History of Football

Ok, so I'm wicked sorry that I'm not writing about something new or current but I missed all the games this weekend b/c I had the BHS game to go to, Warriors football wha-whaaat! Also as I'm sure most of you know I had to get this blog in by the end of today, and the patriots game being tomorrow I have basically nothing to talk about. So I'm going to just go over the olden days of football.  Lets go way back yonder to a time in yee ol' Great Britain. Here my children, there was a mystical game called rugby.  Rugby is a violent game usually played by extremely large humans with little interest in self-preservation, and typically hygiene. That is unless there are any rugby players reading this, in which case I love rugby and please don't shatter every bone in my body.  So, from there it started being played in America when European settlers moved on over across the pond. It started to become popular in the midwest (it just so happens that this is when Brett Favre started playing in Mississippi Popwarner football) and spread throughout the country. Then in 1879 a man by the name of Walter Camp made the first set of rules for football. For the rest of his life he helped evolve the sport away from rugby into the American football that we all know today. I know, I know it was really boring but it had to be done. Shhhhhhh calm down I'll post a video of someone getting hit really hard to create equilibrium between the boring and awesome. You're gonna make it.