[quote]jtrinsey wrote:
PGA200X wrote:
Run The Bases
What a game. Between this and “American Gladiators”, I hardly ever came inside as a kid.[/quote]
Run the bases? Do you mean pickle? I think that’s about as intense as it gets these days. No one wanted to tag me, because I was the nutty hockey player that charged the coach playing catcher in a T-ball practice.
Growing up, the best part about wintertime was being able to play tackle football in the street.
Another game we played was maul ball. Its basketball, but full contact. And you didn’t have to dribble. It usually turned out to be a low-scoring game.
I remember messing around with tennis and having it turn into an outright war. Forget trying to make a goal, we were smashing the balls as hard and fast as we could trying to pin each other. It was awesome. And when somebody got hit, they’d just shrug it off and square off with that person who got them.
[quote]Aeon Infinitus wrote:
I remember messing around with tennis and having it turn into an outright war. Forget trying to make a goal, we were smashing the balls as hard and fast as we could trying to pin each other. It was awesome. And when somebody got hit, they’d just shrug it off and square off with that person who got them.[/quote]
Tennis-tag. Played inside the fenced in court. Run around and try to hit everybody else with the tennis ball…I mean running up behind a guy and hitting the ball with the racket as hard as possible. Shit that hurt when you got hit in the back.
Tackle football in the snow was the best. We played A LOT of that in college.
Do any of you old timers remember playing “Keep Away” or “Monkey in the Middle” on the playground during recess? I’m sure this would be considered assault and battery today.
[quote]Yo Momma wrote:
Do any of you old timers remember playing “Keep Away” or “Monkey in the Middle” on the playground during recess? I’m sure this would be considered assault and battery today.[/quote]
Keep Away=Kill The Carrier with teams
Monkey In The Middle=variant of Run The Bases
[quote]PGA200X wrote:
Yo Momma wrote:
Do any of you old timers remember playing “Keep Away” or “Monkey in the Middle” on the playground during recess? I’m sure this would be considered assault and battery today.
Keep Away=Kill The Carrier with teams
Monkey In The Middle=Run The Bases[/quote]
This must be the Gen X version of the original. Hope you kids didn’t “water down” the games and stilll go for blood!
I played a TON of Wiffle ball when I was younger. A folding chair was the strike zone.
Famous quote from Wiffle Ball games.
“Car…!”
[quote]Yo Momma wrote:
PGA200X wrote:
Yo Momma wrote:
Do any of you old timers remember playing “Keep Away” or “Monkey in the Middle” on the playground during recess? I’m sure this would be considered assault and battery today.
Keep Away=Kill The Carrier with teams
Monkey In The Middle=Run The Bases
This must be the Gen X version of the original. Hope you kids didn’t “water down” the games and stilll go for blood!
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Well you played them in the 30’s and I played them in the 80’s so I’m sure over those decades things changed. 
Kill the Carrier was brutal! Many a blood stains and ripped shirts on our catholic school uniforms!
One of the good things about being in the Marines is that we still play a lot of these games, but we call it “PT” (physical training). Dodgeball is very popular, and these guys play for blood. Gorilla soccer is a good one (full contact soccer). “Bull-in-the-Ring” is the best. We make a big circle on the ground and put 5-10 guys in the middle face down (can use teams as well). Whistle blows and it’s WWF Smack-Down. If you get thrown out of the ring you’re done. Last man standing wins. Then do it again. That shit is brutal.
Flag football almost always degenerates into tackle (just had a guy break his nose this week).
[quote]PGA200X wrote:
Well you played them in the 30’s and I played them in the 80’s so I’m sure over those decades things changed.
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Laugh now, monkey boy! Looks like you need a fresh stain on your golf shirt. I’m not THAT old!
WE played a game called Parachute Ball , half the class would get under an old parachute and the other half would take dodge balls or soccer balls and try to hit the forms showing through the parachute. Sort of like dodge ball, but being under the chute you never knew what was coming.
[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]
We called it “Kill The Dill With The Pill”
Another great game was “British Bulldog”. Basically one person is “in” and everyone has to try to make it to the other end of the field without being tackled. If you were tackled you joined the tackler and so on. If you were the last person left things suddenly became quite daunting when you realised that a whole bunch of guys were just waiting to smash you into the ground as soon as you started running, it was great fun…
[quote]m0dd3r wrote:
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.
We played that too, but called it British Bulldog. That one was real popular with my Boy Scout troop. We played it indoors too, in a gym, but instead of tackling you had to lift the guy up in the air and yell “1 2 3 British Bulldog” then they joined you in the middle.[/quote]
I didn’t read this before I posted. Your mentiion of Scouts suddenly reminded me that this was our favourite “warm-up” game at Scout meetings. This was played in our scout hall with wooden floors and brick walls, nowhere to run and nowhere to hide…