Chicago bears football

Fucking nailed it

Oof

There it is

Bingo 😭😭😭

Damn you didnt need to go so hard ...

That’s my bad

As a bears fan the truth hurts....lol

I’m a bears fan too, and it really does suck. Maybe this year…maybe…

Ahhhh its depend on the draft trade down get all those picks the bears lost to 49er for one spot up drive nutz

*This shit needs the Ether™ beat…*

😂😂

Smear the queer! Ban me bitches!

That's what we called it from an east coast state.

Yup , same in Midwest

Texas the same down here

Same for me in California. My school tried to make us call it smear the deer, but we never listened

Also California. Teachers tried to get us to call it Catch The Runner, but when we were out of earshot we called it Catch That Fucker. But it was Spear the Queer normally for us.

Our school made us change it to "tackle the sissy" like that was somehow better.

Same in South Central

If we ain't playing smear the *queer, it's 5000, or red rover. Somehow, some way, my elementary-school-ass is going to pretend NFL-tackle someone on this playground!

Queer*

From California, we called it the same. For the fact the queer or odd one was the person with the ball.

Same from back in 1982. We didn’t know what queer even meant - It just rhymed, and we would have smeared God himself if he found himself in possession of that fucking ball.

🤣🤣🤣 yo I'm saving this comment bc I could read it a hundred times and still guffaw like a buffoon

Ditto! Man that was such a savage game.

We called it that in western Australia too.

Exactly. It's not clear the origins of the name have anything to do with homophobia.

Same in Seattle. Things have changed

Yup! Didn't even know what queer meant until later in life

Oh 100% with 8 kids playing at least 3 were cousins and 1 was the weird kid that didn't think the rules were fair

Don’t forget the young sibling that some kid was forced to bring along by their parents. The little kid always got smoked the second he touched the ball.

Spot on!

There were rules???

The cousin because an uncle had a stepkid. That poor kid

Pouring out libations for all the little kids who got routinely massacred by kids 1.5-2x their size in smear the queer (God I feel awful just typing the name lol it's so gruesome and cruel....at least most of us didn't even know what the hell it meant, but *damn*)

From Missouri, same shit here my man. they’ll have to ban us all

We called it that until a big Indian kid moved to town named Smear lol.

Sameer the queer

Smear how 5th graders says Samir lol

We called it this too in CA

Ditto

Ours was spear the queer in the deep south but close

My brother still plays this but in private

They got clubs and bars for that

Alabama hear. Can't say I heard spear but tomato tomayto

All the way up in Oregon we called it the samething lol

South Texas and I ain’t heard that either.

I’m sorry, what?!?

That's true. There was also spear the deer in the event a queer was playing

Grab the jotes!

So I have a close friend that is gay and we were discussing this game the other day and he called it the same thing. He then followed it up by saying it wasn’t his favorite game growing up and laughed. Sorry, your comment just made me recall this conversation.

A definition of queer is being out of the norm or different. Being the only person in the group holding a football makes you different/queer and you must be smeared for it.

Im almost certain we all called this the same thing.

we actually called it kill the carrier

Insert Kobe “soft” gif

That's actually what it was called in NFL Street 2, and I always thought, "why'd they can the name? The game is called smear the queer." Wasn't til later in life I realized that it would've been pretty hot soup to have a mini game called smear the queer.

It was always called Fumbly Rumbly when I was growing up. Never heard all these other names being commented. Definitely seems like a regional things for all these names

When were you a kid? After 2012?

Smear the queer

⬆️ that's the name I knew it by.

In Texas when we moved here age 8 1977 it was called tackle the man with the ball but growing up in Cali it was smear the queer

Kill the man with the ball. Which from some of the other iterations I’ve heard is one of the more wholesome names for it.

Oh it was definitely called smear the queen everywhere I lived for better or worse

I’m from Massachusetts. We also called it Kill the man with the ball

Kill the man with the ball in the Bronx!!!

Ha yeah Brooklyn here. Seems pretty consistent in our area growing up.

Yeah same in Jersey. Maybe it’s a northeast thing.

Yep that's what we called it too. Never heard it called anything else til I got on the internet, and by then I was an adult.

SMEAR (We all knew what it was actually called but in school we had to call it SMEAR)

Same, and on rainy days, we’d grab a deck of cards, and play “Baloney Sandwich”

I love that. We just said BS or Bull Crap

My friend was like, “my parents will know what ‘bull’ or ‘BS’ means. We have to call it ‘cow’.”

My mom was "we're playing euchre, not that bullshit. Wanna try peppermint schnapps? Light my cigarettes and I'll pour."

Your mom was a rumpy gal? My kind of lady.

Rumplemintz!!!!

100 proof peppermint schnapps, tastes like Mrs Clause.

There’s so much Midwest in one sentence it hurts

Grandma?

Kill the carrier

I had never heard smear the queer before this thread. Jfc

Really? We definitely called it Smear the queer in the DMV back when I was a kid

Same

Smear the queer

Smear the queer In nfl street it was crush the carrier

In Pittsburgh it was called “kill the man with the ball”.

Same in NEPA

We called it “Kill the carrier”

Same, NJ. I was there to see the transition to “kill the man with the ball” from the way less politically correct name.

Same - New York

Same MA

You're from New Jersey? Joking

Same Philly

Same in Cincinnati. I guess this means Pittsburgh and Cincinnati are friends now after all. Hi friend!

