What playground sport should have a professional league?

[slj0101]

Poll question: What playground sport should have a professional league?

I'm sure there probably are professional leagues already, but let's just speculate.

[Gormy Cuss]

1. Tag.

You're it.

[mainegreen]

3. Professional tag would be a riot!

I'm sure some of the tag offs would be great fun to watch.

[XemaSab]

6. .

:patriot:

[LynzM]

47. Gets my vote...

That'd be fun to watch! Speed, dexterity, strategy.... :)

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. There was Hide and Seek in the Olympics

But it didn't catch on. :shrug:

[JVS]

4. Kill the man with the ball was the most incredible athletic experience ever

[democracyindanger]

7. Is that what we called "Elimination"?

One ball, every kid for himself.

[JVS]

9. Run after the guy with the ball, get the ball, run like hell

[democracyindanger]

10. Damn.

That would've been the best athletic experience ever.

I grew up with wussies.

[JVS]

12. Well how did your version work?

[democracyindanger]

15. Basically a modified dodgeball.

Hit somebody with the ball, they're out--catch it, the thrower's out. Play until only one remained.

None of the scratching, grabbing, tackling and gouging I imagine Kill The Man With The Ball offered, I imagine.

[JVS]

16. Usually a player would eject the ball before being scratched or gouged

but tacklings and grabbings were commonplace

[Xithras]

66. AKA, Smear The Queer....probably it's best known name.

I always knew it as Murder Ball. Much easier to say.

There's a full wikipedia entry on the game with the RULES (I never new there were rules) here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_Ball

Kill The Man With The Ball, Murder The Man With The Ball, Murder Ball, Death Ball, Mugby, and...most famously...Smear The Queer. One game, many names, countless broken bones. It's now a game for those faint of heart or weak of femur.

[gemdem]

68. Don't adults call it rugby? n/t

[Xithras]

79. Rugby is a team game.

While two or three people may occasionally team up in Murder Ball, it's essentially a "1 vs. everyone" game. Rather than a team getting points, everyone has their own score.

[Frank Cannon]

73. That's what we called it in Idaho

Not exactly politically correct, but there you have it.

And it was a GREAT game.

[Richardo]

5. Red Rover

[Hugin]

18. I have fond memories of playing a RR variant called "Bulldog"...

It's sort of an inverse tackle Red Rover.

One unlucky soul was chosen to face a charge of the masses.

The GLORY! The HONOR! The PAIN!

The appointee's duty was to tackle members of the onrushing herd
before they could make it past a safety line some yards behind the
appointee's position in a given amount of time.

The tackled players then had to play on the appointee's team to bring
down other members of the herd.

To be the appointee facing a stampede of crazed and motivated middle
schoolers is to touch the face of Gawd!

[EnviroBat]

26. Yeah, we had a variation of that called "Knock Out".

Which is usually what happened to someones front teeth.
I'm suprised I survived childhood.

[democracyindanger]

8. Hide the Baloney

[EnviroBat]

27. Ummm, I'm hating you right now...

Third keyboard this week, sticky again...

:rofl:

[Hugin]

11. Red Rover...

or some variant of it.

It's got action.
It's got blood.
It's got merchandising.

[pdx_prog]

45. What would the official Red Rover uniform look like?

[Hugin]

46. It would have lots of pads...

of that I'm sure.

Also, some sort of outrageous headgear would be a must.

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. Tetherball. I want to see professional AND Olympic tetherball.

[VelmaD]

41. tetherball may well be...

humanity's greatest invention. Took real genius to realize...hey, if I tie the ball to the pole with a string the kids won't have to chase after it when they miss.

[XNASA]

14. Beerball

http://www.yaleherald.com/article.php?Article=2079

[slj0101]

17. I'd like to see quarters as an Olympic sport.

[datasuspect]

19. "beat up the weird kid who brings weird eastern european cake to class for birthday cake and it

isn't even sweet."

[JVS]

20. I loved that game

What was the name of that cake again?

[Hugin]

21. or "eat the weird kid's igloo he made of sugar cubes for the 6 week social studies project and"

"laugh as he gets an 'F'"

[HERVEPA]

22. Halfball (nt)

[Fuzz]

23. Truth or Dare

I had fun on the playground. ;)

[Critters2]

24. Anyone remember foursquare?

God, I loved that game. Then we moved to Wicsonsin and no one had ever heard of it. I've never quite forgiven my folks for that. :)

[VelmaD]

39. I RULED 4square!

Loved that game. We even chalked out a 4sqaure court on our driveway when I was a kid.

[Ekirh]

42. Hell yes on four square... .

I never played it until I worked at a boys and girls club . . . discovered it. .and started organizing four square games every day . .

