defense couldn’t withstand the evermounting pressure and the Hot Dogs’ last touchdown put them over the top 36-34 .

KEXP runs it down into Bumbershoot territory.

Bumbershoot about to get handsy with the ball.

At that point, Easy Street starting foaming at the mouth so we abandoned the field to quench their inner beasts with beer.

Good hustle out there, everyone.