"The Vatican Mulls fielding Football team"!

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Franciscan said:
Okay so let’s see a good mascot?
The Vatican Viper-beaters
The Vatican Saints
The Vatican ???🙂 🙂 🙂
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The Roman Rota!

Or maybe they could be the Vatican Inquisition! (Complete with some juridical looking bishop character running around with a decree of excommunication).

The “Hounds of Heaven”.
 
Belfarmer said:
I’m sorry but all I can see is a team of Cardinals attempting to kick the ball with their cassocks on. And I guess the team color would have to be purple 😃
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They ought start a hockey team. They’d be great in the penalty box!
 
I just posted to see my post count, I don’t have anything to add to this thread…

Hey, at least I’m honest about it, unlike most of these bandwidth wasters around here…😃
 
chicago said:
They ought start a hockey team. They’d be great in the penalty box!
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I can see it now - the official sitting in the box would be a priest instead - forgive me father, for I have sinned, its been about 14mins since my last confession. I punched #12 in the head because he attacked my goalie.
 
Atreyu said:
Are you serious?! Are you trying to tell me that so-called “American football” is the “real” football? You’ve got to be kidding me… First of all, American football is based on rugby (what I would call “rugby union”) which has some claim to the name “football”, as it developed at the same time as football in England, it was just played a different way at different places. But football (what you call “soccer”) is the original and you don’t even use your feet in American football! Once every four plays maybe?! It should be called “American handball”. At least in rugby union they actually kick the ball a bit…
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In the Unoted States we rightly refer to what the rest of the world calls “Football” as B-O-R-I-N-G. I think Rugby would be a lot better sprot if it had rules…
 
estesbob said:
In the Unoted States we rightly refer to what the rest of the world calls “Football” as B-O-R-I-N-G. I think Rugby would be a lot better sprot if it had rules…
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Speak for yourself on this one. Soccer is a fascinating sport that is gaining popularity in the US on a daily basis.
 
CHCatholic said:
I can see it now - the official sitting in the box would be a priest instead - forgive me father, for I have sinned, its been about 14mins since my last confession. I punched #12 in the head because he attacked my goalie.
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:rotfl: :rotfl:

one minor quibble… in football, they’re keepers. Hockey teams have goalies 😃
 
rr1213 said:
Speak for yourself on this one. Soccer is a fascinating sport that is gaining popularity in the US on a daily basis.
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I have been hearing that for 40 years! I do have an affinity for soccer-i played on the kansas State High SchoolChampion Soccer team for 4 staright years back in the mid 60s. In the intererest of full discolsure I should add that there was only one other Soccer team in the state at that time and they were worst than we were!
 
estesbob said:
I have been hearing that for 40 years! I do have an affinity for soccer-i played on the kansas State High SchoolChampion Soccer team for 4 staright years back in the mid 60s. In the intererest of full discolsure I should add that there was only one other Soccer team in the state at that time and they were worst than we were!
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Nice 😃
 
Vatican Martyrs - The sports headlines could have an endless field day with this one.
 
estesbob said:
In the Unoted States we rightly refer to what the rest of the world calls “Football” as B-O-R-I-N-G. I think Rugby would be a lot better sprot if it had rules…
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And the rest of the world refers to American Football as G-I-R-L-Y - I mean the amount of padding and protection the players wear to play a game that has about the same amount of contact as Rugby or Australian Rules - it’s hysterical.
 
LilyM said:
And the rest of the world refers to American Football as G-I-R-L-Y - I mean the amount of padding and protection the players wear to play a game that has about the same amount of contact as Rugby or Australian Rules - it’s hysterical.
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I’ve heard the British refer to American football players as “a bunch of nannies dressed in kevlar body armor.”
 
JKirkLVNV said:
I’ve heard the British refer to American football players as “a bunch of nannies dressed in kevlar body armor.”
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I never have, and I am a big soccer fan.

Usually I hear Brits refer to American and Canadian football as “Gridiron”.
 
Who cares about soccer/football/rugby/gridiron…we all know hockey and golf is where its at:D
 
Excellent. But I am affraid it is an old news. A few years ago I read an article in 4-4-2 ( I think) about an international football match between Vatican and Monaco. A quick search led me to this wikipedia site - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City_national_football_team
I would be nice to have a full football team that competes in UEFA and FIFA competitions. It will not be too difficult to cheer for that team.
Ah, the beautiful game … How much longer before Euro 2008 and the next World Cup???
 
If anyone here ever read any of the Don Camilio series, there is a funny scene where the local Catholic team (coached by Father Camilio) is playing the local communist (coached by the communist mayor).

IIRC, in the end, Jesus allows the communists to win because he knows that the Catholic team members will be forgiven, but the communists may be shot. (It has been years since I read the books, so my memory may be hazy)
 
The image you give reminds me of a Monty Python skit - a philosopher’s football match between pitting the Greeks against the Germans (the Greeks win…after getting the bright idea to kick the ball). 😃

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philosophers’_Football_Match
Belfarmer said:
I’m sorry but all I can see is a team of Cardinals attempting to kick the ball with their cassocks on. And I guess the team color would have to be purple 😃

But a little more seriously, it would be a great public relations effort! Maybe it would help the world look at the Vatican in a better light 👍
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