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- From: operator@cc.curtin.edu.au
- Subject: Re: USA 94
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.140200.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>
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- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- References: <BxnBtu.ArJ@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 05:02:00 GMT
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- In article <BxnBtu.ArJ@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, tvorst@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Tommy Che Vorst) writes:
- > Hello. The Yahoo here. I just want to make the point that I have nothing
- > against the USA. I just can't understand why in a country where baseball
- haven't you heard of "MONEY" man!
- > is of religious importance and football is seen as a distraction for high
- > school students (told to me by several football fanatics in the USA) and
- > gets no respect for being a real sport (unlike baseball, which is a game
- I agree totally
- > like golf - don't get me wrong, I love it, but it's still a game), people
- > are trying to host the WCup. My sources are European radio, television
- > and newspapers of the last three years. This is not just something from
- > my imagination - only last week some stadium operator said that should
- > FIFA want to use his stadium, they had better get used to playing on turf:
- >
- > Stupid? - yes
- definitley not
- > Uninformed? - sure
- possibly
- > Greedy, money-grubbing scum? - no doubt
- you hit the nail on the head mate!
- > But nevertheless true.
- >
- > No, I do not think Canada can do any better.
- neither do I
- > No, I am not bitter about Atlanta in '96 - Toronto certainly didn't
- why do you think the USA got 2 olympics out of 4, Atlanta was a winner from
- the word go, I wonder who would have got it if Ted CNN Turner was not around.
- > challenge, and is too self-absorbed already.
- >
- > I just love the sport, and would rather never see an important game played
- > where it is undervalued than see the sport diluted or changed because
- > someone who doesn't care about it says it has to be.
- I can't agree with you more
- >
- > I'll be in the US in '94 because I love football, and love watching it.
- > And I hope it's a huge success. (and I hope Holland finally wins) In
- > 1998, I'll be in France, and I hope you'll all be in both countries, too.
- >
- > +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
- > Tommy ( Yogi ) Dept. of English, UofM
- > (the REAL UofM - nyaaaah Vid! (Minn.))
- > email: tvorst@ccu.umanitoba.ca
- > ....residences in Canada, France, and Holland.
- > "YAAH! DEATH TO OATMEAL!"
- > Remember: it's just my opinion.
- > +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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