Talk:Silent football
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Silent Football varies from region to region (UU district to UU District). There are many core elements of Silent Football (dictators, zooms, shrugs), but there are variations on speaking rules, exocism rules and origins too. I propose an over haul to include a core rules sections and then a second section that contains all variations and if possible, marked by region (PSWD plays different from PCD). - Mr._Hat
- I agree with Mr.Hat that we should put all the core rules in one section and all the variations and extensions to those rules in another section. And if you go to the article on the game known as Wink, it has a nice example of this.—Devin Murphy 90 20:42, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
I would be willing to put up the Southwest District Rules, though I have actually been out of that community for a few years now. - Thunderrabbit
I would like to undertake a revision here, incorporating Mr Hat's suggestion, and will get to it shortly. Please note the game has transcended the UU world, and become, as of 2000, a staple of the Burning Man community & its billion affiliated clicques. True origins remain opaque, and I would propose stripping the entry of entirely unsourced claims about where it came from. This rumor about an Old British Drinking Game is unsourced and impossible to verify; but it has now circulated widely around Silent Football sites online, thanks I suspect to its prominent mention in the entry here. I've yet to find a Brit who played the game. Plenty of Denverites, Californians, UUs, Sacketeers and Burners however. And, strangest of all, Canadians.
- Spruceball
- I noted Spruceball that you fawned it strange that Canadians would be playing this game. But all I can say is that I am a Canadian who also happens to be an UU and I learnt this game at a regional UU youth event where there where both Canadian and American UU’s present. So maybe it was American UU’s who introduced the game to Canadian UU’s, who then introduced it to other Canadians.—Devin Murphy 19:43, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
I second Spruceball/Mr_Hat's revisions.
I would like to contribute, but am unfortunately not familiar with Burning man, nor UU, and am more concentrated on the rules of the game and maintainance of this page. Variations would be quite interesting though. I would also like to mention the notice of our page and it's tone; I have considered overhauling that as well. It will be difficult though.
Is anyone else from Opus2006's game reading this?
- no, but only because I hung out at the fire that night instead of playing. looked like a lot of fun, though!
I contact Troy, who had a long run as dictator at Sackett St, and asked him how the game spread around. Here's the path he gave me:
UUYC & Kevin Heater -> Troy Nachtigall -> Burning Man -> Sackett St -> Robin Thrope
