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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!RA.MSSTATE.EDU!MAYNOR
  3. Message-ID: <9301031330.AA17562@Ra.MsState.Edu>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
  5. Date:         Sun, 3 Jan 1993 07:30:31 CST
  6. Sender:       English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
  7. From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
  8. Subject:      Re: Football
  9. Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
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  12. >   On the whole I'm inclined to suspect that American football is even more
  13. > idiotic than other national sports found across the globe. Of course it's
  14.  
  15. I agree.  I was once called upon to justify American football to a group
  16. of people in France who were from various parts of Europe, Asia, and Latin
  17. America.  I told them they were asking the wrong person.
  18.    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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