Ba game
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Ba Game is a version of Medieval football played in Scotland, perhaps most notably in Orkney, around Christmas and New Year.
Ba is basically mob football, or village football. Two parts of a town have to get a ball to their respective side. For instance the two sides are called the uppies or the downies depending on which part of town they were born, or otherwise owe allegiance too. The ball must be manhandled, and is very often a moving scrum. The game moves through the town, and can go up alleyways, into yards and up streets. Shops and houses board up their windows to prevent damage. Unlike traditional mob football, generally people are not hurt.[1]
Ba games are played in
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[edit] External links
- Kirkwall Ba game
- Ba' game legal threat fears BBC news article from 9th May, 2001)
- bagame.com, photographic website by Dr. Charles Tait.
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