Start calling it American Rugby! REAL football is what you americans call SOCCER, and guess what you do? You kick a ball around with your FEET, that's why the whole world calls it football, except for the yanks. FOOTBALL is the sport that unites the world AND EVEN YOU WERE PART OF IT AT THE WORLDCUP HELD IN GERMANY THIS YEAR YEAR, BUT NONE OF YOU KNEW BECAUSE YOU ALL THINK "SOCCER" IS FOR GIRLS!
shareStart calling it American Rugby! REAL football is what you americans call SOCCER, and guess what you do? You kick a ball around with your FEET, that's why the whole world calls it football, except for the yanks.
aw f uck... cant a brother just deal some GODDAMN DRUGS?!share
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'YOU ALL THINK "SOCCER" IS FOR GIRLS!'
wait a minute.... soccer ISN'T just for girls?
American Football, or Real Football has the best conditioned athletes in the world period.
No European Soccer or Rugby player could take what our running backs take
None of those players can push the way the D and O-Lines push.
To be fair, soccer in the USA isn't worth going to because it's an inferior sport to Real Football.
It's too bad hardly any other countries participate either because it'd be interesting to see a real world championship for that.
Europeans are only good about whining about Americans and Headbutting
Just to clear up a few things-
-Rugby is played in the U.S. at many levels, which is one reason that American Football is not called American Rugby.
-Saying that Rugby is closer to American football than soccer is shows a complete lack of understanding for all three of those games.
-I've played all three sports and taking the pads away in rugby doesn't make a rugby player any tougher, since the techniques involved are designed to protect both the ball carrier and tackler alike (No high tackles, not putting your head across the body when tackling, etc.)
-The reason that the United States does not dominate at soccer and rugby internationally is because of so much competition with other professional sports. Ray Lewis may have been a hell of a rugby player, but he wouldn't make $12 million a year.
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Ahh, the stereotypical American...
"We can do what we like."
"Only we exist."
"It doesn't matter what happens anywhere else."
"Is Ethiopia a city in L.A.?"
"We are God's country and He has blessed us with His favor! Oh, and down with homosexuals for His scripture says so!"
"What is a passport?"
Not that I condone terrorism of any kind, but Americans shouldn't be TOO surprised at people flying planes into buildings and wanting to attack them, when people like 3/4 of those in this thread are so dominant. (P.S. I know there are many smart and intelligent Americans and I have some close American friends, but unfortunately they tend to be less vocal than these loud-mouthed buffoons who have become the international stereotype of what an American is)
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Ah, the stereotypical European, who makes ignorant comments about American life, says all or most Americans are arrogent but at time acts like a poumpus ass, says that we had 9/11 coming, and doesn't realize that the guy who started the insults was the guy who started this thread.
shareAMERRRRICA! *beep* YEA!!! Hey did any1 see in the "world" cup when that Americna player McBride got elbowed in the eye an bled everywhere he just kinda walked over got it taped up and kept playing while the euro-prick would have cried on the floor for an hour aboud the bump on his arm then limp over (who knows why he'd limp... o yea hes a pussy as european) and get sprayed by some wonder spray and b be back in like 5 minutes?????? *USSY!
shareSoccer is a nice game for 12 year old girls to play.
FOOTBALL as played here in the US (and Canada too) is the greatest game ever conceptualized, to say nothing of invented.
"Soccer is a nice game for 12 year old girls to play."
It is the most popular sport among males on earth. And to suggest that only "girly boys" play football (as some in this thread do) is typical American ignorance towards things from outside the square you live in. There are football players (ever seen Vinnie Jones, now an actor? He played Juggernaut in X3) that make many gridiron players look like kids, and then there are more "pretty boy" players like Christiano Ronaldo, but because so many people play and support football, the World Game, its impossible to generalize the sort of person that plays or follows it. If it was a minority and globally unpopular sport, popular only in one or two countries like gridiron, it might be easier to figure out what sort of person plays or supports football, but unlike gridiron, its played from the highest class parks of Monaco to the wastelands of Rwanda. Incidentally, if you think gridiron is a "man's" sport, I'd recommend watching rugby union, a more popular and physical (no pads, less stoppages) football code -> http://youtube.com/watch?v=PD1_puuceg0
They wear those pads so no one gets killed, like what used to happen in the early days of Football. If you think only wussies wear pads, take a look at this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdh2b_awNeM
All but three of those hits were legal. Rugby is also the only sport to come out of England takes actual skills. Here's another one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhxDHBpaFb8
One more. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4vwF_qlsq4&mode=related&search=
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The reason why Soccer is so popular is because there's not much to do in order to set it up. All you need is a ball and a place to put goalposts at. The only sport I know of that takes more to set up then Football is Hockey.
shareYes, I am quite aware of its popularity... I still find it to be an enervating waste of time.
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This thread has been mildly amusing, but three things occur to me:
1)Football/Soccer, Football/American & Rugby are sports that require skill, talent and dedication to play professionally but everyone and anyone can play them for fun, and I believe every player in pro sports would tell you they started playing for fun... so lighten up and remember that with a world population of six billion plus, it's a safe assumption that there are billions of people playing for fun & you should have fun too!
2)These sports are enjoyed by millions and maybe billions of people who use a word none of us in our english speaking arrogance even know. Why not rail at them a spell? After all, the foundation of your thread is that the game we call soccer should *only* be called FOOTBALL. Why not loose your venom on the Argentines, the Spanish or the Ethiopians for spelling football "futbol"?
3)I think all pro sports are highly over-rated & vastly over paid. I'm a medic & firefighter & I save lives and property but nobody thinks our profession is worth paying a living wage, let alone make us wealthy. Why do you feel so strongly about a word when it does nothing for you?
"Its easier to whisper advice from behind the scenes rather than risk its merit at the point of attack"
Brother,
This is in my Top ten for being one of the most randomly useless threads I have ever read.
Give the Americans a break dude, Its semantics. Next you'll say some *beep* like stop saying Elevator, it is a lift, stop driving on the Right! It's supposed to be done on the left.
Go down to your kitchen, get a glass of cold milk, sip it slowly, nice, nice, now go to sleep.
Moreover, why are we bashing each other? Lets bash the french!!!
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euro f@gs are bitter since we rule the world. Better watch out as we will kill ur leaders as well...look at sadaam hanging
shareI love all these foreigners coming down on America. Don't you have anything better to do? I am flattered that you think so much about my beloved country that it seems to consume your every thought. If I'm not mistaken, someone in this thread said something about idiots in America are able to go to school. How in the world is that a bad thing? It just shows what America stands for, giving everyone the ability to succeed. You think because we do not share the elitist attitude that many other countries have regarding who can pursue a higher education, that our country is somehow worse because of it? Unbelievable.
Everyone do me a favor. Leave us Americans alone, the jealousy you have to start and continue this idiotic thread is amusing. The reason many people do not know much about countries outside of the US is because they have everything they need right here. I happen to know a great deal about other nations and I am eternally grateful to God for having me be born here.
The fact that you even take the time to start this useless threads makes me feel sorry for you. No one cares what you think.
PS> Football is the greatest sport in the world. GO EAGLES