for the un initiated, or, you may have called it something else............ pom pom involved everyone to line up on one side of the school yard........ with one poor sap in the middle. object was to run to the other side without getting tagged, or, even better, tackled. and repeat. tackled, you stay in the middle and attack. last man standing usually gets clobbered. school i went to, it was common to have a hunnerd kids running back and forth
kinda like rugby/football/australian football, without a ball.

 

for the un initiated, or, you may have called it something else............ pom pom involved everyone to line up on one side of the school yard........ with one poor sap in the middle. object was to run to the other side without getting tagged, or, even better, tackled. and repeat. tackled, you stay in the middle and attack. last man standing usually gets clobbered. school i went to, it was common to have a hunnerd kids running back and forth
kinda like rugby/football/australian football, without a ball.

We called this Red Rover.

Red Rover Cross Over.

 

Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, The FONZ don't play no school yard games...get my drift.

 

kill the man with the ball !

 

aka: Smear The *****.

-Brad

 

Kill the carrier

 

Even in 4th grade we called this, "smear the *****."

Played butts up with a raquet ball, dodge ball, kick ball, tether ball, the list goes on.

 

I had the wagon...........and sometimes the trike!...
Once we got to 7rd. grade though..........................they didn't have that stuff no more!...

 

Holy shit! YES I remember tackle pom pom!

On a paved parking lot/playground, no less.
St. Mary's in Burlington, Wisconsin.
We'd play pom pom in the warm months (and kick ball, with one of those big red rubber balls... I think they had the bases painted on the pavement), and when the first snow fell, it was tackle pom pom. Even if it was only an inch of snow.

I also remember having a big frozen slick on the side of the gym where the water rolled off and froze--it was polished like glass from kids lining up to run and slide on it. We always slid standing up, so a wipe out was usually spectacular, and painful.

Sister Mary Mustache was always right there watching us slide, but she never shut it down.

-Brad

 

Holy shit! YES I remember tackle pom pom!

On a paved parking lot/playground, no less.
St. Mary's in Burlington, Wisconsin.
We'd play pom pom in the warm months (and kick ball, with one of those big red rubber balls... I think they had the bases painted on the pavement), and when the first snow fell, it was tackle pom pom. Even if it was only an inch of snow.



-Brad

!!!!!
and, there was a brutal version, where the guys that were crossing the field of battle, would link their arms and literally run over the the guy(s) in the middle. that was a bitch to attempt to tackle someone, unless you picked off the ends first

 

Red Rover and Kick ball. Oh and Dodge ball.

 

Dodge Ball and Commando Basketball. Commando Basketball was no rules basketball, tackle, kick, slug, run and the only dribbles were out of someones bleeding mouth!

 

The kid in the middle would holler Pom pom pull away. Played it on the sidewalk in grade school. We would get so wet during the winter playing that we would have to spend the rest of the day drying off in the boiler room.

 

My wife says thats the reason kids today are such big pussies, is because the took away dodge ball.


Rocky

 

we called it Blood Ball .

 

not to take away from the violence , but do any of you remember pencil fighting ?

 

yes

 

Played that pom pom shit with Ice skates on!

 

they didnt have ice skates way back when

 

how about after hours?
in the winter. skitching?
we went to the resale store and bought the biggest boots they had.
kinda like skis.

 

We played kickball. Then when we got older it turned to tackle football. We were so serious about it they banned footballs at recess. So we started playing tackle football with kickballs, soccer balls, volley balls, anything we could get our hands on.

 

We played smear the ***** also.
We had this merry go round at our park, made of diamond plate with wooden benches all the way around, picture a pyramid. That thing was a blast. We would have a couple guys spin it and see who could stay on. We discovered you could go underneath and sit on the frame, what a great time.

 

Stank - fanger.

 

Do kids still play paper made desk top football

 

Yes, but it is now a multi-user cellphone app.

 

how about this for sheer stupidity.
the guys ........ kids we were, would climb up the shitty security fence/embankment/pier, up and on to the 'el' station platform.
(for those who dont know, the cta has electric trains, 2,4,6,8 cars in length. This area (rodgers park, near loyola), the tracks were up an embankment, with bridges over the streets)
crossing the 3rd rail doing so. stations are 500? 700? feet long. trains would always stop, so the last car ended up at the end of the station. the very last window, was a conductor booth. usually this window was open. (summer, they didnt a/c the cars back then)
we would take turns, hanging on that window and the farthest one ridden was the winner.
one guy freaked and didnt jump off at the end. he held on for 2 stations screaming. we were 11 or 12

 

speaking of trains .......

we had a train that stopped on a bridge so it could go up , turn around , and then push the cars back to the city it came from . The reason they left the cars on the bridge was to keep people from stealing things . Well this happened at like 3 am . We would sneak out of the window and head over to the bridge and wait under it on the trellis . As soon as they disconnected the cars and left with the engine , we would jump in the caboose and take the half sticks of dynamite . We then used them to blow sewer covers up . I remember running down the street after lighting them off , never looking back , but would light the whole street up when they went off , blowing the covers off sometimes breaking them in two .

kids........

 

ahhhhhhhhhhh............ the days before cameras everywhere

 

How about Bloody Knuckles?

Here's how we played it:
Remember in the '80s when every guy had a comb in his back pocket? The kind where half of it was a big handle, the other half had the teeth--big, hard, sharp teeth, usually. We carried them in our back pocket, next to our velcro wallets, to keep our mullets tame.

We'd make two fists held out in front of us, holding the comb between them, with the handle facing the other guy.

The other guy would grab the handle, yank the comb up and then try to bring it down on your hands before you moved your hands out of the way.

It's like slaps, but not for pussies.

Getting hit with those hard plastic teeth hurt like a mother fucker, and usually removed skin or left shallow punctures, depending on how long you played. It wasn't so bad on the top of your hands, but on the knuckles it was a bitch.


-Brad

 

Smear the *****

 

I played with girls , game was called blowjob behind the portable

 

Anyone play sting in a racket all court?

Basically, if you drop the ball you have to run and touch the wall before someone stings you with it. If you get stung you get the firing squad.


Game was great.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butts_Up

 

Anyone play sting in a racket all court?

Basically, if you drop the ball you have to run and touch the wall before someone stings you with it. If you get stung you get the firing squad.


Game was great.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butts_Up

Yep. played one like that in junior high.

Brick wall 60' x 60'. Throw a tennis ball at the wall, catch with one hand before the bounce. If you dropped the ball, run and touch the wall waiting for the sting. The tennis balls with no "hair" were worse for the sting than the new ones.

No-one was "out" though. Just kept going.

 

Crack the whip....

 

Grope the grade 7 girl with the biggest tits