Sports on Safehold

Hey,

I was wondering what type of sports games are played on Safehold? From textev we already know that there's a professional Baseball league in Charis. But what about other sports?

Is there, perhaps, a football (I'm talking about the real game, not hand-egg... I'll NOT call it s****r) league?

It would be a shame if Langhorne would have removed the greatest game in human history and replaced it with baseball.

I seem to remember there was a reference in OAR about rugby, and lacross being played, and "merlin" having issues playing completely naked in water with Caleb and the others and having an unexpected Male reaction...

Ahhh, right. That water-rugby game.

clancy688 wrote:Hey,

I was wondering what type of sports games are played on Safehold? From textev we already know that there's a professional Baseball league in Charis. But what about other sports?

Is there, perhaps, a football (I'm talking about the real game, not hand-egg... I'll NOT call it s****r) league?

It would be a shame if Langhorne would have removed the greatest game in human history and replaced it with baseball.

The man killed the metric system and arabic numerals. With that intellectual blood on his hands, killing what-you-call-football too would be Tuesday!

Given that he eliminated Sunday, I'm sure what-we-call-football would have been kinda forced.

How well could Safehold build effective, standardized s****r balls or hand-eggs with its Langhorne-intended tech base? Keeping things inflated while pounding on them sounds like it may be tricky. I'm no engineer - at all - so that's not a rhetorical question: it's just expressing a naive suspicion the available balls may be all wrong.

Me, I mourn basketball most.

JeffEngel wrote:

clancy688 wrote:Hey,

I was wondering what type of sports games are played on Safehold? From textev we already know that there's a professional Baseball league in Charis. But what about other sports?

Is there, perhaps, a football (I'm talking about the real game, not hand-egg... I'll NOT call it s****r) league?

It would be a shame if Langhorne would have removed the greatest game in human history and replaced it with baseball.

The man killed the metric system and arabic numerals. With that intellectual blood on his hands, killing what-you-call-football too would be Tuesday!

Given that he eliminated Sunday, I'm sure what-we-call-football would have been kinda forced.

How well could Safehold build effective, standardized s****r balls or hand-eggs with its Langhorne-intended tech base? Keeping things inflated while pounding on them sounds like it may be tricky. I'm no engineer - at all - so that's not a rhetorical question: it's just expressing a naive suspicion the available balls may be all wrong.

Me, I mourn basketball most.

People were playing football and rugby (land version) long before there were machines to manufacture the balls. Besides, they play baseball, so someone must be making the equipment!

JeffEngel wrote:

clancy688 wrote:Hey,

I was wondering what type of sports games are played on Safehold? From textev we already know that there's a professional Baseball league in Charis. But what about other sports?

Is there, perhaps, a football (I'm talking about the real game, not hand-egg... I'll NOT call it s****r) league?

It would be a shame if Langhorne would have removed the greatest game in human history and replaced it with baseball.

The man killed the metric system and arabic numerals. With that intellectual blood on his hands, killing what-you-call-football too would be Tuesday!

Given that he eliminated Sunday, I'm sure what-we-call-football would have been kinda forced.

How well could Safehold build effective, standardized s****r balls or hand-eggs with its Langhorne-intended tech base? Keeping things inflated while pounding on them sounds like it may be tricky. I'm no engineer - at all - so that's not a rhetorical question: it's just expressing a naive suspicion the available balls may be all wrong.

Me, I mourn basketball most.

As Langhorne appears to have turned baseball into a holy endeavor, soccer is dead and gone, and definitely not called football (only heretics call soccer football). (American) football might well be alive, as might basketball.

I expect hockey is probably alive in some form, at least where it gets cold enough in winter.
Bowling is likely alive in some fashion.

Golf is probably dead.

Sports with inflated rubber balls aren't being played, or Howsmyn would have had inflated rubber tires for his bicycle in stead of solid ones.

StalksInShadows wrote:Sports with inflated rubber balls aren't being played, or Howsmyn would have had inflated rubber tires for his bicycle in stead of solid ones.

Excellent point! On the other hand we know that they use inflated air tanks for underwater activities.

JeffEngel wrote:

clancy688 wrote:Hey,

I was wondering what type of sports games are played on Safehold? From textev we already know that there's a professional Baseball league in Charis. But what about other sports?

Is there, perhaps, a football (I'm talking about the real game, not hand-egg... I'll NOT call it s****r) league?

It would be a shame if Langhorne would have removed the greatest game in human history and replaced it with baseball.

The man killed the metric system and arabic numerals. With that intellectual blood on his hands, killing what-you-call-football too would be Tuesday!

Given that he eliminated Sunday, I'm sure what-we-call-football would have been kinda forced.

How well could Safehold build effective, standardized s****r balls or hand-eggs with its Langhorne-intended tech base? Keeping things inflated while pounding on them sounds like it may be tricky. I'm no engineer - at all - so that's not a rhetorical question: it's just expressing a naive suspicion the available balls may be all wrong.

Me, I mourn basketball most.

You can play european football (lets sidestep at least this religious debate^^) with a ball made of raggs, or - and thats how it was done untill quite recently, certainly longer than to the point Safehold is now - with the bladder of various domestic animals surrounded by lots of tiny pieces of leather. No need for high tech or even low tech. The origin of the hexagons on the balls you still see today is that they were once made of scrap leather, with the shape supplied by the bladder within.
American footballs may need something better than scraps, but probably not all that much better.

StalksInShadows wrote:Sports with inflated rubber balls aren't being played, or Howsmyn would have had inflated rubber tires for his bicycle in stead of solid ones.

If memory serves, the switch to inflatable tires was done to save rubber during WW2. Prior to that, tires were solid rubber.