Monday, July 2, 2012

Football, you bet!

Direct from around 1930 to you!
 OK, I know it's not *real* football, at least to us Americans.  But for the rest of the world, soccer = football.

BTW, here's your opportunity to learn something totally worthless: the phrase 'Football, you bet!' comes from a 1977 show called the San Pedro Beach Bums.  Apparently, the entire world -- including me -- watched the pilot episode, the plot of which included a clueless foreigner whose mastery of English was limited to the phrase, 'Football, you bet!'  You STILL hear the phrase now and again, which is kind of incredible, when you consider that the show only lasted three months or so.

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