re: Nostalgia thread - who can remember playing tackle at recess?

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Back in the old days we called it "tackle the man with the ball".

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We had a version of this as well. But we called it all against one and we didn't play it (mostly) at school. Mostly we played on the levee going from top to bottom. Everybody would get at the bottom of the levee and someone would throw the ball from the top. Whoever caught it would try to make it to the top and everyone would tackle him. Then he would toss it over his shoulder back down and whoever caught it would try.

Usually took quite awhile for anyone to make it to the top. There was this one kid who would hang out on the edges and never touch the ball unless it bounced way to the side where nobody could tackle him. But of course we would tackle him anyway even if he made it to the top. Just for being like that.