The complaint seeks damages for injuries allegedly sustained by plaintiff when he tripped on a schoolyard pavement defect while playing an unsupervised game of touch football. Under the circumstances herein, on a day and time when school was not in session, the 22-year-old plaintiff assumed the risks inherent in the schoolyard touch football game, including any obvious risk posed by the irregular playing surface (see Sykes v County of Erie,
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