When people first told me they played Ultimate Frisbee, I imagined a relaxed game played in parks, perhaps by people wearing hemp necklaces and Birkenstocks. But once I saw Ultimate Frisbee in action, these stereotypes were quickly pushed away! Ultimate Frisbee is a quick and fast-paced game that definitely takes more stamina than you think!

This week, players were all up in each others faces, trying to block the opposing team's throw or intimidate them into throwing a faulty pass.

These Ultimate Frisbee players look like they may have taken a wrong turn somewhere, and ended up on the LES instead of the Broadway Stage:

Princess Layot (red) and Discy Business (purple) choreographed something together...

Ben from Princess Layout (red) looks like he's dancing all over the field...

And then this member of Catch 22 (royal) is in his own Broadway Show World!

I HAZ A FRIZBEE!!!

...NOW WUT...?

All Black Everything (black) seems to be having a religious experieince while playing agaist  Discy Business (purple) in the Ultimate Frisbee Playoffs recently...

It could just be me, seeing as how I'm a self-professed Back To The Future superfan and all, but does anyone else think of this scene everytime they see a Frisbee?

Talk about cool, That's Marty McFly.  First he invents the Skateboard in the 1950s, then he goes back even further and invents the Frisbee.

Now, I'm not a historian but I grew up thinking that Back to the Future Part III was just fiction. I mean, obviously there weren't Deloreans flying around in 1885 and Biff "Mad Dog" Tannen wasn't actually wreaking havoc in Southern California, but apparently there was some truth in the flick.

Ready for a new fun fact to share at your next party?  Well,  a Frisbie Pie Company did actually exsist in the 1800s (although it was located in Connecticut not California).  Not only that, but Richard Knerr, who created the brand name "Frisbee," took it from that very bakery after Yale students started throwing the tins around for fun.

Who knew!?  Well, maybe a lot of people, but I sure didn't!

In any case, a big thanks to Marty McFly, Richard Knerr, and whoever else set the groundwork for what has now been mastered by players like those at our Friday Night Ultimate League.  We've come so far since 1885...

                                                                                                   Far Out!