In Portland’s ‘footbag mecca,’ this one-man toy business offers a front-row seat to the Hacky Sack renaissance

America is in the midst of a zombie apocalypse — an athletic apocalypse, featuring a once-viral pastime that has suddenly, but fervently, risen from the dead.

The pathogen: Hacky Sack, a familiar fad among the better half of Generation X.

For reasons unbeknownst to all, Hacky Sack has hit a newfound stride. In high schools across the country, Gen Zers are kicking footbags back-and-forth with a familiar compulsion — only this time around, social media is here to catapult the craze into a true “Hacky Sack epidemic.”…

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