Yeah, I remember our deadly games of Freezetag.

Helen: Dash, this is the third time this year you've been sent to the office. We need to find a better outlet. A more constructive outlet.
Dash: [slyly] Maybe I could, if you'd let me go out for sports.
Helen: Honey, you know why we can't do that.
Dash: But I promise I'll slow up! I'll only be the best by a tiny bit!
Helen: Dashell Robert Parr, you are an incredibly competitive boy. And a bit of a showoff. The last thing you need is temptations.
Dash: You always say, "Do your best," but you don't really mean it. Why can't I do the best that I can do?
Helen: Right now, honey, the world just wants us to fit in, and to fit in, we just gotta be like everybody else.
Dash: Dad always said our powers were nothing to be ashamed of. Our powers made us special.
Helen: Everyone's special, Dash.
Dash: [sullenly] Which is another way of saying no one is.

I've always had mixed feelings about that bit in the Incredibles. On the one hand, I'm all for healthy competition, but on the other hand, I think if your capabilities are vastly beyond those of the people you're playing against, it's not really a "competition" anymore. If there's no chance the other guy is going to even challenge (let alone defeat) you, I don't think it's healthy/positive/right to take satisfaction in winning. I think the Smallville episode where Clark joins the football team handles the issue better than the Incredibles did.

When my parents went through highschool, there was a process called "Tracking" that was used, where those people who were really smart or good at certain subjects were advanced and put along with others who were similarly skilled so they could continue to advance and compete and improve.

Maybe someone took the freeze tag too far......what you don't play freeze tag with liquid nitrogen?

New York state health officials have backed down from a proposed plan to place new regulations on classic children's games like tag, kickball and Wiffle Ball at day camps in the state.

Some had called it an attempt to "legislate fun," as the proposal faced increasing criticism from lawmakers and recreational sports businesses.

First they came for the lawn darts, but I was not a lawn dart...

My friends and I never once had a "close call." We always played with everybody throwing from the same side.

Heh. Yeah, I gotta say, lawn darts always struck me as frackin' crazy. And I say that as a guy who used to have rock fights with my cousins (yes, we would line up in ditches on opposite sides of the road and chuck rocks at each other). Ahhh, good times.

Along those lines, Ohio passed a law requiring people on bicycles to wear a helmet more than a few years ago. I wasn't aware of the law and when I noticed the sudden increase in helmeted riders I just quietly thought to myself, "Man who keeps giving these special needs people bikes?"