One of the best things about Microsoft is the play hard part of the work hard / play hard culture. And while there’s Ultimate Frisbee, Soccer, Softball, Cricket, Pong, and whatnot, every fall it’s time for the MSFFL - Microsoft Flag Football League! We’ve got about 20 teams across two divisions playing 9 on 9 coed full contact flag football.
Full contact flag football? Yup. This isn’t the no-contact 5-second rush passing drill league that is Underdog Sports. Full contact rushing, blocking, bumping, and everything that makes football fun. OK, except tackling… you do have to go for the flags.
Coed?
Yeah. Seven men, two women on the field. Our girls are bad-asses.
The season opened this past Saturday with Fatal Errors (in red and white), the team I’ve been playing on for the past 3 years, taking on the free agents team, the Hornets (in black). Every year, there’s abut 20 folks wanting to play, and a team is typically formed from that. What they lack in organization they make up in numbers and energy. But football is the thinking athlete’s sport, and well executed plays will win the day. It was a fun game if a bit one-sided; we ended up taking it 35-7. Welcome to the league boys!
You want a friendly corporate softball game? Yahoo! and Google have you covered. You want a game where you’ll be feeling it while you down a few with the guys you laid out earlier that day? Come to Seattle.
