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Poll Question: what is your favourite of these four sports,
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What I read is that the word soccer comes from 19th century England, so that should settle it.

[Well... It was a wise man on an internet forum saying this, it must be right. He seemed very knowledgeable on the issue.]
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Originally posted by OT Räihälä OT Räihälä wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

 
They are both football. I don't see your point. (It doesn't look like an egg btw)

But where's the ball in the game you're obviously talking about? I've never seen an egg of that shape, but the playing object carried by hand is not a spherical. Why call it football? Tongue

Because it is kicked  by the foot.
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by OT Räihälä OT Räihälä wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

 
They are both football. I don't see your point. (It doesn't look like an egg btw)

But where's the ball in the game you're obviously talking about? I've never seen an egg of that shape, but the playing object carried by hand is not a spherical. Why call it football? Tongue

Because it is kicked  by the foot.
Most of the time it looks like team Sumo Wrestling to me, the actual kicking of the prolate spheroid pig's bladder is somewhat minimal and its presence in the game a little superfluous.
 
Both hand-egg and rugby seem tame after playing British Bulldog. Wink
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^There is actually quite a lot of kicking in rugby, much more than in American Football. Maybe you just don't notice it. In fact one'll often hear the shout "Stop kicking the Censored ball" when watching with friends
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

^There is actually quite a lot of kicking in rugby, much more than in American Football. Maybe you just don't notice it. In fact one'll often hear the shout "Stop kicking the Censored ball" when watching with friends
LOL yep - the forward pass rule tends to force kicking as a means of progressing up the pitch - at one time English rugby and English football almost looked like the same game with the amount of "long balls" being played, but at least in rugby that was due to our ability to win a line-out whereas in football we never seemed to connect with those long passes very well.
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by OT Räihälä OT Räihälä wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

 
They are both football. I don't see your point. (It doesn't look like an egg btw)

But where's the ball in the game you're obviously talking about? I've never seen an egg of that shape, but the playing object carried by hand is not a spherical. Why call it football? Tongue

Because it is kicked  by the foot.
Most of the time it looks like team Sumo Wrestling to me, the actual kicking of the prolate spheroid pig's bladder is somewhat minimal and its presence in the game a little superfluous.
 
Both hand-egg and rugby seem tame after playing British Bulldog. Wink
 
British Bulldog was great.  We used to play a version where the Bulldogs when they became bulldogs (By being caught) would hold hands and form a chain.  THe others would either have to run round them or break through the bulldogs grip!  Which could be painful depending on how brave everyone was.  It was of course played on asphalt and caused plenty of knee damage. 
 
Interested to know if none Commonwealth countries played similar games at school. 
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^Murderball was worse!Ouch
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Did anyone play "Kerb" when young?
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We did occasionally play Murderball but I guess we were a bit soft! 

 
What was Kerb?
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Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

It was of course played on asphalt and caused plenty of knee damage. 
 
Too true - my knees took years to recover - though the worse for me was playing in a sports hall and getting cannoned into the wall.
 
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

^Murderball was worse!Ouch
 
I think they were as "bad" as each other - and regardless of how the games were supposed to be played they usually end up the same - a mass "bundle" - most of the time it was an excuse for condoned thuggery and exacting petty revenge - and I loved it. Approve
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

It was of course played on asphalt and caused plenty of knee damage. 
 
Too true - my knees took years to recover - though the worse for me was playing in a sports hall and getting cannoned into the wall.
 
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

^Murderball was worse!Ouch
 
I think they were as "bad" as each other - and regardless of how the games were supposed to be played they usually end up the same - a mass "bundle" - most of the time it was an excuse for condoned thuggery and exacting petty revenge - and I loved it. Approve

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Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

We did occasionally play Murderball but I guess we were a bit soft! 

 
What was Kerb?

Twp people stand on opposite sides of the road, one with a football. The aim was to throw at the opposite kerb and hit it. If the ball came back to you  it was one point. If It bounced of the kerb and you caught it, two points. A miss and your opponent gets his go. First to, usually 10 or 20, wins.
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

It was of course played on asphalt and caused plenty of knee damage. 
 
Too true - my knees took years to recover - though the worse for me was playing in a sports hall and getting cannoned into the wall.
 
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

^Murderball was worse!Ouch
 
I think they were as "bad" as each other - and regardless of how the games were supposed to be played they usually end up the same - a mass "bundle" - most of the time it was an excuse for condoned thuggery and exacting petty revenge - and I loved it. Approve

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I had forgotten getting rammed into the wall!  Ah memories!Ouch
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

We did occasionally play Murderball but I guess we were a bit soft! 

 
What was Kerb?

