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He listened on the radio, rooting for crashes and Wendell Scott, the first Black person to win a race in NASCAR’s premier series. Horton hired Williams to practice putting on tires for a couple of hours a day. Weeks later, Williams moved near Charlotte, N.C., and met Phil Horton, a pit-crew development specialist who had been a strength coach for the N.B.A.’s Milwaukee Bucks. Horton needed athletes — stronger and faster pit-crew members to implement a new strategy for changing tires faster.

Modern football has its origins in the streets of medieval England. Neighbouring towns would play each other in games where a heaving mass of players would struggle to drag a pig’s bladder by any means possible to markers at either end of town. After his senior season 36 years ago, Alan played in the East-West Shrine Bowl -- a college all-star game -- and did well. After the game, a bunch of players decided to hang out.

The Charlotte Hornets COO is a close friend of Jordan's who was once his father's agent. One of the locals made it to the minors with the Los Angeles Dodgers. A distant cousin, Andy Headen, lived three houses up. Headen was a linebacker on Clemson's 1981 national champion team.

One of the longest running football fixture is the Cordner-Eggleston Cup, contested between Melbourne Grammar School and Scotch College, Melbourne every year since 1858. It is believed by many to also be the first match of Australian rules football, although it was played under experimental rules in its first year. The first football trophy tournament was the Caledonian Challenge Cup, donated by the Royal Caledonian Society of Melbourne, played in 1861 under the Melbourne Rules.

However, within two years, NRFU players could be paid, but they were required to have a job outside sport. During the early 19th century, most working-class people in Britain had to work six days a week, often for over twelve hours a day. They had neither the time nor the inclination to engage in sport for recreation and, at the time, many children were part of the labour force. Feast day FOOTBALL played on the streets was in decline. Public school boys, who enjoyed some freedom from work, became the inventors of organised football games with formal codes of rules.

Pouty football fans are hilarious, especially in Denver. This is the same Russell Wilson that played in Seattle the last two years. Eventually, everyone will see it’s just Russ is washed up.

Though “folk football” had been played since medieval times with varying rules, the game began to be standardized when it was taken up as a winter game at public schools. The Football Association, formed in 1863, codified the rules of the game and hosted the first cup competition between regional football clubs in Britain. In 1995, rugby union became an "open" game, that is one which allowed professional players. Rugby league rules diverged significantly from rugby union in 1906, with the reduction of the team from 15 to 13 players.

The Melbourne football rules were widely distributed and gradually adopted by the other Victorian clubs. The rules were updated several times during the 1860s to accommodate the rules of other influential Victorian football clubs. C. A. Harrison's committee accommodated the Geelong Football Club's rules, making the game then known as "Victorian Rules" increasingly distinct from other codes.