Playing Football in The Street

[FlourBluffHorn]

That was one of the highlights of being young, running the street light offense, Tell about ya best Time,, if some of you was ever young...! or maybe waiting for a punt with a car coming..LOL

Mine was catching a 49 yd pass into the fog of a Bug Spraying truck in Austin, that's when they used the real stuff, smoke the whole block when it passed, but, we never had many mosquitoes when they did this and used something else than the one they have today that doesn't work.


Hook'em

 

[GuaranteedFresh!]

That was one of the highlights of being young, running the street light offense, Tell about ya best Time,, if some of you was ever young...! or maybe waiting for a punt with a car coming..LOL

Mine was catching a 49 yd pass into the fog of a Bug Spraying truck in Austin, that's when they used the real stuff, smoke the whole block when it passed, but, we never had many mosquitoes when they did this and used something else than the one they have today that doesn't work.


Hook'em

Wasn't that the ddt stuff? Supposedly messed with migrating birds and made their egg shells super soft.
Nothing that works REALLY good is good for ya apparently. Such is life.

 

[FlourBluffHorn]

Wasn't that the ddt stuff? Supposedly messed with migrating birds and made their egg shells super soft.
Nothing that works REALLY good is good for ya apparently. Such is life.

Yup G! That was it! they drink this modern day spray like koolaid..somebody always messing with something that works..Well, the moral of the story is we got Big assed Mosquito that look like Sparrows and the fing eggs are hard again..LOL

Hook'em

 

[RoboCocks21]

Growing up in west Texas played in gravel tar paved roads the tar would start to stick to you like gum when temps would reach over 110

 

[TX1972]

Wasn't that the ddt stuff? Supposedly messed with migrating birds and made their egg shells super soft.
Nothing that works REALLY good is good for ya apparently. Such is life.

Actually, unless you lay eggs to reproduce, ddt is very safe. It is possible that we could save 1000000 poor Africans/ year by spraying the INSIDE of their huts with ddt. Which would not hurt any birds. The enviros want to believe in absolute poisons.

 

[DHHorn]

Played in the yard. The trees marked the end zones and out of bounds and acted like extra defenders.

 

[FlourBluffHorn]

Played in the yard. The trees marked the end zones and out of bounds and acted like extra defenders.

Hey bro, when ya playing in the yard or street , you man up and play both D and O..lol..skinned elbows , hands . and the damn curb, and the play clock was fast ...all the fun that ours Grand and Great grandchildren will never exp


hook'em

 

[DHHorn]

Oh we did play both. It was tricky having to dodge the tree as well as guys playing against you. There was more than one collision with a tree that came out of nowhere.

 

[bschroed21]

Played anywhere possible, but remember vividly playing football under the bleachers at Nelson Field during the 80’s at Reagan Raider football games with any kids who would play. When we forgot a football, we used a hard plastic cup from the concession stand. House Park games were the best because of the grassy field at the north side of the stadium.

 

[Son of Wasatch]

Nothing like playing street football, big tree in my yard was one end zone marker we would sit down this little quadriplegic kid a few doors down and he would mark the other end zone. Good times. I still remember the look on his face when I dove for the pylon (that was him) for the winning score. I miss him.

 

[RoboCocks21]

Speechless

 

[cwillfromdatx]

Those were some good old days. Playing in the street was crazy. Trying to avoid parked cars, passing cars and getting tackle all at the same time.
Then we use to play in a empty back yard with nothing but red ants, yellow jackets, a broken fence line and barb wire fence line. So many obstacles. Fun but no way I would let my kid do that now lol.