JAMES HORNER

I think it's a bit overrated, but I still enjoyed it. Baseball knowledge (or love) is not required.

I'd certainly recommend Field of Dreams just for James Earl Jones playing the Terry Mann character and his interaction with Kevin Costner's character - especially when they first meet. And Burt Lancaster's always worth watching his small-ish role.

Don't recall the score at all.

BTW, I really enjoy baseball!

It's rugby.

I haven't looked it up. I just saw parts of the trailer. I am not into sports movies in general anyway so my question still stands.

It's unamerican???

Has John Wayne been notified?

Why?

It is!
(Well, at least it was invented by the English.
Or at least existing football was modified in such a way that it officially became rugby)

Also weren't they the ones who decided they should rename the real football into soccer 'cause they assumed the right to the name was now theirs and therefore "true" football was now their football?

I wonder if Horner will return for the Avatar sequel. Hope so!

Baaaaah! Just reuse the score from the first film. I mean, save some money because Horner's going to do that anyway.

-Erik-

True dat. If (or when) he returns to score the sequel, I do hope he at least creates a proper end credits track.

Please do go ahead Jon.

Exactly correct, James.

All the various sports that evolved at roughly the same time and which involve teams of players moving a ball around to score points are called "football", not because you kick a ball, but because you are ON your feet (as opposed to being on horseback).

In the late 1800s lots of the major schools in England played their own version, or code, of football, most of which bore no relation to the various forms of football we know today. The rugby version - so called because it was played at Rugby school - was called "rugger", as was the way of schoolboys at the time to add the suffix "-er" on to words. One particularly popular code of football eventually became "association football', because a formal set of rules were written down for the first time by an association of schools. This version of the sport became known as "soccer", from an abbreviation of the word "association", again by those same schoolboys.

As lots of British people left the country and emigrated to Australia, Canada, the United States, and various other places, they took their different versions of the sport with them; both Australia and Canada eventually developed their own versions of football, while Rugby football and Association football made it to America through the Ivy League schools like Harvard and Yale. Naturally, they picked up the "soccer" nickname from their British counterparts. Rugby football eventually evolved in what we now know as American football; Association football - or soccer - never changed, except in the UK where the word 'soccer
dropped out of common usage, and was replaced by the all-encompassing term 'football'.

The most popular code of football in a country generally tends to be called "football" by that country - so, in Australia, Australian rules football is called "football"; in America, American football is called "football"; and in the UK, Association football is called "football".

So, ALL the sports are called football - just different codes of the same sport - and, when other versions are not as popular, they have to have a different name to differentiate between them. So, in America (and several other places) - they continue to use the old English name, 'soccer'. But it is NOT an Americanism; English schoolboys in the late 1800s created the name.

Enlightening, sure, but I still think 'soccer' sounds weird...as if they're playing only with socks or something.

Because playing without socks would be damn near impossible.

And very painful.

Socker it is then !