From: "Keri" <webmistress-AT-dundeebeanz.ezesurf.co.uk> Subject: Re: Football and Tribalism Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 11:52:21 -0000 It's a nuisance that I'm having to send this from one of Keri's addresses. "Webmistress" makes it sound like we provide some really kinky virtual services. (We don't - Dave) > MEXICO! MEXICO! MEXICO! Heh...lotta football enthuzuism there...I remember > when I was there and the first tyme I learned about the uh...other > football..."Aww right, lets play football now!" "Yeah"I said! I like > Football...my suprise when a SOCCOR ball came out... Well, if you expected it to be one of them odd shaped things that odd-shaped people play with in the USA, then (1) That's not a football because it isn't even a ball. Dictionary definition of a ball - "a solid or hollow sphere". Those things are not spherical, therefore they are not balls. American Footballers don't have balls. (2) The game is called foot - ball because you kick the ball with your foot. That game played in the USA by men wearing body armour who handle the ball is not football. Really, it should be called "armoured hand-ball". (3) For most of the world, including of course South and Central America, all this is perfectly obvious. Yet the USA insists on having "world championships" in this game of armoured hand-ball which nobody else plays. Well, I guess that's one way of winning a world cup. Dave
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