Soccer Ball Again

Some time ago, we had some minor discussions on 'soccer-ball'.
http://pomxpom.blogspot.com/2006/07/soccerball.html
http://amoozing.blogspot.com/2006/07/ball.html

Just now, watching a dunno-what-movie at HBO, heard such dialogue (sort of) -
"Although you teach romantic poetry... you are as romantic as a soccer ball...!"

See, seems that it's indeed called a 'soccer ball'...