The Joys of Backyard Football
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Remember playing backyard football with an odd number of guys? Someone wound up being “Official QB” for both teams, and eventually he would get accused of trying harder for the team that was winning. This would lead to a shoving match or a fistfight, and then someone would get called home for dinner and you’d make plans to do it all over again the next day.
Michael Vick remembers that whole Official QB business too, because it happened to him last month.
What else do you remember about backyard football? Here’s what I remember:
- Yelling “No Takes!” when the kickoff (or throw off) was nonreturnable.
- Arguing about pass interference calls.
- Arguing about fumbles - “The ground can’t cause a fumble!”
- Arguing about intentional grounding. (man, there were lots of arguments)
- Whether your neighborhood counted 7-Miss (”1-Miss-2-Miss”) or 3-Mississippi (”1-Mississippi-2-Mississippi”)
- How often you could call “Blitz!” per series
- “My knee was never down!”
- If you only had one end zone you had the “suckers walk” rule.
- Did you play with running plays, or only passes?
- The “everybody go deep” play
- Did you have first downs? was it at midfield, or was it two completions for a first down?
- Arguments over whether a lateral was forward or not.
So, what did I miss?
UPDATE: Apparently Vick wasn’t playing organized games…yet.
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