Often they merely provide an environment for assholes to behave like bigger assholes. I'll not waste my time describing the rules. It's like baseball except that it's played with a soft red rubber ball of about a foot in diameter which is kicked instead of batted and can be thrown at the runner to get him out. For me it represents years of gradeschool playground oppression. Overly hormoned alpha-male, dominating personality types are welcome to play if they want, but see the special scoring provisions concerning this game.
Revenge is sweet, and is best served cold.
You can screw up, but don't appologize for it. Knots Players close their eyes and join hands with one another. Once every player has one other person's hand in each of their own, everyone opens their eyes. At this point everyone's arms are joined to form a complete though tangles loop. The idea is to weave in and out from one another to untangle the knot.