we played small pickup on the courthouse lawn, if more boys showed up we'd walk around the block and play on the high school lawn sometimes people would even watch... never happen today, somebody might hurt and sue
The left wants men to be women.
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In my time also, you could walk outside with a ball, a bat or a basketball or in the winter with a hockey stick and skates and always scare up a game or what resembled a game in no time. Sayonara the old America.
Children are rarely allowed to play by themselves now, whether it’s football or hide-and-seek. Someone calls the cops.
we played small pickup on the courthouse lawn, if more boys showed up we'd walk around the block and play on the high school lawn sometimes people would even watch... never happen today, somebody might hurt and sue
One neighbor had a huge backyard. That was the official gathering place. I can’t count the number of hits I took and gave. But it was such fun.
The biggest hazard? They had a big dog. Sometimes, when you got tackled, you’d get up smelling funny because of a hidden “dog bomb” we missed on the first scan of the “field.” You kept playing anyway.
Those were the days.
As Americans, we’ve lost that “toughness” and fighting spirit that these games teach. Yeah, your knee kinda hurts and your nose is bleeding, and you’ve got dog crap smeared in your hair......do you stick it out and keep pushing for the endzone? Or do you go home cryin’ to momma? No one ever went home....it was unthinkable.
Nowadays? I weep for our children who are not being taught this.
Football is also one of the best training grounds for the Armed Forces. It teaches teamwork, sacrifice, working with pain and the importance of victory.
I think this is no small part of the plan to get rid of football at all levels of play.
1. It shares one flaw with soccer, as the only sports where the clock runs after the whistle blows and the ball isn't even in play. The average NFL game has 11-15 minutes of actual "live" play in a 3.5-hour TV broadcast, which pretty much makes it nothing more than an advertising con game.
2. It has developed to the point where grotesquely oversized humans have become commonplace in the game. Is it any wonder that performance-enhancing drugs are now the norm?
3. It's become so specialized that professionals don't even really play "football" anymore ... they play one position on the field on a part-time basis, and they're completely unsuited for almost any other position on the field. A decent high school quarterback, for example, would probably be a better NFL quarterback than an All-Pro linebacker would be.
When I was a kid, we played smear the queer all the time. I wonder what kids call it today.