Football (soccer in the United States) is known as the beautiful game, and is far more important than life and death to millions of people the world over, engrained as it is into the psyche of the human race.
Replace the ball with an inflated Assyrian animal skin, up the number of players, add grabbing and punching and stomping and tripping and throwing and catching and blocking and tackling, include daggers and staves and flails for the hell of it, put snares and traps on the sidelines, throw horse and rider with lasso and mace into the mix, and you've got yourself a GAME! No caltrops, though. That's uncivilized. However, we may need a tad of protection...
No referees of course....likely just get in the way of the flow of the match....add a necessary beer interlude in the event the temperature is excessive.
For over 700 years, authorities have tried to ban football—from deadly medieval melees to women’s leagues—yet the beautiful game always finds a way back onto the pitch
Replace the ball with an inflated Assyrian animal skin, up the number of players, add grabbing and punching and stomping and tripping and throwing and catching and blocking and tackling, include daggers and staves and flails for the hell of it, put snares and traps on the sidelines, throw horse and rider with lasso and mace into the mix, and you've got yourself a GAME! No caltrops, though. That's uncivilized. However, we may need a tad of protection...
No referees of course....likely just get in the way of the flow of the match....add a necessary beer interlude in the event the temperature is excessive.
For over 700 years, authorities have tried to ban football—from deadly medieval melees to women’s leagues—yet the beautiful game always finds a way back onto the pitch
It is called soccer in Ireland and Australia also to distinguish the english sport from national football.