This summer, adult amateur kickball leagues are being founded around Seattle at a surprising rate. Thanks to the efforts of the Underdog Sports League, kickball teams have grown from 70 teams in 2005 to 200 this year.

Let's face it: the Supersonics are gone, the Mariners are horrible and the Seahawks won't be starting until the kids are back in school. At this point... Seattle sports fans just want to kick something.

"We're trying to be the antithesis of the corporate sports machine," Shawn Madden, an Underdog Sports spokesperson told the Ballard News Tribune. "We're trying to provide an environment where people can enjoy sports on their own terms."

Underdog Sports has set up more than just kickball leagues however - they specialize in forming neighborhood leagues for a variety of non-mainstream sports such as flag football and bowling.

Recently, the organization set up matches with the Ballard Boys and the Girls Club, each dividing up into even teams, much like the old days on the playground.

"The point is to get out, run around and act like idiots while playing kickball," said Chris Smith, a kickball player on the Ballard Boys, told the newspaper.

Kickball was originally founded circa 1942 - the first record of it being told of by a wartime correspondent named Ernie Pyle, discussing it during the Tunisia Campaign. It was called "soccer baseball" then.