Just ‘cause we’re old, don’t mean we can’t com-pete,
–Joyce Kitson, from the song We Just Don’t Look Good Naked Anymore
And moving keeps us up u-pon our feet.
We still can pass and guard and shoot and we can e-ven score,
But we just don’t look good na-ked a-ny-more.
According to the official website of the Granny Basketball League, Inc., granny teams began forming in 2005. Now, there are “more than 450 players on 41 teams in 10 states: 14 teams in Iowa, 9 in Kansas, 5 in Texas, 3 each in Missouri and Oklahoma, 2 each in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and 1 each in Louisiana, Virginia and California. New teams are continuing to form.” My youngest sister plays on a championship Iowa team. I never knew granny basketball existed until she started playing.
A very good player in high school, my sister started playing granny basketball a few years ago in her 50’s. The team she plays on, the Cedar Rapids Sizzlers, won the 2022 National Granny Basketball Tournament.