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!
shareWe will stop calling it footbal when you stop calling your money POUNDS. How dumb is that.
sharethat could just be the same for dollars, people seem to argue over the most silliest things ever, i think eurotrash is very harsh, especially when your calling over 100 million people in europe. american football is hardly recognised over here, thats why most people think negatively about it, ooh its for a bunch of pussies who wear armour, i have to admit, its not (being british) american football is one of the roughest sports there is, i know rugby is also kind of rough but no where near as bad as american football, how can you americans start namecalling us for bad sports that take no skills, i mean take basketball for example, i like it, but its not exactly hard to play, you run around the court throwing a ball to each other, and no contact is involved, theres always going to be conflicts between americans and europeans, etc but americans get so offensive over the most minute things
shareWoah...I have to take exception to one of your points. Anyone can play basketball? I suppose this is true but....I am a huge sports fan (including a rarity on this board - an American soccer/football/futbol fan) but I have to give credit to the NBA athletes as, pound-for-pound, the best in the world. You have to have size and athleticism just to be on the bench. The stamina required (second only to soccer/football) puts American Football to shame (run for 5 seconds, stand around for 30 seconds - lineman are athletes but a specific kind. I doubt their skills would transfer to any other sport except maybe Sumo Wrestling.) The idea that there is no contact in Professional Basketball is ludicrous. Soccer requires the stamina of a long distance runner, with sprinting ability, strength, and skill with the ball a plus but no sport requires all aspects of physicality and athleticism from all positions like Basketball.
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The very first time the word Football was used to refer to a sporting event, was in 1869 in a match between Rutgers and Princeton. Anyone know where those two schools are located? Anyone? Yes, that's right... New Jersey, USA!!!
WRONG,
This is what it really said
"In 1869, the first game played in the "USA" under rules based on the FA code occurred, between Princeton and Rutgers. This is also often considered to be the first U.S. game of college football"
From Wikipedia
The modern game was codified in England following the formation of The Football Association, whose 1863 Laws of the Game (FA Code) created the foundations for the way the sport is played today. The First football game in europe was played in the same year.
But who cares, you call it Soccer we call it Football. I'm not going to lose sleep over something as stupid as this. It's never going to change, even if soccer became more popular in the USA which I doubt, it will always be soccer to americans. They're not going to change the name of their national sport just to keep the UK happy and vice versa. OMG what a stupid thread, only came on here because i seen invincible on TV. LOL
I know this is 2 1/2 years old now (I was looking up something about the movie), but may I ask why this bothers you so much? It seems that you are from somewhere in Europe. Our "football"/American Rugby is played in the US, and the movie was made in the US. Shouldn't we be allowed to call the sport by the locally (US) commonly accepted name? It's not like we are dropping propaganda fliers all over Europe trying to get the continent to change "football" to "soccer". I don't read too many foreign papers, but can I assume that the European writers change the wording/phrasing so "football" in Europe is the game played with the feet, and reports about the NFL is called "American football" or some other equivalent moniker?
Anyway, I hope you have a good new year. If you come across this drop me an email an [email protected]- I'm just interested. I pretty much don't care one way or the other; we (the US) could call it Death WombatBall for all I care (hmm, that actually sounds like a good movie title...). Take care.
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op. get a life. its footie there, its soccer here. deal with it
and did you know that to call anyone a retard is a form of defamation? some people are mentally disabled, or challenged. the term 'retard', is insulting to those who you would label as that, and defamatory. and to specifically call anyone that is libellous and you could be charged in a court of law
you oughta go back and play with the other chavs maybe?
i'm canadian. i love soccer, europeans call it footie. and the world cup is far more important than the superbowl, to me. i wish we had decent pro soccer teams in north america. i love playing soccer personally, and was the captain of the girls soccer team in high school
i hate the rioting, but its happened in the states too. mostly in new york. people are so happy their team won they lose it. or so peeved when they dont they break things. these are the acts of mentally unstable people, not true fans
im not crazy about football, but maybe i'd start watching it again if it werent so full of crap. multimillion dollar paychecks, fancy cars, lots of drugs and women. maybe the guys who play it should be more like vince papale, you know, real people, with heart, who want to play just to play. who dont destroy their bodies with drugs. what kind of an example do they set for kids. i hate that they are seen as heroes among kids. same thing in baseball, my favourite. most of the players are fine, but when a player has a severe drug problem too many teams turn a blind eye to it. new york, im a mets fan. canada, blue jays. boston white sox too
but if a player has for example, a problem with cocaine, and is seen as a hero to kids, i see that as a problem. in any sport, i think that a conviction should lead to that player not being allowed to play any major sport until its proven that he has recovered from his need for narcotics
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y the fuq does it matter what we call it?
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HAHA!!!!!
I knw this comes late. BUT WAY TO GO MAN!!!! Me and my best frd have this debate ALL the time. He's an "American RUGBY" fan and insists on calling it football. Says the word Soccer comes from the Association in FIFA. Well here's the thing ya yanks missed. Before Association comes the word FOOTBALL.
American Football is nothing but Rugby with shoulder paddings and a few changes in rules.
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I thought Soccer came from the British calling it "Association football" and cockney turning that into "socca" or something. I could be wrong of course. Most of American English was derived from Old English originally anyway, like "turnpike". British English after all has been around a lot longer. It is kinda funny we refer to NFL as Football, it makes more sense for soccer to be called that in my opinion. But, that's what it is and will always be called and it's not going to change because someone came on IMDB and yelled at random people about it.
Seems like a pretty stupid thing to argue about. Like me calling up Pittsburgh from Philadelphia and complaining they call soda "pop" who cares. I wish people would respect each others differences a little more and be a little more open minded. I lived in the UK for awhile, and I certainly didn't go around saying how Football is really stupid and it's soccer. Who cares!
I like both sports, but I like rugby better than either of them.