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GarryDenke
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STONEHENGE: A Football Stadium
Royal Society Fellows have discovered that Stonehenge was used as a Football Stadium after its deep Ditch had yielded no Coal. Ancient energy mining prospector, LORD Fellow of Woodhenge, converted its white Ditch chalk pilings into Bleachers for enthusiastic area Sport fans.
Eleven (11) Gaps between six-foot tall Banks of the discovered Eleven (11) Bleachers made for quick and easy Latrine access to the Ditch, according to Royal Society Fellows, before the six-foot deep Toilet silted in.
Football Stadium Bleachers / Latrine
LORD Fellow of Woodhenge constructed a Ticket Line area with timber posts in the Ancient sunny northeast Avenue Entrance, with Players coming and going Freely through a southern Lower Entrance. Royal Society Fellows also found that Football became popular soon afterward.
Fifty-Six (56) Fence Posts separating the Eleven (11) Bleachers full of enthusiastic Sport fans were found in a Circle around the Stadium playing area. Horizontal fence Rails prevented Crowds from storming the Field.
Stadium Field Protection Posts / Latrine in Blue
Two (2) Goals at opposite ends Perpendicular to the Rising Sun served as Fair Lighting for both Team Sides and were constructed of Four (4) Station Stones, two (2) for each Goal. "Laws of the Game" developed with Number of white Ditch pilings made by LORD Fellow of Woodhenge.
Royal Society Fellows concluded Sport fans of Eleven (11) Banks and Sport fans of Eleven (11) Bleachers must have agreed the "Laws of the Game" were a lineup of Eleven (11) Players representing them to "Foot the Ball".
Stuffed Animal Skin Ball
Today, the most prestigious International Football competition is the FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) World Cup, founded 5,000 years ago at Stonehenge. It is the most widely viewed in the World, boasting an Audience twice that of the Summer Olympic Games.
Championship Awards numbering in the Hundreds stand as a Testimony to the many Teams who competed at STONEHENGE: A Football Stadium. Abandoned due to its Success, there were too many Trophies on the Field.
Garry Denke
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Jimit
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|  Posted 03-03-2008 at 16:36
April Fool's Day has come early this year 
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| Posted 03-03-2008 at 22:07
Ah, but henges as football or other gaming fields is an old topic among Portal regulars!
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| Posted 04-03-2008 at 00:33
It's a perfect explanation of Stonehenge.
Obviously the bluestones were brought from Wales to support Cardiff City when they beat Arsenal for Wales' only FA Cup win.
Maybe Geoffrey of Monmouth knew something we don't, as CCFC are the Bluebirds and he said the stones were flown from their source....
..or maybe I've had too much whiskey.
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| Posted 04-03-2008 at 11:46
hey, i think you have hit on something very important......you should put up an entire website dedicated to this new theory.....wow.....i'd love to see a national geographic tv special about it.....your theory covers all the evidence on the ground at stonehenge. cudos
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| Posted 04-03-2008 at 11:53
obviously the northeast avenue was used to carry the winning team down to the river for a ceremonial dunking. just like pouring the garotade over the winning coach's head today. and of course it is obvious that the referees must have stood on the tall triathons in order to see the entire field... i can just imagine the grand spectecle in all its glory...................yeaaaaaaaaa team
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| Posted 06-03-2008 at 11:22
STONEHENGE: The First Olympic Stadium
http://www.certificatespecialists.com/images/Cross%20Country/Trophies%20New%20Black%20Lightning.jpg
Stonehenge stands as a Tribute to the great World Olympians
who Came all of the way Cross Country just to Compete there
http://www.ancientplaces.co.uk/images/stonehenge-saurkraut.jpg
It is all true actually.
Foreign cowhide and pighide animals found:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7078578.stm
International bones discovered there also:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070130191755.htm
Olympic athletes' housing was discovered:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/01/photogalleries/stonehenge
STONEHENGE: The First Olympic Stadium:
http://www.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idUSL0338629520080303
History repeats itself,
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GarryDenke
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| Posted 06-03-2008 at 11:26
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April Fool's Day has come early this year
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STONEHENGE: An International Sports Arena
3100 (BC) Olympic Games Football Competition
The Durrington Wallers defeated the Woodhenge Warriors, 7-6.
Olympic Stadium footballs not found yet.
Excavation continues.
