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Not this kind of futbal

USA – Very large, yet surprisingly nimble, men gathered, probably in an America city, Sunday to play a game of football while perhaps tens of thousands of people watched on television, maybe more.  It was not known at press time which team scored more points in the end, nor did it matter in the grand scheme of things.

No, not like this.

According to sources, there were also lots of people interested in seeing the advertisements during breaks in the game, or something.

Somehow this is a big story, or perhaps not.  The main thing to keep in mind is that these men are both big and nimble, and some of them are quite skillful in the art of advancing a pneumatically-charged animal carcass toward a particular space at the end of the grassy area, while others are skillful at stopping them from doing so – not through critical debate on the merits of moving the object over leaving it in place, but through force.

This reporter can’t help wonder, what exactly happened in that city, and why.

No, not even this, though it is a group of men fighting over the advancement of an animal carcass across arbitrarily defined areas. That's right, this is the Afghani sport of "buzkashi," and that is a headless goat.