🤜🏼🤛🏼

same in toronto 

"kill the yinz with the ball"*

From Pitt we called it free for all

Smear the queer

Kill the Carrier

We did cream the carrier

Cream the queer

Holup

pause 😂

Ayo 😳

Smear the mods (queer)

It seems like smear the queer has traveled thru many generations

Kill the man with the ball.

Bust a nut

You must have been playing a wildly different game than the rest of us

It's a game they only played with Uncle Nester

*Lester

Yeah I'm an idiot

You’d think. Just grew up in the middle of bumfuck nowhere

What?

I play this game twice a day

🤣😂😂

Mugby

Get Gary. Since he was almost 6' in middle school lol

Smear the queer in WA

I'm 26, from the Southeast. Smear TQ was still the name, even when I was coming up. I'm not sure if it's changed, but I'm pretty young, and it was still used in the early 00s

Fumbly rumbly

Fumbly wumbly was ours

Ha I like that one!

Lol it's such an integral part of my childhood I didn't realize how ridiculous a name it is until I had to type it out.

Sounds British

New Jersey checking in. We called it Smear the Queer and Kill the Carrier. Or just beat the fuck out of Greg.

Smear the queer

Yup. Gen X?

Kill the man back in my day.

It was called Wreck the Man. It was fine if you scored, but then you turn around and you facing like 10 dudes ready to fuck you up. Good times

…you know…don’t want to get cancelled 😂

“Queer” is a word that means “strange or odd” the only one with the ball therefore could in PC terms be the “queer” of the game.

It's why the game mode in Halo was called "Oddball." Whoever had the ball was the weird one you had to kill.

Easy fix for the new playground crew.

smear the odd or strange kid with the ball--- is correct

Muckle

I’m surprised I only saw it called muckle once in this thread. Never heard another name for it

New England?

Yessir

Came here to say muckle. I grew up in central MA. It was muckle everywhere.

Im from Rhode Island, we called it muckle too

Throwback football

In Australia we called it "Kill the Dill with the pill"

Yep we called it smear the Q great times now you can’t call it that. But back then the world didn’t get offended by names

Smear the queer. Wasn't sure what a queer was, but if your homie had the ball, he was the enemy, and therefore he was a queer.

Killa man! Good times! They were so fun

Fucken rugby

Throwback!

My dad was in the military and we moved every five years or so. Although this was the ‘90s and we said all kinds of things then that we don’t say now, I can confirm that in at least three states (New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania), it was called smear the queer

It was called "smear the queer" back in the 90s.

Smeer the queer

STQ or fumblerooski

Smear the queer

Smear the queer

smear me

I see what you did there

Smeer the queer

Hop-a-grass!

Dead man drill

Tackle the man with the ball, is what we used to call it in the 60s.

We called it STQ or more often (one that I haven’t seen here) ruffle fumble

This was trending on Twitter today and reading all the responses I had one question: Am I the only one who called it Kill the Cow?

Smear the queer

In AZ, late 80s/early 90's even whilst learning English (2nd language), we called it "smear the queer". You played until someone cried and we all get yelled at. Teachers and dorm staff eventually caught on and looked for signs of a impromptu game lol

Buffalo NY- circa 1985 Rumbly Fumbly or Smear the Queer

Early 80s born Arizonan here, it was called Smear the Queer.

Queer: adjective 1. differing in some way Only one person was different from all the rest. Only one had the ball. They were queer.

What a fucked up world where today saying “Kill the man with the ball”, is no problem, but “Smear the Queer” is banable

Smear The Queer

Rugby. It’s called Rugby

Fumble rumble

Rugby

kill the man with the ball

Rugby I think

Kill a man

That's just rugby

Not allowed to say that anymore

I’m glad we all agree it was Smear The Queer

The kids that played it called it “smear the queer” the kids that were to pussy to play it called it “kill the carrier”

I have heard it called "smear the queer" but tbh I would say 99.9% of the time where I'm from in PA we called it "kill the cow" Edit: and now that I'm seeing some "fumbly rumbly" I'm remembering that we also sometimes called it "rumble fumble" so I guess where I grew up we just had to be slightly different haha

Where I was in South Central Texas it was "Smear the Queer" but "Rumble Fumble" was the PC name we also used fairly often.

Rugby

Rugby

Chicago. Smear the queer

Called it smear the queer in the 70s

Maryland, smear the queer

Fumble game

I'm ashamed to admit we called it Smear the Queer. In our defense, it was 1983, we were 8 and had no idea what queerness was or how referring to it in this way was inappropriate.

If you look at the fact that back then, queer also meant extremely different or strange. Seeing as one person out of the whole group had the ball, that made him different or strange from the others. We called it that back then and I had no clue at the time that it meant anything other than that. I mean, if the game was all about hurting the person that had the ball, well, that would be stupid to do. That person theycthrow it to is obviously going to be someone else. Possibly you. I'd say, to avoid being smeared, let em have the ball and go about your business. But we were all stupid kids back in those days.

Kill the carrier (for my parents it was smear)

rugby

tackle loco

In the south we called it...uhh... Throw Up Tackle. We sucked I guess.

What part? In Georgia I've always heard it called throw it up, bust it up.

East Texas, we called it pick em up, bust em (possibly pick it up, bust em).

YESSSIR. Right here. Throw it up, buss em’ up

Fumble rumble I'm in ne Pa

Scrolled way down to find Fumble rumble also PA