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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I'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.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Yup, and jerseys need to be washed, and nobody has time for that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Okay, what the hell is horse?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That is the opposite of how HORSE is played.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yes it is. I played Christian academy horse. :p

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Can’t have too much fun at Pentecostal academy. :p

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Riiight! We used to play donkey, for some reason.

Great explanation, too

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why a whole jersey and not just a coloured band?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

Also, we used the jerseys for actual games, so no need for extra equipment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, for PE, we generally didn't bother with any kind of jerseys. I was talking about after-school sports, which was the only time we'd ever done shirts vs skins.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

How did I even miss you saying

it wasn't something we did in PE

in your original comment

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months 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.