Keg Bowl set for Saturday

Football is a game for young men but some pigskin crazies in this part of the world think they can play the demanding sport forever if they want to.

Those kind of crazies will be out there trying to prove they can still play (or maybe find out that they really can’t anymore?) again Saturday in the 38th annual Keg Bowl, set to kick off at 1 p.m. Dec. 29. The Keg Bowl has traditionally been held on the Saturday between Christmas and New Year’s Day for almost four full decades now.

Although deep, fluffy, footspeed-slowing, ground-cushioning snow is always hoped for, the Keg Bowl will be played no matter what the weather and/or field conditions are at kickoff time.

Long-time Keg Bowl organizer and ambassador of good will for the big game, Doug Willhite asks that all prospective players show up at about 12:30 p.m. with light and dark colored jerseys. The teams will be selected by designated team captains right before kickoff and a short time after the tapping of the traditional Keg Bowl keg of beer.

Willhite’s older brother Roger, who is expected to play at least part of the game, is the only man alive to have played in every Keg Bowl since its inception in way back in 1979.