>Terry;
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>I will look for the photograph.
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>>Well the first thing you guys have got to do, is stop calling it "soccer" (short for "Association Football" By the way). It's Football, i.e. a ball kicked with the foot. What you guys play should be called "carry ball".
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>How about calling our version of football, "Fall down or get knocked down ball"?

LOL

Interestingly, as "Gridiron" appears to have derived from Rugby, the weird thing is that in Rugby you're absolutely not allowed to throw the ball forward of your own position, even accidentally (offence is called a "knock-on"), whereas Gridiron RELIES on this. I think I saw an old B&W film of the varsity player who first did this - can't remember his name - and engendered the modern game. It's like the boy at Rugby School in UK who first picked uop the ball and ran with it, whilst playing football, and invented Rugby Football.

Terry