Posted on October 28, 2005July 19, 2019 by 3 — Leave a comment

Three Lions – European Football

Threes in American Football

Three units on a football team; Offense, Defense, and Special Teams
Three ways of advancing a football; run, kick and pass
Three points for a field goal
In the football league the team that wins the game gets three points
In football you are allowed to call only 3 timeouts during each half of the game
Football’s 3-point stance

England football association - three lions crest — England football association – three lions crest

Threes in European Football

Three football teams in Glasgow – Celtic, Rangers & Partick Thistle
Three lions on an England football shirt (sorry, soccer shirt)
Three lines: Forwards, Halfback, Fullback

“Three Lions” was the official song of the England football team for the 1996 European Championships, which were held in England. The music was written by The Lightning Seeds, with comedians David Baddiel and Frank Skinner providing the lyrics. The song was a much bigger success than most football songs, capturing the Zeitgeist perfectly.

Three Lions Footballs-Coming Home Official Video

The lyrics spoke not of unbounded optimism for victory, but instead told of how, ever since 1966 and the one unequivocal success of the English football team, every tournament has ended in dashed hopes and the feeling that England will never again reach those heights (“Three Lions on a shirt, Jules Rimet still gleaming Thirty years of hurt, never stopped me dreaming”).

The song’s intro included samples of pessimism from football commentators Alan Hansen (“I think it’s bad news for the English game”), Trevor Brooking (“We’re not creative enough; we’re not positive enough”), and Jimmy Hill (“We’ll go on getting bad results”).

Despite the failures of the past, each tournament is greeted with fresh hopes that this might be the year they do it again, and the song’s exuberant chorus proclaimed that “It’s coming home, it’s coming home, it’s coming, football’s coming home”.

Posted on July 4, 2005March 25, 2015 by 3 — Leave a comment

George Bush

“If you’ve retired, you don’t have anything to worry about — that’s the third time I’ve said that (Laughter). I’ll probably say it three more times. You see, in my line of work, you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again, for the truth to sink in, to kinda’ catapult the propaganda.” (Applause)
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Posted on March 2, 2005October 16, 2023 by 3 — Leave a comment

Monty Python and the Holy Grail – thou must count to three

A reading from the Book of Armaments, Chapter 4, Verses 16 to 20:

Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, “Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.” And the Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals …

Now did the Lord say, “First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out.

Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.”

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Monty Python-Holy Hand Grenade

Monty Python

Monty Python were a British comedy troupe formed in 1969 consisting of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. The group came to prominence for the sketch comedy series Monty Python’s Flying Circus, which aired on the BBC from 1969 to 1974.