Soft hands

Soft hands. That's what football coaches tell you is a must-have skill. Soft hands means moving your hands along the path of the ball, so that when you catch the ball, your hands act more like a pillow than a brick wall.

I guess an egg toss is a pretty good way to reinforce the soft-hands technique. If you don't have soft hands when catching an egg, you're likely to end up with egg all over your face—as some of these boys discovered last week at the Warren High School football team's get-to-know-the-families season kickoff picnic.