There was quite a many work day . . that four square would start at 3 . . . and wouldn't end until I got off work at seven . . .

[ScreamingMeemie]

57. What part of WI..? I grew up in a Milwaukee suburb and we played

foursquare all the time. We were usually late in from lunch because of it...

That was until Chinese Jumprope came along. :hi:

[Critters2]

61. Winneconne--Winnebago County

I had to teach kids how to play it, and we had to draw the squares on the blacktop with chalk. In Davenport, they were painted on--on the school playground, at the public park. Our church even added a blacktopped area with foursquares when they expanded the parking lot.

So, I tried to export it to Winneconne, but it never caught on to the extent that it was a veritable lifestyle in Iowa.

[Strawman]

59. That was THE game at our local Boys and Girls club

If my memory serves me correct I think the spike shot was called a "burn" and if you could put some spin on it, you were really good.

[Giant Robot]

77. Hell yes!

I read the title here and that was my first thought!

[EnviroBat]

25. "Bloody the Nose". Seemed like I was always playing that when I was a kid.

I never the knew the game was in progress, and that I was always on the losing team...

[EnviroBat]

28. Kick the Sack!

I won't elaborate on that one too much...

[ohiosmith]

29. Kiss the girls and run.

I was the city champ.

[Hugin]

33. I liked that one too...

:D

[ohiosmith]

35. I'll bet.

[Jimbo S]

36. I call SEXUAL HARASSMENT!

[Xithras]

65. Yeah. What a buzzkill.

Kiss and run was FUN, and as a third grader I didn't have a friggin clue about sex.

FWIW, I once did that to a fifth grade girl who promptly chased me down and thumped me until I cried :(

[kwassa]

30. I'll show you mine if you show me yours.

[northzax]

53. pretty sure that one has gone pro-

:)

[Dukkha]

31. sitting alone on a railroad tie

running out the recess clock

[EnviroBat]

32. Oh yeah, how could I forget! "Take that kids boots and run!"

Loads of fun, and the loser would usually get frostbite!

[terrya]

34. Hopscotch.

It would be the dullest professional sport ever devised...even more boring than golf.

Still....

[HuffleClaw]

37. Kill the Man With the Ball ???

sounds fun

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

38. Matball!!!

It is a better version of kickball & dodgeball.

[Ekirh]

40. Four Square. . .

Definitely Four Square. .

[ceile]

64. Seconded.

[NewWaveChick1981]

43. Red Rover and Duck Duck Goose.

:hi: :rofl: :P

[Broken_Hero]

44. Kick Ball, would be awesome....:) nt

[rug]

48. Stickball.

[Tikki]

49. Jacks.........

Tikki

[VelmaD]

50. my mom would be a seriousi contender...

for a gold medal at jacks. She totally kicked my butt at it when I was a kid.

[Jade Fox]

74. Yes! I was goooood...

at Jacks. Some of my most pleasant childhood memories are from the period of my life when I lived for recess to play jacks.

[Mojambo]

51. They had an Extreme Dodgeball league

It was pretty fun to watch until they over-tinkered with the rules.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Dodgeball

[northzax]

52. the unfortunately named "smear the queer"

as in odd queer, not gay queer. someone is it, and everyone else chases him and piles on until he says uncle, then it's someone else's turn.

good times.

[JVS]

54. This sounds a lot like kill the man with the ball

[northzax]

56. no balls involved-

even better!

[crispini]

60. That's what they called "Kill the man with the ball" in my area too.

I was such a tomboy. I played this with the boys ALL the time. :P

[slj0101]

55. Red Hands. There has to be a red hands tournament somewhere.

[Strawman]

58. At halftime of an MSU basketball game this year...

they had an intercollegiate dodgeball match between MSU and Oakland U. It was the best half-time entertainment ever.

[Little Wing]

62. Doctor

[noonwitch]

63. Marbles-if people will watch poker on tv....

I don't know if kids still play marbles at recess. A lot of schools banned it because it is "gambling", as the winner keeps the loser's marble.

[Nikia]

67. Double Dutch

I played that "sport" on the play ground as a kid.

[pokerfan]

69. Calvinball

Official rules:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Nook/2990/cb_rules.htm

[philosophie_en_rose]

70. Hide & Seek

:)

[opiate69]

71. Definitely Dodgeball..

Here's the league spokesman!

[sasquatch]

72. Dodgeball, but a match would have to be a best of 9 series

[Drum]

75. Tetherball

[Seeking Serenity]

76. Musical chairs . . .

with knives. (hee hee)

Oh, sometimes I just slay me. :rofl:

[SPKrazy]

78. Jacks!

:shrug: