History of SNAG®

Explore the origins of SNAG®! Select one of the dates on the timeline below to see how SNAG® has developed throughout history.

The Snaglodites
The Egyptians
The Moroccans
The Chinese
The Greeks
The Frankciscans
The Aleutian Islands & South Pacific
Joan Of Arc
The Scottish
The Moon
The SNAGheads

The Snaglodites

It was the late spring of 352 million B.C. when two Snaglodites, brothers Thag and Grak, stumbled upon the munga bush. They had been looking for edible plants for their families when the shiny fruit from the bush caught their attention.

Thag reached for the fruit first, and he was stunned to find that the outer cover was prickly. The brothers labored for hours to no avail to find a way to extract the tender fruit from the harsh prickly cover. In their frustration, they began to swing their hunting clubs at the useless berries. As fate would have it, a woolly mammoth was entering the clearing where they were hitting the berries. To both of their surprise, the berries stuck to the side of the mammoth.

A contest between the brothers ensued as to the accuracy of their strikes on specific body parts of the mammoth. The bothers instantly knew that they had created something really fun. This was great because the Snaglodites had a limited arsenal of games. Many competitions were played, but cheating became rampant. Thag knew that something had to be done to preserve the integrity of this game for the sake of the clan.

The brothers conferred with other members of the clan and decided to form a governing body that would oversee the formation and enforcement of the rules (only 3 initially). They also structured competitive events. Thus the formation of the first sports governing body was formed. It became known to all the clans as the P & E (Prehistoric and Extinct).

For the next 300 million years, competitions were held and the game became more complicated. Four more rules were added and penalties were assessed to the losers of competitions (They had to retrieve the munga berries from the mammoths at the conclusion of the competitions).

The celebration of SNAG™ was recorded on the walls of the World SNAG™ Village Cave in 206 million B.C., but not discovered until 1914 when an archeological dig in the south of France found the cave. According to the petroglyphs found on the wall, the last competition was halted due to an enormous comet striking the earth. The last round was put on ice (literally) and never resumed. The game, or a version thereof, would not resurface until 296 B.C. in Egypt.