RE: NY considers ban on tackle football for kids under 12
(11-01-2019 10:08 AM)brovol Wrote: We did that too! I think its a very old game, and the word "queer" wasn't referring to homosexual, but rather the more traditional meaning of the word. It was kind of like a rugby scrum, and you weren't supposed to pitch the ball before getting tackled, but after you dragged some tacklers long enough that you weren't considered a wuss. If you were doing things right, you ended up with torn pants and shirt, and some blood, but mostly from scuffed knees and elbows. A broken bone wasnt necessarily desired, but nobody could deny that you were pretty cool for the next few weeks if you did break an arm and had a cast to prove it.
We did that, too.
I was in 3rd or 4th grade, Brian was a year or two younger. Playing STQ, I (not being a small child) came down on his leg and snapped his femur just above the knee. Clean break. Got some pins or plates (can't remember which). Back at school on crutches a couple days later. As the bone was healing, it started growing abnormally. The growths were cancerous. They tried chemo and radiation. Round and round. They ended up needing to amputate a few years later. Sometimes life just happens. He went on to have a pretty solid golf career.
RE: NY considers ban on tackle football for kids under 12
(11-01-2019 11:16 AM)AFLAGWA Wrote:
(11-01-2019 10:08 AM)brovol Wrote: We did that too! I think its a very old game, and the word "queer" wasn't referring to homosexual, but rather the more traditional meaning of the word. It was kind of like a rugby scrum, and you weren't supposed to pitch the ball before getting tackled, but after you dragged some tacklers long enough that you weren't considered a wuss. If you were doing things right, you ended up with torn pants and shirt, and some blood, but mostly from scuffed knees and elbows. A broken bone wasnt necessarily desired, but nobody could deny that you were pretty cool for the next few weeks if you did break an arm and had a cast to prove it.
We did that, too.
I was in 3rd or 4th grade, Brian was a year or two younger. Playing STQ, I (not being a small child) came down on his leg and snapped his femur just above the knee. Clean break. Got some pins or plates (can't remember which). Back at school on crutches a couple days later. As the bone was healing, it started growing abnormally. The growths were cancerous. They tried chemo and radiation. Round and round. They ended up needing to amputate a few years later. Sometimes life just happens. He went on to have a pretty solid golf career.
OMG, Thats a terrible thing. Awful misfortune. You must have felt terrible.
He looks to have a great disposition, and a beautiful golf swing.
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NY considers ban on tackle football for kids under 12
