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Stallion

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unforgiven said:
The word football is associated with a lot of sports, all the sports it is associated with developed from soccer, the original football!

The term football or footy is now used to refer to the most popular of the sports that evolved from soccer in a particular area.

In NSW football is Rugby League

In Vic football is AFL

In the USA football is American football

In most part of the world football is soccer
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Agree. And the play the ball rule which is a feature of rugby league is part of the football element within rugby league footy. It's valid and important .
 
thorson1987

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unforgiven said:
The word football is associated with a lot of sports, all the sports it is associated with developed from soccer, the original football!

The term football or footy is now used to refer to the most popular of the sports that evolved from soccer in a particular area.

In NSW football is Rugby League

In Vic football is AFL

In the USA football is American football

In most part of the world football is soccer
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Ignore feature is your friend.
 
ReddFelon

ReddFelon

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unforgiven said:
The word football is associated with a lot of sports, all the sports it is associated with developed from soccer, the original football!
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That's actually a common misconception, the name football was developed long before the codification of any form of football. Football games differed across just about every town, village, province and city in the European world. The name is derived from the notion of a game that is played on the feet rather than on horseback. Soccer wasn't a codified sport until the 1860's, decades after Rugby Football had been played at Rugby School and a number of other schools and universities. Even the first recognised game of Australian Rules Football had been played 13 years prior to the codification of Association Football. American Football was codified 6 years after Soccer and its creator didn't adapt the game from any version of soccer but instead a simplification of Rugby.
 
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ReddFelon said:
That's actually a common misconception, the name football was developed long before the codification of any form of football. Football games differed across just about every town, village, province and city in the European world. The name is derived from the notion of a game that is played on the feet rather than on horseback. Soccer wasn't a codified sport until the 1860's, decades after Rugby Football had been played at Rugby School and a number of other schools and universities. Even the first recognised game of Australian Rules Football had been played 13 years prior to the codification of Association Football. American Football was codified 6 years after Soccer and its creator didn't adapt the game from any version of soccer but instead a simplification of Rugby.
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Mate you have just gone further back then me, name one sport called football that didn't evolve from soccer?
 
ReddFelon

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unforgiven said:
Where did Rugby develop from?
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Historically; the "legend" which has been thoroughly debunked is that kids at Rugby school were playing a game of soccer and William Webb Ellis picked the ball up and ran with it, much like the fairy tale of AFL being invented by a group of indigenous Australians kicking a ball made of a kangaroo stomach, it's a load of crap.

A bunch of kids at a boys boarding school in Southern England made up a game involving a ball. That's about the end of it, just like when I was in school we created a game called Fight Back where you threw a rugby ball, soccer ball and AFL ball into the middle of the oval and the goal was to smash the shit out of each other but occasionally throw or kick the ball so that we wouldn't get in trouble for "rough play".
 
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ReddFelon said:
Historically; the "legend" which has been thoroughly debunked is that kids at Rugby school were playing a game of soccer and William Webb Ellis picked the ball up and ran with it, much like the fairy tale of AFL being invented by a group of indigenous Australians kicking a ball made of a kangaroo stomach, it's a load of crap.

A bunch of kids at a boys boarding school in Southern England made up a game involving a ball. That's about the end of it, just like when I was in school we created a game called Fight Back where you threw a rugby ball, soccer ball and AFL ball into the middle of the oval and the goal was to smash the shit out of each other but occasionally throw or kick the ball so that we wouldn't get in trouble for "rough play".
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There is no evidence that confirms either explanation that we have provided here, so either us could be right!
 
ReddFelon

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unforgiven said:
Mate you have just gone further back then me, name one sport called football that didn't evolve from soccer?
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Gaelic Football evolved from various foot-ball games after the English banned several traditional Irish games due to "violence", Gaelic is fairly obviously a game of Hurling played with a large ball instead of the small, hard ball and hurls, the pitch, player numbers and rules are very similar with adjustments made to account for one game being a stick and ball game and the other being a football game.

There's no actual evidence of Rugby having evolved from soccer, for thousands of years children have played ball games on grass with animal bladders being the ball.

The misconception of soccer being the first football game is like people who think Marco Polo stole pasta from China. It's an old wives tale that gets repeated so often people believe it, even when historical evidence says that it's not accurate.
 
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The touch football ball is smaller than a RL ball right?
If it is, does this make it easier to pass and harder to kick ?
 
titoelcolombiano

titoelcolombiano

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Stallion said:
Insulting the code is worse champ. "Who cares about the play the ball ...." is an extremely ignorant answer/response.
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I'm more interested in RL getting higher Government grants due to the touch football participation numbers that can be re-invested into our game than whether or not someone plays the ball with their foot in a non-contact version of the sport.
 
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titoelcolombiano said:
I'm more interested in RL getting higher Government grants due to the touch football participation numbers that can be re-invested into our game than whether or not someone plays the ball with their foot in a non-contact version of the sport.
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That's ignorant . The integrity of a fundamental rule is more important than you think! So as a result of a rogre rule change to touch in 1996, we now have non contact versions of rugby league such as Oztag, Leaguetag and more recently Touch rugby league. Given that touch was tippy league it's an absolute reinventing of the wheel. You can't see this plenty of others do. Clearly a massive demand for touch footy (the way it was supposed to be) is happening. You can't work this out? Others can!
 
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