The New Orleans Saints pulled off their very first Super Bowl win yesterday. I am not a football fan but I can appreciate wanting something so bad and finally getting it. Go Saints!
The game itself has a very interesting beginning. Football can be traced back to A.D 43, to a game called harpastum. Harpastum was a very violent and bloody game. Players (sometimes hundreds) in a free-for-all would attempted to kick, butt, or throw an air filled bladder into their opponents goal. The goal was sometimes more than a mile away. Eventually, boundaries and rules were added and the game became known as fut balle. There were many attempts to ban the game. Needless to say that never happened and fut ball developed into rugby which then became the American football we know today.
