>>>>>>>Saturday 9pm on ESPN - Colts-Giants NFL Championship Game - Dec 28, 1958
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>>>>>>>http://www.cleveland.com/livingston/index.ssf/2008/12/in_color_or_black_and_white_th.html
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>>>>>>>http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/feature/index?page=greatestgame
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>>>>>>>Johnny Unitas. Raymond Berry, Frank Gifford, Pat Summeral, Alan Ameche, Art Donovan ...
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>>>>>>What do you mean - (real)? It it were real then the foot would occasionally impinge with the ball
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>>>>>Exactly. t's a common slang term here in the states that became more prevalent after soccer grew in popularity. It's meant to be humorous since obviously in American football, the foot seldom touches the ball. The foot does occasionally touch the ball though as you know :o)
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>>>>Oh, yes - during conversions.
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>>>Actually, the highest scorer of all time in American football ( Morten Andersen ) is a kicker - and a Dane. ( a Great Dane )
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>>>In his professional career he scored 2,544 points - which I believe is more than have been scored in the entire history of soccer ;-)
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>>But you don't score points in football - it's goals. And you can take your start-stopball points and divide by 3, or whatever a conversion/penalty kick is worth.
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>Actually kickers score points, not touchdowns (6) Field goals (3) do represent a great deal of Andersens total but even if you don't count field goals at all, his single point-after-touchdown kicks still exceed the combined career totals of Pele and Beckham.

Could it be that it's far more difficult to manipulate a ball, using only the feet, chest and head, through a melee of players trying to stop you, and get it between 2 posts and a crossbar, than it is to run up a field as far as you can, have a ball thrown to you, then run over a whopping great wide line with it? True, there are monsters out there trying to destroy you in the attempt, but you do have your own friendly monsters to keep them away. Why, you don't even actually have TO touch the ball down for a touchdown, as they do in rugby for a "try".

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>It is true there is a lot of stop and start (you have to catch your breath, get beer, and remove beer) but there is more actual action in one good football game than the entire World Cup and World Series combined

That must be Islamic "football" cos you're talking absolute shi-ite!

>(lest you think I'm entirely a chauvinist, I still prefer soccer to baseball ;-)

As I've said before, Soccer is a corruption/nickname of/for AsSOCiated Football.