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Howye fokes
OK - we can talks about somethin else if ye want.
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Sorry Ted. Just not a sports fan here! 
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I'll bite and chew wit cha a bit so ewe don't feel two g-ted.I hear that the victory that the US has *enjoyed over Portugal was quite a sir-prize... but then again, I was super-ized to see that Brazil didn't have a speed skating entry in Salt Lake City! 
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I'm not a grate sports fan meself - but I think the World Cup is grate in any man's (or Ted's)language.
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I'm no footbal fan myself, but I'm truly puzzled as to why USA denizens refer to some half-rugby half-something else game as football, then call football soccer. Anybody know?
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Howya Geoff
Good question there. I often do be wonderen meself where the word "soccer" originated from. I did a bit of research in me tedasaurus but all it said was that soccer was a form of football.
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The term football originally meant "a game played on one's feet" to distinguish the game (the precursor of today's many football codes) from polo, which was the game of the era. Hence "football" can be rightly applied to any sport played on foot, using a ball. The term soccer derives from "Asocciation football", possibly via the FA, or FIFA, and is used in countries where a form of football existed before soccer was made "the world game".
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Wow - thanks Doc - yer sure on the ball!
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The term football originally meant "a game played on one's feet"Sooo, Doc. You mean that golf is football. I always wondered about that! Now it makes so much more sense. Thank you, thank you! 
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