Football

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Comment by LShieldes on February 8, 2010 at 11:30am

During the early pre-season we went to New Orleans for a long, fun weekend. Remember Bourbon St getting really busy before the game, then we went off to another bar and caught some there. Friend and I were talking to the bar tender about how bad the team looked and how it was going to be a long year. Then we saw the same team win the SB. Got to love life and football.

Comment by Raj on February 7, 2010 at 11:12pm

Yeah, it really was a great Super Bowl. I'm really happy for the Saints. This was a great NFL season, but hopefully next year the Giants will do better!

Comment by John Clanton on February 7, 2010 at 10:25pm

Good Super Bowl.

Comment by John Clanton on January 27, 2010 at 9:54am

Just to be clear.. this isn't a rugby group either ;). Hehe.

Comment by Russell Curtin on January 26, 2010 at 8:33pm

Glad to be of assistance Trishymouse (love the name BTW).

http://www.rl1908.com/History/football.htm

That site I mentioned has a wealth on information about rugby league & the other football codes. Look under the tab 'RL History.' You will find some interesting articles.

I betcha you didn't know their are two rugby codes.

Comment by Trishymouse on January 26, 2010 at 9:34am

Thanks for the information, Russell - I love learning!

Comment by Russell Curtin on January 26, 2010 at 7:08am

John thank god for that. Here in Australia where soccer is not a major football code they have attempted to imposed this edict that their game should be called football instead of soccer.


Anyway here is an extract from an article that explains the origin of the term 'football.'



Extract
http://www.rl1908.com/History/football.htm
...All football codes vary the balance between kicking and handling - from soccer at one end of the spectrum, to American Football at the other.

Throughout the world the locally dominant winter code was simply "football".

In Sydney and Brisbane it is Rugby League, in Melbourne it is Australian Rules, in Auckland it is Rugby Union, in New York it is American Football. Practically everywhere else, it is Soccer that is the preferred code.

English and Australian newspaper sports pages in the late 1800s and early 1900s all listed Football as the column heading, then under it they listed the various forms.

The words 'soccer' and 'rugger' were in common use in England in the early 1890s at Oxford University. The words emanate from where the rules of their version of football originated. In soccer's case, it was the formation of the Football Association. Rugger is a variation of Rugby School football rules, and later the Rugby Football Union.

The argument that soccer - being a game where the ball is only played with the foot - is the only true form of football (and it alone is therefore entitled to use the name) is fanciful.

When F.C. Morely drafted the first version of the F.A.'s football rules (1863) handling of the ball, and indeed, running with the ball in hand, were allowed whenever a player took a "fair catch" or picked the ball up on the first bounce.

Handling in soccer was eventually cut back to only the goal keeper and restarting play from the touchlines, but it was born in 1863 with recognition that handling and running with the ball were part of the game of football.

Such claims by soccer advocates also ignore the common folk origins of football, which were never restricted to just kicking the ball.

Some historians point to evidence from old English texts which refer to football being the game of the lower classes - it being called "foot-ball" simply because the game was played "on foot", as opposed to the sport of the ruling aristocracy, which was played on horse-back.

Over recent years, both rugby codes in Australia have dropped the use of "football" from within their marketing titles. For example, the "NSW Rugby Football League" became the "NSW Rugby League". Similarly, the NSWRFU became the NSWRU."

Comment by John Clanton on January 22, 2010 at 2:01pm

No offense Trishy, but it ain't going to happen. They can have their soccer group on their own.

Comment by Library_Goon on January 22, 2010 at 2:00pm

Anyone but the Colts - speaking as a Marylander.

Comment by Trishymouse on January 22, 2010 at 1:03pm

...and P.S., as a native Minnesotan, let me just say one thing..."SKOL!" lol

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