Great move if you don't get caught!
- Thread starter Bill Lowery
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I cant remember if we have discussed the Calcio Storico on here or not. People from Oklahoma and Texas would be exceptional at this sport. It is the game that is played by Italians once a year now, but it is the foundation of modern association football (soccer), rugby football (rugby), American football (it should be called throwball at this point), and Australian rules football. Portions of the rules from all of those sports date to the first written rules for Calcio Storico back in the 1500s or some ship.
Basically, you line up like a free kick after a safety. There are 27 men on a side. None are paid anything to participate. A referee will in bound the ball into a sand lot like in a rugby match. Teams must advance the rugby shaped ball to an end zone shaped goal receptacle at either end of the 50 yard field. You can throw or run the ball into the end zone. You do not have to cross a goal line like rugby or American football. You get one point for placing the ball in the end zone. If you throw the ball and miss the receptacle and it goes out of the back of the end zone, the other team gets half a point.
Here is where it gets interesting: Bare knuckle boxing and MMA concepts are perfectly legal. Play runs for 50 minutes without stopping, even for injuries. Penalties are rare, mostly for double teaming an opponent. A sin bin for a brief period is the remedy.
Thus, you can do a jumping side kick to the ball carriers face and that is perfectly legal, but if your teammate runs up and grabs the ball carriers legs while you are pummeling him in the face to the get the ball, then that's a penalty.
So its basically a mass one on one brawl in the middle of rugby match. Here's a good documentary about 10 minutes.
Basically, you line up like a free kick after a safety. There are 27 men on a side. None are paid anything to participate. A referee will in bound the ball into a sand lot like in a rugby match. Teams must advance the rugby shaped ball to an end zone shaped goal receptacle at either end of the 50 yard field. You can throw or run the ball into the end zone. You do not have to cross a goal line like rugby or American football. You get one point for placing the ball in the end zone. If you throw the ball and miss the receptacle and it goes out of the back of the end zone, the other team gets half a point.
Here is where it gets interesting: Bare knuckle boxing and MMA concepts are perfectly legal. Play runs for 50 minutes without stopping, even for injuries. Penalties are rare, mostly for double teaming an opponent. A sin bin for a brief period is the remedy.
Thus, you can do a jumping side kick to the ball carriers face and that is perfectly legal, but if your teammate runs up and grabs the ball carriers legs while you are pummeling him in the face to the get the ball, then that's a penalty.
So its basically a mass one on one brawl in the middle of rugby match. Here's a good documentary about 10 minutes.
This thread totally wasn't what I was expecting to see.
No siree.
I thought it would be about [this account has been suspended by Payne County Animal Welfare]
Pistols firing,
Pokenmike1
No siree.
I thought it would be about [this account has been suspended by Payne County Animal Welfare]
Pistols firing,
Pokenmike1
If ESPN aired more of these events like it used to show the Running of the Bulls every year, they wouldn't be tanking so much. Of course it reminds me of the rumble scene from The Outsiders.
