Kickball for Toffs: Why Do Sports Invented by WASPs Rule the World?
15th July 2018
Steve Sailer jumps on board the soccer wagon.
Games such as soccer, rugby, American football, and Australian rules football started out in England as mob football, a pretty much ruleless contest played in a town’s high street with all the lads from one end of town vying against against all the lads from the other end of town, such as the the Up’ards and the Down’ards of Ashbourne, to move the ball to distant goals, sometimes miles apart. These games were kind of a cross between a modern rugby scrum and a mass migration.
July 16th, 2018 at 10:16
The Mayans invented what was apparently a very popular game in its day. But that part about sacrificing the winning team to the gods seems to have discouraged participation.
The Europeans and Americans also had beer. Beer is the reason for several sports – softball and ice fishing come to mind immediately.