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"Pat" <> wrote in message
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> Nah, that logic doesn't follow. If you named a sport by how you play
> it, soccer would be "Feetball", not football. Also,
> Tennis would be raquetball
> Raquetball would be ... I don't know
> Bocce would be Ball Ball
> Box Lacrosse would be Kill the Man with the Ball
> Basketball would be Handball
> etc.
>
> There is an ESPN commerical (sports network) what suggests you call
> American Football "Soccer" so that we each have football and soccer,
> but they are the opposite of each other.
>

Now that would make sense -- we drive on opposite
sides of the road, so the games should be opposite too.
Hmmm -- maybe I should go into poly-tics ...

mikey