>>And football! (and I mean the proper game, where you actually employ the foot to propel the ball)
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>Or soccer as we call it here. It seems to be very popular among the very young like 5 thru 16 year olds, but then they drop off. Heck, even the pro-teams here cater to that very young demographic. Of course the people of histpanic origin like as well along with some Asians. There are plenty of soccer-moms in all our suburbs.
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>Soccer is one of those very slow and low scoring games that never caught on here real big.

Hi Sam

Yeah I knew that you guys call it "soccer" - the word's a corruption and abbrev. of "Association football". Some old pundits over here call it that too. It may be a low-scoring game (but, let's face it, gridiron and rugby are only high-scoring because you get several points for a touch down and points for, in rugby, the following "conversion" - over the crossbar, and drop goals) but you've got a neck to call it SLOW. Watching gridiron is like watching the two armies setting up for Gettysburg: having to wait while different teams within a team come on and off, depending on whether they're offensive or defensive, etc. It's like watching paint dry in between the short, violent burts of action.

Over here, by the way, there are 2 types of rugby: Union and League (the more professional version), with slightly different formats ( 15 or 13 in a team, e.g) and rules, but both keep moving (league even more so than union).