Comments on: What Killed Backyard Football Games?

By: Reservior Dad

Reservior Dad — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:11:27 +0000

Thanks god it hasn’t got to that point in Australia yet. (Although one school not far from my suburb has banned kids from doing sommersaults).

I remember long afternoons of Aussie Rules when I was a kid. My two sons already have a small Sherrin to take outside and kick around. When they’re a little older it will be ‘footy full-on’. Bugger law suits.

By: FamilyMan

FamilyMan — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:22:18 +0000

Just wanted you to know that I included a link to this column from my collection of links for Scout leaders this week.

By: Mike Lanza

Mike Lanza — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:27:54 +0000

Boy, a lot of my best memories as a kid are playing football and "kill the guy with the ball" in our neighborhood. There are many articles on my "Playborhood" sites about this. See: Pick-Up Touch Football! A Suburban Childhood of Play in the 1960s and 70s