I remember the game as "Suicide." The rules were kind of mixed as those mentioned by you guys. True, if you didn't catch it you'd have to run to the wall. If you got beaned, you'd get a strike. Three strikes, you face the wall, everyone lines up and gets a free throw at you. Lucky for me, I was pretty quick so I never really got hit too often.
I forget what we called that game at University, but we played it in our dorm hall using a squash ball. You had to catch the ball cleanly. If you bobbled the ball, you had to run and touch the light switch. If you got hit, then you had to bend over facing the wall and they got a chance to throw and hit you in the ass. (Obviously our butt cheeks were clenched) My roommate got pegged in the balls once while running to the wall - he was in agony for days.
Next thing you know, they'll ban smear the qu...I mean tackle the man with the football. Great game. Simple rule..you have the football, prepare to die. Did anyone ever play tunnel of love as a kid? Pretty much the older kids would lineup in two rows facing each other about a yard and a half a part. A younger kid would be forced to run throw it...after being tackled 4 or five times. Great game from both sides. teaches toughness....oh yeah, if you fumbled, you had to start over. Funny thing is, my high school football team rarely fumbled. Spread eagle, aka wall ball, was a great game. makes my butt hurt just thinking about it. We had a headshot penalty...I think it was five in the butt, but invariable you'd hit the guy in the head because you were freaking pissed he hit you in the head then have to go up there......we learned the cycle of violence early. Stupidest thing my dad ever did....he made me and my two brothers wooden swords as a kid. We'd stop when someone's hand was noticeably swollen. The winner was determined by causing the opponent to take a hand off the sword. To learn to catch a baseball, we were put in a corner. If you ole'd it, it would hit the wall and still bounce of the fence and hit you. I've lost the ability to catch just about anything, but in little league all my errors were throwing. If I can touch the ball with my finger, I believe I should have caught the ball. I am slow, overweight, not very agile, but dammit I can take a hit.
Dodge Ball, Spread Eagle, Smear the Queer.....all great games that freaking TAUGHT some things: Athleticism, Toughness, and (imo the most important) how to deal with losing. Someone referred to this as "The pussification of America." I couldn't have said it better myself.
funny how many names and ways of playing there are We at Fondren Middle School called it. . . SPREAD EAGLE! This is a bunch of bull**** They don't want any competition . . .. . then ban grades too If you don't want to reward the strongest, fastest and most athletic why is it ok to reward the smartest? Everyone cannot excell at everything I agree however that the rules should change. . . if you big fat lazy uncoordinated ass got hit. . .they should take Lap after a few days of that . .. bruised. . . tired. . .and hurting they's get in shape. Rocket River Yeah I was the fat kid. . . but i had speed and coordination
All this anti-hazing propoganda going on these days just really bugs me too. If you can force kids to eat sh** and beat the crap of em every once in a while, you take away the big learning and bonding experiences life offers.
C'mon man. Schools also have a responsibility in Physical Education to teach things like sportsmanship and how to accept both winning and losing gracefully. Doing away with games like these and having a coach preach crap about "teach(ing) kids to hate and prey on the weak" is a whole different issue.
So did Economics, Business and Finance Classes. The idea of if you can get some to buy **** at a high price. . . DO IT!! Tell me that ain't preying on the weak [minded] If you think I'm lying. . .stay up past 10pm and watch a feel Infomerical . . .Get rich quick schemes and psychics I doubt they learned that at Dodgeball. The thing is . . in becoming 'civilized' we invert the old thinking instead of correcting it back in the day . . the strong was king the weak was everyone's b*tches now we are moving to . .. the Strong Minded are king. .the Weak Minded is everyone's b****es i.e. the meek shall inheret the earth If mike Tyson beat up bill gates . .. folx thinks that is a shame but more and more no one cares when Don King beats Tyson out of millions. Rocket River either reward everything or nothing
Lemme get this straight... A bunch of guys who spend most of their days trolling a basketball bulletin board are complaining about wussies and geeks??? LOL! The nerd-o-meter is WAY over in the red (Star Trek, Pocket Protector, tape on glasses zone) on this board and we think this is "pussification?" HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!!! Nevermind the fact that this correlates to real life about as well as jacks and hopscotch. Dodge ball teaches me to...run for my life when a large inflated rubber ball is hurled in my direction. If someone threw a big rubber ball one of us today, they'd probably get their ass kicked, that is of course if we could pull our pasty-faced, fat asses up out of the computer chair to do it.
ROFLMAO!!!! I loved dodgeball and was always down to the final few people left. I loved smear the queer and made it to the final people too! It did nothing for me in life because I am neither succesfull nor do I capitalize on weaker people...I simply got out of the way of the ball or the tackler quicker...and that was the GAME. Game over
Jeff, I think you miss the point. Do as I say not as i do But forreal - We may get our asses kicked but how would we react to it. I think people nowadays have skin thinner than razors Something happens. . . they GO BESERK I think many factors add up to the Teen Violence we experience I know this is not what this is about . .and it is a light topic but IMO it runs deep. We now Don't want our kids to be losers. . but we want WINNERS? we want them to be smart .. and be proud of that but pride in athletic ability is looked down upon We have a bunch of couch potato kids playing violent video games listening to some R rated music. u know what that is OK what is not ok . .is they have an attitude they feel they deserve respect for breathing They don't beleive they should have to EARN anything sh*t should just come to them and if you piss them off .. . they have hair-trigger tempers that can explode violently. . . the difference now is. . . THEY ACT ON IT Rocket River the old man of the group
God bless dodgeball, dont let anyone stop it. I play dodgeball every friday in a league and it is one of the highlights of my day THS Bombardment Society (Dodgeball Club) http://thsbs.cjb.net/ "Throw hard or throw down!"
This is another case of those who just assume that these people are weaking geeks while never addressing the arguments against Dodgeball. Now, I'd understand this attitude if they banned it from recess. However, a P.E. class is where kids are supposed to learn how to get and stay in shape. A game that results in those who need P.E. class the most having to sit down for most of it is not very productive for those kids. I understand what Dodgeball teaches...it teaches the same thing that basketball, football, tennis, soccer, running, and numerous other things teach as well...all while allowing everyone to compete all the time. Don't get me wrong, I loved Dodgeball as a kid. It was my favorite thing to do in P.E. However, I was also one of the ones that normally stayed in for a long period of time. I also enjoyed it when we did it at recess instead of P.E. which is something that we commonly did. Anyway, until P.E. becomes something other than what it's supposed to be, I have no problem with them banning Dodgeball.
Wow ROCKET RIVER, you just blew my mind with your thoughts on this subject. Great posts, man. Very true.
I pretty sure that the kids who are picked on by the athletic superior kids at school won't be less likely to commit violence after playing Dodgeball, a game where they'll probably be nailed first and forced to sit out the rest of the game.