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“Unheralded Sports” Kal-cho Sto-ree-Koo) or calcio
florentino.
A great mate of mine once spoke to
me about the concept of sports as
deviant behaviour. The gist of our
discussion was that our wives could
not understand our continued love
for sports or rather our participation, The origins of this type of football
despite being a bit past our "use-by date back to the times of Julius
date." The deviance he spoke of, was Caesar, when Roman troops occupied
that those who do not play sports their downtime with a precursor to
could never understand the necessity today’s rugby, called harpastum, with
of taking part in this deviant its present iteration dating back to
th
behaviour. Whether it is chasing, the 16 century. Needless to say, the
kicking, catching, running, tackling, wives would be even more upset if we
pushing, shoving, jostling for played this sport. Imagine a sport
position, to the uninitiated, all of where it is okay to kick, punch, place
these actions in the context of the persons into headlocks, and actively
game may seem a bit much. engage in fighting until taken to the
ground. It is 50 mins of brutal action.
There is an ancient form of football,
Points are gained by scoring in the
known as calcio storico (pronounced
