RunRickyRun Posted December 22, 2009 Author Share Posted December 22, 2009 You read 4-5 times faster reading across the page than reading down a list (buried in some article in the Indy today) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vojskovoda Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 The governing body of football in the US (now known as the US Soccer Federation) did not add "soccer" to its name until 1945 and did not drop "football" (or "foot ball") until 1974. What did they call American Football during that period? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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leviramsey Posted December 23, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted December 23, 2009 The governing body of football in the US (now known as the US Soccer Federation) did not add "soccer" to its name until 1945 and did not drop "football" (or "foot ball") until 1974. What did they call American Football during that period? As in Australia to this day, both were football. Basically: * if you were upper/middle class, "football" was almost certain to be gridiron (esp. of the college variety), though rugby union was not unheard of (especially in the San Francisco area) * if you were lower class, "football" probably meant something more akin to association football (remember that the antecedents of association football and rugby crossed the ocean long before the codification of association football or rugby)... * unless you were in the coal-mining and steel-milling cities and towns of Pennsylvania, Ohio, etc., where gridiron, an upper/middle-class sport in the rest of the country developed an infrastructure of working class clubs that played the game on a semi-professional basis. The NFL is the descendant (via the American Professional Football Association) of that tradition (until the 1960s, most of the players in the NFL were from those coal and steel towns, in the same way that most of the current NFL players are blacks from smaller towns in the south). (the main difference between the situation in the USA and the situation in Britain being that because the amateur, upper/middle-class governors of a rugby-derived code limited the eligibility of their players to 4 years, they basically didn't care that the working class clubs were paying players and (later on) paying former stars of the amateur game... thus, despite minor rule differences between college and pro gridiron, there was never a schism to divide them... it's interesting to speculate on what would have happened had the League/Union split never happened) For a variety of reasons (not least the twenty year bout of isolationism in response to WWI), association football in the USA faded to near nonexistence by the mid-to-late 1930s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vojskovoda Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Wow, thanks for all that info Levi... I genuinely have learnt a lot there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted December 31, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted December 31, 2009 The Boston Bruins (who play ice hockey) had a black player before the Boston Red Sox (baseball). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 David Hayter (aka the voice of Solid Snake) co-wrote the screenplay to Watchmen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted December 31, 2009 Moderator Share Posted December 31, 2009 Next season in F1 will have 4 champions on the grid. That is only the 2nd time that has happened in the last 25 years. 1999 being the other year. 5 is the most champions ever on an F1 grid (65, 66, 68, 70) and, apart from the first year, there has only ever been one year that did not have a champion on the grid, that was 1959. Fangio had just retired and Hawthorne, the '58 champion, died in January '59. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noah Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 "Beelzebub", another name for the devil, is Hebrew for "Lord of the Flies". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddy Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 The governing body of football in the US (now known as the US Soccer Federation) did not add "soccer" to its name until 1945 and did not drop "football" (or "foot ball") until 1974. So for 29 years they had both football and soccer in the name? What was it called, the American Soccer Football Association? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 But "Soccer" is just a bastardisation of "Association" which came from the split in the game over here in the 19th century (Association Football and Rugby Football got shortened to Soccer and Rugger respectively) so its not that weird a name, is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted December 31, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted December 31, 2009 The US Soccer Football Association Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted January 1, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted January 1, 2010 Whoa! According to 18th century French historian Henri Sauval, a murder of the kind presented was perpetrated in the 17th century by Italian conjoined twins. Born in 1617 in Genoa, two boys were held together by the stomach. One twin was completely healthy while the other was mute, deaf, and blind. Sauval records that the healthy twin stabbed a man to death and was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. However, the twin was not executed “on account of the innocence of one of its component halves.” It was impossible to put one to death without twin killing the other. Discussion question: if you have sex with conjoined twins, does it count as a threesome? Do the details of the conjunction affect threesome status? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 2, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted January 2, 2010 Ghana has a skier in the slalom in this year's winter olympics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 The US Soccer Football Association Bit of an odd name really. Given that soccer comes from the word association, it doesn't seem to make sense that both words are used. As for your conjoined twins threesome thing, I think it would count as a threesome, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted January 2, 2010 Moderator Share Posted January 2, 2010 If you were to have sex with someone who had a parisitic dead twin attached to their stomach 'fetus in fetu' would you then be classed as a necrophiliac ? The threesome logic still applies ... It's a can of worms lads! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted January 2, 2010 Moderator Share Posted January 2, 2010 "Beelzebub", another name for the devil, is Hebrew for "Lord of the Flies". Linksheaven per chance? (given the piece of trivia that it followed...). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWalletInspector Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Ghana has a skier in the slalom in this year's winter olympics. Film coming out 2012. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Ghana has a skier in the slalom in this year's winter olympics. Film coming out 2012. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted January 2, 2010 Moderator Share Posted January 2, 2010 The band 'Live', of Throwing Copper and Secret Samadhi fame, have split Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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