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Say soccer to a Brit and you had better be prepared to duck.
The rest of the world calls it football...and yet we call a game that rarely uses the foot on the ball, football. Interesting.
Now, baseball, there is a sport. Oh, and Korea and Taiwan have leagues. Not to mention the Dominican Republic from which a huge amout of talent has come to the big leagues.
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Saiyanman Benjita
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Hey, The_Tom, which Rough Riders are you talking about in the CFL? There are 2!
As far as the "American" Sports, they are just that, "American" We have no premonitions about Football being anything less than an american game. Granted, we'd like to take over the world and make the whole world our little America, but that isn't going to happen.
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You have no preconceptions that the rest of the world plays American sports then? So how comes it's called the "World Series"?
And they're not even your sports. You took rugby and added lots of protection (my, aren't we big hard lads), and made sure no-one had to follow the action straight for longer than 2 minutes. You took rounders and made it so boring that it's only possible to watch the sport if you get pissed. And you took baseball from netball. Come on, netball. 7 year old girls play netball. Ya bunch of big girls blouses.
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Shik
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Liam...look at who founded America: A bunch of uptight pussy prudes who couldn't recognize a bitchin' party if it came up & bit them on the ASS. Which it DID. "Religious freedom?" BITE me.
The descendants of these stick-up-the-assed yolos are now the ones who scream about protection for this & prevention of that. Life is dangerous. If you don't want ot accept that, then stop LIVING. You'll make MY day a LOT happier (meaning THEM, not you).
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It's called the world series because Canada and the US are in the leagues here. Because it's not limited to one country, it can be called the World Series. And all you sports nuts are just loony. Everybody will talk big about 'their' team and how bad someone sucks. But if you ever got out on the field or court or whatever, you would just get wasted. There's a reason professionals are called that.
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Currently, there's only one. The Saskatchewan Roughriders. (Go GREEN!)
There used to be the Ottawa Rough Riders (note the space) They are now defunct.
This end your CFL lesson.
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Saiyanman Benjita
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When did they become defunct?
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Problems with Her Majesty's Team, or has the thread's evolution into a discussion of Canadian rules football set off some kind of Pavlovian response?
Orion Syndicate
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You beat their second team - wait til Barthez, Henry and Anelka play full games. You're toast - I know I'm British and I'm supposed to hate the French (which I probably do but I can't see anyone beating the French this time.
They won the the World Cup with Stephane Guivarch up front. Now they've got Thierry Henry and Nicolas Anelka. Add to that the best defence in the world and a class midfield, I'm afraid you're looking at the next European Champions.
But wait til 2002 - England's gonna kick your arses then.
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Hey! I remember where I've herad the name 'Shearer' before, on the starting for 'Actua Soccer 2'.
Is he like the Gretzky of Football?
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At least, I think it's Hockey. I'm sure he sponsored a hockey game once didn't he? Of course, what I - and most Brits - know about American sports can be written on a postage stamp. In crayon.
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