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Pick-Up Touch Football!

Posted: 05/05/08 03:06 PM

Pick-up touch football game isn’t completely gone.  At my son’s elementary school (Hillcrest) in Oakland, it’s been a busy year for recess and after school touch football among the fourth graders.  The year started with lots of excitement about playing football during recess.  Soon I started hearing about some of the issues/problems:  they couldn’t agree on the rules, ‘Jimmy’ hogged the ball all the time, ‘Sammy’ was terrible and no one ever picked him.  I chuckled a little at these traumatic events, but was inwardly so pleased that the boys had to deal, mostly by themselves, with these issues.

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by Scott Kleinman

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