Sample Skit from H.I.S. ARMY

Football

  Puppets: Boy and girl.  

PEGGY bounces in first carrying pompons wearing a cheerleader's outfit yelling a cheer. Petey enters moaning and groaning wearing a football jersey with his hair mussed, clothes torn carrying his helmet. The pompons can be purchased from a toy store or made by cutting strips from a white trash bag and then carefully taping them to a short dowel rod. It will take a box of trash bags for one pompon.

 Peggy: Petey, what happened to you? Come back here, the game just started.

 Petey: Oh, I got hit. Wow! Football is a rough sport. A guy could get killed out there. I think I'll sit the rest of this game out in the safety of my living room.

Peggy: But Petey, the team needs you. Were you wearing your helmet?

Petey: Of course not. It might get dented or something.

 Peggy: No, wonder you got hurt. Football is a dangerous game.

 Petey: You're not kidding. That's why I'm quitting.

 Peggy: (firmly) Oh, no you're not. That equipment is your protection. You have to wear it so you won't get hurt. We're going to win this game and you're gonna help us. Now you get in there and get on your equipment! 

Petey: You mean you want me to put on the knee pads and the shoulder pads and all the other stuff too?

 Peggy: You're beginning to get my picture. Get in there! 

Petey: Give me one reason why I should do what you say.

 Peggy: (real sweet) Petey, I'll give you, two good reasons. One, if you don't put the equipment on you could get hurt. Two (hollering), if you don't get back in the game I'm gonna break your face.

 Petey: Oh, since you put it that way. See you around, Peggy! (Petey exits first, then Peggy.)

The cheerleader puppet is a good puppet to use for this skit.