Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/27

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Order restored
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 08:07:32 -0400

Not really, Dante. Folks in the U.S., where there are at least two games
that involve contact between a foot and a ball, call one game football and
the other soccer. In the rest of the world soccer is called football, and
the American game in which a ball throw, carried, and kicked from one end of
the field to the other by people who attempt to beat the hell out of each
other without using their hands, is called American football.

So when an  American on the LUG refers to the more popular foot-ball game
played here as American football, I would suggest that he or she is simply
doing it for the benefit of the many members of the list who are not
American.

Gee, it just dawned on me - in the U.S. football players are paid to beat
the hell out of each other, while the millions of fans who each season
attend games are extremely well behaved - on the whole. In Europe, the
players generally behave, while the fans are the 'hooligans.' ;-)

B. D.

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Order restored


In a message dated 6/26/02 8:17:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
mcahill@laurelgroup.com writes:

<< true American "Football" fans :-) >>

The fact that you have to put the word "American" to describe football
speaks
volumes of how concocted this sport is.  The word football should suffice.
If you have to put an adjective in front of it, then it is proof of it's
artificiality, don't you think?
Dante
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