Football (why do the the yanks insist on calling it soccer?) - Page 2

Immortal Wombat · May 16, 2002, 18:24

no it wont

Promethus · May 16, 2002, 19:01

Real Men would be playing Ringball.

Akka · May 16, 2002, 19:18

Real men play speedball.

Giovanni Wine · May 16, 2002, 19:26

No!
Real man kick Hooligan's balls

Saluti

Alex · May 16, 2002, 19:42

IW, I really like your avatar!

reds4ever · May 16, 2002, 19:55

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Originally posted by Tuberski
The thing about soccer is, the games are tooooo long. 90 minutes of kicking the ball around is way too much. I think it should be sudden death. First team to score wins. Every game!

typical yank

youre a lost cause!!

alva · May 16, 2002, 19:59

quote:

Originally posted by Tuberski
The thing about soccer is, the games are tooooo long. 90 minutes of kicking the ball around is way too much. I think it should be sudden death. First team to score wins. Every game!

Maybe you schould stay out of this thread

reds4ever · May 16, 2002, 20:02

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Originally posted by Promethus
Real Men would be playing Ringball.

sounds painfull!!

Tuberski · May 16, 2002, 20:04

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Originally posted by alva848
quote:

Originally posted by Tuberski
The thing about soccer is, the games are tooooo long. 90 minutes of kicking the ball around is way too much. I think it should be sudden death. First team to score wins. Every game!

Maybe you schould stay out of this thread

Ummmm, no. First, I'm a yank, second I call it soccer. That is what this threads about right?

I do admit that it is much more exciting to play than it is to watch.

rah · May 16, 2002, 20:04

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Originally posted by Aeson

Maybe if you count broken nails as an injury... Tennis is a sport with a high injury rate (turned ankles and 'tennis elbow'), it doesn't mean it's a rough sport though.

No it was based on severe sprains and broken bones. It's baseball players that sit out with hangnails.

reds4ever · May 16, 2002, 20:07

to get back on track, can anyone see past France winning it?

reds4ever · May 16, 2002, 20:08

..and if you can would you like a bet?

Lung · May 16, 2002, 20:09

You guys think it's confusing in the states? Come to Australia, where you will get reeeeally confused!

We also call football soccer, or to be politically incorrect - "wogball"

The reasons are the same for the yanks, only we have two games called football!!

In Victoria, South and Western Australia, and the inbreds we call "Tasmanians", plus NT, football is Aussie Rules, which is fair enough considering how much kicking is involved, while in New South Wales and Queensland, football is Rugby League, which is a bit strange because kicking is not the main part of the game. Then again, the Yanks have it even more wrong as they kick even less than in League! To make things even more confusing, Aussie Rules and Rugby League asre both affectionately referred to as "footy".

I must say i laugh at hearing the Yanks say how rough Aussie Rules is when they see it, which is only a fraction of how tough Rugby League is. Rugby League is more like American Football, without the padding and stoppages. I guess that shows where Gridiron is on the list of toughest games

I must say though, that the claim of injuries being 10:1 in favour of the cheerleaders is crap, even for Gridiron

I'm sure the American footballers don't count broken fingernails as an 'injury'

I don't know about American Football, but in League, anything short of broken bones and ligament/tendon damage doesn't count. All players routinely carry numerous small injuries into every game.

reds4ever · May 16, 2002, 20:14

any sport that the ladyboy out of 'neighbours' can play competitively can't be that bad!!

seriously though, it's calmed down a lot from 10 years ago when they first started showing it over here

Lung · May 16, 2002, 20:22

Sorry, but us Aussies don't watch Neighbours

I have played Aussie Rules, and it's fun! Getting hit from behind is a bit disconcerting, though. It was almost as bad as getting gang-tackled by 3 meatheads at once in Rugby League

TCO · May 16, 2002, 21:08

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Originally posted by Aeson

Maybe if you count broken nails as an injury... Tennis is a sport with a high injury rate (turned ankles and 'tennis elbow'), it doesn't mean it's a rough sport though.

