Next festival. Instead of 'Stone the Heritic', how about...

Mob football distinguished itself from other codes by typically having an unlimited number of players and fairly vague rules. By some accounts, any means could be used to move the ball to a goal, as long as it did not lead to manslaughter or murder

Imagine using tag skills while playing?

I found it while scanning wikipedia on lunch and checked dates. Seems, even prior to King Arthur have people been kicking a round leather ball around

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_football

I want to see some celtic games or even an archery contest, something involving aim
Strength +2 versus a Caber ( elearn.hawk-hhg.de/projekte/15/media/CaberToss.jpg )

We did a cabertoss at the Grand Kormyrian games awhile back.  If I recall, Chris Kane's kid almost got hit with one...

I was honestly just thinking the other day about the hilarity of playing a pick-up football game with a large group of people in garb.  I think it would be awesome.

I know most of the gypsies wont mind playing shirts versus skins

i remember a while back wally and i tried to get a pick up football game going, but we were told that it was too out of game.

It's not OOG if we use, say, a severed head or something. Right? We can call it Ogreball!

Or any variant of the highland games. Caber toss, Sheaf toss, haggis eating contests... golf... etc.

I know most of the gypsies wont mind playing shirts versus skins

Umm, correction, MALE gypsies don't mind playing shirts versus skins... Female gypsies have another opinion on that 

OBVIOUSLY a football is a very OOG piece of sports paraphanelia.  Whereas a piece of PVC pipe covered in foam and duct tape is a very IG representation of a sword  :

tom.. if we play something as vaugely defined as that.. why dont we just play "Calvin ball"...  remember its never the same game twice!..

Dagger ball. Same as football, just give everyone a knife.

Or better yet, a football made of daggers.

It was the hammer toss, and yes, Quagz almost killed my kid.

Thank you for helping me in keeping Quagz feeling guilty about that once more. 

What were you guys using for cabers/hammers at that time?

The hammer was a block of wood with a rope going through it tied off into a handle

I know most of the gypsies wont mind playing shirts versus skins

Umm, correction, MALE gypsies don't mind playing shirts versus skins... Female gypsies have another opinion on that 

Also, male gypsies don't mind female gypsies playing shirts versus skins 

The hammer was a block of wood with a rope going through it tied off into a handle

We have latex, foam, boffer weapons.  We even have fake bottles and a foam "wooden" barrel.  Yet somehow, it was ok'd to use a wood block with rope for a phys-rep for the hammer toss.  ???  I missed some really good event from the past huh...  

Lots of games where a head was kicked around, or swatted.  Probably some version of Rugby would pass muster, but who wants to play?

i totally play rugby with a severed head physrep

OK, who besides a Barbarian wants to play?

This is the one and only time you'll find me agree with a barbarian.

But only if I get to sever the head myself.

How about our severed head with a hook through it?

Nice.