HotRod said:
Errm, they have the 'European cup Finals', that'll be in 2 years time...
Besides...USA, Brazil, Argentina, Japan....Not really part of the European Union....
;)
Oh, can you also please explain why your 'World Series handball football' is called that...isn't USA the only country that takes part??
Oh no, HotRod - I was saying that, instead of calling it "American Football", they should call it "European Soccer". Since the word "soccer" is kind of frowned upon, then why not just assign it to American football?
;p
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Oh, yuck! Finks been necroposting again!
I think I have described my view on American football here before, probably in this thread. But I am too lazy to look for it.
If you imagine the nations of the world as a playground full of kids you'll find them all happily (though competitively) playing a game together. Except for one lone awkward kid, the kid that represents America. He is trying to play the game, but he is too awkward, unathletic, and for some reason has a really, really hard time grasping the rules and just downright sucks at it. So, he makes up his own game (which is a bit of a copy of another game some of the other kids sometimes play) and goes off to play by himself. He decides to give this game the exact same name as the other kid's game, and in order to avoid confusion in his own mind (but to create it in everone elses), he decides to make up a silly name to call their game that is entirely different from what they call it. (Strangely, he manages to convince one (1) of the other kids to start calling it by that name as well. Damn Munchkins!) In the end we have the image of a bunch of kids playing football together, and one lone kid off by himself, burried under insane amounts of padding, throwing a ball (because he can't kick worth shit) at the brick wall and catching it as it bounces off. The kid giggles and laughs as he enjoys playing by himself. And from time to time the other kids glace over and wonder what he is finding so amusing, then turn away and get back to their big kids game.
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
C3PX, why single out American football like that? American football doesn't interfere with Americans playing soccer anymore than does Basketball and baseball and hockey. We don't not play soccer because we suck at it. I don't believe we do suck at soccer. Seems to me a few years back our woman's team won a Worlds championship in soccer and I believe also won an Olympic silver medal. Soccer just hasn't caught on in American, and probably never will.
C3PX said:
Oh, yuck! Finks been necroposting again!
Moth3r said:
Just been reading back over the 2006 thread. (I swear if anyone starts an American Football argument this time around, I'm gonna bust some heads...)
Oops.
His own fault though, he linked to the thread and brought it up.
Warbler said:
C3PX, why single out American football like that? American football doesn't interfere with Americans playing soccer anymore than does Basketball and baseball and hockey. We don't not play soccer because we suck at it. I don't believe we do suck at soccer. Seems to me a few years back our woman's team won a Worlds championship in soccer and I believe also won an Olympic silver medal. Soccer just hasn't caught on in American, and probably never will.
Mostly because you call it soccer.
From now on, I am going to refer to cars as garblenockers. Whenever you say the word car, I am going to assume you are talking about bedposts. Because car is my new word for bedpost. So when you say "I like fast cars" I am going to say, "How can a car be fast? They just set at the corners of your bed, they never move." Then, when I start talking about my garblenocker breaking down, you are going to be really confused. In fact, I can already imagine this discussion being really confusing and not going over very well. Life would just be easier if we all called cars cars, bedposts bedposts, garblenockers garblenockers, football football, and rugby rugby.
My point probably got lost, didn't it? Oh well.
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
vote_for_palpatine said:
HotRod said:
Errm, they have the 'European cup Finals', that'll be in 2 years time...
Besides...USA, Brazil, Argentina, Japan....Not really part of the European Union....
;)
Oh, can you also please explain why your 'World Series handball football' is called that...isn't USA the only country that takes part??
Oh no, HotRod - I was saying that, instead of calling it "American Football", they should call it "European Soccer". Since the word "soccer" is kind of frowned upon, then why not just assign it to American football?
;p
Oh right..got ya!!.
They should of just called it I dunno, 'American run, stop, run stop, run stop with the ball!!!'
C3PX said:
Moth3r said:
Just been reading back over the 2006 thread. (I swear if anyone starts an American Football argument this time around, I'm gonna bust some heads...)
Oops.
His own fault though, he linked to the thread and brought it up.
Warbler said:
C3PX, why single out American football like that? American football doesn't interfere with Americans playing soccer anymore than does Basketball and baseball and hockey. We don't not play soccer because we suck at it. I don't believe we do suck at soccer. Seems to me a few years back our woman's team won a Worlds championship in soccer and I believe also won an Olympic silver medal. Soccer just hasn't caught on in American, and probably never will.
Mostly because you call it soccer.
me and every other American.
C3PX said:
From now on, I am going to refer to cars as garblenockers. Whenever you say the word car, I am going to assume you are talking about bedposts. Because car is my new word for bedpost. So when you say "I like fast cars" I am going to say, "How can a car be fast? They just set at the corners of your bed, they never move." Then, when I start talking about my garblenocker breaking down, you are going to be really confused. In fact, I can already imagine this discussion being really confusing and not going over very well. Life would just be easier if we all called cars cars, bedposts bedposts, garblenockers garblenockers, football football, and rugby rugby.
My point probably got lost, didn't it? Oh well.
your patriotism is in question. (in a kidding, non-serious way)
oh btw, according to wiki, calling your game soccer began in England, not America. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football#Etymology
Good find, Warb.
Argument over!
(and don't bother with this - it looks made up)