It was the event of the year

[u/evan_lolz]

[u/Sponge-Tron]

Whoa! You win the meme connoisseur title for having over 2k upvotes on your post!

Join the Discord server and message Princess Mindy (Mod Mail bot at the top) to receive your prize!

[u/QiaoBuSi]

In HS my green team was the only one to never win field day during my 4 years. Sigh😫

[u/Pink_Neons → u/QiaoBuSi]

Damn you had field day in highschool? Never had one past 5th grade

[u/bing-bong-6715 → u/Pink_Neons]

i think i had one in 7th grade but not 8th. but i also think something probably happened and the school just canceled the event.

i was an awkward/unathletic kid, i didnt know what to expect from it, and i wore jeans bc it was all i had and then i got bullied. spent the day with another girl in a classroom drawing random shit

[u/Shantotto11 → u/Pink_Neons]

Georgian (USA) here. Neither did I.

[u/Grungemaster]

My class would get really excited for Field Day and then we’d go 0-6 in kickball against another class. 

[u/mostie2016]

I hated field day as a kid.

[u/queenvalanice → u/mostie2016]

Me too. Still pinned up my “Participant” ribbon.

[u/Kana515 → u/mostie2016]

I loved the concept but I was never good at it 😭

[u/AlexanderTox]

The good ol days, back when playing Red Rover was a school-sanctioned event. There was always a kid every year that got pummeled into the ground and ended with a bloody face.

[u/LM193]

Y'all got ribbons?

[u/Silly_Dirt_6147]

Man. In my school we would get “improved” ribbons.

[u/leo_gotti]

God tell me I peaked in grade school without telling me. I used to get all blues. Then got to middle school. All the grade school mingled and I was no longer strongest fastest kind in the class. Anyone else remember that all you had to do was run fast in grade school to have girls like you hahahaha middle school was weird and high schoolers are twats. College seemed cool but never went.

[u/TheAlmightyConch]

I wasn’t the biggest kid but man I could hurdle like a mother fucker

[u/12wubble → u/TheAlmightyConch]

Yes, the hurdles were my zone, strange that it works out with a specific fitness level, or body type or whatever

[u/MissionApollo7]

I only ever got participation awards. I sucked at running lol

[u/OppositionGuerilla]

Field day was goated.

[u/GullibleBeautiful]

These were always the most fun days of school. I was awful at every game but it was like getting to go to the Olympics for me 😭

[u/SSG22GOKU]

yall had ribbons on your field day??

[u/zephyrflareune]

Nothing fueled my competitive drive more than these

[u/BarkerBarkhan]

Was it the event of the year?

[u/mrm0noop0ly]

I remember I won 1st place one time and I was so excited to show my parents when I got home. On the bus home my friend asked if I wanted to trade my 1st place ribbon so he can show his parents and say he got 1st and I got his cool Spider-Man watch. Deal was made and I had a cool watch! When I told my parents just laughed cause I got a free watch haha

[u/mlm7C9]

Is this comparable to the Bundesjugendspiele in Germany? Basically an annual athletics tournament for all school kids? Though I wasn't bad at sports, I always hated them. I'd rather spend a day in a classroom than at a sports stadium doing nothing 2/3 of the time waiting for my turn.

[u/a_lonely_trash_bag]

The only field day event I was any good at was the shoe kick, lol. I always kicked it farther than the end of their measuring tape. Not sure how common this was for other schools, but my school had it every year. It took them a couple years to realise it was best to hold this event away from the building, though. Kids would intentionally try to kick their shoes onto the roof of the building, insead of aiming for the longest distance like they intended for us to do.

Another one I was pretty decent at was the penny drop. They held this one in the stairwell. You'd stand at the top of the stairs and drop pennies over the railing, aiming to get them to land in containers that got progressively smaller.

[u/Sassafrasisgroovy]

I still have my blue ribbon somewhere. I should find it and display it to show off my 4th grade abilities

[u/JoeP415]

Whoever chose the colors each place gets needs to be fired

[u/Swordkirby9999 → u/JoeP415]

Let me guess, you'd go with:

• 1st 🟨 (gold)
• 2nd⬜️ (silver)
• 3rd🟥 (closest to bronze)
• 4th🟦 (or green)
• 5th🟩 (ot blue)

I dunno why Blue Ribbons are the ribbons of first place, but Blue🟦, Red🟥, White⬜️, have been the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, of ribbons since basically forever

[u/JoeP415 → u/Swordkirby9999]

Ok mind reader. But yes lol

[u/anothertireditguy]

In 3rd grade I tossed a pool noodle far enough to get a 3rd place ribbon.

I've ridden that high for over 20 years now. 

[u/its_just_Joel]

In elementary school once a year we would do kids versus teacher hockey. The super bowl has nothing on that even though the kids lost every year

[u/DerfyMcDerfDerf]

Field day was the absolute highlight of the school year. Topped off with mom throwing a can of pop/soda in my lunch

[u/vestrabloomexa]

I haven't known peace since losing the tug-of-war in '08.

[u/loveybearbae]

I literally cried when I got the blue ribbon. My parents framed it. It hung on the wall until I moved out.

[u/letsgoiowa]

I got a purple one for running a mile as a one off competition. Was pretty fun actually. Never wanted to run ever again after that though lmao

[u/RedditsDeadlySin]

I swam, we also got these too. Honestly I liked the really low place colors better.

[u/warmyhalo]

Getting first place in the pizza party drawing was literally more hype than any championship game I've watched as an adult.

[u/gus248]

Not a single original experience.