[quote]cpete wrote:
Dodge ball is no longer allowed in public schools here in Oklahoma.[/quote]
My kids still play it here in Georgia, but with foam balls.
[quote]PGA200X wrote:
m0dd3r wrote:
When I was a kid we played “smear the queer”. Think rugby or American football but with no teams, everyone just tries to tackle the kid with the ball.
We called that Kill The Carrier.[/quote]
LOL… we had no need for alliteration. We called it “Kill the Guy With The Ball”.
[quote]PGA200X wrote:
devilBASTARDdog wrote:
We also played “suicide”/bottoms up. You know, where you throw a ball against a wall and field it but if you bobble it you run to the wall and someone tries to hit you with the ball before you get there. Good times.
There’s nothing wrong with kids learning a little violence of action.
We called that Butts Up![/quote]
We did too, in Cali. Back in Panama we called it wall-ball. Army Dodgeball! Hell yeah, I remember that! Smear the Queer as well. Don’t forget Freeze Tag!
This thread is making me want to be a kid again! haha Only a kid back in the day, not now. I wonder what my buddies would say if I sent out an email asking if we could get a good ol’ game of smear the queer going.
And what if gay guys played smear the queer? Would they call it that? Or would they call it something like “hurt the heterosexual?”
Disclaimer: I mean no disrespect to fellas of the homosexual persuasion.
[quote]PGA200X wrote:
We called that Kill The Carrier.[/quote]
We used to call that kill the carrier too. We also played a sort of catch where you threw the ball at a wall and got an out if somebody caught it, or if it hit the floor before it hit the wall. Three outs meant you stood with your face to the wall and the people who got you the outs where allowed to throw the ball at your ass. This was about 5 years ago, too.
this brings back good memories of being such a hell raiser in elementary school. I was just like any of you other guys, but I live in one of those sheltered towns. However, I am far from a sheltered person. Anyhow, I’d end up in the principal’s office just about every other month for something pretty dumb.
That is until fifth grade. In fifth grade I had a male teacher and he was the man. He has a son who’s somewhere around 7th grade now and he not only knew I was smart, but he thought I was the best because I was hardly PC, and I wasn’t afraid of the girls who had been telling on me for last 5 years before!
I almost got kicked off the bus for throwing snowballs at the bus after I got off in second grade! My bus driver was one of those obese women who hated kids. She’s probally dead now :-D.
[quote]Jason B wrote:
We played Smear the Queer too until the teachers made us call it Kill the Man with the Ball. We also played another game we called Cherry. All the boys lined up on one end of the yard, and one was in the middle. All ran at once to the other end and the one in the middle tried to tackle as many as possible. Anyone who got tackled had to stay in the middle also. Then everyone else ran back to the other side until everyone was tackled.
Goal was to be the only one who didn’t get tackled. Talk about bragging rights being the last man standing not tackled. We had kids hurt at every recess. Once a kid broke his collarbone landing on the big tractor tires they used as sandboxes on one end of the playground after getting tackled into it. We had to not play for a week until the sandbox got moved. This was about 25 years ago I guess. That would never happen today. We’d probably all be suspended for playing.[/quote]
Cherry sounds like the game “Sharks and Minnows” we played at the pool. Everyone on one side of the deep end and one dude in the middle, everyone jumps in and tries to get to the other side. The “shark” in the middle would have to dive down and physically drag people to the top.
We would kick and punch each other at the bottom of the deep end. As long as you make it to the other side without hitting the surface you were safe. Kids still play it, but all you have to do now is tag the other people.
Marco Polo
Run The Bases
SPUD
TV Timeout
Freeze Tag
Ahhh the memories…
At Battalion meetings(think Boy Scouts at church) we would play Hide the Belt. Every one would clear out of the gym and someone would hide a belt in there. Then they came out in the hall, said “Go!” and it was a mad dash into the gym.
Whoever found the belt ran around whipping as many people as he could before everyone could get back out of the gym. I can’t remember who got to be “it” next time, I think it was the last one out of the gym and who obviously got the biggest beating.
You weren’t supposed to hit with the buckle end, but…
And anyone who calls Smear the Queer by any other name is gay. NTTAWWT.
[quote]dre wrote:
This thread is making me want to be a kid again! haha Only a kid back in the day, not now. I wonder what my buddies would say if I sent out an email asking if we could get a good ol’ game of smear the queer going.[/quote]
Look for your local rugby club. It’s like smear the queer but with a little bit more organization and a lot more beer.
[quote]m0dd3r wrote:
dre wrote:
This thread is making me want to be a kid again! haha Only a kid back in the day, not now. I wonder what my buddies would say if I sent out an email asking if we could get a good ol’ game of smear the queer going.
Look for your local rugby club. It’s like smear the queer but with a little bit more organization and a lot more beer.[/quote]
Good idea. I’ve always wanted to get into playing Rugby.
[quote]apayne wrote:
And anyone who calls Smear the Queer by any other name is gay. NTTAWWT.[/quote]
This coming from the guy who just admited he played a game called hide the belt with a bunch of boys who were being supervised by grown men in a church…?
did no one else call it rumble fumble? that’s the only name we had.
[quote]veruvius wrote:
did no one else call it rumble fumble? that’s the only name we had.[/quote]
Yup, I forgot about rumble fumble. Good call.
[quote]PGA200X wrote:
Run The Bases
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What a game. Between this and “American Gladiators”, I hardly ever came inside as a kid.
[quote]Kratos wrote:
PGA200X wrote:
devilBASTARDdog wrote:
We also played “suicide”/bottoms up. You know, where you throw a ball against a wall and field it but if you bobble it you run to the wall and someone tries to hit you with the ball before you get there. Good times.
There’s nothing wrong with kids learning a little violence of action.
We called that Butts Up!
We did too, in Cali. Back in Panama we called it wall-ball. Army Dodgeball! Hell yeah, I remember that! Smear the Queer as well. Don’t forget Freeze Tag![/quote]
We called that game “Beam’em”… kind of self explanatory… i took a few to the temple…
We used to call it ‘kill the dill with the pill’ Haha. Was good shit that game…
yeah kill the guy with the ball, awesome.
and don’t forget red rover.
smear the queer was a good one. i was small, but luckily i was pretty quick. dodgeball was a fave, so was kickball in the gym. we’d make obstacle courses on the playground. cross the monkeybars, through the concrete barrels, up the rocket, then back down, and sprint to the blacktop. elementary school was the shit 
[quote]devilBASTARDdog wrote:
We also played “suicide”/bottoms up. You know, where you throw a ball against a wall and field it but if you bobble it you run to the wall and someone tries to hit you with the ball before you get there. Good times.
There’s nothing wrong with kids learning a little violence of action.[/quote]
I used to play a game similar to this in a small hockey dressing room. We would use a bouncy ball (watch your eyes!) and whip it at the wall. if the ball hit you or you dropped it you had to touch the wall before the ball did. If you missed you got the ball whipped at you from about 10 ft. Also, K-I-L-L with the hackie sac, thats a fun game.