What Skirts Have In Common With Football

[Ray]

Nope; just call it football. It is, after all, the original game, invented (I believe) before rugby or American (or for that matter Australian) football. It is also, or course the biggest ball sport in the world - even the US, I believe, is starting to embrace it.

As I said, I do enjoy watching American football (although it must be about 10 years since I last saw a match). It's far more interesting than (gentle tease) that baseball / rounders thing. Talk about dull! I thought cricket was bad....

Ray

[Since1982]

American Baseball has one really really great thing about it, it's the "Only" sport where a player can lay down and go to sleep while playing, which many of the fans in the bleachers don't mind because they also are asleep.

Look, he hit the ball. Look, no one caught it. Look, he's running around all the bases while the opposing players sleep.

I like the storied beginning of the World Series Of Baseball...There was this newspaper publisher, Abner Doubleday, out in his backyard with a stick and a rock...His wife came to the back door and hollered out to Abner, "ABNER, your Suppers ready, your food is getting cold". Good old Abner hollered back, "Not now dear, I'm inventing baseball, the WORLD is waiting". She hollered back, "Don't take the WORLD serious!!" and the rest of the afternoon Abner kept repeating to himself...The World Serious, hmmmmm

[Since1982]

American Baseball has one really really great thing about it, it's the "Only" sport where a player can lay down and go to sleep while playing, which many of the fans in the bleachers don't mind because they also are asleep.

Look, he hit the ball. Look, no one caught it. Look, he's running around all the bases while the opposing players sleep.

I like the storied beginning of the World Series Of Baseball...There was this newspaper publisher, Abner Doubleday, out in his backyard with a stick and a rock...His wife came to the back door and hollered out to Abner, "ABNER, your Suppers ready, your food is getting cold". Good old Abner hollered back, "Not now dear, I'm inventing baseball, the WORLD is waiting". She hollered back, "Don't take the WORLD serious!!" and the rest of the afternoon Abner kept repeating to himself...The World Serious, hmmmmm

He kept repeating it until he accidently left out the "o and u" added an "e" and said, The World Series" YAHOOOOOOOO:idea: :scratchchin:

[skirttron]

Sorry, my vote goes to the Scots fans who've re-invented (almost!) casual Kilt-wearing, to, from and AT, their Football (real = foot, ball, GOAL!!!) matches! Hopefully, it won't be long before the trend drifts towards England - but we've got to get past the dreaded (schhh!!!) Sassenachs (shock, horror!) first! :cheer:

Casual kilt wearing has reached the South, and I'm not the only one. Curiously, the only people who have recently inquired about what is under my kilt are those I have met North of the Border. I wear my kilts completely brazenly down here.

[Departed Member]

Casual kilt wearing has reached the South, and I'm not the only one. Curiously, the only people who have recently inquired about what is under my kilt are those I have met North of the Border. I wear my kilts completely brazenly down here.

Yeah, there's more Kilts worn in England than Scotland, overall - has been for twenty-odd years now. The point is that we are talking hundreds (thousands?) of Kilts to be seen on the streets, public transport, etc., to/from events (specifically, football). Now, admittedly this has started out as a costume/uniform kind of thing, but it's increasing/re-establishing non-bifurcation on a massive scale. In other words, mainstream.

The 'entitlement', or 'honouring the warrior' etc., (Kilt-wearing) brigade must be in a flat spin over this trend, although from what I read on other websites, this is more the province of North America(?)

Interested that you have only had 'Kilt Kontent' comments in Scotland. That's my experience, too! Usually from (female) teenagers, quoting the 'true Scot' myth! And always in a light-hearted manner! Last reply I gave was that, "That's only for my wife and girlfriend to know.........!"

I was also asked whether I wore a Kilt on a regular basis (in England) as they had (apparently) met quite a few (Kilt-wearing) blokes with 'English' accents who did. I replied that "Not at work, as they're banned (then an American-owned company!)."

[Since1982]

Judy was ranting in the background while I read her all these responses. She is ranting about ANOTHER Scottish/English "sport" that has come across the pond and is practiced to distraction in the "Americas" and the rest of the world. Seems a terrific sport for particularly vacuous mentalities.

She, of course is talking about that "game" where hundreds of men wearing either trousers, puttees or kilts wander around on a huge lawn chasing a teeny weeny white ball with sticks! When they find it, they whack it towards a flimsy pole with a numbered flag on it. Now once they get it near one of these poles they get out a different shaped stick called a putter, (makes sense as they putt putt putt all over the lawn in little motorized carts chasing that teeny weeny white ball. Once they find that ball they then try to slightly whack it into a teeny weeny white hole in the lawn, and if successful they high five everyone in reach, yelling WAHOOOOOO every half hour or so, depending on their skill level.

