{"id":1592,"date":"2014-07-10T09:58:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T13:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/volumesandissues\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2019-09-27T11:53:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T15:53:35","slug":"the-history-of-the-footie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/volumesandissues\/2014\/07\/10\/the-history-of-the-footie\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of the Footie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rattan football from Burma, collection of the British Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Just when everyone in town has lost or triumphed with their favorite team, the British Museum gives us some historical context for this beloved contest.\u00a0 How did we get here?\u00a0 Take a look at what their curators have to say about it.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/blog.britishmuseum.org\/author\/britishmuseumblog\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Says David Francis of the British Museum,<\/p>\n

“Liverpool manager Bill Shankly\u2019s famously said \u2018Some people believe football is a matter of life and death \u2026. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.\u2019 His quote would have been more appropriate, however, if he\u2019d been talking about the Central American ball game. Whereas in modern football a major penalty miss can result in a hate campaign from the tabloids, mistakes in the ballgame could be even more costly. Reliefs exist depicting the participants of the ball game being sacrificed after a match and some scholars think that playing the game was believed to be linked to the rising and setting of the sun.”<\/p>\n

The museum has some terrific objects related to the different games that evolved around the world and combined into what the rest of the world calls “football”.<\/p>\n

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  Just when everyone in town has lost or triumphed with their favorite team, the British Museum gives us some historical context for this beloved contest.\u00a0 How did we get here?\u00a0 Take a look at what their curators have to say about it. http:\/\/blog.britishmuseum.org\/author\/britishmuseumblog\/ Says David Francis of the British Museum, “Liverpool manager Bill Shankly\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[167,36079,8406],"tags":[36062,36068,36070,36069,29047],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-silk-road","category-museums","tag-british-museum","tag-football","tag-games","tag-history-of-sport","tag-soccer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hRtx-pG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/volumesandissues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/volumesandissues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/volumesandissues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/volumesandissues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/volumesandissues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/volumesandissues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/volumesandissues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/volumesandissues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/volumesandissues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}