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