Dodgeball was awesome; we loved it in elementary school. "If the ball hits your head, it doesn't count." The current bans make no sense whatsoever.
I recently heard a businessman talking on CD about dodgeball when he was a kid:
"When we played dodgeball if you got out you had to put your shorts on your head and run laps around the gym in your jock strap. And it didn't hurt my self esteem...IT TAUGHT ME TO GET OUT OF THE WAY OF THE BALL!"
We need to be teaching our kids to get out of the way of the ball, not deluding them into thinking that a ball will never come their way.