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

I've seen kids cut like Barry Sanders playing smear the queer.

Red Rover was the mutha frickin greatest!

Wall Ball, Kick Ball, Tackle Football, damn life was pretty fricking awesome back then.

In the early 60s we had the best tackle football games in a vacant but well kept lot in the neighborhood. Some games lasted most of the day with alteriations to the teams as people were taking a break or were temporarily out of commission. There were arse busting tackles, gang tackles, targeting, etc., but we kept at it.

Very seldom was there any type of injury requiring a doctor.

We played kill the man with the ball. When one of us got on the ball we fought like hell to keep it.

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games are going to turn out pretty rough...which is a good thing. Maybe you wouldn't have so many kids on meds if you let them actually be kids a little more.

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No, let's not let them do anything at recess and give them pills for "ADD"

need to burn off some energy so they can sit still when they need to

Just because leftists have decided they want to ban masculinity that doesn't mean boys are going to "evolve" in a generation or two. They will just be frustrated.

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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.

I graduated high school in '07. I'm not that old. I went to a private school and they let us do whatever the hell we wanted during PE. We just voted on it. Played tackle football and dodgeball all through high school.