“As a kid growing up in the suburbs in and around Spring, Texas we played football in the streets. The streetlights were our goal lines and the curbs were our sidelines. We could not tackle on the street, although several a spirited contests ended up that way. So how did we tackle you ask? By slapping both hands on our opponent’s body anywhere below the waistline. Doing so constituted a “Tackle”. We affectionately referred to this as “Two Below” Football.

Of course many variations of this found its way into other childhood games. But for those that played football beneath the streetlights (back then and even today) it will always be known as “Two-Below Football.” Just as we did in our youth we have found a way to take the basic rules of the game and adjust them to allow us to keep the game alive.