re: Did y’all ever play Smear the Queer growing up?

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We played all kinds of dangerous games. Dirt clod fights, bottle rocket fights, bike ramp jumping into cardboard boxes and full speed tackle football

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That would be a really good afternoon and evening in the 70s. If we got to feeling wild, we would see who could jump over a fence from our roof.

we called it rumble fumble

All the fricking time. And when someone played didn't like we would make sure we tackled them in dog crap. Fun times.

Gays play lick the stick

My kids say it’s called “smear the deer”

We used to play it with basketballs in the gym where seniors lined up at the free throw line (imagine it goes all the way across). After lunch they kept the gym open so kids could go shoot some baskets it was right above the cafeteria.

The seniors would announce smear the queer and all underclassmen had to line up against the brick wall that was about 4 feet from out of bounds. The brick backing allowed the BB to bounce back easily. Never had any teachers or monitors.

Once hit you were out. I can’t tell you how many kids got hurt yet not one ever ratted em out. You would all be shooting hoops and they randomly would yell “smear the queer” and you lined up. You didn’t dare not line up either, it was a rite of passage.

I was very athletic and got good at dodging basketballs. It got hard because as you got hit you had to go sit down and that left 5 to 10 throwing at the fewer and fewer underclassmen.

If you were last man standing then you were not to be messed with by anyone for the next week, as the seniors always rewarded the winner with protection until the next game.

I won a lot but holy shite I took some shots too. One hit me on the side of my face and damn near knocked me out.

I miss those days.

Reading the comments sounds like an old game we played "all against all" as well. You could play it in several sports.

Cause us boomers aren't a bunch of Nelly blue haired man buns wearing lbqter's...

Ha great times! I used to frick dudes up playing that lmfao, lost half a tooth when I was prob 9 or so and I have broken many friends and class mates collar bones lmfao. U new it got serious when everyone started getting barefoot so you did t slip in the grass, Craziest shite was my buddy tearing his acl just running through a tackle just started screaming no idea what it was but he was in a damn cast for like 6months straight, when he got it removed for a brace and could finally wash his leg he has like layers of dead skin and that shite stank!

No idea what they call it now, I imagine that footballs and tackling is probably not cool anymore… my cousins kids and some friends on west coast don’t even play tackle ball they all play flag football until like highschool like wtf. That’s what bench warmers do