Hitler only had one ball.... or so I heard...

poor drafter

Yeah...I bet Drafter got smeared a lot

Nobody deserves to be beaten everyday. Hope it made you strong. Sometimes when people get bullied like you did, they turn into cops.

I was going to say we played that all the time in my neighborhood until the conversation went south. I guess I should have been poster 1 1/2.

Wait TW is gay ?

Horribly....

we had a game called "toss up tackle".
whoever had the ball would run around within a preset area until tackled. Then he'd toss the football up and the guy who caught it would be the next victim

He's a freak...

Yeah, that's called smear the queer.

Morris Adler Elementary in Southfield, Michigan. Early to mid 1960's.

We used to play "kill the guy with the football." Wrong today, we always made sure the same one or two constantly-bullied kids had the ball so we could "kill" him/them. They were good sports about it, given that nobody liked them and they didn't have to choose to play. Later in life, during the early 80's, I regretted how we tread those one or two kids when one of them lived in my freshman dorm and wanted to be friends. He was cool and I apologized profusely.

Also played "Slaughter." We would line up with our backs to the brick wall and whoever caught the red ball thrown at them from like 15-20 feet away, would get to throw the next ball which if caught gave the catcher an opportunity to be the next thrower. We would throw the ball at each others' heads. There were some minor head injuries from this as the red ball wasn't full of air and you could really wail it.

Last, but not least, was dodge ball in the gym on the basketball court with volley balls. Getting hit could really hurt. Some times we were black and blue.

Some of this would not be allowed these days for good reasons, but we sure had fun.

Glad you can laugh about it now... but it musta been embarrassing for you at the time...

That was how we played Smear the Q.

that was great!

We called it muckle... or smear the queer, same game. Was real fun when the broads played... felt a few boobies that way...

Red rover red rover send boobies right over

And not drafters man jugs.

ya, there goes Macs' Supreme Court dream....

This is the funniest post in months.

I always thought that a game called Kill the guy with the ball was pretty harsh.
Then I learned that some of you called it smear the queer.

I know kids will be kids, but wow.



When playing kickball or whiffle ball were you able to produce an OUT by throwing the ball at the runner?
If so, did you call it Indian Rubber?

Back in da day... but it was a little more than just a sunburn...

can we still talk about this stuff after this thread dies?

Pink Belly with the girls was fun too🍅.

Before or after the noogies?

Indian sunburns don't ring a bell. It must be a New England term. Wisconsin territory was friends with the savages and the French fur trappers from Canada.

I grew up in Indian head country: the north western part of WI, border between WI and MN. The Mississippi River carves out a profile of an Indian head similar to the NH's crumbled Old Man on the Mountain.

http://www.wisconsinindianhead.org/

Most of us had farmer's tans though. Is that close to an Indian sunburn?

it was during a game like this in high school, when all three P.E. classes were turned loose on the football field while the P.E. teachers filled out report cards, that I suffered a severe broken left wrist that has caused me pain and limited mobility for more than 50 years....

I was reaching with my left hand to grab the bouncing ball when an opponent kicked at the ball and struck my wrist instead...broke a bone that never healed correctly...the two broken pieces of the trapezoid are still there, held together by a metal plate and bone grafts...wrist is fused solid, so I can't bend or twist it...

I think the real name of the game is "cluster fluck"