re: What is the dumbest game you played as a kid, that could cause an injury?

We "invented" a game in the backyard called Goal Line Stand when I was 14. It was a knock off of the old Oklahoma drills only you would have two defenders down on the ground to stop the lone offensive player (the ball carrier). The object of the game was for the ball carrier to jump over the defenders and break the plane of the goal line. The defenders were there to stop him.

Needless to say...there were some injuries.

A buddy five houses down the street lost a eye in a B.B. gun war. Did just about everything else mentioned. One day, we found an old reclining lawn chair, the kind with flat, interwoven plastic strips (long ones), took them off the chair, then tied them to the back of the banana seats on our bikes letting them trail behind on the ground like a long tail. You then tried to run over someone else’s tail with your front tire. It would cause the other bike to stop immediately, flipping the other kid over the handlebars.

Choking game, red rider bb gun wars, bottle rocket wars, roman candle wars,riding 4wheelers way too big/fast for our age, trying to catch snakes in the creek.

Eta: most dangerous was when we tried to make a napalm bomb. Styrofoam and gasoline mixture put into a cut open tennis ball. Light and throw. Not sure if thats the napalm recipe but we heard it through friends of cousins so it had to be true right?

My brothers and I lived out where there wasn’t a whole lot of kids around us, luckily, all four of us were two years apart from the next. For some reason, my parents thought it’d be a great idea to get us sock em boppers for Christmas one year. We would beat the frick out of each other, then somebody would inevitably get mad and the gloves would come off. The next year, they bought us boxing gloves, unsurprisingly, the same thing happened.

We lived on about two or three acres, the football games would get intense and bloody often. I remember one time, I got pissed at one of my brothers for not playing defense, so he went out for a pass the next time we had the ball, I threw him right into a tree. Pretty much a dick move but he whiffed on a tackle so it was worth it.

My grandparents lived across the street from us, they had a golf cart and I thought I was Earnhardt. One day, I had my little brother up front with me, I was doing that trick where you go as fast as you can in reverse then hit a hard turn and put it in forward all in one motion. One time I did that and wasn’t looking where I was going and when I got it all the way around, I ran right into an oak tree, little brother flew through the front of the golf cart and damn near hit the tree. Of course he cried like a little bitch and I got in trouble. He wasn’t even fricking hurt.

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Red Rover was brutal when we played.

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Knocked a friend out cold playing Red Rover.

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Used to have fireworks wars with some of the neighborhood kids.

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yep! Astounding that no one lost an eye or a worse burn.

Living room American Gladiators was a rough one.

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As kids our house had an unfinished full basement. Wasnt much down there. but with the lights off it was DARK.

We used to get all our kid friends down there and hand them all a piece of hotwheel track then turn the lights off and everybody would start swinging.

My brother and I would go hid behind the hot water heater and let our friends just beat the shite out of each other

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Quite a few

Chicken with dirt bikes
Horse with dirt bikes
Truck bed rodeo
etc

nerf lawn darts