"B Robson" <Xb-robsonX@gol.com> wrote in message 
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> Ernest Schaal wrote:
>
>> in article couulc$6ic$1@nnrp.gol.com, B Robson at Xb-robsonX@gol.com 
>> wrote
>> on 12/5/04 9:24 PM:
>>
>>
>>>Ernest Schaal wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Just because America is more powerful financially and politically, and 
>>>>its
>>>>culture is more influential doesn't me that you can't be proud of your 
>>>>own
>>>>achievements, instead of turning into a bitter person like the person 
>>>>you
>>>>have become.
>>>>
>>>
>>>It's not the team that is the problem, it's the cheerleaders and 
>>>supporters.
>>
>>
>> You mean like English soccer fans?
>>
>
> Don't know anything about football.

After that ruck at a basketball match I heard a news report that 40% of 
professional sportsmen in the US have criminal convictions.