4th round draw delay

[HawkMan]

5 minutes ago, M j M said:

You may as well ask why our sport still refers to "tries" when the act long since became a point scoring act in its own right rather than just a prelude to trying to score. 

Sports terminology is bound up in history but as long as everyone knows  what it means there's no need to try and unpick it.

Squash the game got its name because originally players whacked Squash the fruit around the court instead of a ball, and then made a delicious drink out of the remains....probably.

[Eddie]

4 minutes ago, HawkMan said:

Squash the game got its name because originally players whacked Squash the fruit around the court instead of a ball, and then made a delicious drink out of the remains....probably.

Pool was originally played in swimming pools also - fact. 

[sam4731]

7 minutes ago, Eddie said:

Pool was originally played in swimming pools also - fact. 

Goodminton just wasn't as popular as it's counterpart.

Fencing didn't take off until they replaced full panels with small swords.

And boxing requires far fewer coffins these days.

No need to fact check these, you can trust me.

[gingerjon]

9 hours ago, Eddie said:

You think the FA asked what was on either side of the draw when they were discussing this with the BBC? I doubt that, and also I don’t they’d care if the RL draw was on anyway, it would hardly detract from theirs. 

I genuinely think they will have done. The One Show can have very weighty topics next to fluff. The context in which the draw happens will absolutely be part of the discussion. In the same way, advertisers in the press will often have stories/themes they do not want their ads to be next to.

[gingerjon]

Oh, and football is called football, (all kinds), because it's a ball game played on foot.

[ricky]

Basketball was originally an aristocratic game, the players comfortably seated in plush wicker baskets manoeuvred by their valets. Slow-moving, but very skillful, with excellent opportunities for elegantly-phrased banter.

[HawkMan]

Cricket got its name from a misunderstanding. When the rules were first written down and published in a thick tome some 2000 pages long,the poor girl asked to proofread it before final publication looked at the book at muttered " crikey." Unfortunately someone at that moment from the publishers asked her the name of the sport and thought that was the name. Then a typographical error exchanged the Y for a T, to become Criket, later spelling evolution added a middle C.

 

Bowls, the leisurely game for the elderly was so called because it was often the case that play was interrupted by aged players taking toilet breaks. To indicate this to other players the shout of " bowels " would be heard. This was considered to be a possible name for the game,but considered too embarrassing,  so the E was dropped and it became bowls.

Edited February 10 by HawkMan

[JohnM]

Explain the etymology of dwile flunking, then.

[dkw]

No one try an explain the name "tiddly winks" for gods sake.

[sam4731]

Ooh, a thread all about the delay of the draw for the 4th round of the challenge cup.

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