Anybody In Here Play In A Company Sponsored Sports League?

Last night was my first company-sponsored soccer game. I have not had that many endorphins released from playing sports in a long time. Not to mention I met multiple people from my own company who I had never talked with before (thank you W.F.H and my company hiring a bunch of new people) Long story short I'm still buzzing from the game this morning and was curious if any other savages have had pleasant experiences joining/participating in a company-sponsored sports league?


If you don't I highly recommend asking the leadership at your company if they would be willing to sponsor one. I've played pick-up basketball and golf with people at my company, but neither of those was a company-sponsored event they were just planned over slack casually. Yesterday was my first time participating in an organized sports league (since college) and it was truly such an enjoyable experience. If for some reason the leadership at your company isn't willing to sponsor a sports league then creating a slack channel and running pick up games is also awesome, but we all work in sales and selling the benefits like team comrade, coworker bonding, and improved health amongst your employees seems like an easy sell to me.


Anyways, much love savages. Good luck creating some business today๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ˜Žโšฝ๏ธ

I've participated in a company sponsored sports league

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Kinonez
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This is awesome! Wish my company did this! It would promote teamwork thatโ€™s for sure, even if itโ€™s not for everyone, the rest can watch or bet!ย 
Chep
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Hahahaha love the idea of betting on a company-sponsored sports league
AlphaCharlie
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Hahaha right? I'd be soo bad they would write songs about my epic failures!ย 
Kinonez
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Haha love your sense of humor Charlie
poweredbycaffeine
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We had a company-sponsored kickball league, and it was a disaster. Injuries, washed-up D1 bros getting way too into it, BDRs realizing what their co-workers look like outside of professional office place clothing...just a disaster.
AlphaCharlie
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Hope everyone is fine now! Did you get hurt?
CuriousFox
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My last company we played volleyball against our competition. Which turned to kickball. It was a blast.
Chep
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Bitcoin Adoption Specialist
Have not played Kickball in forever. Need to see if I can get a game going at my company. Sounds like a fun time
CuriousFox
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I mean an elbow or two may have been thrown, but the beers together after were the best. ๐Ÿ”ฅ
HappyGilmore
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Shoot I wish we had that, we have a soccer team which isnโ€™t for me but would love a company sports league
DungeonsNDemos
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Rolling 20's all day
Sounds like a great time! My company is too small for a sports league and I highly doubt more than 2-3 of us would even want to do it.ย 
I miss soccer sometimes.ย 

I think the best we could do is joining a bowling league.ย 
Chep
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Bitcoin Adoption Specialist
Bowling could be fun. Worth giving it a shot for sure
TheSolicitorGeneral
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Small Market AE
We had a co-ed softball league. Nobody took it seriously (I was a recruiter then) and we got our asses kicked and we ended up going like 1-9. It was not a great time lol
SaaSKicker1000
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I was in a company softball league a few years back - new company is fully remote and thereโ€™s only a few people in FL so probably wonโ€™t happen lol but I loved the softball league when we did it. I was Pete Alonso in that shit.. #Dingers
Kodiak
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Yes, and loved it! Our team was absolute trash. Like we didn't even win one game trash. But it was so much fun! Not only did it make everything more fun with the activity but it made the day-to-day sales more fun with the banter it created.ย 

We were trash because it turned out people take ultimate frisbee SUPER serious! Who knew people would draw up plays for frisbee?ย 
CharmingSalesGal
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My current company & last company had sponsored sports teams.
; the former company, it was a disaster but my current company, it was AMAZING.

My previous company had pretty specific rules on what leagues we could join to make it fair to everyone. There was only one league within the location perimeter which made it difficult for those that wanted to play but had a life outside of work (aka kids they had to care for).

My current company was pretty lax about it which made it even better. We designed the T-Shirts for it and regularly met up for drinks beforehand. There weren't any rules around locations or number of men vs women that joined, etc (things I saw at my previous location that were hindering).

It's wild how much an active, out of office game can attribute to the teams success and collaboration within the office!! Highly recommend if the circumstances are right.
NoSuperhero
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BDR LEAD
I wish, I spent a little time playing FootSal in a previous job. But it was between departments and it was a lot of fun. I wish we had one where I'm at now tho. Imma bring it up next meeting
TheIncarceration
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SDR Manager
I've been pushing to create a basketball league for ages. We just don't have enough bodies to get anything started sadly
NorthernSalesGuru
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Manager, Outbound Sales
I participated in a league of sorts with my company before.ย 

for context, Iโ€™m a former professional/competitive athlete.ย 

letโ€™s just say I donโ€™t believe in just playing to โ€œhave funโ€ and get aggressively competitive.

I no longer work for the companyโ€ฆ.
Fenderbaum
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I've seen too many injuries in these activities.
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