Tag you're it!

[jmood88]

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There was another line in that story where they said that the kids can play with a football on the playground...BUT they can't run with it....I don't know that that means.


I remember when I was a kid we used to play this game called "Smear the Q****" ...the name isn't politically correct anymore so I won't offend anyone. Anyway, you had about 20 guys...one football. And the object was to get the football, by any means neccessary, and then the other 20 guys would try to basically whup your a$$. The thing is, you WANTED the football. It was bragging rights to run aroung the playground jukeing and dodgeing would be tacklers, even is for only a full minute. Then 3 guys would tackle you and one of them would get the ball from you, and then you would try to kick the snot out of them.

We always came in from recess a mess. But...boys will be boys. And this was at a Catholic school....good times...

We use to call it smear the queer until I think the principle told us to stop so we called it "tackle the bacon". I loved that game.

[jmood88]

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Yes....the same story that broke about this also mentioned that "running" was disallowed. Running. Disallowed. I think the follow up story should occur 25 years from now in the same community on their accelerated cholesterol and obesity levels.



Lifetime Dodgeball Record: 23-16-2
Lifetime Tag Record: 72-15
Lifetime Frisbee Tag Record: 32-9
Lifetime Freeze Tag Record: we never finished a game

Now that is crazy. I don't know how you can ban running from schools and then complain about obesity.

[dieselboy]

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We played "Gorilla Ball" when the snow was deep. It was a combination of football and basketball. You didn't have to dribble... you could tackle... the way to score was to dunk a basketball between the rungs of the monkey bars. So there were like 7 places you could score. It was brutal. But a blast.

Hahaha. We used to play stuff like that all the time.

Usually making up rules as we went.

[jmood88]

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yeah, I was always tough to bring down, only because I was faster than everyone though..........but it was only a matter of time before I ran out of gas and got tackled by 10 guys. When I was in 5th grade I played with a bunch of 8th and 9th graders all the time so I ate a lot of dirt.

Yup that's how I was. I'm a big guy and they would always think that I was slow but I would burn them, they couldn't catch me and then it would take a lot of kids to take me down.

[dieselboy]

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Yup that's how I was. I'm a big guy and they would always think that I was slow but I would burn them, they couldn't catch me and then it would take a lot of kids to take me down.

Thats kind of how I was. I was usually able to outrun most people, and was in pretty good shape, but I wasn't that hard to bring down.

Man, its too bad if we played those games at this age, someone would get really hurt.

I remember one time, I think it was my last year of middle school, a bunch of kids from the football team played backyard football with our pads on. I think it was like five on five. We all put NFL jerseys over our pads as well. Herman Moore was there, Kordell Stewart, Jerry Rice, Terrell Davis, Warrick Dunn, Steve Young, etc. etc.

[Jistic]

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We also used to play this game in 5th and 6th grade when we were jussssst starting to think that maybe we liked girls. It was simply called, "Tinfoil Ball'. Yep great name.

Anyway we'd get the aluminum foil from everyone's sandwiches at lunch time and roll it all up together to make a tinfoil ball. Then the object of the game was simple. Boys vs. Girls. Run around the playground and keep the ball away from the opposite sex. You were SUPPOSED to throw the ball to a team mate when the girls were getting close to taking the ball away from you. But what fun is that?

OF course you let the girls tackle you and crawl all over you to get the ball away from you. That way the girl that you have a secret crush on but you're too 'cool' to say anything is crawling all over you for a dam piece of tinfoil.

Well again, I went to a Catholic school so eventually it was all stopped. The girls were starting to....put the ball down their shirts, and of course we would have to go in after it! My principal was a nun, she caught wind of it and beat the crap out of us and forbid the game forever.

I'll never forget tinfoil ball. I'm sure that would'nt last a second in today's school systems.

[davehughes14]

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Oh the memories!

[NYJets]

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We never called it smear the queer, we called it kill the carrier.

