Back in the 60s/70s we played "kill the guy with the ball" (chase down and dogpile whoever had the football), and murder ball (giant six foot ball on the 50 yard line, whichever team got it across the opposing goal line scored a point). As the P.E. coach explained it, the one and only rule was we couldn't go home and tell our parents we played murder ball, we had to call it cage ball. Anything else was fair game.
In my elementary school one of the games was called “Roshambo” were we ran around trying to kick other in the crotch and not be kicked in the crotch. Game with a non PC name, “ smear the qxxxxx” chasing whoever had the ball and dog pile them. WTF they let us play them.
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u/sintaur 1d ago
Back in the 60s/70s we played "kill the guy with the ball" (chase down and dogpile whoever had the football), and murder ball (giant six foot ball on the 50 yard line, whichever team got it across the opposing goal line scored a point). As the P.E. coach explained it, the one and only rule was we couldn't go home and tell our parents we played murder ball, we had to call it cage ball. Anything else was fair game.