Man am I tough. I used to play flag/touch football on an asphalt parking lot at school. I used to play with fire and gasoline together as a kid too!
Precisely why they have the youth leagues people. Pay to put your kid into something active, take them to practice, participate in the coaching and practice with them... Fight obesity, and get some scrapes and bruises along the way. You usually get your kid a jersey out of the deal too. Schools will do this to "protect" themselves, but if you're paying for the activity, you assume the risk. Also, isn't this why they have that awesome 24/7 school kids insurance every year... at the beginning of the year? Remember that? Like $75 per kid for all year?
I remember playing tackle football in elementary school on the asphalt. One day one of the parents complained because her kid would always come home with skinned knees, so we started playing on this grassy lot. Unfortunately, there was plenty of dogsh*t there...Once a couple of kids (me included) landed facefirst in that steaming pile, and the other kids started laughing at us, we retaliated by throwing a fistful at them. Thus we actually started a gi-normous sh*t-flinging fight. Needless to say, the parents let us play on asphalt again as long as we didn't do that ever again.
This is a really stupid rule. When i was in elementery school, we played football or basketball everyday and even if a kid got hurt, they would continue to play cause it was fun. But, by far the most dangerous thing we played at recess was full contact Lacrosse with not pads. When we got hit with sticks it would hurt like hell but we did it because it was fun. Now these kids cant experience stuff like that.
MAN. In MEXICO, I used to come home from playing in the concrete, basketball, tag (our version was called "18"), hide-n-go-seek, and then I would play soccer in the fields where there were pointy rocks, gravel, wood, broken glass, you name it. I'd come home and would have MAPS of salty sweat all over my neck from all that running around. Nothing stopped us. Someone bled, we kept playing... man, WTF is up with the UNITED STATES or just this sissy ass MASSACHUSETTS... first GAY Marriage, now this... are these sissy people stopping every freedom to "grow up"? parents like the ones in the story just suck... EDIT: I missed the part where it says: "for fear they'll get hurt and hold the school liable." Rocket River, I guess I was expecting something a little more substantial from you, man. I thought you'd speak out. So far, just a couple of "yeah, I agree" posts. C'mon, man, you're lettin' me down.
