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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 8 Feb 2002.
Re: drsquare is a useless troll was Re: What does everyone r

Re: drsquare is a useless troll was Re: What does everyone reckon our chances are for the Euro 2004 qualifying?

Mark Kent wrote:

> Dutch <n...@email.com> espoused:
> 
>>"Jonathan Ball" <jon...@mindspring.NS.com> wrote
[...]
>>>You don't know what you're talking about.  Any idiot
>>>can run around on a field kicking at something; even
>>>you can probably do it.  Let's see you even *stand* on
>>>ice skates, let alone take a shot at the puck without
>>>landing on your fat ass.
>>>
>>Now that we're thoroughly off-topic I might as well say my bit.
>>
>>I've played the major sports at the medium amateur level, men's inter-city
>>basketball in Timmins/Noranda, Junior football (18 years old), and industrial
>>league hockey. I've only kicked a soccer ball around a few times. There's no
>>
> 
> These are only major sports in one or two countries.  Elsewhere, they're
> minor at best.

You're an idiot.  Ice hockey is played throughout 
northern Europe, Canada and the U.S., and many of the 
countries of the ex-USSR.

Basketball is played all over the world, the Brazilians 
and the ex-Yugoslavs being just two of the non-North 
American countries that excel at it.

U.S. "football" is catching on in Europe.


> 
> 
>>contest. Hockey players can only play for 30 to 90 seconds before needing a 5
>>minute rest, and they put fresh players out. It's the MOST physically taxing game
>>there is. There's no coasting like in soccer. The speed and hitting is amazing
>>
> 
> There's no coasting in professional football at all.

I think I agree with that, though.  They do look like 
they're working out there.

> Your knowledge of football is unbelievably small.
> 
> 
> 
> 

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