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  • #31
    no it wont
    Concrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
    "I don't believe in giving scripting languages because the only additional power they give users is the power to create bugs." - Mike Breitkreutz, Firaxis

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    • #32
      Real Men would be playing Ringball.
      The ways of Man are passing strange, he buys his freedom and he counts his change.
      Then he lets the wind his days arrange and he calls the tide his master.

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      • #33
        Real men play speedball.
        Science without conscience is the doom of the soul.

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        • #34
          No!
          Real man kick Hooligan's balls

          Saluti
          "Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else.
          The trick is the doing something else."
          — Leonardo da Vinci
          "If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?" - Cardinal Richelieu
          "In vino veritas" - Plinio il vecchio

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          • #35
            IW, I really like your avatar!
            I watched you fall. I think I pushed.

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            • #36
              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!!

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              • #37
                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
                Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
                Then why call him God? - Epicurus

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                • #38
                  Originally posted by Promethus
                  Real Men would be playing Ringball.
                  sounds painfull!!

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                  • #39
                    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.
                    Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!

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                    • #40
                      Re: Re: Re: Re: Football (why do the the yanks insist on calling it soccer?)

                      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.
                      It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
                      RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O

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                      • #41
                        to get back on track, can anyone see past France winning it?

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                        • #42
                          ..and if you can would you like a bet?

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                          • #43
                            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.

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                            • #44
                              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

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                              • #45
                                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

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