>>>Back home, I didn't watch any sports (which after a while included olympics, too),
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>>Well, can't blame you there - grown men running around in shorts playing kick-ball ...
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>>But here we have REAL FOOTBALL! <bg>
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>That's why it's played with hands mostly. ;)
Exactly! The cleverly deceptive name is a way of filtering out the amateurs and those easily confused. ( it was originally a plan to confuse the enemy in case of invasion or easily identify spies and infiltrators )
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
