RE: Help Me Answer My Evangelical Aunt's Most Recent Email!
December 30, 2011 at 11:50 pm
(This post was last modified: December 31, 2011 at 12:00 am by Rokcet Scientist.)
(December 30, 2011 at 10:34 pm)Aegrus Wrote: American football is very different from European football. I'm not sure why they have the same name. Anyway, American football is as popular in America as European football is in many European places.
There is football, which is a game where a ball is propelled by feet and legs for 95%, and which is a major sport all over the world except in north America.
And there is American 'football', which is a game where an egg is propelled by hands for 95%, and which is a major sport in north America only. Calling that game 'football' shows how confused Americans are. Handegg would be more appropriate of course.
The proportion is about 20 to 1.
