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Didn't think this would work but we have some fans here.

Is it because opposition fans chant:

"Come an avocado, if you think yer 'ard enuf!"

Iain

In answer to your question:

Because soccer is the pits?

Avacados is a Greek centre forward who plays for Accrington Stanley.

Because when you get under their thick skins, the players are green with envy at the money real football players make in the U.S.?

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Quote: Jalapenoman

Because when you get under their thick skins, the players are green with envy at the money real football players make in the U.S.?

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Beckham's gone to Milan. That's halved the national cumulative wage for American Footballers.

Back to the original question: Is it they share an IQ score?

Iain

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Quote: Mark Lowton

Avacados is a Greek centre forward who plays for Accrington Stanley.

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Tough nut that Avacados, good man for heading the ball until it turned into guacamole.

Yeah, but your Beckman never played American football, he played soccer.

In American football, the NFL minimum salary for a first year player approaches $200,000.

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Quote: IainB


Beckham's gone to Milan.


Iain

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Damn!

I was going to say that.
Never mind.

Carry on.

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Quote: IainB

Is it because opposition fans chant:

"Come an avocado, if you think yer 'ard enuf!"

Iain

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Good one Iain.

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Quote: Jalapenoman

Yeah, but your Beckman never played American football, he played soccer.

In American football, the NFL minimum salary for a first year player approaches $200,000.

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That ain't nothin'.

A Premier League soccer player earned, on average, £676,000 in the 2003-04 season*.

That must've been like $1.3m equivalent at the time.

Get ready Mark.

He'll be back with salary statistics about bouncy ball and rounders.

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Quote: Fergus McCarthy

Get ready Mark.

He'll be back with salary statistics about bouncy ball and rounders.

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No, but I will say that I quoted the minimum salary for first year players. Each team has a salary cap of about $90 million (which they all manage to exceed in subtle but totally legal ways). Each team also has about 48 players.

While some will make $15 million a year, others will make league minimum. THey all average out at just under $2 million a year before incentive bonuses, signing bonuses, shoe contracts, television and radio work, etc.

Big biccies for ballet dancers JMan.

Why do they wear the helmets?

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Quote: Fergus McCarthy

Big biccies for ballet dancers JMan.

Why do they wear the helmets?

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To protect their penises.

Probably, but seriously. Why do they wear the helmets? Is it for show?

I can understand Lacrosse or Hockey players wearing them, hurlers displaying signs of sanity sometimes wear them but American footballers dont have sticks as weapons and the ball isn't likely to smash their face in.

Its only a game of Rugby really. It is isn't it?


Really.

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Quote: Fergus McCarthy

Probably, but seriously. Why do they wear the helmets? Is it for show?

I can understand Lacrosse or Hockey players wearing them, hurlers displaying signs of sanity sometimes wear them but American footballers dont have sticks as weapons and the ball isn't likely to smash their face in.

Its only a game of Rugby really. It is isn't it?


Really.

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For show? Yeah. It's not exactly necessary to protect them from brain damage, is it? The fact they're playing in the first place is proof of a lack of a brain.

Real men don't need protection. Unless it's to prevent unwanted pregnancies or preventing the spread of disease.

Whats the toughest sport on the planet? A real mans sport. Something so unbelievably dangerous that you shack your head in amazement at the mighty power of the players.

It has to be legal. Or legal-ish.


Oh, and Victor, does football remind you of avocado's because of the texture of the balls?
Do you like the balls, Victor?
Would you lie to lick them and put them in your mouth, Victor?

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Quote: Jesus Budda


Real men don't need protection. Unless it's to prevent unwanted pregnancies or preventing the spread of disease.

Whats the toughest sport on the planet? A real mans sport. Something so unbelievably dangerous that you shack your head in amazement at the mighty power of the players.

It has to be legal. Or legal-ish.



Handy enough.

Hurling.

Still played today. Same rules.

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Quote: Fergus McCarthy

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Quote: Jesus Budda


Real men don't need protection. Unless it's to prevent unwanted pregnancies or preventing the spread of disease.

Whats the toughest sport on the planet? A real mans sport. Something so unbelievably dangerous that you shack your head in amazement at the mighty power of the players.

It has to be legal. Or legal-ish.



Handy enough.

Hurling.

Still played today. Same rules.

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Mountain men with mighty sticks, running around after a teeny tiny ball and whacking it with the force of giants.
Men with real balls. Men with bravery and strength. men who are unafraid to face pain and injury for the cause of entertainment.




I know this may sound a bit feeble but: toe wrestling.
It's dangerous, ridiculous and pain is the name of the game.

JB

Are you telling us you are gay?

No response, I guess we have an answer.

Not really Vic.

You may get a response from JB later, it depends who I'm feeling.

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Quote: victor nicholas

JB

Are you telling us you are gay?

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Who knows?
Maybe I am?
I haven't met the right man yet to find out.

If the man looked like a good-looking woman and had female body parts and a similar sense of humor to me then maybe I'd be tempted.

Victor, you seem like a very nice older Canadian man so I'm sure your wife 9if you have one) is also older and Canadian.

There is a strong chance then that she will have entered the phase where women slowly begin to transform into men: chin enlarges, whiskers sprout on face, posture becomes more masculine as she sits in armchairs with her legs spread out like a fat farmer, etc.

Her voice will have deepened and her eyebrows will become either more bushy or faded away completely.

As age progresses, women tend to dye their hair a darker shade to cover white, which leads to a phenomenon known as 'shit hair syndrome'. Women also get their hair 'cut & styled' much tighter which emphasis's their newfound masculinity.

Victor, your wife is turning into a man. Pretty soon you will be technically gay.

There is no need to worry. We're all gay in one way or another.

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Quote: victor nicholas

No response, I guess we have an answer.

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Manly sport, anyone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferret_legging

Small, sharp animals, kept in vicinity of testicles for prolonged periods of time - I'm training at present, but only progressed to ferrets in childhood, or mildly retarded. Anyone want to play with me?