[Ansteorra] Saracen Head Soccer?

[Mike]

Heilsa,

Thank you for the information.

A number of years ago, Hosey came up with something similar at the Mary 
Heads Carter Park in Carrollton, although it involved using 15 or 18 
lb., medicine ball. Players were only allowed to kick the ball, not pick 
it up. The interesting thing about using the medicine ball, was though 
it could be kicked, it do not go very far. It made for using one's own 
head (read brain here) to determine the best method of getting it across 
the goal line and scoring. It drove home the point of being able to use 
everyone's skills on each side. It did make it far more exciting to see 
one side or another to actually score.


Michael Kettering

lrdwayland at aol.com wrote:
> We used a cosmotology head. It's a hard foam, covered in latex (with a full head of long red hair). I'm thinking of replacing the innards with a softer foam but I don't want it to be too light. 
> We were making up the rules as we went along, but the basics are kicking only, no carrying it and no using the weapons to hit the "ball".
>  I think a nice alternative to this would be to play with axes and allow the players to bounce the head on the axe while running (like dribbling) and use the axes to swat the head during play. I'm sure Corwin & the Rhoadd crew could master the technique in a few minutes.
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> From: Mike <meggiddo at netzero.net>
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> Sent: Mon, Feb 1, 2010 10:21 pm
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> Heilsa, 
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> What was the head made of? 
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> Michael Kettering 
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> lrdwayland at aol.com wrote: 
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>> For those of you who weren't able to make it out to Coastal Invasion, you missed a new game that everyone seemed to enjoy. 
>> I'm sure somebody may have done this before, somewhere but I've never heard of it so let me know if you have. 
>> I introduced it as ancient Irish soccer, but I think Saracen Head Soccer may be a more fitting title...(open to suggestions) 
>> Two 9-person teams of heavy fighters armed with their choice of weapons (we had archers for the goalies) kicking around a severed head, trying to score a goal while not losing their own heads. When a fighter was killed, he had to run back to his own goal to ressurect & rejoin the game. It was a great cardio workout, that had participants and marshalls laughing the whole time. > Hmm you see what kind of madness develops when Flossie doesn't show up to an event??? I doubt this will ever replace Ogre Ball, but it sure was a blast! 
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>> Wayland 
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