In acknowledgment of the ban a school in Massachusetts recently placed on the playing of tag at recess because it was "damaging to the self esteem of the students", Elle Dee has chronicled some of the games she and her classmates played as children that were worse than tag.  It brings back quite a few memories. 

The one game she left off of her list that we loved to play was "smear the queer".  We would throw a kickball into the air and who ever caught it was the "queer".  Everyone then tried to get the ball away by any means necessary including tackling and wrestling.  Whoever got the ball away was the new "queer".  Getting beat down by your entire class was the entire incentive to possessing the ball.  I'm sure that game would be banned by virtue of it's name alone. 

In fact, in elementary school, we used to play officially sanctioned Red Rover in gym class.  I wonder if they are still playing battle ball these days?  That game was the best.  I can just imagine it being decried as a game that teaches factionalism and simulates open group combat.  To reach a deeper understanding of why they are banning these classic childhood playground games and what it is doing to our children, I refer you to the Kim du Toit essay, The Pussification of the Western Male.