What kind of game is fun without any rules? Well, early forms of football were relatively unlimited by rules and regulations. Villagers from Europe and early America often played games with unlimited numbers of players on opposing teams, whose objective was to drag an inflated pig’s bladder across the town. Sound like fun? Not particularly. Even still, these can be considered as some of the earliest forms of ‘football,’ where violence and brutality were not uncommon. Even dating back to the early sixteenth century, Italian Calcio Storico, or “historic football,” combined a contact sport with a more traditional perception of present-day soccer. Here, Florentine players are bound by very few rules, even now, which resulted in dangerous encounters and produced a thrilling spectator sport. Hundreds of years before Europeans settled in America, the traditional concept of football games took shape in schoolyards and villages of Europe."