It's Time for Recess

[Alex]

Out of curiosity, did anybody play a version of 4-square that was played entirely with the feet? My fifth grade teacher claimed to have invented it but it isn't like we'd know.

It was great at improving ball juggling skills for soccer.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Nope, the only time feet got involved in 4-square was when someone was pissed off and booted the ball across the yard.

[BDBopper]

One of my favorite games from school was a game in which the clas was divided into two teams and a ball was placed in the middle of the field. E ach team had their own of the field. Each porton of the game involved one person from each team racing to the middle of the field to get the ball. Whoever got it would run to their end of the field while the other team's player would try to tag the player with the ball out. If the player with the ball reached his team's zone that player's team would get a point.

I think the game was called Catch the Bacon or something. I know the name involved bacon.

[Alex]

Me and my college roommate spend two or three afternoons a week playing pickleball. Way under-regarded as a game.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Alex

It was great at improving ball juggling skills for soccer.

Nope. Played it in elementary school (which I completed in 1976).

[partial non-sequitur] Reminds me of the guy I ran into at the LA County Fair a few years ago. He was manning one of the gazillions of vendor booths. He was selling rubber stamps and had a sign claiming that he had invented thermography (for printing - not imaging). I took great joy in ripping him a new one: that thermographic printing has existed for longer than he had been alive. He was quite upset with me (as I did this in front of several potential customers). I noticed that when I passed by his booth later in the day, the sign was down [/partial non-sequitur]

[MouseWife]

We had a tether-ball in our yard, too. That was cool. There were a lot of us kids so my dad tried to create fun for us at home. We had the mandatory swingset {which my brother flipped over when I was on it}, the volleyball net, a basketball hoop, as well as tennis rackets and raquetball rackets. Of course, none official sized areas and of course, I never mastered a single one. Oh, I forget croquet.

All of this talk reminds me of a movie, is it 'The Twilight Zone', where the old people come out at night and play?

[cirquelover]

Originally Posted by MouseWife

All of this talk reminds me of a movie, is it 'The Twilight Zone', where the old people come out at night and play?

I remember that too! Was it Cocoon, maybe?

[MouseWife]

Originally Posted by cirquelover

I remember that too! Was it Cocoon, maybe?

I thought 'Cocoon' as well but something is picking at me that it was perhaps from the Twilight Zone movie...but it's been so long since I've seen either!


LOL BtD, that would be fun to watch. ;0) {I was never good at any sport with eye hand coordination....}

[katiesue]

My Mom still has a teatherball pole in her garden. We used it some but its on dirt so it doesn't work quite the same.

[Kevy Baby]

Oh, and even though I was taller than most, I too hated tetherball