NER_MCFC
27 Aug 2002, 04:32 PM
I am in my fifth year of playing in rec leagues around Boston, in spite of the fact that I'm 39 and had zero experience in organized sports at all.
Both leagues I play in (BSSC and GBSL) use full fields and 11 on 11 (unless too few people show up). Both have multiple division, most of which are co-ed.
GBSL has voluntary promotion/relegation and the BSSC just puts you where there's room, which is probably why we got hammered on Sunday.
I also play indoor in the BSSC.
My biggest complaint, and it's not a constant one, is the refereeing, not about quality but about the occasional refs who doesn't want to work. I am particularly thinking of one a couple years ago. Everytime there was a stoppage in play, he would go down on the ground and do crunches!
Most of the games I've been in are quite competitive, mostly because nobody likes to lose. I swear I've had team mates who looked as though they worked harder and cared more than a couple of Revs players. A couple of times per season, a game gets almost nasty. On the other hand, I haven't seen a lot of injuries, and they mostly seem to happen to the young whippersnappers rather than us geezers. The worst injury I ever saw at a rec league game involved a collision between 2 softball players on the next field.
Both leagues I play in (BSSC and GBSL) use full fields and 11 on 11 (unless too few people show up). Both have multiple division, most of which are co-ed.
GBSL has voluntary promotion/relegation and the BSSC just puts you where there's room, which is probably why we got hammered on Sunday.
I also play indoor in the BSSC.
My biggest complaint, and it's not a constant one, is the refereeing, not about quality but about the occasional refs who doesn't want to work. I am particularly thinking of one a couple years ago. Everytime there was a stoppage in play, he would go down on the ground and do crunches!
Most of the games I've been in are quite competitive, mostly because nobody likes to lose. I swear I've had team mates who looked as though they worked harder and cared more than a couple of Revs players. A couple of times per season, a game gets almost nasty. On the other hand, I haven't seen a lot of injuries, and they mostly seem to happen to the young whippersnappers rather than us geezers. The worst injury I ever saw at a rec league game involved a collision between 2 softball players on the next field.