From: zmed0b@trc.amoco.com (Michael)
Subject: Re: SON OF CRAP FOOTBALL!
Originator: zmed0b@zircon
Organization: Amoco Production Company, Tulsa Research
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:17:11 GMT


In response to more Hamish stupidity:

>The trouble with this newsgroup and the sport itself, is that it's so
>fucking boring, without an occasional post of this time the readers would
>become comatosed.

That's interesting.  Which one has more readership?  Your opinion is
your opinion.  However, Americans seem to believe that football is more
interesting.  Various groups tried soccer( for example, NASL ) and failed.

>If footballers are so fit, then how come, they can only last ten minutes before
>coming off and sending another team on, and what about the number of time outs
>you have in the game.

In other words, if it were just like YOUR favorite sport.  Obviously, you are
not the sort to have a clear, unbiased mentality. This is a sign of ignorance.
Why don't we have 11 men in tennis?  Why doesn't the pitcher tackle the
base-runner in baseball?  Because that's not how the sport evolved.  

>As for saying soccer is more popular over here because we're all wimps is
>nonsense,all our big men play rugby a far more exciting and demanding sport 
>than football.

The assumption that the British are wimps is obviously stupid.  The assumption
that rugby is more exciting and demanding is opinionated.  The British play
rugby because the British have always played rugby.  Football, as Americans
know it was not institutionally accepted.  The reverse is true for Americans.

>Also another point,why in the hell is it called football, as there is no use
>of the foot in the game apart from penalty kicks, surely handball would be
>a more accurate discription, soccer is proper football were skill and dexterity
>are needed to control a ball with the feet instead of just chucking the ball
>up the park and running with it. 

First of all, there are no penalty kicks.  Have you really studied this game?
It doesn't look like it.  Get the facts before you criticize. Handball was already a sport by the time football was developed, so that wasn't appropriate.  Also, the sport has field goals, punts, quick kicks and used to have drop kicks
( which were frequently used earlier in the game ).  The rest of the above
paragraph is opinionated drivel with deserves no response because it has no
basis.  Both sports require skill and dexterity.

>For eveyone who has picked me up on my previous spelling mistakes, I
>thought I would prove to you that I can spell properlly, if I sit down
>and look at what I am typing.These mistakes are just due to typing errors.

properlly?  porpotion?  Your "illiteracy" is alarming.  I find it humorous
that you criticize others for their "illiteracy" and you cannot master
simple words.  A dolt for sure.

>By the way America has the biggest proportion of iliterate people, in the
>western world, not to mention the porpotion of fat bastards you have.

Opinionated stupidity.  Why is your dental hygiene so poor?  Why don't you
shower more?  These are all difference between cultures.  If you were a
truly intelligent person, you could recognize all the above things as 
difference between cultures.  Each culture has different strengths and
weaknesses.  Wise up, bozo.

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