Beach Football

With November rolling around, it might be a good time to talk about turkey-day two-handed touch beach football at the Pleasant Plus. We typically play on the beach, drawing our boundaries in the sand. Over the years, we've perfected a "half-court" version of the game.

There are no kickoffs, punts, or field goals. Instead, it features an unmoving line of scrimmage so that adults playing full-time quarterback don't have to run on sand with old bones, and perhaps leave their opposite hand is free to hold a beer. The playing surface then extends East to West along the beach, crossed with a one point line and a two point line. Getting the ball past these lines is a scoring play. Defenders starting behind the one-point line may rush the quarterback, and the ball turns over on an interception, after at least six points are scored, or there are three consecutive non-scoring plays. The first team to twenty-eight wins!