LAX: NATIVE AMERICAN WAR GAME!!!!

Lacrosse was originally known among Native American tribes as Baggataway.  Only later did the French name it Lacrosse, probably because of the stick (crosse).  I am not big on anything french, except french toast, but the sport really has nothing to do with our hygiene impaired allies from Europe.  This game was originally designed to prepare troops for warfare.  It is commonly referred to today as the "fastest game on two feet."  The only people who don't like Lacrosse are the ignorant masses who don't know anything about the game.  What is not to love, hard rubber ball traveling at the speed of sound, sticks with nets at the end trying to catch and fling this ball, physical contact(except in the women's game), and incredibly fast paced.  Plus, for those of you who want to feel like you are a part of the past, its the oldest sport on this continent.  A good time is guaranteed for all.  Except for the losers.  I think that according to the Natives, the losing team was sacrificed to pagan gods.  We are way too civilized to do that today.  No, we just second guess and criticize the losers until they grow jaded and hateful.  

Lacrosse is a fast growing game, too.  It is available to play in most places in the United States.  However, the East Coast is a hotbed of Lacrosse activity.  It is rumored that babies born in the state of Maryland, are born with a tiny Lacrosse stick in their hands.  

Most people who try Lacrosse, never go back to any other sport.  It is just too much fun.  It's main competition is the American past time; baseball.  I think that baseball is past its time.  Even baseball players find baseball boring.  Baseball is not even as American as Lacrosse.  However, I like Lacrosse being a little bit niche.  It is still cool and not so overly saturated with popularity that kids are buying Lacrosse shirts, just because its cool.  I don't want it to be trendy, just cool.  If you are a teenage boy and you want to impress a hot girl, what would be better than LAX.  If she asks you what you are into and you respond something like, "soccer."  How lame.  Everyone has played soccer.  But if she asks you the same question and you say, "Lacrosse!"  Now you have something to talk about.  Your follow up would be, "Its a Native American game of war.  Nothing really.  I'm lucky to have survived this long, playing such a dangerous game."  Now you are the cool guy that plays the non traditional cool sport with a little bit of danger.  You have now set yourself apart as the cool guy, who is a little bit different.  Not pink hair and a face that looks like you fell into a tackle box different, but cool different.