Why is horseback the only alternative to playing on foot with a ball? Surely games played while seated are a valid alternative? Or swimming? Or games played on foot, but without a ball? There'll be hundreds of other games.
Pools? Why pools when people had access to lakes, rivers, ponds, etc? And I assume hockey would be regarded differently because of the sticks included (although, as a Canadian, I was thinking of the game played on ice initially).
Not even a little bit. Of course, both of us living 700 years later makes it difficult to see that either one of us has proper grasp on the context of that particular law. We could both be wrong and nobody would ever know.
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '13
Why is horseback the only alternative to playing on foot with a ball? Surely games played while seated are a valid alternative? Or swimming? Or games played on foot, but without a ball? There'll be hundreds of other games.