What did they call the 'kill the guy with the football' game when you were a kid?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - What did they call the 'kill the guy with the football' game when you were a kid? (Page 1 of 3)

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:32:14 PM EDT

You know the game...about 10 to 20 or more kids on recess. One football. Grass field.

One kid has the ball, everyone tries to tackle him and get the ball. Repeat until recess is over.

When I played they called it "fumble rumble". I've also heard people call it "schmeer the queer" (no gay bashing!). I think there's a few more names but I can't remember them now.

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:32:38 PM EDT

[#1]

Smeer the queer.

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:32:55 PM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:
Smeer the queer.

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:33:28 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Smeer the queer.

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:33:33 PM EDT

[#4]

Rack the man.

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:33:39 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Smeer the queer.

+1

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:33:42 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Smeer the queer.

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:34:08 PM EDT

[#7]

touch fotball... so the moms would leave us alone

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:34:12 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Quoted:
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Smeer the queer.

+1

+2

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:34:43 PM EDT

[#9]

Come to think of it...I've never heard it called fumble rumble.

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:34:59 PM EDT

[#10]

smeer the queer.

or the one i like "beat the shit out of the dumbass new guy with the ball"

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:35:19 PM EDT

[#11]

Always called it Smear the Queer

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:35:35 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
touch fotball... so the moms would leave us alone

That was the name, until someone broke a colar bone, an arm, and a wrist. After that we were not allowed to play anymore.

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:35:53 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
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Smeer the queer.

+1

+2

+3

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:36:18 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
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Smeer the queer.

+1

+2

+3

+4

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:36:25 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
Come to think of it...I've never heard it called fumble rumble.

I think there are many different variations on the name -smeer the queer seems to be the most recongnizable to people who played it.

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:36:49 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Smeer the queer.

Don't be a hater man!!!!
Oh....thats what we called it too.........carry on.

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:36:58 PM EDT

[#17]

KILL THE MAN WITH THE BALL

it later developed into SMEAR THE QUEER

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:37:22 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
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Smeer the queer.

+1

+2

+3

+4

+ umm... the next number

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:41:09 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
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Smeer the queer.

+1

+2

+3

+4

+ umm... the next number

+ umm... the next number +1.

My mom wouldn't let us call it that when she was around. I don't remember what we said it was, but it was still "Smeer the queer".

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:41:21 PM EDT

[#20]

They renamed it...Rugby.

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:41:24 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Always called it Smear the Queer

+1

ETA: I had a friend in college refer to it as "kill the carrier".

So we smeared him.

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:41:25 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
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Quoted:
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Smeer the queer.

+1

+2

+3

+4

+ umm... the next number

(that would be 5)

+6

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:41:56 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
Smeer the queer.

Yup.

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:42:06 PM EDT

[#24]

Brokeback football

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:43:03 PM EDT

[#25]

Smeer the queer

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:44:03 PM EDT

[#26]

hmm found this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag#Smear_the_queer

Smear the queer

Smear the queer (also called smear) is a rougher tag variant more common among older children and teenagers. In this game, "it" is instead called "the queer". The queer does not try to tag the other players; instead, he tries to avoid being tagged, or, more often, tackled (knocked down to the ground) or attacked with a toy weapon.

Smear the queer is often played with an object such as a ball which is held by the "queer". Once the "queer" is tagged or tackled, he throws the object into the air. The other players then try to grab the object, thus becoming the new "queer". Unlike other forms of tag, those who stay "it" the longest are considered the best players.

Queer is used in the Victorian sense of "strange person" rather than the modern definition of "homosexual", though contemporary players may interpret it in the latter sense. As a result, various renamings have proliferated. examples include: "Kill the Carrier", "Murder Call", "Kill the girl with the ball", "Kill the man with the pill", "Keep off", "Cream the Carrier", or "Kick the dog with one shoe". In GoldenEye 007, a video game for the Nintendo 64 console, it was called "The Living Daylights [Flag Tag]".

Played somewhat less violently, and without an object being carried, the game is sometimes known as backwards tag. This derives from the sense that the nature of being "it" is reversed, changing from an undesireable status to one very difficult to maintain. Played in this manner, the game can retain the playfulness of "normal" tag, with a higher need for stamina.

The Japanese variant "Shippo-tori" is somewhat similar to smear the queer. In this variant, every player carries an object, usually a handkerchief, and is considered "it." A player is eliminated from the game when another player still in the game takes his object; the winner is the last player to retain his.

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:44:15 PM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
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Smeer the queer.

+1

+2

+3

+4

+ umm... the next number

(that would be 5)

+6

+1999

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:44:39 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
Smeer the queer.

-Foxxz

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:45:01 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
Smeer the queer.

+whatever.

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:47:00 PM EDT

[#30]

Kill the man with the ball.

