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Re: The Statistical Problem With Soccer by miracle on Tuesday September 29, 2009 @10:33AM (#850437)
It's called football not soccer.
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Re: The Statistical Problem With Soccer by newsdog on Tuesday September 29, 2009 @01:28PM (#850839)
Correct. But we dumb North Americans need to make the distinction with the weird violent USA game, which almost everyone in Canada cares about, myself included.

Somehow, they convinced us it's important. I really want to know how they did that.

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Re: The Statistical Problem With Soccer by hughprime on Tuesday September 29, 2009 @05:14PM (#851336)
I'm sorry, that game is called "Grid Iron". The word "football" is reserved for Rugby League.

(Not to be confused with Rugby Union, which is "rugby" or Australian Rules Football, which is "footy". And definitely not soccer, which is "soccer".)

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Re: The Statistical Problem With Soccer by diego_moita on Tuesday September 29, 2009 @02:31PM (#850985)
This is actually an excelent answer. If you can't dig it, you can't dig what the game is all about.
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