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