Too Serious playin' hackey sac I was working at Frank's bike shop and had recently rekindled my love of playing sports. When I first moved to Oregon (1974) the only sort of athletic activities I was engaging in involved either a frisbee or a hacky sac. I was not that good at frisbee and to say I was not that bad at hacky sac would be a lie. Hacky sac is really the ultimate counter culture game. It's non-competitive, everyone gets a fair chance, and everyone's supportive with no criticism. In fact, I think that last part could be a rule, although rules are not something us “Peace Love Dove” counter-culture types tend to endorse with rules being so bourgeois and all... I n 1976 I started playing pickup basketball with Frank. I had hardly played any sports since the spring of 1968, the end of my Freshman year at Valparaiso. By the fall of '68 I viewed sports and games as empty diversionary activities that ate up too much of my time. There was to...
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