Un-PC thread: Who played "smear the queer" as a kid?

It was a free flowing game of football where you had to avoid EVERYONE on the playground from tackling you........and you did have to got to the ground. We played after getting off the bus with anything that was available: a comb, a little football, a wad of paper, etc.

I was awesome at it, until puberty hit and my foot speed went away.

Hovering over the object was like a rubgy scrum at elbow length. Whoever picked it up was fair game.

Thank god for Toughskins.

This may explain the lack of Gale Sawyers-esque open field running now-a-days.

But I never knew what the name meant until my later teenage years.

but since I am a lesbian the game had different rules :evilgrin:

You gonna post those rules?

It won't let you down.

Lived in a "natural" desert neighborhood in Tempe, AZ. Only one family had a little patch of grass completely surrounded by tangerine trees that were full of thorns - we played there lots of evenings. Never bothered about the name - good rough game kids these days would never be allowed to play!

Got a compound finger fracture when I tackled my brother while playing in the church yard after Sunday school. I never really got the passion for the game back after that.

but i've forgotten it from grade school. We played it all winter, when the yard and playground got all covered in ice. now that was fun.

Same concept different name.

the big guys beat him up and made him call it our name.

:bounce:

You learned one of two things: to take a hit, or to run like hell.

Smear the Queer is life, man.

You never actually scored and you never were done......until you were done.

in the rain, big mud puddles everywhere. That was the last time I played...a junior in high school.

The game should really have been called "Chase, catch, tackle and dogpile on the kid with the ball". That's a bit wordy, though. :D

I still can't believe I made it through childhood with no broken bones.

Walking into homeroom dirty, sweating, possibly bleeding, and our motors running at 100 MPH.

Man did I have some moves back then.

Until my mid 20s then it took 3 or 4 to bring me down. The best game ever too I think.

Wow that is some dedication.

The poor guy that he is, I even broke my friend's nose one time playing it. Combine a 4.5 second 40 with brass knuckles for bones and that's what happens.

I'm damn lucky I never broke any bones. But it is great exercise cause you can't stop running until you're brought down.

That's what we used to play. It was rough. Like football meets the WWF.

http://www.thewiredpress.com/archives/briefs/smearqueer.html

Council votes to rename "Smear the Queer"

The ISTQ council voted today to rename one of America's favorite pastimes."Smear the Queer," an incredibly fun game in which hordes chase down and tackle any person who has the ball, has been around since the gay old days of this country. The game, which involves manhandling your opponent and wrestling them to the ground, hasn't changed much throughout the years.

"We were concerned that the game's name may be insensitive to those who are Queer. We don't want our children to grow up thinking it is okay to smear a Queer. Queers deserve the same amount of respect as the rest of us."

The council voted on "Smear the Tranny" since the transgendered community has yet to become a force to reckon with.

many, many years ago, but we also called it "keep away." We always used footballs, nerf footballs preferred.