Nate File
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Reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Enjoys hoops.
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Being a dad, or over the age of 30, is not a prerequisite to play, though most of the regulars are both. Some moms and kids have even played over the years. The real requirement is being willing to play competitive hoops, no matter your athletic ability, while keeping arguments and trash talk to a minimum.
“Dadball has a really great balance of people [who] are trying really hard and playing hard but also not getting too vicious about whether or not they’re winning, and a fairly limited amount of cheating,” Taussig said.
A few years ago, one of the Dadballers took it upon himself to start filming the pickup games and uploading them to YouTube so players or their families could watch later. The playback is a humble reminder of the state of their game; a player’s in-game blunder can get turned into GIFs for the group’s text thread. Once, a random person from upstate New York commented on a video to check them:
“It was like, ‘4:42, that’s a travel’,” Taussig said.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vlvhbzhbbfkgizlltmxfku6j/bafkreibrlyr5dfz4a6d7bcso7uusqt37cgt7jlez7v722mfv2unooakfgq@jpeg)
June 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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