A strange little side quest
Here is a rabbit hole for the next loading screen in Speedback: The penalty kick entered football's laws in 1891 and was nicknamed the 'kick of death' in its early days. There is another connection worth keeping in the same mental pocket: Basketball became an Olympic medal sport in 1936, while women’s basketball joined the Olympic programme in 1976. That is the kind of background detail that makes another attempt at Speedback feel a bit more connected to the history of play.
