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WE LOVE FOOTBALL
by Jimmy Hallmer
http://www.footballcrew.com
People across the globe go sport mad when football season
kicks in. Amazingly, the gathering that kicked off this
craze was the college draft in 1936 and ever since that
date football holds this amazing influence over fans that
brings out the best (and worst we hasten to add) in all of
them.
Today, more than 10,000 of the most skilled football
players from college have been drafted into professional
sports. Of those players, some have taken the sport very
serious and moved on to a long, successful career for
spectators to enjoy. During football season, bars are
filled with crazed fans, all cheering on their favorite
team.
So where does football all stem from then? There~s not
much of a timeline attached to football as we know it but
there were different forms of the game played even before
Christ was born. In roughly 200BC Tsu Chu existed with
goals, similar to our own goalposts made from 30 ft high
bamboo sticks. The Greeks invented Phendia around 4 BC and
its similarities with football lie in the players
themselves as they ran with and held a ball.
Where did the football pitch come from then? Well the
nearest thing to a football pitch was developed by the
Romans in the 5th Century. Known as Hapastum, a field the
same size was played on with the team aim being to protect
their end of the field. The ball was thrown from player to
player until they managed to launch it over the other
team~s goal line. All in all quite different but as times
changed the game changed too.
Sometime around the 5th century, another form of the game
was born in Japan called Kemari. With this game, eight
players would kick the ball to each other as they made
their way down the field. However, the game Calcio, which
was developed in Italy during the 15th and 16th centuries,
was what brought use even closer to today~s football.
Soon, an English game was created in the whereby an entire
town would show up and play for days. With this game, the
goal was to get possession of the ball at which time it
would be taken back to the parish.
How much does football take in America nowadays? Is a
billion dollar game with crazy supporters sitting in minus
conditions to see their team through to holding up the
sought after Super Bowl trophy. It became such a serious
industry thanks to Cambridge University in 1848 that set
up rules that are pretty close to the rules we have today,
bar a few changes. The Football Association began in 1863
and the football that we watch and adore today began.
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