Twp people stand on opposite sides of the road, one with a football. The aim was to throw at the opposite kerb and hit it. If the ball came back to you  it was one point. If It bounced of the kerb and you caught it, two points. A miss and your opponent gets his go. First to, usually 10 or 20, wins.
 
Christ yes!  I had forgotten that. 
 
Also the game where everyone sits on the ground and someone tried to kick the ball as hard as they can at your body!  Was that Wembley ?  Or was Wembley something else?
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^Sounds a bit like knock out or something like that. Well  the one I'm thinking of is you all sit in a circle and one person kicks the  ball at you. One can only defend with the feet. Anything else hit and you join the kicker slowly surrounding the lone survivor!!!!

We might have called it FA actually. can't remember.


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That's the one^  No I don't remember what it was called!  Oh well
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Funny how we all know the same  games and we live apart. How did these games travel?
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Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

We did occasionally play Murderball but I guess we were a bit soft! 

 
What was Kerb?

Twp people stand on opposite sides of the road, one with a football. The aim was to throw at the opposite kerb and hit it. If the ball came back to you  it was one point. If It bounced of the kerb and you caught it, two points. A miss and your opponent gets his go. First to, usually 10 or 20, wins.
 
Christ yes!  I had forgotten that. 
 
Also the game where everyone sits on the ground and someone tried to kick the ball as hard as they can at your body!  Was that Wembley ?  Or was Wembley something else?
Wembley: http://www.odps.org/glossword/index.php?a=term&d=2&t=1085 
 
We played "kerb" as "wall ball", but essentially the same game.
 
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Funny how we all know the same  games and we live apart. How did these games travel?
I think these games travelled because families did, a new kid at school would introduce a variant on something already played.
 
LOL looking through teh Gastly Games website is bring back memories ... kiss-chase and knicker-chase ("Infants school "game" where the participants chase the girls and try to pull down their skirts so you could see their knickers. But nobody ever knew WHY") must have lost their appeal at an all boys school, fortunately I was co-ed all my school life Wink
 
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

We did occasionally play Murderball but I guess we were a bit soft! 

 
What was Kerb?

Twp people stand on opposite sides of the road, one with a football. The aim was to throw at the opposite kerb and hit it. If the ball came back to you  it was one point. If It bounced of the kerb and you caught it, two points. A miss and your opponent gets his go. First to, usually 10 or 20, wins.
 
Christ yes!  I had forgotten that. 
 
Also the game where everyone sits on the ground and someone tried to kick the ball as hard as they can at your body!  Was that Wembley ?  Or was Wembley something else?
Wembley: http://www.odps.org/glossword/index.php?a=term&d=2&t=1085 
 
We played "kerb" as "wall ball", but essentially the same game.
 
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Funny how we all know the same  games and we live apart. How did these games travel?
I think these games travelled because families did, a new kid at school would introduce a variant on something already played.
 
LOL looking through teh Gastly Games website is bring back memories ... kiss-chase and knicker-chase ("Infants school "game" where the participants chase the girls and try to pull down their skirts so you could see their knickers. But nobody ever knew WHY") must have lost their appeal at an all boys school, fortunately I was co-ed all my school life Wink
 

That Wembley game (Which we called FA cup) is not the game he is referring to but the game I described. I remember "Catch and kiss" at school. Mixed sex also.
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

We did occasionally play Murderball but I guess we were a bit soft! 

 
What was Kerb?

Twp people stand on opposite sides of the road, one with a football. The aim was to throw at the opposite kerb and hit it. If the ball came back to you  it was one point. If It bounced of the kerb and you caught it, two points. A miss and your opponent gets his go. First to, usually 10 or 20, wins.
 
Christ yes!  I had forgotten that. 
 
Also the game where everyone sits on the ground and someone tried to kick the ball as hard as they can at your body!  Was that Wembley ?  Or was Wembley something else?
Wembley: http://www.odps.org/glossword/index.php?a=term&d=2&t=1085 
 
We played "kerb" as "wall ball", but essentially the same game.
 
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Funny how we all know the same  games and we live apart. How did these games travel?
I think these games travelled because families did, a new kid at school would introduce a variant on something already played.
 
LOL looking through teh Gastly Games website is bring back memories ... kiss-chase and knicker-chase ("Infants school "game" where the participants chase the girls and try to pull down their skirts so you could see their knickers. But nobody ever knew WHY") must have lost their appeal at an all boys school, fortunately I was co-ed all my school life Wink
 

That Wembley game (Which we called FA cup) is not the game he is referring to but the game I described. I remember "Catch and kiss" at school. Mixed sex also.
 
The game I was describing is called 'Green Arses' on the Ghastly Games site.  But this rings no bells with me.  Sounds more Public School name to me.  Kiss Chase was occasionally played at my Primary School but British Bulldog was more popular even mixed sex BB.
 
 
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