So, have you joined the pickleball craze?

[Goodheart]

At 69 years old I doubt that my ankles will ever recover.... because I can't not play.

[sop]

1. Tom Brady and LeBron James are pickleball franchise investors.

[Goodheart]

2. I don't even know what a "pickleball franchise" means.

A professional league of sorts? Or facilities where people pay to play?

Honestly, while playing is a lot of fun I would be bored to death watching pro teams. It's just not that fun to watch.

[sop]

3. Pickleball franchise offer:

https://www.americanpickleballassociation.com/franchise

[LakeArenal]

4. Here in Costa Rica our pueblo just laid a pickle ball court at the school soccer field.

Pickle. Ball is a “thing”.

[Jilly_in_VA]

5. Oh hell no

I don't watch and I don't play. It's dumb. I enjoy a well played table tennis match in the Olympics from time to time but I don't even like tennis any more. When I was growing up (pre-Title IX and before Chris Evert) we weren't even allowed to hit a two-handed backhand in PE tennis, so I hated it.

To me, pickleball is like wiffleball and kickball--it should be a playground game for kids and adults, not a pro sport.

[Goodheart]

10. I agree it should be for kids and older folks....

Those young people in their 20's, 30's, and 40's should be playing tennis. They come onto the courts and act like they're hot shit... when they should be playing something more physically demanding.

[Harker]

6. No...

but I've resumed cornholing.

[FoxNewsSucks]

7. ...

[Skittles]

8. I don't join ANY "craze"

and I always marvel at the sheep mentality of the folk who do

[Harker]

9. By the time I've become aware of a craze, it's over.

Just the way I like it.

[Skittles]

20. yes

that's the very definition of a craze, it eventually subsides as people realize it just wasn't as great as they thought....

[Goodheart]

12. Pickleball won't end, sorry.

And I don't know why you'd think its popularity is about "sheep mentality". I don't play it because everybody else is. It's popular because it's genuinely fun.

[Skittles]

13. they ALL end

yup

[Goodheart]

15. Well, you're wrong.

A lot of people still play softball, for example.

[Skittles]

19. I guess I missed the softball craze

I was thinking more rubik's cube, pet rocks, beanie babies, wordle, etc

over and OUT

[Ocelot II]

11. I have not the slightest interest in it.

I have a cousin who's totally into it and he has fun, and that's great. But anything that involves exercise combined with hanging out with enthusiastic people is not on my list of things to do.

[Goodheart]

14. It is good exercise, but it's rather moderate.

Tennis is quite demanding for somebody my age. Pickleball is not.

[Ocelot II]

16. My cousin is a senior citizen, as am I, and he likes the relatively undemanding exercise.

I don't mind undemanding exercise - I do a lot of walking - but I don't want to hang out with enthusiastic people.

[Goodheart]

17. I tell you... the ladies are more fanatic than the guys

Typically, you show up to one of the public parks and get into a doubles game with people you might have already seen but don't really know....

So last night I was paired with this lady probably about 10 years my junior (I'm 69). We were barely two points into the game when she starts bossing me around.... "you're playing too far back", "you need to hit it lower and deeper", "stop hitting it to him, hit it to her!"... when already I couldn't take it any more and replied back "stop bossing me around and just let me play." Expecting that would be the end of that.... oh noooooooo.... she replied "oh, so you just want to play? I would never have known."

I'm going to be avoiding that salty woman from now on. LOL

[demmiblue]

18. I have played a few times... it is a lot of fun.

And it is not merely moderate exercise when you play with me!