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Don't die of shock, but I was watching the Super Bowl yesterday... strange sport that it is. I continually saw and heard the word interception come up. You know "the record number of interceptions by a defensive team in Super Bowl history"... Is this a common usage? I would tend to use intercepts but I'm not sure whether this is because I'm a lowly up-under type person (with minimal grasp on the English language) she says getting in before the Zilders on Board have their dig or is the use of "interceptions" particular to the sport? Or is it them 'Merkan sporting journos that is just not edumacated?  
'Course, it also puzzles me that this is another one of those "World Championship" sports that the rest of the world doesn't get invited to, but I'm trying to keep this a word post...
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Hey, Sweetie, good to see you here! Intercepts made me think of math, which was borne out by Atomica. I don't know if our sports announcers started using interceptions, or how it came to be, but this is the word that has been used in football all my life. Who won?
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this is the word that has been used in football all my life. Who won?
Hiya Jackie! OK, here the commentators (for football of almost any flavour) would say something like "That was a great intercept" or "He took a brilliant intercept". A cross-pondism perhaps? Best wait until some more other-pondians turn up and see what the general consensus is.
[off-word-topic-sport-update] The Tampa Bay Buccaneers won. Of course, they were who I was cheering for (my only allegiance being the fact that my partner was supporting them - based on the underdog theory - and I thought best not to upset the apple cart) . Pretty much a walkover. Impressive coverage - we took great pains to notice that Shania Twain can't lip sync to save her life, or at least, not while she's shaking hands with a fan! [/off-word-topic-sport-update]
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I believe I can rightfully claim to know less about football than all but two of our members.
When one team is on the offensive, and one of the backs throws pass intended for one of his
ends in enemy territory, and an enemy team member catches it, that is an interception.
Very bad on record of the player who threw the pass.
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In reply to:
we took great pains to notice that Shania Twain can't lip sync to save her life, or at least, not while she's shaking hands with a fan!
Oh does she perform music too? Amazing what these burlesque girls can do nowadays. Course, she's Canadian, and we know they're all much smarter than us Americans.
That gecko ad is hilarious, but nothing beats the "running of the squirrels" (a la Pamplona) ad from the super bowl a year or two ago.
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Intercepts made me think of math,
Isn't that intersects?
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Dear hev: I'm ignorant of math, but look at defintions 3 and 4"
intercept
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5< L interceptus, pp. of intercipere, to take between, interrupt < inter3, between + capere, to take: see HAVE6
1 to seize or stop on the way, before arrival at the intended place; stop or interrupt the course of; cut off !to intercept a forward pass"
2 [Now Rare] a) to stop, hinder, or prevent b) to cut off communication with, sight of, etc.
3 Math. to cut off, mark off, or bound between two points, lines, or planes
n.
1 Math. the part of a line, plane, etc. intercepted
2 Mil. the act of intercepting an enemy force, esp. enemy aircraft
in#ter[cep4tion
n.
in#ter[cep4tive
adj.
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Hev, prolly is just a cross-Pondism. We'll say he intercepts the ball, or he intercepted the ball on the 20 yard line. But it's always been an interception. Actually®, now that I hear it, I like intercept better...more action, more pizzazz to it...that -ion at the end bogs it down. Let's all write the NFL and tell 'em to change it!
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Well, then, wwh, Jackie's got to be one of 'em and I know I'm the other. ~WW I challenge you two (and Dr Bill) to a contest. I say I know less than anyone else. 
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