Re: [OT] Completely off-topic and useless celebrating re: World Cup

John, you have just discovered the sport of FOOTBALL. A sport played
using a
BALL and your FOOT, played before your country was created, and doesn`t
require bodyarmour (although some of the teams could use it) and a pause
every 5 mins for the minimal attention spans of the veiwers.

<VVBG>

BIF
(american football is NOT football)

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Atkinson" <johnmatkinson@yahoo.com>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 11:41 PM
Subject: [OT] Completely off-topic and useless celebrating re: World Cup

>
> OK, the topic line should be enough to get most of the
> uptight people to delete this message unread. . .
>
> The US is in the freakin' quarterfinals of the World
> Cup???
>
> Do you foreigners have any idea how much gloating I'm
> going to do if our team gets much further?
>
> Damn, it's one thing to do well in our sports, but
> sports that 99%+ of our population doesn't even care
> about??
>
> John
>
> Note:  This doesn't mean I'm actually enthused enough
> to watch a game from beginning to end. . .
>
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