Fellows Arena Gladiators Report:
http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/salisbury/salisburynews/display.var.2093945.0.skeleton_could_hold_secret_to_stonehenge.php
2300 (BC) Olympic Games Archery Competition
German "King of Stonehenge" Amesbury Archer champion won the Gold.
Boscombe Bowmen took the Silver and the Bronze.
'The Body from the Ditch' lost.
'Backside Bullseye' Game Target.
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I know which Black Lightning I'd like to get as a prize, (Even for coming Third).
http://www.certificatespecialists.com/images/Cross%20Country/Trophies%20New%20Black%20Lightning.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com/theneverman/.Public/1955_Vincent_Black_Lightning.jpg
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| Posted 07-03-2008 at 16:18
Archery Judge Willers Wallers (Backside Bullseye)
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After Woodhenge Warriors' Men's Football loss in the 3100 (BC) Olympic Games to the Durrington Wallers (7-6) at Stonehenge Amphitheatre (alternatively Amphitheater), the Warriors changed their Olympic Men's and Women's Teams' name to the Willers. In the 3096 (BC) Olympics, it was the Woodhenge Willers over the Durrington Wallers in that infamous Sudden Death Match overtime thriller. 1-0 final score. In the Women's Archery competition it was the Willers over the Wallers also, following their Men's Archery competition victory. Willers' Olympic Men's and Women's Teams dominated the '96 (BC) Games and were so popular after those Olympics that even the River Wylye (one of eight rivers draining the area) was renamed (previously called Warriors River).
The Sudden Death of 'the body from the ditch' (Stonehenge discovery of 1978) caused by multiple Arrow Wounds in the back, said body on display at Salisbury Museum, sadly occurred during the 2300 (BC) Olympic Games' Women's Archery competition at Stonehenge Amphitheatre. Archery Judge Wallers Willers' (known as Backside Bullseye here at State Press) untimely death, referred to as a Stonehenge Sentinel Skeleton (SSS) by Dennis Price, archaeologist (Stonehenge expert) and described in This Is Wiltshire Network (Gazette & Herald, 7 March 2008), unfortunately occurred at said Amphitheatre when Archery Judge Wallers Willers (SSS) made an untimely movement from behind the Judge Honor's guard (target Game shield) causing His Sudden Death.
Later the town of Wilton and county of Wiltshire adopted their names, in their Honor.
Was SSS's name The Right Hon. Archery Judge Wallers Willers who got killed in that Target Archery accident, or was SSS's name The Right Hon. Archery Judge Willers Wallers who got killed in that Target Archery accident?
I can't remember which. Please help. Thanks.
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Whoa Fellers, let's stick to the archaeology here.
Previous posts (mine excluded of course), despite being a load of, have mentioned very little about balls, these being a pre-requisite to play the game of football.
As many of you know there have been many carved chalk balls found in this area. Normally assumed to be fertility symbols they are, nevertheless, approximately the same size as modern day table-football balls. Therefore I propose the following theory, based on archaeologically sound deductions.
The game played at Stonehenge was table football. Obviously the interior of Stonehenge is far too small for a real soccer game but you could put a table in there with room for spectators. The Altar Stone is ideally positioned for an umpire to stand on and the circle of lintels suitable for your higher class of spectator, chiefs, priests etc, to view the proceedings from - hence the term "sitting up in the Gods."
Maybe table football was a precursor to the real thing, played somewhere like Avebury - with all those coves as goals you could get quite a few teams on the pitch.
Finally, and this is more conjecture than archaeological deduction, modern commentators describe football supporters as tribal. Maybe the original table football fans, disappointed at losing, decided to take to take matters into their own hands and play the game for real, with people like Norman "bites yer head" Hunter playing an integral part.
My thanks to the moderators for allowing this piece of total aurochs**t to be published and good luck to Barnsley tomorrow.
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Obviously the interior of Stonehenge is far too small for a real soccer game but you could put a table in there with room for spectators.
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360 feet - Stonehenge Amphitheatre latrine (Ditch) diameter
320 feet - Stonehenge Amphitheatre bleachers (Bank) diameter
285 feet - Stonehenge Amphitheatre fence (Aubrey Holes) diameter
The interior is Anciently perfect in size.
3100-2600 BC - Stonehenge Olympic Games field - No stones
Archery, Athletics (track and field), Ancient badminton*, Ancient baseball, Boxing, Fencing, Ancient field hockey, Football (soccer), Ancient pentathlon, Ancient softball, Wilto, Wiltwondo, Ancient tennis, Volleyball, Ancient rocklifting, and Wrestling.
