Footy Card 'Flicking Contest'.......

[Anton Grbac]

Who remembers the 'footy card flicking contest' at school?

Opponents would stand together and test eachothers 'flicking' skills. Furtherest 'flick' won. The winner would get to choose the card he needed to make up the 'set' from the beaten opponents deck of footy cards. two cards stuck together was an old Reservoir East Primary 'trick', making the card heavier and thus it would carry further than the other kid's. Ronnie Andrews circa 1978 never let me down.

Never did get the set though. Ian bloody Nankervis of Geelong, could never get that one. Aaahhh....memories of the old school yard.

where's wally?

 

[Darky]

Probably a little before my time but it sounded pretty ace

 

[Anton Grbac]

Originally posted by Darky:
Probably a little before my time but it sounded pretty ace

Yes.. the yo-yo (remember the yo-yo?) was big back then too.

where's wally?

 

[Joey]

We do it all by computor now?

Make you feel old?


Joey

 

[Aussie_Roo]

Remember the days well Wally. We also played a game, where a number of kids would continue flicking cards until one landed on another. Whoever flicked that card, got to keep all the flicked cards.

 

[play on]

Originally posted by Aussie_Roo:
Remember the days well Wally. We also played a game, where a number of kids would continue flicking cards until one landed on another. Whoever flicked that card, got to keep all the flicked cards.

That is the way that I used to play the flicking game. It was played every day at recess and lunch. I got a very large amount of cards due to this game.

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Play on says the umpire
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