"Still don't know how they made balls back then in the first place.  
> Probably animal bladders inflated."

Exactly right - there's a reason they call a football a pigskin; it
was just about the last sports ball made that way.

--- In [email protected], "Ellen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> can't speak for other ball sports, but I'm pretty sure bowling 
> started out with rolling a stone toward a club target.
> http://www.hickoksports.com/history/bowling.shtml
> 
> American football descended from Rugby, which originated at the Rugby 
> school in England.  (I'm sure most sports fans already knew that.)
> 
> I found this website about sports in Ancient Rome, which I thought 
> was pretty cool:
> http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/w/x/wxk116/romeball.html
> 
> Still don't know how they made balls back then in the first place.  
> Probably animal bladders inflated.  Human skulls seems fairly 
> unlikely.
>   
> 
> --- In [email protected], "Gina Ellis" 
> <gina_ellis@> wrote:
> >
> > Gene's gone and you people are going BOWLing?  (Using Gene's head?) 
> (You do 
> > know how all games involving balls got started?)
> > 
> > Re charity return address labels - I can't really bring myself to 
> use them, 
> > BUT, for those of you made of sterner stuff, any unsolicited stuff 
> you get 
> > in the mail is yours to do with as you will.  And when you use the 
> stickers, 
> > you are giving the charity publicity.
> > 
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