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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 03 2011 at 14:37
It's a sphere.

But I still hate soccer.

And American football.

And rugby.

And furball.

But I can deal with handball.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 03 2011 at 15:37
Football shaped. Tongue
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2011 at 09:41
Sphere.

American "football" should be called violent handball. You don't see any big fat slobs playing real football ( sometimes called soccer ). You have to be in bloody shape and be fast. The prolate spheriod in American football spends more time "dead" than in play. It's a bit of a wimpy sport as well. All the equipment, tape and cam stick. Soldiers going to war don't wear that much protection.

Sphere, that's my final answer Regis.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2011 at 09:52
Sphere?

A soccer ball is a spherical truncated icosahedron.  Geek
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2011 at 10:54
I think because you can use your hands in American football, soccer should gets the rights to use the name.  Furball is what the cat yaks up or alternately a curled up cat.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2011 at 13:06
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Sphere?

A soccer ball is a spherical truncated icosahedron.  Geek


That wasn't one of the choices. What would the Goodyear Blimp be?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2011 at 13:08
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Sphere?

A soccer ball is a spherical truncated icosahedron.  Geek
Pah! that's the new-fangled modern one - a real football isn't.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2011 at 14:13
Both are correct, I suppose, though being one of those people who believe that watching sports shouldn't be like watching paint dry I picked prolate spheroid.
 
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"Nothing can help me care about soccer. Oh, ‘it’s the most popular sport in the world.’ Probably because it’s cheap to play. It costs a ball. Once every four years, America pretends to care about it. And yes, I call it ‘soccer.’ Don’t correct me because I don’t care what they call it in other lands — I speak America.  Sorry world, we already have football and it’s way better. It’s supposed to be played by 300 pound men eight seconds at a time, not five-foot, six-inch fairies lightly jogging for three hours, or however long your game is…buy a scoreboard!  It’s hard for me to get into a sport that I mastered at the age of seven. Excuse me for not being able to get revved up for this corner kick that never works. Hooray! The game ends without a single goal. I want to kill myself when an NBA team doesn’t break a hundred. That’s because you don’t get a free taco.  Maybe there would be more scoring if they weren’t flopping all of the time. And hooligans, instead of killing players that screwed up, murder the ones that fall down crying because their toe got stepped on.  The only good thing about soccer is the movie “Ladybugs.” That’s a classic. Don’t try to re-do it, Hollywood. I love women’s soccer. It’s a beautiful game, and America is actually good at it. Probably because we’re the only country that allows women to wear shorts.  It’s nice to have an activity that terrorist countries can excel at. Enjoy your 15 minutes, Algeria. Then go back to being number one at car bombs. But just know that the only reason you’re beating us is because our best athletes are busy playing real sports. You think LeBron James might make an okay goalie? Oh, and good move, giving us Beckham ten years past his prime. That really panned out."
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2011 at 14:21
Handegg is indeed better for the average American's 10-second attention span. Wink 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2011 at 14:51
Thin at one end, much much thicker in the middle, then thin again at the far end.  Oh wait, that's  my theory about the brontosaurus.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2011 at 14:56
Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Thin at one end, much much thicker in the middle, then thin again at the far end.  Oh wait, that's  my theory about the brontosaurus.


I'm glad you said brontosaurus.  I was about to tell you that you needed to get your doctor to look at that thing!  Tongue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2011 at 15:27
...is a football is a football is a football.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2011 at 15:55
When describing something as "football shaped", I think of the second option.  There are more spherical comparisons to make other than having to say "football shape".  In fact, just saying "ball-shaped" would often suffice.

And while we're all showing different footballs, here's the Canadian football:Wink

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2011 at 16:00
Cricket.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2011 at 16:34


Not quite a foot but you get the idea.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2011 at 09:09
Originally posted by Stooge Stooge wrote:

When describing something as "football shaped", I think of the second option.  There are more spherical comparisons to make other than having to say "football shape".  In fact, just saying "ball-shaped" would often suffice.

And while we're all showing different footballs, here's the Canadian football:Wink



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2011 at 11:26
I have it on good authority that all the world is football-shaped.




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2011 at 19:45
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Edited by Slartibartfast - April 05 2011 at 19:45
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 06 2011 at 13:25
Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

Handegg all the way

And don't hate on it...not our fault the US has evolved enough to use our hands... instead of just kicking something around. Like savages. Wink


Heh heh heh heh heh
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 09 2011 at 05:59
... a sphere!

LOL (this thread makes my day...)

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