*Note: 3000 BC - Wooden structures added for Ancient gymnastics; uneven bars, balance beam, Salisbury floor exercise, and vault (for Women), and high bar and parallel bars, Salisbury floor exercise, vault, and pommel horse** (for Men).
**It evolved from exercises used by Homo erectus and Neanderthal, including skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and various performance skills.
2600 BC - Olympic Games' first Rock (Bluestone) Trophies awarded.
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obviously the northeast avenue was used to carry the winning team down to the river for a ceremonial dunking. just like pouring the garotade over the winning coach's head today. |
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Stonehenge Superbowl Ticket Line
Garotade Avenue
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and of course it is obvious that the referees must have stood on the tall triathons in order to see the entire field... i can just imagine the grand spectecle in all its glory...................yeaaaaaaaaa team |
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Stonehenge before Rock Trophies
3100 - 2600 BC
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How about the French Connection.......?????
Burl said there was Breton influence at Stonehenge, so *obviously* it was a pentanque-playing area! THAT'S what all those chalk balls were for!
'Perfick!', as Pa Larkin [Darling Buds of May] would say. Drat! has he got a French counter-part??
AND....
...When they got bored with that, they could have played pelota against the Trilithons.. Anyone missing, whose ball went zooming out of the circle, was 'out'. Maybe the rectangle on Stone 57 was the scoring area??
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STONEHENGE: The Super Bowl
Thus Stonehenge originally, as most of the Stone Age henges dugout in Britain, is the remains of an Ancient hunt for Coal fuel.
http://www.anima.demon.co.uk/img/megalithdist.gif
http://euracoal.be/newsite/img/cartes/uk.gif
LORD Fellow of Woodhenge (above) converted the failed Coal exploration sites (dusters) to recreational Sport amphitheatres.
Coal Bowl, Old Heaven
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/stonehengeinteractivemap/sites/stonehenge/pics/stonehenge_phase1.jpg
Ancient spectators sat on Fenced out banked Bleachers facing The Super Bowl, as thousands still do at the 'Oldest' stadium.
Yale Bowl, New Haven
http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2007/0911/travel_aerial_2005H-Y_590.jpg
Proof being Crosskeys Coal samples, a Pigskin Leather football and Lambskin Leather volleyball inside Heelstone Locker 'room'.
Interesting enough Sportsters
Yale Bowl is a Coal duster site.
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and i suppose the cursus next door was used for chariot racing at half time!! 
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Is it true that the French Olympic Team went home with Gallic pride wounded, after their speed-cyclist came to grief on The Lintel Track due to slippery stones caused by le weather des Britons?
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probably not helped by all the wear and smoothness caused by hundreds of years of using it to roll corn..... I suspect it could get very slippery up there !
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The book-makers did well during the Winter Olympics and the ice-skating events with high stakes being bet on which desperado would survive the circuit.
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I’ve just returned from visiting my mate Nick and whilst there, after a bottle or two of Olde Mother Slipton’s Skunk Sweat (well recommended for depression and reality overload) we were contacted by Ugge, a denizen of the old world. The following is a transcript, or near as my hazy brain allows of the conversation.
Ugge - Is there anyone there? One knock for no, two knocks for yes.
Us - What the **? (to much knocking over of beer cans).
Ugge - Ah, I didn’t realise there were so many of you. Well, as you all hail from Wales, are you coming to Stonehenge to support Cardiff next Saturday.
Us - What?
Ugge - Let me explain. Cardiff are fighting, sorry playing Portsmouth. The argument is that Portsmouth supplied the sailors to ship the bluestones to Stonehenge versus the Welsh supplying Merlin to fly them there. The last time this argument took place, people from an arsenal claimed they supplied the explosives that blasted the stones in the first place.
Us - (getting more confused by the second, and not just due to alcohol) What??
Ugge - It’s a very important fight, err game, for the F A(ll) Cup. Both clubs have been allocated 30,000 tickets. Now, as they regularly get gates of less than 20,000, that’s a lot of money the club directors are missing out on.
Us - What???
Ugge - Anyway, whilst you’re here I can introduce you to the missus and other members of our small hunter-gatherer clan. I could even point out the stones I helped put up. Hell, if you’re not sure of what weapons to bring to the “game,” I could even show you the carving I made of a suitable chevvy.
Us - What????
Ugge - Finally, we could all do The Ayatollah. It’ll confuse the hell out of that Yank.
Us - Goodnight Ugge.
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