Paper Football

[HatDaddy]

Loved this game as a kid. Spent hours designing and perfecting footballs.
Do kids still play this?

 

[mr. sunshine]

I saw it as a new application on iTunes, so like most cool things from childhood, its been reduced to a video game. Are kids today too delicate to fashion a sheet of notebook paper into a triangle or do they not have friends to play with?

I was the paper f'n football master of my middle school, BTW.

 

[Art Vandelay]

I was the reigning paper football long distance "kicking" champion. I could knock that sucker clear across the cafeteria. Nobody could touch me.

[uncle rico]How much you wanna bet I could thump this paper football over them mountains?[/uncle rico]

 

[HookemDanno]

we called it "WoodyBall" for some reason...

I was the perfect spin artist until folks started "penny rigging" the middle...

Good times...

Danno

 

[El_Oso]

One of the first games I taught my son to play and now every time we are going to go out to a restaurant he grabs a sheet of paper and makes a football so we can play whiel waiting for our food.

When we kick field goals we try to hit each other in the face, but you aren't allowed to duck out of the way and the kicker has to keep the ball low so it doesn't go into another booth. Once I tried to rocket one at his his face and he knew it was gonna be hard so he broke form and ducked out of the way and the ball ended up hitting the kid int he booth next to us.

I get up and apologize for drilling the kid and he asks what "that" is. His dad jumps in and starts telling the kid about the game and much fun it is. Right then our food gets there and I let them have the ball and they go on and have a good time while waiting for their food.

 

[DallasCowpoke]

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[formermav43]

In 7th grade, towards the end of the year, me and about 3 or 4 other guys decided that we would set a Guinness world record for Most Paper Footballs Constructed, not letting the fact that there is no such category deter us - we wanted to be the first.

We spent a couple of weeks in the back of classes, making as many as possible and saving them in grocery bags. We must have had several thousand. When a bag was full, we gave them to one guy to take home, where he was collecting all of them for us. Imagine our disappointment when he came in one day to tell us that his mom had thrown them all out.

 

[TornACL]

In 8th grade shop, we used one of the big square woodshop tables as our paper football stadium.

Took a magic marker and drew a football field and everything.

We came to class one Monday to find the tables had been sanded clean, no more field. So I did what any 8th grader would do...I took our magic marker and, in 72 point font, wrote "WHO THE **** SANDED THIS TABLE" on the table.

God, school sure was a lot more fun than work.

 

[Art Vandelay]

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[Handler XIII]

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