Post by Coach Campbell on Oct 13, 2002 16:39:24 GMT
A ban follwed a national craze which had developed over the joys of booting the inflated bladders in contests which were a combination of soccer, vandalism, and mass modified homicide. This craze was called "futballe". In those days, futballe was not played in a stadium but around, over, and through two townships. The entire population of each contest met at a point between the towns; the bladder was tossed in the middle, and chaos broke loose. The touchdown was scored when the ball was kicked into the center of the opposing town and there were no further rules to confuse the issue. (Treat, 1962) Coach CAmpbell