Give credit where credit is due. Monica Zabroski thought kicking a big red ball in an open field behind a school could electrify the nostalgia within some of us.

For me, doing so set the clock back to June 1986, during the last week of my eighth-grade year at Roosevelt School in Ridgefield Park. I was 13 years old – my birthday was about a week before the next school year started – and it was our field day, when my classmates and I enjoyed one final time playing games with and against each other…