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Fox On The Rocks
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Posted: May 14 2012 at 17:21 | |
Tennis, anyone?
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frippism
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Posted: May 15 2012 at 00:47 | |
^ Tennis is probably my 3rd favorite, maybe even my 2nd favorite.
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There be dragons
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OT Räihälä
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Posted: May 15 2012 at 01:07 | |
Oh, most surely there is! Handegg... doesn't it describe pretty well the shape of the playing object and the manner in which it is moved around the pitch?
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harmonium.ro
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Posted: May 15 2012 at 12:03 | |
I also believe this, and this is the first time someone else says the same. Cool! I'd put handball on the same level with basketball for me. Not as fun to play, but much more entertaining to watch. Especially Nordic teams of women's handball...
Hardly a team sport. Edited by harmonium.ro - May 15 2012 at 12:04 |
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Snow Dog
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Posted: May 15 2012 at 12:09 | |
No it just sounds silly. (Actually sounds like someone who hates these sports, ridiculing it)
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CPicard
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Posted: May 15 2012 at 12:52 | |
I think I know which team you're "targetting" and which players. |
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OT Räihälä
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Posted: May 15 2012 at 13:11 | |
All sports are basically ridiculous. I can't hate a sport an sich.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: May 15 2012 at 13:14 | |
Are they? I didn't realise.
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Fox On The Rocks
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Posted: May 15 2012 at 20:49 | |
Right, I forgot about that. Still an awesome sport though and I suppose playing doubles might count as a small team. My grandpa was a big tennis player and he got me into it when I was very young; I've been playing ever since. |
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: May 15 2012 at 21:31 | |
Of course my favorite sport to watch and play is Football (I can't stand that silly name soccer).
Then comes Baseball, Volley, Tennis. The game I can't stand is Basketball, you see one game you seen all, It's more boring than watching the grass grow. Iván
Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - May 15 2012 at 21:31 |
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Barbu
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Posted: May 17 2012 at 20:54 | |
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: May 18 2012 at 02:23 | |
I agree with every damn word you posted MoM.Well said!
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Snow Dog
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Posted: May 18 2012 at 03:35 | |
Soccer is a totally legitimate word for the game of Association Football.
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Icarium
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Posted: May 18 2012 at 03:45 | |
for you americans this is team handball (JJLetho) most action filled teamsports.
often called the most "american" sport not popular in America this is a bad version of Handball (technicaly) but a nice way to show how it is build and how to play it this is how real intence handball is looking and played by the pros Edited by aginor - May 18 2012 at 03:47 |
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The Bearded Bard
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Posted: May 18 2012 at 05:57 | |
When you have chosen to give a game where you carry around an egg shaped (yes, it looks like an egg) ball with your hands the name of football, it's understandable that you need to call a game where you kick a ball with your feet something else.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: May 18 2012 at 06:02 | |
They are both football. I don't see your point. (It doesn't look like an egg btw) I remember when the word soccer was used quite frequently, along with rugger. They both seem to have fallen into disuse in this country. My theory is that people hate the word soccer because that is what they call it in the US(not just there Australia and NZ too) but it a UK word.
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: May 18 2012 at 06:07 | |
Soccer is based on a corruption of Association Football (an original English coinage) - such nomenclature is only extant in those countries where other teams games are in the ascendency in terms of popularity e.g Australia, USA, Canada etc
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The Bearded Bard
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Posted: May 18 2012 at 06:26 | |
I didn't know the word "soccer" had been used quite frequently in the UK, though. Interesting!
And btw, the ball used in rugby, American, Australian and Canadian football is egg-shaped, well, according to wikipedia anyway: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_(ball)
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Snow Dog
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Posted: May 18 2012 at 06:27 | |
Ok...but not any egg I have eaten is that shape.
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OT Räihälä
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Posted: May 18 2012 at 18:15 | |
But where's the ball in the game you're obviously talking about? I've never seen an egg of that shape, but the playing object carried by hand is not a spherical. Why call it football?
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