3 ms·
How interesting. Usually your teammates will kill you for flair that doesn't help. And if you do it repeatedly, you won't get called the next time the gang goes
by arjie 10y ago
How interesting. Usually your teammates will kill you for flair that doesn't help. And if you do it repeatedly, you won't get called the next time the gang goes out to play.
Here's a story: Growing up in India, we'd play football on this muddy ground next to an open sewer. There's only one field and maybe six or seven teams so we'd play golden goal or ten minutes. You had ten minutes to score to stay, but if your opponent scored you have to join the back of the queue. If you boot the ball too hard, it falls in the sewer and it's on you to go retrieve it among the shit and piss and everyone has to remember not to head it until it's washed off. It's also about 37 to 40 degrees outside and there's no shade, so losing is no fun since you may have to wait half an hour for your next game.
Amusingly, this ends up defaulting to the possession game with short passes. Unfortunately, I wasn't very good at the game, and so I played RB and had to retrieve the ball from the sewer many times before I learned to be a little better with my ground passes. I never did get very good, but at least I stopped having to go get the ball.
Maybe a few tropical diseases will fix your kids right up.
- stcredzero 10y agoI think the helicopter parenting debate could be reduced to just knowledge of consequences and systemic thinking. The situation you described was an excellent opportunity for you and your playmates to understand the consequences of play style and play environment as a messy real-world system. This is something you don't get nearly as much of playing video games or going to the mall. So many of our experiences are curated, artificial, and fall far short of the real-world level of complexity.
- tnecniv 10y ago> How interesting. Usually your teammates will kill you for flair that doesn't help. And if you do it repeatedly, you won't get called the next time the gang goes out to play. Depends on the group. Where I grew up, style was the name of the game. It wasn't good enough to do a layup. You had to do a trick layup with a needless underhand, etc. The problem is that there was always one or two players that were naturally gifted and played all day so they could do any trick they wanted. Then, everyone tries to do it to show they have chops, too.
- hluska 10y agoI really enjoyed this comment and you're one heck of a good writer. Thanks for telling your story!!