UK soccer (real football)
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Fred_Smith wrote:
'In Soccer They Score About as Often as Ann Coulter Makes Sense' (Bryant Gumbel - link[^])
That's not true. A football game without goals is actually rare. One thing I don't understand about that thing Americans play and call it football: 1) It's not a ball, it looks more like a big egg. 2) They carry and throw it with their hands. So why do Americans call it foot-ball?
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Diego Moita wrote:
That's not true. A football game without goals is actually rare.
I know that.. you know that.... but Americans like things fast and furious, and they like big numbers. One or two goals in 90 minutes just doesn't do it for them. I'm not sure "subtle" is even in tbeir dictionary. :-D If you want to see an American cry, try explaining the virtues of cricket to one... :laugh:
Diego Moita wrote:
- It's not a ball, it looks more like a big egg.
It probably used to be round, til one of those hulks fell on it....
Diego Moita wrote:
So why do Americans call it foot-ball?
Who knows? Though, in fairness (like we care about that, hey?) they do kick it too... We love 'em really... big softies that they are underneath it all... :rose:
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until i see a man hit another so hard that it makes them retarded, soccer isnt real football... (im looking for the link to the story, its a really old one, but basically a linebacker tackled a man so hard that it literally knocked him to an IQ below 80... ok fine, he only broke his face and caused the man to have reconstructive surgery which included a large metal plate where his eye socket should be... -- modified at 11:09 Friday 21st September, 2007
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Diego Moita wrote:
That's not true. A football game without goals is actually rare.
I know that.. you know that.... but Americans like things fast and furious, and they like big numbers. One or two goals in 90 minutes just doesn't do it for them. I'm not sure "subtle" is even in tbeir dictionary. :-D If you want to see an American cry, try explaining the virtues of cricket to one... :laugh:
Diego Moita wrote:
- It's not a ball, it looks more like a big egg.
It probably used to be round, til one of those hulks fell on it....
Diego Moita wrote:
So why do Americans call it foot-ball?
Who knows? Though, in fairness (like we care about that, hey?) they do kick it too... We love 'em really... big softies that they are underneath it all... :rose:
Fred_Smith wrote:
try explaining the virtues of cricket to one...
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We've had plenty of quite serious injuries in soccer - we don't pad ourselves up like Michelin Man before we start playing.... I remember (wy back) seeing a photo of the great George Best taken in his shorts just after a game - he was covered, literally head to toe - in briuses, boot & stud marks, and cuts - and that was just an ordinary game. It was quite a scary photo (two actually, front and back.) Still, if you want that, there's always rugby. Or boxing. Football (let's go back to basics here shall we?) = foot + ball... get it? Fred
Injuries? Bah, football players are fuckin sissies. Just look at one of them too long, and they'll fall over and whine. Bunch of pussies, that's what they are. Ice hockey on the other hand..
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Well, I guess that I do know that Los Angeles has some sort of soccer team. I only know that because that bald British dude who's married to posh spice was splashed across the tabloids at my local Wal-Mart's checkout.
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until i see a man hit another so hard that it makes them retarded, soccer isnt real football... (im looking for the link to the story, its a really old one, but basically a linebacker tackled a man so hard that it literally knocked him to an IQ below 80... ok fine, he only broke his face and caused the man to have reconstructive surgery which included a large metal plate where his eye socket should be... -- modified at 11:09 Friday 21st September, 2007
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Fred_Smith wrote:
'In Soccer They Score About as Often as Ann Coulter Makes Sense' (Bryant Gumbel - link[^])
That's not true. A football game without goals is actually rare. One thing I don't understand about that thing Americans play and call it football: 1) It's not a ball, it looks more like a big egg. 2) They carry and throw it with their hands. So why do Americans call it foot-ball?
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
Diego Moita wrote:
- They carry and throw it with their hands. So why do Americans call it foot-ball?
So do "your" goalkeepers... :doh: Why do "you" call it foot-ball? -- modified at 19:25 Saturday 22nd September, 2007 Now that I think about it... the rest of the players routinely use their shins, knees, thighs, chests and heads. So tell me - why do you call it foot-ball? :confused:
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Diego Moita wrote:
- They carry and throw it with their hands. So why do Americans call it foot-ball?
So do "your" goalkeepers... :doh: Why do "you" call it foot-ball? -- modified at 19:25 Saturday 22nd September, 2007 Now that I think about it... the rest of the players routinely use their shins, knees, thighs, chests and heads. So tell me - why do you call it foot-ball? :confused:
Mike Mullikin wrote:
So do "your" goalkeepers... Why do "you" call it foot-ball?
There are 11 players and only one uses the hands...
Mike Mullikin wrote:
Now that I think about it... the rest of the players routinely use their shins, knees, thighs, chests and heads.
"Routinely"? Go watch more real football games...;P And in handball they also use the rest of the arm, not only the hands. Anyway,... in our football it's still a ball, not a big egg.;)
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Mike Mullikin wrote:
So do "your" goalkeepers... Why do "you" call it foot-ball?
There are 11 players and only one uses the hands...
Mike Mullikin wrote:
Now that I think about it... the rest of the players routinely use their shins, knees, thighs, chests and heads.
"Routinely"? Go watch more real football games...;P And in handball they also use the rest of the arm, not only the hands. Anyway,... in our football it's still a ball, not a big egg.;)
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
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Injuries? Bah, football players are fuckin sissies. Just look at one of them too long, and they'll fall over and whine. Bunch of pussies, that's what they are. Ice hockey on the other hand..
-- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
Bah1 I shall ignore your slur on the manlihood of us footballers... can't say Ive ever tried ice-hockey, but I know my dad used to say it was the most exciting and best sport he ever played. From everything I've ever read about it, it seems to be one of the roughest and toughest.. call me soft but I'd rather take a dive on mud than ice....