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Fox On The Rocks ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: February 10 2011 Location: Toronto, Canada Status: Offline Points: 5012 |
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Tennis, anyone?
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frippism ![]() Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 27 2010 Location: Tel Aviv Status: Offline Points: 4160 |
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^ Tennis is probably my 3rd favorite, maybe even my 2nd favorite.
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There be dragons
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OT Räihälä ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 09 2005 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 514 |
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Oh, most surely there is!
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harmonium.ro ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: August 18 2008 Location: Anna Calvi Status: Offline Points: 22989 |
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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 ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 23 2005 Location: Caerdydd Status: Offline Points: 32995 |
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No it just sounds silly. ![]() (Actually sounds like someone who hates these sports, ridiculing it)
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CPicard ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 03 2008 Location: Là, sui monti. Status: Offline Points: 10841 |
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I think I know which team you're "targetting" and which players. |
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OT Räihälä ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 09 2005 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 514 |
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All sports are basically ridiculous. I can't hate a sport an sich.
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Snow Dog ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 23 2005 Location: Caerdydd Status: Offline Points: 32995 |
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Are they? I didn't realise.
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Fox On The Rocks ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: February 10 2011 Location: Toronto, Canada Status: Offline Points: 5012 |
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Right, I forgot about that. ![]() |
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Ivan_Melgar_M ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 27 2004 Location: Peru Status: Offline Points: 19557 |
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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
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Barbu ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 09 2005 Location: infinity Status: Offline Points: 30855 |
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TheProgtologist ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: May 23 2005 Location: Baltimore,Md US Status: Offline Points: 27802 |
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I agree with every damn word you posted MoM.Well said!
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Snow Dog ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 23 2005 Location: Caerdydd Status: Offline Points: 32995 |
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Soccer is a totally legitimate word for the game of Association Football.
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Icarium ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: March 21 2008 Location: Tigerstaden Status: Offline Points: 34083 |
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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 ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 24 2012 Location: Behind the Sun Status: Offline Points: 12859 |
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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 ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 23 2005 Location: Caerdydd Status: Offline Points: 32995 |
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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 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 19 2007 Location: Penal Colony Status: Offline Points: 11420 |
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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 ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 24 2012 Location: Behind the Sun Status: Offline Points: 12859 |
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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 ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 23 2005 Location: Caerdydd Status: Offline Points: 32995 |
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Ok...but not any egg I have eaten is that shape.
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OT Räihälä ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 09 2005 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 514 |
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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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