nemesis wrote:
> You mean running in football vs running in handegg?

Yes, except I was trying to be communicative instead of sarcastic.

In any case, soccer is merely a particular version of football, so calling 
it "soccer" is actually *more* accurate than calling it "football".

> The difference is obvious:  you hold the egg while running vs kicking 
> the ball while running.  

Not always. There's punts and kick-offs, and I don't think in soccer you 
have a bunch of people piling on top of you while you're running, or trying 
to snag the ball out of your hands.  Last I looked, straight-arming someone 
in the face while they're running is frowned upon in soccer, let alone 
actually jumping on top of them.

In soccer, people roll around on the ground pretending to be hurt so they 
can stop the clock long enough to catch their breath. If you stop the clock 
because you're hurt in gridiron, you get taken off the field and you don't 
come back, at least until you've lost the ball and gotten it back again.

> The latter should prove much more difficult, 
> which is why players keep passing the ball on to other players and 
> kicking it great distance across the field to other players far beyond.

Yes. We call that hand-offs and passes.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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