When I was in school it was shirts vs skins. Two separate schools in two separate states. I’m 39.
At Christian academy we played horse though.
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halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 4 days agoI’d hope millennial would be old enough to understand shirts vs skins.
Age has nothing to do with how unlikely it is that a school gym class would have students take off their shirts to differentiate teams in a game.
theangryseal@lemmy.world 4 days ago
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Okay, what the hell is horse?
theangryseal@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You shoot, you miss, you get nothing. You shoot, you score, you get an H, followed by an O, then R, S, and E. Whoever gets to HORSE first wins.
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That is the opposite of how HORSE is played.
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 3 days ago
This is so different from what I understand horse to be it’s crazy. To play horse you would shoot a ball from a certain spot and if you made it, the other person would have to shoot from the same spot or they get a letter. If you miss the other player gets to pick a spot. And so on until someone gets HORSE and loses. Also played with skateboard tricks and called SKATE.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Riiight! We used to play donkey, for some reason.
Great explanation, too
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
As a millennial, it wasn’t something we did in PE, but we did it occasionally on team sports for scrimmages (esp. basketball). We had jerseys, but the coach didn’t want to keep doing laundry.
MBM@lemmings.world 4 days ago
Why a whole jersey and not just a coloured band?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
it’s a lot easier to put on and take off a jersey than a band, and a lot more visible. At least that’s my guess.
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
It’s more visible, sure, but there’s nothing easier to put on than a band:
And you had actual games? For mandatory PE at school?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 days ago
I know the concept but we never did this in school, but I never took PE more than was required so it’s possible I just missed it or didn’t see. It could’ve been a thing in highschool.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 days ago
Age does. It was very, very common ~35 years ago, especially in urban or country schools where money wasn’t spent on “such frivolous things”.
MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I can confirm it occurred in my experience about 20 years ago. We had a set of color vests, but those were for the girls.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Yup, and jerseys need to be washed, and nobody has time for that.
echodot@feddit.uk 4 days ago
I was in high school in the early 2000s and even we did it. Apparently the school I was at was a sports academy as well, so presumably that meant they had some money to work with.