Most of the injuries are from gymnastics type stuff. Flips and what not, where there is a potential for neck injuries. They usually have minimal training for these types of tricks and do them on harder surfaces than a gymnastics floor. I doubt they get hurt much from bouncing up and down or from verbally leading cheers.

Dr Strangelove · May 16, 2002, 21:32

I wonder which came first: Soccer, or American Football?

Promethus · May 16, 2002, 21:36

In Ringball the losing team is killed.

faded glory · May 16, 2002, 21:59

With all do respect to ARF. The pads and helmets make things A WHOLE lot painful.

I know, I played when I was younger. It hurts like hell to get hit with Steel in the elbow or smashed head to head till you see stars and pass out. Or having your ****in mask fall full weight on your fingers in a cold weather game.

And the piles, Its ugly. You get 7-8 men in a pile, lots of NASTY things happen. Screaming, panicking, pinching, grabbing, hell even now and then you'de get a damn biter. I hate those guys, you never can find the ass who does it cause the victim is usually on the bottom...oh the horror the middle school football..

May 16, 2002, 22:03

The Oakland Raider will be the World Football Champs this year, I hope.

Lung · May 16, 2002, 22:06

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Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
I wonder which came first: Soccer, or American Football?

Er, soccer

Actually, this brings up the old debate about which came first - football or rugby?

Rugby Union folklore has it that some bloke called William Webb Ellis while playing football at a school called Rugby picked up the ball and ran with it. However, this contradicts reports of football developing as a working-class version of a game with tackling being banned upon the advent of cobblestones paving the roads of English towns. Once tackling was banned, inevitably ball handling must have been too. The original version of "rugby" was then confined to estates with grass fields, hence only the wealthy. Ironically, decades after the W.W. Ellis incident, Rugby League was formed as a professional breakaway to Rugby to provide compensation for injured Coal Miners. So which came first, the chicken or the egg??

I find it strange that Rugby fans ignore a much longer history in favour of a cute story about a guy inventing the game by breaking the rules of the game of the day

faded glory · May 16, 2002, 22:11

Football came around the 1870's. A few people would toss around pig skin stuffed with dirt or cotton. It didnt catch on till around 1910, when actual teams where formed

Lung · May 16, 2002, 22:17

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Originally posted by faded glory
Football came around the 1870's. A few people would toss around pig skin stuffed with dirt or cotton. It didnt catch on till around 1910, when actual teams where formed

I think yer wrong, dirtbag!! A couple of centuries too late, as usual

Anyway, i saw them playing American Football on Little House on the Prairie set back in the 1800's, so you must be wrong

TCO · May 16, 2002, 22:53

It cought on very quickly and was already a well-known college sport at the turn of the century.

Lung · May 16, 2002, 23:17

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Originally posted by GP
It cought on very quickly and was already a well-known college sport at the turn of the century.

Just ignore him. He won't go away, but it will make you feel better

TCO · May 16, 2002, 23:27

whatya drinking, Lungfish?

Lung · May 16, 2002, 23:29

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Originally posted by GP
whatya drinking, Lungfish?

Nothing, yet

I was referring to that Faded Glory nutter. He never knows what he's talking about. He probably still thinks he was found in the cabbage patch

TCO · May 16, 2002, 23:50

I remember when he explained about the famous 80's airborne invasion of Iraq (by US). Pretty funny to watch when Chris and MTG rolled in...

Lung · May 17, 2002, 00:04

Hence the reference to his drnuken gibberish under my avatar

Aeson · May 17, 2002, 00:18

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Originally posted by rah
No it was based on severe sprains and broken bones. It's baseball players that sit out with hangnails.

I still don't believe it. The part about the baseball players is spot on though.

There are a lot of injuries that happen in every single football game/practice that guys just have to play through. Bruises, sprains, dislocations (mostly fingers), and hyperextensions are common things that everyone ends up with.

Conversely I've never seen a (highschool) cheerleader get injured, or come to school injured. I could believe it if it was for college cheerleaders, as for the most part they do much more dangerous routines.

The fat girls waving their pom poms at my high schools... no way.