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

[joseph1944]

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

USA Football started officially Nov 6, 1869 with a game between Rulgers and Princeton. The game used modified London Football Assoc. rules. During the next seven years, rugby gained favor with the major eastern schools over soccer, and modern football began to develop from rugby. Quotes from 1996 Record and Fact Book of the NFL.

[Lung]

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

Originally posted by Aeson

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

At least their finally getting some excercise

[faded glory]

Lung you die and go to hell. I was right, late 1800's! We added our rules.

As for your location, since you wussied your way out of CTP. Ill have to wait to kick your ass in Civ3. *sob*

[Imran Siddiqui]

USA Football started officially Nov 6, 1869 with a game between Rulgers and Princeton.

RuTgers, thank you. And we won too over those namby pamby Ivy Leaguers .

[Lung]

Originally posted by faded glory
Lung you die and go to hell. I was right, late 1800's! We added our rules.

I was talking about the origin of Rugby, you drunken moose-porn-loving wally!!! Seeing as Gridiron evolved from Rugby, i was right right and you were wrong!

As for your location, since you wussied your way out of CTP. Ill have to wait to kick your ass in Civ3. *sob*

Not quite, loser! If you can cut the mustard, you may meet me in the semis of the unofficial CTP World Championship, the Lungmatch! tournament. If you don't play me again in CtP, it will be because you're not good enough

[TCO]

keep that kind of spam to the on topic forums...silly gamers!

[faded glory]

Just an age old rivalry.


Ill get you lung. In fact, I should roll your ass in swissy2, If we werent allies. Unfortunately, Mobius might take advantage of that, and do some rolling himself, at me.


Hey, and lungmatch is rigged to much in spains favor! Mobius has all the mountains! Basterd..... But if i can gt fascists first..... Just a few more turns my boy

[faded glory]

Back to the orignal topic. If you look at rugby and football, there really not similiar at all. Rugby consists of running around. Where as football is a tad more civilized, Scrimage, downs, sequence plays. More of a strategic game. Rugby is more like what we call smear the queer. Or basically, beat up the guy who has the football.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by faded glory
Where as football is a tad more civilized,

Rugby is more like what we call smear the queer. Or basically, beat up the guy who has the football.

So it is more civilized to beat up everyone, rather than the guy with the ball?

Rugby has strategy and skill. Have you ever played it, because you seem not to appreciate its finer points.

[SKILORD]

rugby rocks ... so does footbal (soccer) Amarican Football fails to be worthwhile though

[Kropotkin]

Although there's some esoteric level of tactics involved in american football no one not raised with it seems to be able to understand that part 'cause the game is so slow that one loses interest before that. Rugby on the other hand is a fast and furious game that I would like to see more of if I could.

Also, american footballers lose out in the estetic departement as they look ridiculous in those outfits.

[TCO]

American football is one of the most strategic games and has many parralels to war.

George Patton said that "football is as close as you can get to war
without killing people."

Rugby is quite rough but is not as strategic as football.

[Dauphin]

I think thats just cultural belief. People who play/enjoy a sport know it well, and so see the strategy that a bystander would not notice.

George Patton said that "football is as close as you can get to war without killing people."

You can say that about many games, including Tic-Tac-Toe. Ever seen Wargames (?) with Mathew Broderick?

[faded glory]

Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin


So it is more civilized to beat up everyone, rather than the guy with the ball?

Rugby has strategy and skill. Have you ever played it, because you seem not to appreciate its finer points.

The concept of pads and helmets for one. I can name a few others. But thats good enough.

I watched Aussie rules football. That is some serouis stuff. I think the average of the players careers is less than 10 years!

[TCO]

Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin
I think thats just cultural belief. People who play/enjoy a sport know it well, and so see the strategy that a bystander would not notice.

George Patton said that "football is as close as you can get to war without killing people."

You can say that about many games, including Tic-Tac-Toe. Ever seen Wargames (?) with Mathew Broderick?

But tic tac toe and computer war games, do not have a physical apsect or a team aspect (including leadership, followership, etc.) Any team sport will have these aspects as well as some strategic aspects.