Re: I watched the Superbowl!

Paul Dormer <prd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article <1ibsqj8.c1hy3q5biv9wN%carol@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, carol@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (Carol Hague) wrote:
> 
> > Paul Dormer <prd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Well, you have to realise that over here, American football (as 
> > > we call it) is an esoteric, alien art form.
> > 
> > Nah, it's just rugby for softies ;-)
> 
> Rugby was another game they tried to get me to play at school - can't
> remember which code we played, but I can't follow it when it's on TV
> today.  As they say, rugby is a game played by men with odd shaped
> balls.  (Except that I was walking past the university s****ts ground a
> couple of years ago, and there was a women's rugby team practising.)

I can't remember where it comes from but didn't someone once say "rugby
is a game for thugs, played by gentlemen and football [1] is a game for
gentlemen, played by thugs" or something like that?
> 
> Big piece in the paper today about Eddie Waring, which brought back
> memories.

I only knew him from "It's A Knockout". 

[1] Soccer for the US contingent
-- 
Carol
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