No Boys Allowed
The KC Krunch knows how to play the field.
By Jen Chen

SAT 5/29
Are you suffering from football withdrawal symptoms? Feeling aimless on Sundays? Counting down the months until the Chiefs' season opener? (Yeah, that's 112 days -- 2,688 hours -- what of it?) If so, here's something to tide you over until autumn: the National Women's Football League. Our home team, the KC Krunch, operates under the same rules as the men's game, except that the ball is a bit smaller and the players aren't paid astronomical, NFL-sized salaries. In fact, Krunch players aren't paid at all. "They play for love of the game," says team owner Cheryl Fields.

Football fans can see this love in action when the Krunch plays its two remaining regular-season home games at J.C. Harmon High School. Kickoff is at 7:05 p.m. (but the team asks that you get there by 6:35 for the pregame festivities). Happily, one of those games is against the Krunch's version of the Broncos. Fields says Saturday's game against its cross-state rival, the St. Louis Slam, will sell out quickly. If you miss it, you'll have to wait until June 5, when the team plays the Denton Stampede. For more information or to buy tickets, call 913-906-9496. -- Jen Chen

Picture by Nadine Reed

Watch the women of the KC Krunch make passes at each other Saturday.

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