World’s Largest Football?
Wednesday, 5th April 2006 by Alex Turnbull
Here in Niigata, Japan, we can see what may well be the world's largest football! Presumably it's a gas tank of some sort - can anyone translate the japanese?
It's likely that this ball was decorated for the 2002 World Cup, as some of the games were held at the nearby 42,300 seater Niigata "Big Swan" Stadium, so named for the super-cool roof, which apparently represents the wings of a resting swan.
Thanks to Jerome.
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That’s not a football. It’s a soccer ball!
In the USA is a soccer ball… in the rest of the world is a football! 😉
Does anybody know what that could be?
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Sun refelction flare.
A google search: http://www.google.com/search?hl=ja&q=%E6%96%B0%E6%BD%9F+%E3%82%AC%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF%E3%80%80%E3%82%B5%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC&lr= shows that it is a tank of “Hokuriku Gas”, a regional gas company.
Many blogs and pages from the above link contain the ground photo of it (and other funny tanks). However, it appears that the tank was repainted back to boring green in 2003…
Mr Tinker, I refer you kind sir to the Wikipedia article about Football.
😉
Bloody yanks.
Er, wait a sec…
Anyway, I wonder where the largest american football might be.
it is a FOOTBALL. dumb americans, they play FOOTball without the FOOT.
I like the bridge>/a> over the river to nowhere just to the NE of the stadium.
Football, football.
A bunch of nearly hairless chimpanzees running after a ball.
When I count to three we’ll all SNAP THE FUCK OUT OF IT!!!!!
In Australia it is also know as a ‘soccerball’.. 😉
In Japan, “foot ball” means “rugby ball”.
We will do the football, you guys make the beer !!! You even have adverts taking the piss out of your own nation.
Next to the football, isn’t the other tower a golf ball?
tim, sorry you’re mistaken – that’s a ping pong ball ;-P
see this news item for the world’s largest football (soccer ball)
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2006/November/middleeast_November236.xml§ion=middleeast&col=