Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of DFangon@aol.com Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 3:15 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html