On 06/15/2010 11:21 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Andre Garzia wrote:
Sorry for this OT but it is in my DNA, if I don't do this I loose my
citzenship and my passport.
Well, in just about 2 hours the world cup will finally start, as you all
know, if only starts when WE enter the stage.
I wish all the other teams a good experience in loosing to us.
We know our current soccer team is quite bad. The coach is some crazy
guy
that decided to keep some wonderful players out, here in Brazil, we
call a
good player a "craque" which sounds like crack, the drug, so when the
coach
announced the team, outdoors and billboards were seen saying "do like
the
coach, don't use craque" as a joke with the drug campaigns.
If Brazil scores less than 4x0 in this first match, I will personally
boo
the players till they are deaf. Now, this country is making so much
noise
with vuvuzelas since 6:00 AM that you guys over north america and europe
might just be hearing us. Imagine, a country made of yellow and green
vuvuzelas...
É HEXA! BRASIL!!!!
Andre "painting my face right now" Garzia
:)
Just as there is no rugby without the All Blacks, there can be no
football* without the Brazilians.
Best of luck to your team. Now that they're in I'll start watching.
* For the American readers here, by "football" I'm referring to the
game in which the ball is moved with the foot, as opposed to the
American game which mistakenly uses the same name but in which the
ball is carried in the hands; I guess "handball" was already taken
when they were naming that one. ;)
I think if you do a spot of historical research you will find that
American football is descended from a variant
of Rugby football (in England there are 2 variants:
Rugby Union: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_union (15 players a side)
Rugby League: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_league (13 players a
side) )
there are also:
Canadian football: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_football (12
players a side)
Australian football:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_rules_football
(18 players a side on an oval pitch)
William Thursfield is my cousin (his Grandmother is my Mother's sister):
http://www.aussierulesinternational.com/home/world/europe/england/will_thursfield
and what has to be the best of all:
Underwater rugby: http://www.uv-sport.dk/UVENG/NIVEAU/Uv1.htm
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To make things easier let's make up a table of equivalencies:
Rugby football as played at Rugby school in the mid-19th century = Hypercard
Rugby football as played in a school playground in about 1910 = SERF
Rugby League = Supercard
Rugby Union = Metacard
Scots Rugby Union = RunRev
Oh Blast; I got so carried away I forgot about American football altogether.
Now if that is not REALLY OT I don't know what is.
AND; my cousin William knows nothing about RunRev.
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