Fight Football League. Holy Shit.

Fight Football League (FFL), is an organization which promotes a new form of entertainment that takes inspiration from an ancient game called "Harpastum".  This very popular game during Roman Empire was practiced as a training for battle, it is the foundation of modern Soccer and Rugby and it is still played once a year since 1500 in Florence, Italy with the name of "Calcio Storico".  Fightfootball takes the essence of these legendary games, introducing innovative rules and equipment to develop a tough but safe nonconventional postmodern form of sport.  In the FFL the objective is to score goal, however, players are aloud to fight their opponents using several fighting techniques. FFL Rules are manifold, it is aloud to fight only one against one, it is not aloud to strike when running or towards whom is running, no hit from the back or on the ground, injuries or KO's can consequence into the elimination of the player. 

I'm sold. Say no more. All I had to hear was that this was a popular game during the Roman Empire and used as practice in training for battle.  Doesn't get much more hardcore than that. The part that I like about this is it just seems like exactly what we used to do when we were younger and needed some new exciting game to play. How do you think knee hockey was invented? And wall ball erupted after we got bored of playing wiffle ball every fucking day. These crazy italians were playing soccer one day, a fight broke out, some dude threw the ball into the net and whammy. We have fight football league.