Strange Local Traditions

[DiO'Bolic]

I took my daughter and her friend to the annual “Powder Puff Football Game” Sunday night. It’s a tradition that has been going on for a very long time between my daughter’s high school and the rival high school team in the next town.

Senior girls play a game of (flag) football, and senior boys become cheerleaders. The girls create a special jersey to wear during the game, and the boys wear girl’s cheerleader outfits. Played under the lights, 4 high school refs, announcers, coaches, video taping, concession stands, and a large crowd. The girls take the game much more seriously than the boys. The girls apparently love the chance to hit each as hard has they can on the line, and the boys do drag queen.

You have any odd traditions or customs where you are?

 

[skimom2]

I can't even get started, or I'd never stop (You know where I live, right?) lol

 

[DiO'Bolic]

I can't even get started, or I'd never stop (You know where I live, right?) lol

GIVE! Enquiring' minds want to know.

 

[not_nadine]

I took my daughter and her friend to the annual “Powder Puff Football Game” Sunday night. It’s a tradition that has been going on for a very long time between my daughter’s high school and the rival high school team in the next town.

Senior girls play a game of (flag) football, and senior boys become cheerleaders. The girls create a special jersey to wear during the game, and the boys wear girl’s cheerleader outfits. Played under the lights, 4 high school refs, announcers, coaches, video taping, concession stands, and a large crowd. The girls take the game much more seriously than the boys. The girls apparently love the chance to hit each as hard has they can on the line, and the boys do drag queen.

You have any odd traditions or customs where you are?

Wot?

 

[DiO'Bolic]

Wot?

 

[mcpon14]

The boys look good and the girls look like they are having fun. It looks like an awesome tradition.

 

[not_nadine]

When I was little, in my hometown. (I don't know if they still do it)
If you did not have your Easter bonnet on, On Easter Sunday, the cops would come get you in a funny paddy wagon. They were all dressed up silly.

And then the Firemen would squirt you down with a hose and your had to ride around high in the back of the the firetruck with everyone else with sirens going.

I saw the home movies. Thankfully don't remember much, but the ride.

 

[AnnaMarie]

I took my daughter and her friend to the annual “Powder Puff Football Game” Sunday night. It’s a tradition that has been going on for a very long time between my daughter’s high school and the rival high school team in the next town.

Senior girls play a game of (flag) football, and senior boys become cheerleaders. The girls create a special jersey to wear during the game, and the boys wear girl’s cheerleader outfits. Played under the lights, 4 high school refs, announcers, coaches, video taping, concession stands, and a large crowd. The girls take the game much more seriously than the boys. The girls apparently love the chance to hit each as hard has they can on the line, and the boys do drag queen.

You have any odd traditions or customs where you are?

This is wonderful.

 

[summer_sky]

Does eating scrapple count?

 

[DiO'Bolic]

Does eating scrapple count?

Nope... In these parts, I think it's the breakfast of champions.

 

[not_nadine]

Only if it's Habbersets, or from Farm Market.

 

[not_nadine]

When I was little, in my hometown. (I don't know if they still do it)
If you did not have your Easter bonnet on, On Easter Sunday, the cops would come get you in a funny paddy wagon. They were all dressed up silly.

And then the Firemen would squirt you down with a hose and your had to ride around high in the back of the the firetruck with everyone else with sirens going.

I saw the home movies. Thankfully don't remember much, but the ride.

Reply to myself.

Sounds like I grew up in the fifties or something in a SK town. No. but heys.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

Reply to myself.

Sounds like I grew up in the fifties or something in a SK town. No. but heys.

Mummers also seems like something that would be in a SK novel. We even have an entire channel on my cable provider dedicated to Mummers... Mummers TV... All Mummers All The Time. You should appreciate that being from the Philly area.

 

[not_nadine]

I have mummer tv. I have seen the mummers dancin down Broad Street. In person. Good god.

Spoiler

 

[DiO'Bolic]

I have mummer tv. I have seen the mummers. Good god.

I've also seen the mummers. Comics, Fancies, String Bands, and Fancy Brigades... really?. I think it was some sort of right of passage that parents of yesteryear made their children endure.

I think a case could be made in this area that the Mummers were the first to scare the hell out of kids in regards to clowns... Long before Pennywise.

 

[not_nadine]

The first really really intoxicated ones that go by early in the morn.... yeeesh.

Thankfully, I saw the last parade from a hotel room high above.

 

[GNTLGNT]

...well, we have our annual Dickens's Victorian Village here in beautifully bucolic Cambridge, Ohio....

...a sample of the mannequins that line our Main Street, or as I call them-the "burn victims"....
...now I salute the holiday spirit and tourism this stuff is supposed to promote....but really "Dickens" in Appalachia????....should be a bunch of drunk rednecks staggering around...but I guess that would be like every other day come to think of it...but the Courthouse light show IS cool....

 

[mcpon14]

...well, we have our annual Dickens's Victorian Village here in beautifully bucolic Cambridge, Ohio....

...a sample of the mannequins that line our Main Street, or as I call them-the "burn victims"....
...now I salute the holiday spirit and tourism this stuff is supposed to promote....but really "Dickens" in Appalachia????....should be a bunch of drunk rednecks staggering around...but I guess that would be like every other day come to think of it...but the Courthouse light show IS cool....

Sounds like an awesome tradition.

 

[80sFan]

Never been a Mummers fan even though I grew up on the parade route. And most males in my family have been Mummers (my brother still is).

 

[staropeace]

We have mummers