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Re: Sports and Wars
Posted By: wintermute, on host 195.153.64.90
Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2001, at 01:22:36
In Reply To: Re: Sports and Wars posted by Nyperold on Tuesday, October 16, 2001, at 20:03:40:

> > Terretory, money... Oh, and Equador and Colombia went to war in 1974 (I think - no doubt Zarni has the facts to hand) over the result of a football match.
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> > winter"Association, not American"mute
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> Yeesh, and I thought turning over cars and beating up people was bad. Idjit fanatics.
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> Note that I make a distinction between regular fans and fanatics(yes, I *know* fans comes from fanatics; such is language); to me, fans enjoy a good game, especially when their team wins; fanatics consider the outcome good reason to cause wanton destruction.
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> Nyper"War over sports. What foolishness"old

What can I say? They take their football seriously in South America. Every so often you hear stories about players being assassinated for missing a penalty or letting in a goal in a major international. Don't know if they're true, though.

winter"A bit too serously, I think"mute

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