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On 2002-01-17 mathwft@math.canterbury.ac.nz (Bill Taylor) said:

   > > There's no gentle way to break this news to you, son, so
   > > I'll just have to directly tell you that 'rugby union,'
   > > 'rugby league' and 'Australian rules' are =all= derivatives
   > > of soccer.
   >
   >Yes, but so is American football!!
   >So that rather defeats the point of your post, dunnit!?

No.  The point of the original post was to differentiate
between 'football' (=any= permutation of football), which
is an outdoor field sport, and 'FooSball'...which is an
indoor table-top game.

There seemed to be some confusion on the part of other
posters over the terminology.

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