why do lies men in football have one plain yellow flag and the other a chequred yellow and orange flag?
969418
Both can be used interchangeably but if he needs to use both on one play he will be able to distinguish the two penalty locations from each other.
1141528
the us football logo has the stars.\nif you look closely the stars given to the world cup winners are golden in color and are always above the team logo.\nfrance has it above theres, england has 1, germany has 3 etc.
692590
For sports like football and basketball, it's critical that the two teams look different. Imagine the chaos if every football player wore a white jersey-- the quarterback would never know who to pass to, the linemen wouldn't know who to block, etc. That's why each team has to have at least two different jersey colors.\n\nIt's not that important for baseball, since it's pretty obvious who is on offense and who is on defense. It's just been baseball tradition that the road team wears some kind of gray uniform. That dates back to days when laundry facilities on the road were a little suspect, so teams wore gray unis to hide the dirt a little better.
1150165
Cut the Bigotry Bullshit. It's called a Rebel Flag for one reason. It symbolizes REBELION. DO NOT mistake a hand-ful of assholes for a symbol that can be used any number of 1000 ways. The flag is not evil, merely a select few that misuse it.
317232
It is when the quarterback has gotten rid of the ball and a defender comes up and hits him.  There are little things about this rule though.  If the defender is in the act of hitting right before he gets rid of the ball, that's just a good clean hit.  But if the quarterback gets rid of the ball and the defender has to take more then one step to hit him, the flags will fly, yellow everywhere!!
932810
It's meant to insult what the flag stands for. It is an act of defiance. It too is symbolic but it changes no policy.
936780
Design of the flag\nThe UK flag consists of three elements: the cross of St. George (red on white) for England, the cross of St. Andrew (white diagonal on blue) for Scotland, and the so-called cross of St. Patrick (red diagonal on white) for Ireland. The original Union Jack/Union Flag adopted in 1606 was symmetrical: the red cross of St. George outlined in white overlaid on top of a St. Andrew's flag, which was blue with a white X.\n\nSo the answer is blue. I think
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They are wore their national colors, not their national flag. National colors sometimes different from their national flag.\n\nFor Netherlands....their royal family is The House of "Orange", actually the colors of their flag once are orange-white-blue, changed to red to more visible at sea.\n\nItalian national color in all sports (except motorsports) is blue.\n\nThe colors of the German flag at World War I are black-white-red...white & black also the national colors of Prussia, who lead the unification of Germany in 1871.\n\nI don't know why the Japanese select blue as their national color in football.
1159315
Because that is the color of the National Team, called "Azzurri".\nThat is an historical tradition: before the creation of the Italian Republic, the Italian Regal Family (Savoia) had color "azzurro" (kind of blue) in their flag and that color was adopted by the soccer National Team to respect the Regal tradition.\nSince then the color has been kept in the Italian shirt, even though it is not a color present in their National flag.
933412
men are confusing sometimes they will argue and fight over silly little things when it comes to football/soccer men love to just get stuck in and the physical presence and atmosphere of a football/soccer game is just a beackon for men personally i love football and soccer i play both and i cant get enough of it most men just like to get stuck in or in general just love it that is why most take it so personally.\nhope that helps you :)
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It is to help with the offside calls.\n\nAs noted by at least one, usually a lot of fields use different designs for purely aesthetic reasons, including circles, diamonds, etc.   As you've noticed, there has been a marked lack of variety in the field designs for the World Cup.  Only the striped patterns are used.
1129314
The referee found that all the corners flags were missing as Holland and West Germany lined up for the kick-off.\n\nSo that is why the match was delayed because they couldn't play without the flags. (official rules)
1097665
Because that is the color of the National Team, blue, called "Azzurri".\nThat is an historical tradition: before the creation of the Italian Republic, the Italian Regal Family (Savoia) had color "azzurro" (kind of blue) in their flag and that color was adopted by the soccer National Team to respect the Regal tradition.\nSince then the color has been kept in the Italian shirt, even though it is not a color present in their National flag.
450771
The german flag has a black horizontal stripe at the top, with a red horizontal stripe in the middle, and a yellow horizontal stripe at the bottom.\n\nThe reasons are long and complex (but mostly relate to tradition with respect the black and gold, and the red possibly coming from the Hanseastic league), and I suggest you take a look at the wikipedia site linked below.
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its a yes-no answer. Yes as some red cards have been just given out again and again because of subsiquent yellow cards. also NO because, NOT ONE red carded player (That I herd of) have not recieved an earlyer yellow. When you get a yellow, it should tell a player "oh no, ive got a yellow, if I get another yellow ill get red and be suspended for a game".\n\nIt is also the players responsibilty to abide by the refferees rules no matter how crap the reffereing is for a particular match.\n\nyes yellow and red cards have been handed out a bit too much, but don't give the conclusion on the ref. some of the blame must be on the players, becase they are the ones that are making the ref pulling cards from his front pocket!\n\nif the players play by the rules, we wont be asking another question like this!
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well , only those who have 2 yellow cards will miss the next match, and the ones with red cards. and if someone get a red card directly( I mean if the referee give him just a red card, not Yellow+yellow=red) he will miss next two matches.but those who have only one yellow cards will be in the next match.
1077051
It's an old custom.  Italy plays in blue rather than the colors of the national flag because blue was the official color of the Royal House of Savoy.  And the Azzurri tribute to the Italian monarchy survives to this day.