im still waiting for two 'sports' from grammar schooldaze to make it to the tv.
three penny hockey. on a typical student desktop, player 1 starts with 3 pennies in a tight row at their end. with a flick to the center penny, you shoot it through the other 2, with a plan for the next shot where you shoot another penny through the imaginary line formed by pennies 1 and 3. then you shoot the last penny through that line formed by the other two.
finally, player 2 makes a goal on their end by placing the small finger and the index finger on the desk, with fingers 3 and 4 folded under the desk edge - a 'u' or backward 'c' so to speak. player 1 takes the fourth shot toward the goal. then player 2 takes a turn.
desktop football. fold a piece of paper into a triangle. make sure to leave the last fold short as you have to tuck it into another. do this wrong, and the football will keep falling apart. place the football hanging slightly off the desk at your end, and hit it with an open palm down the field. now, you can either flick it to try and make a touchdown (a flick that ends up with a portion of the football clearly hanging over the other edge, 6 points) or lift up and hold the football with an end touching the field. flick it into the air, and aim at the goalpost player 2 has made with his hands. field goal, 3 points.
i tried to keep both going into middle school times, with no luck. everyone else became too cool for kids games. puberty an all that, i guess.
high school? everybody was too busy with the betting sheets. i think they offered 'bookie' in the vocational track at my school.
we also had a pantload of outdoor (mostly, that's another story..lol.) games involving gasoline, fireworks, bike ramps, rocks, steel pipes, u know, the usual playthings. that one made it to tv, it's called 'jackass.'
slip and slides belong solely on grass. on asphalt, it's no game. i well recall playing the 'invent a flamethrower' game, but that ended when someone's folks found out. i thought it might be kinda unique, but when i moved to the hills, i learned that country kids had a game called 'potato gun.' it requires hairspray. wish i knew that one when i was a kid. it could have come in handy.
