A review of The Ball 2010… and a call to action… help us make The Ball 2014 the most amazing journey any ball has ever been on…
On the road… without The Ball…
A 23-year, 500,000-mile drive
bbc.co.uk
Two hundred countries and 20 times around the planet – a man’s amazing journey in his Mercedes.
Brighton based Richard Vahrman is now well into his epic walk from North West Scotland back home to South East England while his smart phone tracks his progress. The Ball 2014 is taking notes on how to be trackable on it’s route from England to Brazil. Olympic effort Richard… video link, facebook link and ‘Where is Richard?’ link can be found here…
http://www.locomatrix.com/lm-tttt.html
Here’s a short interview Richard took before he left Brighton with Phil Wake about the origins of Spirit of Football and the phrase “One Ball, One World” (It was the Nigerian Special Olympics crew that first used it, not Ghanaian as Phil mistakenly remembers!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0HHLxlKSqs&feature=relmfu
The first game of both FA Rules football (soccer) and American football in the U.S. appears to be the very same game… interesting…
1869 New Jersey vs. Rutgers football game – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org
The 1869 New Jersey vs. Rutgers football game was a college football game between the College of New Jersey (now the Princeton Tigers) and the Rutgers Queensmen played on November 6, 1869. While the rules were more similar to rugby and modern soccer than they were to modern American football, some c…