I went to a private christian school for elementary, middle, and junior high. We didnt get to call it Smear the queer around the PE teachers.

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:53:02 PM EDT

[#31]

Kill the man. The age we were when we played that, not sure if I knew what "queer" was.

Besides, Kill the Man was probably more PC, a way for the minority kids to take out their aggressions by dogpiling us white kids for keeping them down.

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:53:28 PM EDT

[#32]

+ however many for smear the queer

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:56:34 PM EDT

[#33]

We called it "dogpile"

Or.......I think y'all got the other name already.

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:57:19 PM EDT

[#34]

we played in the shallow depression of a ditch between driveways.

We called it "Gut ball" It took guts to catch the football, then count while the others ran to the other driveway and when you go to 5 you ran toward them with the football and tried to live.

We played until me and one other guy began playing organized football..people started bleeding and shit began breaking....

Posted: 2/20/2006 7:57:29 PM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:
Rack the man.

Never heard that one before.

Posted: 2/20/2006 8:00:49 PM EDT

[#36]

wtf? we always called it "kill the carrier"

Posted: 2/20/2006 8:01:26 PM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
Smeer the queer.

+1

Posted: 2/20/2006 8:03:49 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
hmm found this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag#Smear_the_queer

Smear the queer

Smear the queer (also called smear) is a rougher tag variant more common among older children and teenagers. In this game, "it" is instead called "the queer". The queer does not try to tag the other players; instead, he tries to avoid being tagged, or, more often, tackled (knocked down to the ground) or attacked with a toy weapon.

Smear the queer is often played with an object such as a ball which is held by the "queer". Once the "queer" is tagged or tackled, he throws the object into the air. The other players then try to grab the object, thus becoming the new "queer". Unlike other forms of tag, those who stay "it" the longest are considered the best players.

Queer is used in the Victorian sense of "strange person" rather than the modern definition of "homosexual", though contemporary players may interpret it in the latter sense. As a result, various renamings have proliferated. examples include: "Kill the Carrier", "Murder Call", "Kill the girl with the ball", "Kill the man with the pill", "Keep off", "Cream the Carrier", or "Kick the dog with one shoe". In GoldenEye 007, a video game for the Nintendo 64 console, it was called "The Living Daylights [Flag Tag]".

Played somewhat less violently, and without an object being carried, the game is sometimes known as backwards tag. This derives from the sense that the nature of being "it" is reversed, changing from an undesireable status to one very difficult to maintain. Played in this manner, the game can retain the playfulness of "normal" tag, with a higher need for stamina.

The Japanese variant "Shippo-tori" is somewhat similar to smear the queer. In this variant, every player carries an object, usually a handkerchief, and is considered "it." A player is eliminated from the game when another player still in the game takes his object; the winner is the last player to retain his.

"Shippo-tori" is Japanese for "Smear the Queer"

Posted: 2/20/2006 8:04:38 PM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:

it later developed into SMEAR THE QUEER

I'll add my +1 to the man's post that can correctly spell SMEAR.

Posted: 2/20/2006 8:07:09 PM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:
Smeer the queer.

Yep

Posted: 2/20/2006 8:13:05 PM EDT

[#41]

87?

Posted: 2/20/2006 8:19:46 PM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:
Quoted:
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Quoted:
Quoted:
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Smeer the queer.

+1

+2

+3

+4

+ umm... the next number

(that would be 5)

+6

+1999

Round it out to 2000.

Posted: 2/20/2006 8:19:55 PM EDT

[#43]

Duh.
"Smear the Queer"

Posted: 2/20/2006 8:29:36 PM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Smeer the queer.

yep

Posted: 2/20/2006 8:30:18 PM EDT

[#45]

We're civil people here....

we called it Kill the Carrier!

Posted: 2/20/2006 8:30:57 PM EDT

[#46]

Quoted:

SmeAr the queer.

+1

Posted: 2/20/2006 8:31:44 PM EDT

[#47]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Smeer the queer.

+1

Posted: 2/20/2006 8:32:44 PM EDT

[#48]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
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Smeer the queer.

+1

+2

+3

+4

+ umm... the next number

(that would be 5)

+6

+1999

Round it out to 2000.

+87

I love the hourglass shape of the huge quotes.

Posted: 2/20/2006 8:33:35 PM EDT

[#49]

Smear the queer.

Playing that in 7th grade, getting tackled by a 6'5" black dude broke my right arm just below the shoulder. Ouch. Luckily, that's the only bone I've ever broken!

Posted: 2/20/2006 8:35:22 PM EDT

[#50]

Smear the queer. Never thought it was spelled smeer, or certainly not schmeer or schmear which would involve bagels... I'd have to consult the brooklyn crowd.

We also played "army dodge" Anyone remember that?

That would not go over well by today's standards of cartoon trauma.

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