Post AisxXe15ckgOcrpN6u by sexybenfranklin@smores.town
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(DIR) Post #Aisx21NdDuWRouIBUW by geordie@aus.social
2024-06-13T12:51:04Z
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I would read the shit out of a book about where sports came from. Like each sport. Like netball is literally what happened when initial stories of basketball’s emergence were misunderstood (it’s literally that joke about renaissance artists painting animals they’ve never actually seen), and football gets argued about based on the misconception it involves kicking when it’s called that because it’s not on horseback like its original competing sports (of which polo survives.) I imagine if anyone writes this it’ll be @erinrileyau
(DIR) Post #AisxE9cAQwyUpksPYG by geordie@aus.social
2024-06-13T12:53:16Z
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Why is badminton? It’s a sport with a feathered eraser instead of a ball like there has to be a backstory here.
(DIR) Post #AisxXe15ckgOcrpN6u by sexybenfranklin@smores.town
2024-06-13T12:56:46Z
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@geordie @erinrileyau Had no idea about football. Cool fact
(DIR) Post #Aisxb1oxZnl5K3leMK by thomas@allpro.social
2024-06-13T12:57:22Z
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@geordie I would also love a book like that. Give it to Bill Bryson or someone. When AllPro first opened, we had a big badminton fan, so we now have an emojo of Spanish badminton star Carolina Marin, lol :marin: 🏸
(DIR) Post #AisxnGMrJlGTuhSQQy by geordie@aus.social
2024-06-13T12:59:37Z
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@thomas ohhh God how good would Bill Bryson do it? Australia has Titus O’Reilly who is a sports history nerd who would do it justice too.
(DIR) Post #Aisxu8V4y0xhXYa0OG by johnefrancis@mastodon.social
2024-06-13T13:00:49Z
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@geordie @erinrileyau lawn darts came about at the end of a decades long arms race in indoor darts. In 1940, After hundreds of pointless fatalities, the rules of indoor darts were changed to disallow smashing your opponent's darts out of the board. The dreadnaught darts became obsolete overnight. Prices crashed at the pool, dart, and curling supply stores....
(DIR) Post #Aisy1IF98o2BmiXYCO by geordie@aus.social
2024-06-13T13:02:09Z
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@sexybenfranklin @erinrileyau yeah it’s “on foot” v horseback, not “you predominantly use your feet.” (This is contested. It’s broadly accepted by historians but niche competing theories exist)
(DIR) Post #Aisy7aEFBV2lIr7KwC by allrite@masto.allrite.at
2024-06-13T13:03:16Z
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@geordie Well, they were playing with a cock and ...
(DIR) Post #AisyAKhBORCdzpxqe8 by thomas@allpro.social
2024-06-13T13:03:45Z
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@geordie I simply want to know who invented volleyball and why. Which came first, volleyball or badminton? Handball or racquetball? There are so many stories to tell they’d probably have to really narrow it down to the most interesting ones
(DIR) Post #AisyPEKRLa2GasQjTs by geordie@aus.social
2024-06-13T13:06:28Z
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@thomas I’m good with a trilogy tbqh
(DIR) Post #AisyiDkhiLOgJAlpKK by geordie@aus.social
2024-06-13T13:09:54Z
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@thomas and it turns out after a search, William G Morgan invented it as an option for older YMCA members who were too creaky for basketball, based on badminton.
(DIR) Post #AiszJRJuETKn6Pz0zI by thomas@allpro.social
2024-06-13T13:16:36Z
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@geordie wait, volleyball came after badminton and was made for old folks?! That’s astonishing given what it has become
(DIR) Post #AiszeWO0akDEtcxFL6 by pewnack@aus.social
2024-06-13T13:20:26Z
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@geordie @erinrileyau I mean it would be nice to know how golf came to exist. It's probably unknowable. Maybe some fever dream half remembered.
(DIR) Post #Ait04pKAnpFxA2hiIi by MattHatton@aus.social
2024-06-13T13:18:29Z
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@daedalus @geordie @erinrileyau Hear me out: multiHORSE
(DIR) Post #Ait04qelqjKJIDLg2q by MattHatton@aus.social
2024-06-13T13:19:17Z
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@daedalus @geordie @erinrileyau Also, while I'm here, please don't give Erin any more ideas. She is overcommitted already.
(DIR) Post #Ait04rnJcRkup0M10C by geordie@aus.social
2024-06-13T13:25:05Z
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@MattHatton @daedalus @erinrileyau *laughs in overcommitted* I choose carnage.
(DIR) Post #Ait07ClCdhDqQRTsLA by caity@bne.social
2024-06-13T13:25:36Z
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@geordie @erinrileyau Would buy this. Probably even the hardback.
(DIR) Post #Ait0L3y088rXCt4j32 by caity@bne.social
2024-06-13T13:28:05Z
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@geordie @erinrileyau I live somewhere with multiple versions of polo being played regularly. It's bizarre. Often indistinguishable from football matches ... the players are very similar.