"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. > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Find a local pizza place, music store, museum and more�then map the > best > > route! Check out Live Local today! http://local.live.com/?mkt=en- > ca/ > > >
