Dave’s Football Blog

At first glance, Michael Turner’s new nickname might have far more to do with certain forms of public transportation than Brazilian women’s football. Perhaps John Abraham is on to something here, though. After all, both Marta and MARTA are top talents who, on their best days, can become pure forces of nature. One cutback, and [...]

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Rugby viewers in New Zealand last weekend got a little surprise with their sport — four minutes of hardcore porn. It seems a scheduling screw-up caused Prime TV to switch off from the game and over to Desperate Black Wives 2. As opposed to Desperate All-Black Wives, I suppose… The mother in this news report [...]

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How do you define chaos? Try a soccer match featuring two teams of five hundred. That’s what the loonies at SUNY Oneonta organized this week with their “World’s Largest Soccer Game.” Their goal was to get 1,000 people on the pitch at once to play a game. This would be Cristiano Ronaldo’s worst nightmare, because [...]

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We haven’t gotten a fresh batch of football links from our man Carlito in a while, so it’s high time we spotlighted the new “silliest goal celebration ever” — though really, was it any worse than Steve Smith’s change-the-diaper touchdown celebration? — and looked around for interesting stories that I missed in the last week. [...]

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When you dig around the edges of football’s origins, you find some odd variations on a theme. It’s odder still that anyone is actually bothering to play these variations, but in some places, traditions die harder than Morten Andersen’s career. Case in point: the Harrow School in London has its own football game that it’s [...]

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Regular reader Sean Fishlock pointed me to an interesting footy find — a sketch of Australia’s indigenous people, found at Museum Victoria, that features kids playing Marn Grook in the background. As you might recall, Marn Grook is the aboriginal kicking game that became the inspiration for Australian football’s high marking rule. Dr. Michael Green, [...]

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