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bigclanger3
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"I've posted this in another thread- real sports are ones you can play while consuming alcohol- Golf, Motorsports....."
motorsports. and alcohol. probably the most stupid thing anyone has ever said.
and can we stop calling it soccer? it's football.
also, what exactly is American-American? you mean Native Americans? |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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| motorsports. and alcohol. probably the most stupid thing anyone has ever said. |
First off it was a little tongue and cheek. Though if your such a tightwad that you think getting a little drunk and going off-roading is ultra stupid, well you need to get a little drunk and go off-roading.
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| and can we stop calling it soccer? it's football. |
Whatever.
Vince Lombardi, Walter Payton, and Bear Bryant say Football is Football.
If soccer wants the title of football back it can stage an 11 on 11 brawl for it. Man-U vs. the Bears. Heck, Man-U vs. the Lions. Football has successfully bullied the title of football away from Soccer and I for one am darn pleased with that.
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| also, what exactly is American-American? |
Not fresh off the boat and they really see themselves as American.
Geez, lighten up, this is a sports trashing and thrashing thread. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:54 am Post subject: |
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Football
Aussie Rules football
American football
Rugby Union
Rugby League
Don't they all have the same origins anyway? Probably why American football is called 'football' even though you use your hands most of the time. |
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Epicurus
Joined: 18 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 3:34 am Post subject: |
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I would agree, from a logical standpoint that soccer should indeed be called football.
It's the most apt name possible. After all they only use their feet.
but since I am an American and American football is called "football", until the title is taken away, I'll have to call it that.
Sorry.
english has never been a logical language. Note the idiotic spelling of multiple words differently even though they are pronounced the same way.
and note the British way of using the plural.
England have won the game.
(yeah yeah I get it.. they refer to it as a plural, but it still sounds idiotic.. and it can get a lot worse, what the Brits do with plurals) |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 3:41 am Post subject: |
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| "Football" originally denoted any game played "on foot". Soccer is, probably, a very English term coming from "Association Football" where "association" morphed into socca, socker, soccer. |
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AmericanExile
Joined: 04 May 2009
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| Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:02 am Post subject: |
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| bigclanger3 wrote: |
| and can we stop calling it soccer? it's football. |
No, where I'm from it's called soccer because a more important sport is already using the name football. People from the part of the world where soccer is the biggest game in town insist on calling that sport American Football. The difference is this. Where I'm from most of the people who play, coach, watch or or are otherwise affiliated with soccer call it soccer. People affiliated with football DO NOT call it American Football.
That makes mine cultural and yours just bad manners.
You may not like it but you are gonna have to learn to deal with it because we won't change. Why should we? To please you? Who are you to demand a foreign culture bend itself to your will? There is nothing wrong with us being different. It doesn't hurt anyone. Your ears don't start to bleed when you hear the word soccer. Your eyes don't melt from your head when you read the word soccer. It may annoy you, but I'm sure there are things about your culture that annoy me. I bet if I demanded you and your fellow citizens change them to suit my wishes there would be people lined up to tell me where I could shove it and probably more than a few who'd be willing to help.
Did any of that occurred to you while you were allowing yourself to get wound up about something so trivial? Soccer fans. I'm sorry futebol. |
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Savant
Joined: 25 May 2007
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| Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:54 am Post subject: |
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For us British folks it does seem a little ironic when Americans refer to American Football as Football when so little contact between foot and ball actually takes place in a game.
For most of the world (excluding America), when people hear the word "Football" they think of "The Beautiful Game."
I have no problems with Americans referring to American Football as Football. Just like how we say "lift" and you Americans say "elevator". It's a cultural thing.
This talk about physical prowess too is ridiculous. Your average Football player could not block/tackle a player as well as an American Football player; but similarly how many American Football players can run about for a 90 minute game of Football.
I would conclude by saying let's respect each other's National Sport. However, is that Baseball or American Football to you Americans? |
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AmericanExile
Joined: 04 May 2009
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| Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Savant wrote: |
| For us British folks it does seem a little ironic when Americans refer to American Football as Football when so little contact between foot and ball actually takes place in a game. |
Our ball does look more like a foot than yours though.
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| most of the world (excluding America), when people hear the word "Football" they think of "The Beautiful Game." |
Most of the world drives on the right side of the road. Let me know when the British think that matters enough for them to change. Until then stop telling us what the rest of the world does as if it should make some difference. It doesn't to you. It doesn't to us. Does it to any country? What a sad place filled with followers that must be.
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| would conclude by saying let's respect each other's National Sport. However, is that Baseball or American Football to you Americans? |
Where is it written you can have only one? We have three. One or the other is being played all year long. |
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litebear
Joined: 12 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Hahah not bad |
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benji
Joined: 21 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Savant wrote: |
For us British folks it does seem a little ironic when Americans refer to American Football as Football when so little contact between foot and ball actually takes place in a game.
For most of the world (excluding America), when people hear the word "Football" they think of "The Beautiful Game."
I have no problems with Americans referring to American Football as Football. Just like how we say "lift" and you Americans say "elevator". It's a cultural thing.
This talk about physical prowess too is ridiculous. Your average Football player could not block/tackle a player as well as an American Football player; but similarly how many American Football players can run about for a 90 minute game of Football.
I would conclude by saying let's respect each other's National Sport. However, is that Baseball or American Football to you Americans? |
Who made the rule that says a sport must be named according to what the ball touches. In baseball the ball almost never touches a base. Yet the name baseball. What do crickets have to do with cricket? Dont even get me started on badminton.
Soccer in non English speaking countries does not go by the name football anyway. If you insist in differentiation why dont you call soccer "headball". Soccer should be called "diving" anway but that name is already taken. |
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Epicurus
Joined: 18 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Savant wrote: |
For us British folks it does seem a little ironic when Americans refer to American Football as Football when so little contact between foot and ball actually takes place in a game.
For most of the world (excluding America), when people hear the word "Football" they think of "The Beautiful Game."
I have no problems with Americans referring to American Football as Football. Just like how we say "lift" and you Americans say "elevator". It's a cultural thing.
This talk about physical prowess too is ridiculous. Your average Football player could not block/tackle a player as well as an American Football player; but similarly how many American Football players can run about for a 90 minute game of Football.
I would conclude by saying let's respect each other's National Sport. However, is that Baseball or American Football to you Americans? |
actually other than offensive and defensive linemen, most football players can easily run around for that time.
And - what they do is much more taxing and strenuous.. because it's short stretches of explosive running, while dodging people that want to flatten you, while trying to flatten someone else.
It's like the difference between sprinters and long distance runners. Amerian football players are sprinters, with those physiques and power requirements, while soccer players are long distance runners. with little lithe physiques and arms the size of footbal players' wrists.
Needless to say, I have my clear preference.
no soccer player would be insane enough to get into a physical altercation with a rugby player or American footballer. It'd be suicide.
btw.. I do, in fairness, tell my students when talking about sports, that we call it soccer.. but the rest of the world call it football and I say if they'd like they can use the global standard and refer to our football as "American football". |
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