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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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