From: allane@earth.gas.unsw.OZ.AU.gas.unsw.OZ.AU (Allan Evans)
Subject: *Canadian* Football
Summary: Excuuuuse me...yank? American football?
Organization: University of New South Wales
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 10:40:00 GMT

dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton) loses his atlas:
> > parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr) writes:
             ^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 	This really is an !Peeve, since I do like football. I'm sure that 
> > there are plenty of you who can use the same thing by just removing the '!'.
> 
> American Football is just men trying to kill each other legally,
  ^^^^^^^^

[padding so they only retire hurt... 8-12 hours later...]

It is possible that Charles is referring to Canadian Football. When have
you ever seen an 8-12 hour *football* game???? Cricket perhaps, but
FOOTBALL?

> Perhaps Al In Oz can explain Australian Rugby League to our North
> American readers ... Another game which I loath.

Rugby League: Bunch of Yobbos from NSW and Queensland running up and
              down a large ovoid stretch of grass in a line, hucking
              the ball to other players *behind* them (as in THE 
              WRONG WAY). It is sort of like "Smear the Queer"... the
              old game where the doofus with the ball is the Queer and
              the object is to smear him; except you can't smear his
              head unless you do it by accident :-) Occasionally someone
              makes it over the line (gets a 'try') and adds
              a few points to the score. 

Rugby Union:  See Rugby League.

Aussie Rules: Bunch of Yobbos from Mexico (Victoria) and the West 
              running up and down a large ovoid stretch of grass kicking
              and volleyball-serving the ball around the oval. Known
              also as aerial ping-pong... Occasonally someone kicks the
              ball though one of three gaps between four poles adding
              points to the score. More points for the middle gap.

> Peeve:  American Football.

Since Charles may have been talking about Canadian Football...

American Football: A bunch of rednecks from Texas and large black men
              from the midwest head-butting each other and chucking
              a pigskin back and forth for millions of dollars a year.
              Occasionally someone breaks through and runs 100 yards 
              down to the end of the field to make a 'touchdown'; 
              tens of thousands of fans then roar. If that doesn't
              work, on the fourth down somebody punts the thing at 
              the opposing team in discust.

Canadian Football: A bunch of rednecks from Texas and large black men
              from the midwest head-butting each other and chucking
              a pigskin back and forth for thousands of Can-dollars(*)
              a year. Occasionally someone breaks through and runs 110
              yards down to the end of the field to make a 'touchdown'; 
              hundreds of fans then roar. If that doesn't work, on the
              third down somebody punts the thing at the opposing team
              in discust.

There is a *world* of difference. Us Canadians base our national 
identity on such extreme differences.

* Can-dollar... sort of like the Pacific Peso (**), but dearer.
** Oz-buck... see Pacific Peso.


>  American Baseball - the competition
> which you yanks have the nerve to call "World Cup", when only
> American teams are eligable to play the damned game.

So, what about the Blue Jays, Eh????????? Or the EXPOS? Those guys are
as Canadian as MacDonalds is Australian.

> Cricket has a 'world cup' too, but it has teams from disparate
> sides of the world playing in the competition.

Disparate? Ex-underlings of His/Her Majesties Navy batting a little ball
back and forth between some little sticks. Sort of like baseball,
but slower and more confusing.

> Not that I like cricket - choreographed boredom, with too many
> seagulls, and damned annoying commentators.

Good to drink 20 or 30 beer to though. As they used to say in Edmonton...
the baseball stadium was the only open-air bar in the city.

Al.Al
in Oz.Oz

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