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Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 3:32:35 PM

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I ask because the traffic seems to be very minimal at the moment on the forum and I just wondered if there was some major sporting event, festival, convention that measn everyone is out doing things?

Or are we all just hibernating until AE appears or the spring comes?

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 3:34:50 PM

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Possibly resting up for the "Super Bowl". Or in shock as the Holiday "Master Charge Billing" arrived.

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 3:36:25 PM

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Hi all,

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ORIGINAL: Roger Neilson II

I ask because the traffic seems to be very minimal at the moment on the forum and I just wondered if there was some major sporting event, festival, convention that measn everyone is out doing things?

Or are we all just hibernating until AE appears or the spring comes?

Roger

They have their "football" on Sunday...

it is still beyond me that something can be called football when they predominantly play it by hand... and they call our true football "soccer"... ah well...

Leo "Apollo11"

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 3:46:39 PM

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For me, it's my first weekend off in a couple of months and no turns in my inbox.

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 3:50:06 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

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ORIGINAL: Roger Neilson II

I ask because the traffic seems to be very minimal at the moment on the forum and I just wondered if there was some major sporting event, festival, convention that measn everyone is out doing things?

Or are we all just hibernating until AE appears or the spring comes?

Roger

They have their "football" on Sunday... it is still beyond me that something can be called football when they predominantly play it by hand... and they call our true football "soccer"... ah well...

Leo "Apollo11"

Pffft!

No football today. It's an off week before the Super Bowl next Sunday. I'm not sure what's going on either. Been waiting all weekend for a turn in my inbox but no luck.

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 3:50:27 PM

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Actually, this is the Sunday that wive get the first chink in the armor on getting those jobs done you're behind on.

Superbowl is next Sunday, so you sit aournd going, "Hm. What do I do today? No football. Superbowl is next Sunday. Pub will be empty today."

Then your wife pipe's up and says, "Since there's no game the pub will be empty and you could do [fill in the blank] for me..."

So you put on your best I didn't hear that last comment look, and mutter to yourself, "Hm. What to do today? No football. Superbowl is next Sunday. Hm. Maybe there's a turn in my in-box. I guess I should get caught-up on my AAR..."

And in a louder voice directly into your ear she says, "Since there's no game today, you could do..."

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 3:52:13 PM

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Its the weird american variant of Rugby climaxing this weekend I think. One of my neighbours keeps talking about it as though its a big event (he is American)

He seems genuinelly shocked that I don't even know who is playing

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 3:57:10 PM

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Always quiet here on weekends...

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 4:33:10 PM

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Always quiet here on weekends...

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 4:42:21 PM

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Yeah, that DC-2 in the background is real purty...

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 5:06:37 PM

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 5:11:20 PM

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They have their "football" on Sunday... it is still beyond me that something can be called football when they predominantly play it by hand... and they call our true football "soccer"... ah well...
Leo "Apollo11"

It's always puzzled me whay, after millions of years of evolution to learn to walk upright and use our hands, Europeans invented a game that penalizes half that progress. Must be some secret drive to "return to the trees".

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 5:15:36 PM

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And your overpadded, so-called "football" doesn't use the other part. Weak argument there, Scholl...

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 5:22:58 PM

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And your overpadded, so-called "football" doesn't use the other part. Weak argument there, Scholl...

Sure it does. That's why there is a position called "running back". It's just we favor using the feet for their designed purpose, and leaving the "ball handling" to the hands.

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 5:28:52 PM

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And your overpadded, so-called "football" doesn't use the other part. Weak argument there, Scholl...

Sure it does. That's why there is a position called "running back". It's just we favor using the feet for their designed purpose, and leaving the "ball handling" to the hands.

No.....T probably DOES handle his balls with his feet..
Further, if it were up to him, aerial beauty would be personified by this plane,(in lieu of the wonderful Douglas in my avatar):

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 5:58:10 PM

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The Douglas is in your sigline...

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 6:00:20 PM

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Hi all,

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ORIGINAL: Roger Neilson II

I ask because the traffic seems to be very minimal at the moment on the forum and I just wondered if there was some major sporting event, festival, convention that measn everyone is out doing things?

Or are we all just hibernating until AE appears or the spring comes?

Roger

They have their "football" on Sunday... it is still beyond me that something can be called football when they predominantly play it by hand... and they call our true football "soccer"... ah well...

Leo "Apollo11"

Except for hockey , all sports that Americans play involve using one's hands on the ball....It football we have the only American sport where you can occasionally kick the ball. I was always told you can tell an American kid from European kid by throwing them a ball. If they catch it with their hands, they are American. If they trap it with their feet , they are European.

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 6:03:02 PM

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Most of the people who touch the ball with their feet in American "football" are non-Americans, IIRC...

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 6:05:09 PM

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And your overpadded, so-called "football" doesn't use the other part. Weak argument there, Scholl...

Sure it does. That's why there is a position called "running back". It's just we favor using the feet for their designed purpose, and leaving the "ball handling" to the hands.

