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Topic: Correction about "Football" for Mort.
Old Hickory
Pancake
posted 12-14-2001 02:02:08 PM
Forgot what thread I read this under or would have put it there.

Australia also refers to it as soccer, because like the US, they have their own game they call football. Heh...so it just isn't the Yanks alone who call it soccer.

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Kanid
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posted 12-14-2001 02:11:59 PM
American and Australian Football = Simple full contact sport

English Football aka Soccer = Physically exhausting sport

And we all know which one pays best (aka draws in the most funding because people prefer to watch it)

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Old Hickory
Pancake
posted 12-14-2001 02:15:49 PM
Just as long as the Americans don't do what both the English and the Aussies do, start refering to their game as "Footie."
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

One man with courage makes a majority.

Il Buono
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posted 12-14-2001 02:21:49 PM
quote:
Old Hickory had this to say about Optimus Prime:
Just as long as the Americans don't do what both the English and the Aussies do, start refering to their game as "Footie."

Never. You will never see an American call football "Footie."

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Pancake
posted 12-14-2001 03:08:36 PM
quote:
Check out the big brain on Old Hickory!
Forgot what thread I read this under or would have put it there.

Australia also refers to it as soccer, because like the US, they have their own game they call football. Heh...so it just isn't the Yanks alone who call it soccer.


According to a friend of mine they play Futball (soccer) and Rugby.

And thoes are some MEAN SoB's that play rugby.

Beep. Beep. Beep... Ohh... I think my porridge is done.
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Mortious
Gluttonous Overlard
posted 12-14-2001 03:11:35 PM
I used to play Rugby.

FUN. AS. HELL.

Kanid
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posted 12-14-2001 03:19:47 PM
Aussies have Soccer (Football), Rugby and "Australian Rules Football" which is closer to American Football than Soccer.
"Unlike adults, children have little need to deceive themselves." - Goethe
Happiness is subjective, subject yourself to it whenever possible.
"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." - John Barrymore
Wise men still seek Him.
Ferret
Poing! Poing!
posted 12-14-2001 06:26:36 PM
Soccer=Good
American Football=Bad

I live in a town where EVERYONE(well, everyone but me) plays soccer. It's a little hard not to like it. Besides, it's fun as hell to watch.

Synjari
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posted 12-14-2001 07:02:20 PM
*strays off topic* HOCKEY BAYBEE!
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