At the professional level, this game is moderated by retired teeny weeny white ball chasers with equally vacuous mentalities that say things like "That was a brilliant shot" ......Brilliant? It doesn't take much brilliance to whack a ball with exactly the same strength every time. After all, they use different weight sticks so the ball will go different distances while swinging the stick exactly the same way. In every sporting event SOMEONE has to win. Just because someone wins that does not actually make his play "brilliant", it just mean the other 99 that made the "cut" lost. Good thing its not a real "cut". There'd be blood all over the lawn.

I won't go on about that game, you all probably hate my SO by now anyway, just for her opinions of "Golf". You can all get together now and give her the

[Departed Member]

Great, Skip! Now you're 'having a go' at the third game where Kilts are most likely to be seen (the second is Rugby - game of marginal skill, usually played by those not good enough for Football!)!

Seriously, I share Judy's opinions of Scotland's National Game, shame the USA is trying to catch up (or has it overtaken, already?). Come on, though, golf courses provide a rich wildlife habitat for many species which would otherwise be 'on the brink'. Whilst I find the game totally boring, either watching or playing, I ain't gonna 'knock' folk who (even inadvertantly!) provide suitable homes for nature's little creatures!

[crfriend]

[...]Rugby - [a] game of marginal skill, usually played by those not good enough for Football!)!

I'd always heard it told that, "Rugby is one of those Celtic games where the presence of a ball serves as an excuse for semi-organised mayhem."

Come on, though, golf courses provide a rich wildlife habitat for many species which would otherwise be 'on the brink'.

Too true. I live next to a golf-course and we have all sorts of critters ranging from fox to turkeys to deer, and an occasional coyote. I'm waiting for bears next (actually not unheard of in these parts).

[Departed Member]

[quote="crfriend"]I'd always heard it told that, "Rugby is one of those Celtic games where the presence of a ball serves as an excuse for semi-organised mayhem."

Aha! The best Celtic team game of the lot is probably "Shinty" (Sorry, don't know the gaelic spelling!), which is (like) hockey played with what can best be described as 'upside-down' walking sticks. The rules tend to vary, place to place (hmmn, sometimes game to game!), including number of players. It used to be played, oft as not, wearing Kilts (at least in Scotland!). One of our teachers encouraged us to play, but the school kit rules did not permit us to wear Kilts (however, kilt-style skirts were permitted when playing the local Girl's High School at Hockey, surprisingly - sadly I wasn't good enough to be picked to play ).

[Charlie]

Golf - known by some around these parts as cross-country hockey.

Can't stand the game myself, or all the stuck in the past social aspects which go with it. For me, the final nail in the coffin was when my son, who was doing a disco at the local golf club, was sent home to change into long trousers. He was wearing shorts, it was the hottest day of the year and club rules didn't allow shorts in the clubhouse. Making a concession would be too much for the stuffed shirts. Thinks - he should have worn a skirt, that would have given them apoplexy

This same club had an EGM to decide if men would be allowed to wear their shirts outside of their trousers. Not surprisingly, this was treated with some derision by the media - as it should be.

Charlie

[Departed Member]

[quote="crfriend"]I'd always heard it told that, "Rugby is one of those Celtic games where the presence of a ball serves as an excuse for semi-organised mayhem."

Well, I suppose it could be said to be Celtic, it was invented at, er, Rugby in the West Midlands! (Apparently, after Ireland, England has the highest proportion of population descended from Celts). They tried to make us play the confounded game at Grammar School (thought they were too 'posh' for proper Football! :shake: ). If by mischance, I caught (or had thrust upon me) the oddly-shaped ball, I just used to hurl it vertically as high as possible and run in any random direction. They quite quickly got the impression that it 'wasn't a good idea' to involve me in their silly game!

[skirttron]

Funny how the forebears of us brits invented all those games, but I guess our 18th and 19th century industrialisation gave people the leisure time to think of them instead of feeding the pigs and milking the cows all the time - the guys who managed to work their way up to a reasobale bank balance, anyway. I suppose we got there first.
I must admit, I was forced to play football (soccer) in all weathers and hated it, together with all the other forms of physical exercise where injury was a strong possibility and you got covered in crap.