The Curious Rise of Adult Recess Leagues

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Recent years have seen a surge in adult-recess leagues across the United States. By some estimates, there are now 1.6 million grown-ups participating in these leagues across the country, and they’re only growing more popular. Today’s adults are seemingly desperate for more playtime—and so we’re eagerly bounding outside after work for all kinds of kid-style activities, from kickball and flag football to capture the flag and cornhole. But it’s not all fun and games: some of the leagues are highly competitive, with team names, uniforms, and strict scheduling. To find out what’s really going on, reporter Mimi Montgomery and producer Alex Ward visit rec fields in Washington, D.C., and Portland, Oregon, to observe grown-ups at play.

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0:00.0	This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by L.L. Bean reminding you to go outside and not necessarily on some backcountry track that takes five months to plan
0:09.5	There are a lot of adventures to be had right in in your own backyard, if you know where to look.
0:14.5	And what do you do in grandma's backyard?
0:16.2	Um, play?
0:19.5	This is my nephew, Steen, a discerning outdoorsman for a four-year-old because my family is lucky enough to have this
0:25.0	massive backyard at my parents house. There's a Sequoia tree, chickens, a treehouse, and apparently
0:31.6	hungry, vegetarian monsters.
0:34.0	What was your gift for the monsters?
0:36.0	Dirty salad?
0:38.0	Dirty salad for the monsters?
0:41.0	Mm-hmm.
0:42.0	Because monsters like it. As near as anyone can tell, dirty salad means compost. This is the first we're hearing of the monsters.
0:50.0	And we play flying with a dragon.
0:56.5	What do you do when you fly with the dragon?
0:58.6	Um, did my dragon's skin?
1:02.3	Your dragon skin? Your skin?
1:03.0	Mm-hmm.
1:04.0	And what do you do with it?
1:06.0	Fly.
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1:26.0	L.L.Bine, be an outsider. From Outside magazine and PRX, these are dispatches. Stories from our writers in the field.
1:51.0	So recently, Alex Ward, one of the regular contributors to our show and my neighbor, came over to discuss a burning question.
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