Posted by alexandra_k on January 6, 2005, at 22:02:57
In reply to Re: Ballparks » alexandra_k, posted by Atticus on January 6, 2005, at 20:49:16
Atticus you jock you :-)
You are talking about European Football (otherwise known as Soccer) - right?
Over here our main sport is Rugby Football. Same ball as Grid iron but the aim is to get the ball rather than taking out players and so you can only tackle the guy with the ball. So if you have the ball everyone tries to jump on you at the same time. No passing fowards either, and no standing in front of the ball. Run foward, pass backwards. Also nobody wears helmets so it pays to tape up your ears and nobody wears huge sholder pads or anything like that either.
It is pretty much a yearly sport now with Super 12 (NZ Australia and SA), NPC (NZ regions), World Cup etc.
Our local NPC chant goes like this:
'mooloo
oh-lay oh-lay oh-lay
mooloo
oh-lay'
To be followed by the frantic ringing of oversized cow bells.We are a farming community I bet you can tell and 'Mooloo' is the name of the mascot (a cow) which was sponsored by the mooloo brand of ice cream.
Fencing sounds cool. I would have liked to have done that! Or whatever it is called when you are on horses and try to knock the other guy off.
Me, I used to play hockey. Everything was fine until they built the turf. The first time out I had a bad fall and skinned my legs / arms / face pretty badly and didn't want to play anymore after that. I liked hooking peoples ankles :-)
Isn't culture (in general) just too funny when you really think about it.
poster:alexandra_k
thread:436479
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20050106/msgs/438763.html