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American invented Games - ketchim - 06-20-2016
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/why-we-call-soccer-soccer/372771/?utm_source=
Why Amricans call Football Soccer and Rugby , Football
In May, Stefan Szymanski, a sports economist at the University of Michigan, published a paper
debunking the notion that "soccer" is an American invention [img alt=
]http://www.westindiesforum.com/Smileys/forum/raspberry-tounge.png[/img] In fact, it's a British import. And the Brits used it often—until, that is, it became too much
of an Americanism for British English to bear.
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Re: American invented Games - ketchim - 06-20-2016
include : Basketball !
![[Image: 13241141_10153616253197108_8856756373892...e=57D898EE]](https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13241141_10153616253197108_8856756373892027833_n.jpg?oh=2290e14ed1cba77b28b5b072bfa8f7b1&oe=57D898EE)
Re: American invented Games - ketchim - 06-20-2016
timmyJ struggles with Cricket as a non amrican invention ....continues ! :-[
Re: American invented Games - timmyj51 - 06-20-2016
Soccer SUCKS BIG TIME!!! Grown men running around for three hours in silky shorts and giiiiirly knee
socks to boot (if you're lucky) one ball into a fishnet!!! ::dead:: :
:"Leave the dissolving song, the baby dance,
to sooth the slaves of Italy and France...scorn
eunuch sports; to manlier games incline"
James Love Cricket: An Heroic Poem (1770)
Re: American invented Games - ketchim - 06-20-2016
Yeah bro, al that BUTT slapping each odda in American Football is MANLY, indeed !!
and the protective GEAR is well.....you know
the REAL man invention :
![[Image: d27d3991ace5395b289da99d041142d0.jpg]](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/d2/7d/39/d27d3991ace5395b289da99d041142d0.jpg)
![[Image: kiwi_bum_wash.jpg]](http://wesclark.com/rrr/kiwi_bum_wash.jpg)
Re: American invented Games - timmyj51 - 06-21-2016
Rugger SUCKS TOO!! Nuthin but football without blocking and the forward pass. Like some guy without wanker and gonads trying to
pass himself as a man. Fans know the difference with the first...hookers with the second! ::LOL::
Re: American invented Games - ketchim - 06-21-2016
Amrica copy the game right down to the Farts who play it