| Soccer has to be one of the original sports games | | | | match. It's a wonder soccer ever caught on with the |
| every played by people. I can just imagine cave | | | | Danes after a defeat like that one. |
| dwellers kicking around the old soccer ball. Or maybe | | | | Soccer Wars |
| it was a soccer rock? A soccer coconut perhaps? It's | | | | As with many games these days, soccer had it's |
| got to be one of the simplest form of sports play | | | | origins on the battlefield. Rival towns would play |
| imaginable. I mean, really, I kick the ball this way and | | | | soccer against each other, with little or no rules, and |
| you try to kick the ball that way. Whether the ball | | | | massive sized teams. Violent, bloody games, with |
| (coconut?) goes more this way or more that way | | | | hundreds of people kicking, punching, tripping in an |
| determines the winner. While it may be easy for me | | | | attempt to win the soccer match. Sounds kind of like |
| to imagine soccer being kicked around by a bunch of | | | | today, except today, that sounds like a more apt |
| caveman sports enthusiasts, the earliest official | | | | description of the fans instead of the players. You |
| record of soccer by played was in China about 3000 | | | | think it's tough being a soccer referee today, imagine |
| years ago. Wow, that's like 750 World Cups, if | | | | a few hundred years ago. At least today, they keep |
| anyone was keeping track. | | | | the fans and referees separated. As time went on, |
| Ultimate Soccer Header | | | | and the local authorities realized that banning soccer |
| Soccer is also kind of bizarre, in that it's one of the | | | | wasn't going to work, more civilized soccer fans |
| few sports I can think of where you use your head | | | | brought rules and order to the game of soccer. Not |
| for more than just strategizing. You actually can use | | | | everyone agreed, and there were some splinter |
| your head to make contact with the ball. Imagine | | | | groups that went off and formed derivatives of the |
| trying that in football (American) or hockey for that | | | | game. Rugby was one. |
| matter. Nothing link deflecting a slap shot with the | | | | Soccer As Civilized Play |
| forehead for a game winning goal. Stitches don't hurt | | | | So today we have the modern game of soccer that |
| that much. Those soccer guys are kinda funny that | | | | we even allow our children to play. A far reach from |
| way. But the ultimate head shot in soccer was a little | | | | the early beginnings of the sport. Perhaps an analogy |
| more bizarre. Gruesome actually. Apparently in more | | | | can be drawn between soccer and many new forms |
| medieval times, the head of a defeated Dannish | | | | of expression. In the beginning, things can be a |
| prince was used as the ball by early day soccer | | | | bloody mess, but a few thousand years of civility |
| hooligans in the east of England. Yuck. Think I'd be | | | | and anything can be reduced to child's play. |
| shopping for some new soccer shoes after that | | | | |