Roger's Historical Terpitude OT: was.... Grey Market

Richard Brekne Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
Sun, 11 Feb 2001 18:03:27 +0100



JIMRPT@AOL.COM wrote:

>
> <<"Now for real football, called soccer by Americans, the worlds most popular
> sport.">>
> Well of course it is.........but not everyone wants to participate in a sport
> where the only requirements are to have a ball, some nuts who like to run up
> and down a field, an annnoucer with great lungs and the ability to yell
> scoooooooooooooooooooooooooore!! several times during a game, and fans with a
> propensity to riot and kill each other. So to counter Soccer the more sedate
> Americans came up with the 'real' game of football, the more gentlemanly
> sport.
>

Yes.... the only real difference being instead of the announcer yelling
scoooooooooooreee!!.... he yells (a bit less engaged mind you) Touchdown !! and
then returns to his main interest.... the cheerleaders.

--
Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway
mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no




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