On Fußball Tables
The other chemistry building has a foosball table in their basement. The other day, while waiting to use their (much more well shimmed) NMR, I was looking over the table.
It struck me that there are 13 players on the table/field/pitch.
How odd, I thought. Doesn't football/soccer have 11 players on the field at a time, not 13? This is unexpected for a game so obviously based on football.
Yet every foosball table I can recall seeing here in America has 13 players.
So, I decided I would post to you all about it and see what you can inform me. Surely, some of you know more about foosball than I.
Since I decided to write this, I have learned some interesting things about foosball on-line. But I'll just leave this post as is, anyhow, and will leave you with a brief poll:
Edit: In all these questions, add the phrase "per team" to the numerical answers.
Poll Fußball Pitch Census
It struck me that there are 13 players on the table/field/pitch.
How odd, I thought. Doesn't football/soccer have 11 players on the field at a time, not 13? This is unexpected for a game so obviously based on football.
Yet every foosball table I can recall seeing here in America has 13 players.
So, I decided I would post to you all about it and see what you can inform me. Surely, some of you know more about foosball than I.
Since I decided to write this, I have learned some interesting things about foosball on-line. But I'll just leave this post as is, anyhow, and will leave you with a brief poll:
Edit: In all these questions, add the phrase "per team" to the numerical answers.
Poll Fußball Pitch Census