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Re:The Legend of GayBlade by acomjean on Sunday August 30, 2020 @11:22PM (#24328244)
In middlesex county massachusetts in the late 70s, early 80s we called it "kill the carrier". Rough game, I dislocated my elbow playing it. It was a wonder anyone picked up that ball.
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Re:The Legend of GayBlade by hnick on Monday August 31, 2020 @01:00AM (#24328639)
"Kill the dill with the pill" in my school in Australia.
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Re:The Legend of GayBlade by JohnBooty on Sunday August 30, 2020 @11:26PM (#24328262)
Ah! I think we knew it by that name as well. Also: "kill the guy with the ball"... I think... "every man for himself football", the aforementioned regrettable "smear the queer" and "roughie-up" was apparently a very local name for it. Everybody had so many different names for it, I think everybody knew at least a handful of them!

It was sort of unique that way. I didn't know any other game that had dozens of totally unconnected names.

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