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Roger Neilson II -> RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? (1/27/2008 7:51:28 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Mike Scholl
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ORIGINAL: Roger Neilson II
Well I certainly 'kicked off' something here didn't I?
Roger
Well..., you wanted some "activity". Nothing like getting a bunch of guys talking sports (or silly European substitutes) to "stir the pot".[8D][:'(][:D]
Ok here you go again, you 'johnny come lately's' and your new fangled weird interpretations of the fine art of sportsmanship. True football can be dated back to the Viking invasions when it was common practice to foot the ball (the enemy's head) round the village as true sport......
I don't know, next you'll be claiming you liberated Burma with just Errol Flynn and captured the U Boat containing the Enigma ciphers.......
IN order to back up my point I quote (entirely selectively) from the learned Wikipedia:
The earliest mention of a ball game that involves kicking was in 1321, in Shouldham, Norfolk: "[d]uring the game at ball as he kicked the ball, a lay friend of his... ran against him and wounded himself".[6]
In 1363, King Edward III of England issued a proclamation banning "...handball, football, or hockey; coursing and cock-fighting, or other such idle games", showing that "football" — whatever its exact form in this case — was being differentiated from games involving other parts of the body, such as handball.
King Henry IV of England gives the earliest documented use of the English word "football", in 1409, when he issued a proclamation forbidding the levying of money for "foteball".[6][7]
There is also an account in Latin from the end of the 15th century of football being played at Cawston, Nottinghamshire. This is the first description of a "kicking game" and the first description of dribbling: "[t]he game at which they had met for common recreation is called by some the foot-ball game. It is one in which young men, in country sport, propel a huge ball not by throwing it into the air but by striking it and rolling it along the ground, and that not with their hands but with their feet... kicking in opposite directions" The chronicler gives the earliest reference to a football field, stating that: "[t]he boundaries have been marked and the game had started.[6]
So there you go..... and yes I have no turns to do!
Roger
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