But yea, it was a lot of fun.

I remember when I was in 3rd grade we were playing with the 6th graders. I had the ball and this kid was chasing me. He was going to catch me, so I turned my head while running and faked throwing it at his face to get him to slow down. It worked, but the second I turned back around I got completely leveled by the biggest, strongest 6th grader there. I must have flown 5 feet threw the air, and I was down for at least a few minutes. When I got up I was really dizzy and ended up throwing up on the side.

Good times.

[Beantown]

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We never called it smear the queer, we called it kill the carrier.

But yea, it was a lot of fun.

I remember when I was in 3rd grade we were playing with the 6th graders. I had the ball and this kid was chasing me. He was going to catch me, so I turned my head while running and faked throwing it at his face to get him to slow down. It worked, but the second I turned back around I got completely leveled by the biggest, strongest 6th grader there. I must have flown 5 feet threw the air, and I was down for at least a few minutes. When I got up I was really dizzy and ended up throwing up on the side.

Good times.

"NYJets just got...JACKED UP!....oh...oh...ew...and now he's puking...yeah let's go to the next highlight"

[Scottdau]

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That was a great game "smear the Q" Man that is a game. We played a game called king of the ivy. My friend had ivy instead of lawn and it was on a down slope. Man every kid on the block broke something lol. Man that was fun!

[Scottdau]

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We never called it smear the queer, we called it kill the carrier.

But yea, it was a lot of fun.

I remember when I was in 3rd grade we were playing with the 6th graders. I had the ball and this kid was chasing me. He was going to catch me, so I turned my head while running and faked throwing it at his face to get him to slow down. It worked, but the second I turned back around I got completely leveled by the biggest, strongest 6th grader there. I must have flown 5 feet threw the air, and I was down for at least a few minutes. When I got up I was really dizzy and ended up throwing up on the side.

Good times.

I can relate trying playing that game with ex football players Demarco Farr and Aaron Taylor. Man I was jacked up for days lol. We played that game every day in Jr High lol. And they were almost as big as they are now lol.

[gooberstabone]

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We played "Gorilla Ball" when the snow was deep. It was a combination of football and basketball. You didn't have to dribble... you could tackle... the way to score was to dunk a basketball between the rungs of the monkey bars. So there were like 7 places you could score. It was brutal. But a blast.

That sounds great. And great name "Gorilla Ball". A few of my friends would play something like that in the gym. We called it "Killer Basketball." I think that game "Arch Rivals" stole that idea from us. lol.

We sometimes called the football game "Smear the Queer", but we also just called it "Throw-up-tackle". Great stuff.

[ehh]

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Lifetime Dodgeball Record: 23-16-2
Lifetime Tag Record: 72-15
Lifetime Frisbee Tag Record: 32-9
Lifetime Freeze Tag Record: we never finished a game

How the hell do you finish a game of freeze tag?



The other favorite game of ours when we were growing up that was banned was Suicide. There are tons of names for it, but where you throw a tennis/rubber ball of the wall and have to catch it, if you drop it then someone else tries to grab the ball and peg you before you can run up and touch the wall. Ya know...

What a wonderful game. The bruises kids would have on their lower backs, amazing.

[jmood88]

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How the hell do you finish a game of freeze tag?



The other favorite game of ours when we were growing up that was banned was Suicide. There are tons of names for it, but where you throw a tennis/rubber ball of the wall and have to catch it, if you drop it then someone else tries to grab the ball and peg you before you can run up and touch the wall. Ya know...

What a wonderful game. The bruises kids would have on their lower backs, amazing.

We just called that Wall Ball.

[p_rushing]

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We just called that Wall Ball.

We called it wall ball also. We had a 2 or 3 story concrete wall we used to play. We had some variation in it though. I can't really remember all the rules, but I remember after either dropping the ball 3 times or getting hit 3 times, you had to go up to the wall and spread eagle. Then someone got to peg you with the ball. It was a fun game.