No.....T probably DOES handle his balls with his feet..

Sorry, haven't been that nimble for a few decades...

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 6:05:16 PM

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Its the weird american variant of Rugby climaxing this weekend I think. One of my neighbours keeps talking about it as though its a big event (he is American)

He seems genuinelly shocked that I don't even know who is playing

Um, I don't either, and I am American. Not all of us even like to watch sports. Needless to say, I won't be watching it next Sunday, nor will I know or care who wins it.

And don't get your hopes up, I don't like the European version of football either. About the only sport I like to watch at all is hockey...and I live in the US Southwest...where we rarely get snow.

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 6:28:27 PM

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Most of the people who touch the ball with their feet in American "football" are non-Americans, IIRC...

Not quite...in American football, kicking is called for in two circumstances (special-a "kick-off'-opening play, an extra point, etc). The second is a move of desperation-you can't move the ball down the field, so kick it for a lesser amount of points-a "field goal" vs. a "touch down".

As far as American football being "rugby with pads", there are actually a great many differences , and you really need to play both to get it (I have , and today couldn't careless for either). An American football is flight has more in common with an artilley shell or a rifle bullet than a ball. There is a certain technique in "spining" the ball. If you don't do it correctly , it wobbles and goes all over the place. I had great fun at KAC (the colledge I went to in Hampshire) with some of the Rugby players who scorned the game.

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 6:43:30 PM

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Well I certainly 'kicked off' something here didn't I?

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 6:48:19 PM

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Well I certainly 'kicked off' something here didn't I?

Roger

simply a friendly discussion intending to broaden perspectives between friends raised in different lands and cultures in regards to their national sports. (Boy , I sound like a bloody multi-culti human resources wallha , don't I?)

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 7:02:35 PM

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Well I certainly 'kicked off' something here didn't I?

Roger

Well..., you wanted some "activity". Nothing like getting a bunch of guys talking sports (or silly European substitutes) to "stir the pot".

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 7:08:43 PM

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Like most, Ive been raised on watching football all my life. Some Super Bowls have been good games but overall most of tlhe games turn out to be a Super bore.

Hope the Giants beating New England will be a "Super Game".

Giants by 4!!!

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 7:20:28 PM

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I gotta admit, I'm actually pulling for New England. I -was- rooting against them 2nd half of season, for the sole purpose of keeping the Miami record intact. But now that they're so close, I'm rooting for 'em. Miami's record was back in '72(?), I was only one. So at this point I'd kind of like for them to win, so I can say, "I got to watch that game when they broke the record..."

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 7:51:28 PM

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Well I certainly 'kicked off' something here didn't I?

Roger

Well..., you wanted some "activity". Nothing like getting a bunch of guys talking sports (or silly European substitutes) to "stir the pot".

Ok here you go again, you 'johnny come lately's' and your new fangled weird interpretations of the fine art of sportsmanship. True football can be dated back to the Viking invasions when it was common practice to foot the ball (the enemy's head) round the village as true sport......

I don't know, next you'll be claiming you liberated Burma with just Errol Flynn and captured the U Boat containing the Enigma ciphers.......

IN order to back up my point I quote (entirely selectively) from the learned Wikipedia:

The earliest mention of a ball game that involves kicking was in 1321, in Shouldham, Norfolk: "[d]uring the game at ball as he kicked the ball, a lay friend of his... ran against him and wounded himself".[6]

In 1363, King Edward III of England issued a proclamation banning "...handball, football, or hockey; coursing and cock-fighting, or other such idle games", showing that "football" � whatever its exact form in this case � was being differentiated from games involving other parts of the body, such as handball.

King Henry IV of England gives the earliest documented use of the English word "football", in 1409, when he issued a proclamation forbidding the levying of money for "foteball".[6][7]

There is also an account in Latin from the end of the 15th century of football being played at Cawston, Nottinghamshire. This is the first description of a "kicking game" and the first description of dribbling: "[t]he game at which they had met for common recreation is called by some the foot-ball game. It is one in which young men, in country sport, propel a huge ball not by throwing it into the air but by striking it and rolling it along the ground, and that not with their hands but with their feet... kicking in opposite directions" The chronicler gives the earliest reference to a football field, stating that: "[t]he boundaries have been marked and the game had started.[6]

So there you go..... and yes I have no turns to do!

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 8:06:06 PM

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The only retort I can make to such an historical flurry of fact is to point out that your games were so exciting that when the chance came to move to a new continent and start over, the population that did so seems to have dumped them "en masse" and started over. Thus did boring Cricket become exciting Baseball, and Soccer and Rugby develope into genuine American Football.

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 8:13:21 PM

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next you'll be claiming you liberated Burma with just Errol Flynn

Roger

Wait a second! You mean Errol Flynn didn't liberate Burma!?

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RE: Is America shut down for the weekend? - 1/27/2008 8:16:18 PM

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Similarly, Ben Affleck didn't win the Battle of Britain, and Matthew McWhatshisname didn't get the Enigma machine...

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