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Subject: [OM] Re: This Day The Music Died
From: Rand E <rtomcala@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:57:01 -0500
Ty Cobb had to maintain his image for the Detroit crowd.

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Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Hmmmm - been watching the ladies game again?
> My son's comment on one Australian participant in the English Premier  
> League - "Absolute thug. I stood on the terraces and heard him  
> threaten his own teammates with death."
> 
> Of course, one should keep the violence in the crowd where it belongs  
> as we were so ably reminded by St. Eric Cantona when he expertly  
> dropkicked an opposing fan with a smart mouth.  And in another  
> arena,  I believe that Ty Cobb entered the crowd to dispose of a  
> similar individual, many years ago.
> I love that definition of the two kinds of Rugby -
> 'League is a game of hooligans behaving like gentlemen and Union of  
> gentlemen behaving like hooligans.' Perfect.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> 
> On 07/02/2008, at 2:12 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> 
>> That's right! Soccer is played in a very polite, civilized manner.
>> It's the fans that are the problem. And what does it say for a
>> culture that keeps the sport civilized while the fans kill one
>> another? <wink>

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