Some sports have balls. Some have clocks. Some have judges. In some of them, you want to be the first one to reach a certain point. In others, you’re trying to hit a target. By those standards, tag is not a sport.
Friends play 23-year game of ‘tag’
Tag! You’re it! No touchbacks!
Yet some sports have strategy. Some have deceit. Making the best use of the field of play can lead to victory. By that standard, tag might just be a sport after all.
Still, 23 years is pretty long for a game, no?
OK, so tag probably isn’t a sport. But you can’t help but wish that it was after reading a Wall Street Journal story about a group of friends who have played Tag for 23 consecutive years. No place is safe. You never know when someone might be springing a trap. Paranoia abounds.
The WSJ notes:
That means players get tagged at work and in bed. They form alliances and fly around the country. Wives are enlisted as spies and assistants are ordered to bar players from the office.
“You’re like a deer or elk in hunting season,” says Joe Tombari, a high-school teacher in Spokane, who sometimes locks the door of his classroom during off-periods and checks under his car before he gets near it.
Sometimes a player is “it” for months. That gives new meaning to the cliche, “I’m just taking it one day at a time.”
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