Real football
Not minding the physical macho aspect, how can you call picking up and running with a ball for football?
shareI hate 'footy'. In Melbourne it's called Australian Rules Football. The only thing I like about Sydney is they play rugby with a passion. I think it's a much better game. Hence I like American Football better as well. Soccer is *beep* lame.
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That f'n line about American football being REAL football made me give this piece of shaite movie a 1 rating, something I rarely do. It was bound to have a low score anyway. The EUROPEAN Besson, who knows how to write action when he wants to, should be f'n ashamed of writing such a line.
I just love how Americans keep saying that soccer is lame and such a bore to watch, and make fun of the fact that after the full length of a match sometimes there are no goals, or it ends as a draw! But hey, I guess your real football, with your every five second interruptions, and carrying a ball under your arm until you cross a f'n line that goes from one side of the pitch to the other, so you can kick a ball between two sticks without any kind of opposition, which is something a 3 yr old can do, is what HAS to be considered a REAL sport! Screw the opinion of the rest of the world, to which soccer is the real football, and American football is... some stupid game watched/played by a single country. Not even a continent... Yes, you're neighbors to the north only care about hockey, and the ones to the south, well, they're kinda crazy about football... the other one... Not to mention that your FOOTball is not even mostly played with your feet, unlike ours. And the scoring system? Brilliant! 8 points for a play! But... why not?
Face the facts: you're the only ones caring about football. The vast majority of rest of the world doesn't give a flying fluck whether you like soccer or not. We all know you think it sucks but guess what? We couldn't care less. Now go grab some balls, stop every five seconds, pass a line and kick the ball. Ah the joy of a great sport!
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I agree, that line really stuck out as unnecessary and another put down of the world's greatest sport.
Americans need to realise that 'real' football is soccer. Some posters trying to explain American football is called football because of the length of the ball or running with your feet is completely laughable.
Football will become the dominant sport in America within the next few decades and will follow suit with Australia to change the term soccer to football.
I rolled my eyes at that scene; the jackass American telling the French kid that that hand-eggball game is real football. That game is nothing more than a lame, overproduced, over-dressed and fetishized corruption of Rugby. Now that's a sport.
And it's laughable how they claim that real Football (what they call sawker) is a boring sport*, when their game is over 3 freaking hours long with only 11 minutes of actual play time! Here is a pie chart with the breakdown:
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What's hilarious is that the replays take longer than the entirety of playing time.
*If they'd said that after watching the Portugal-Croatia match in the Euros I can't say I blame them.
IKR! That graphic says it all... It's pathetic behind words. But hey, I guess its real football so it must be correct. You're spot on about the Rugby thing. AF is clearly a corruption of Rugby only made easier because God only knows Americans need to change everything according to their taste, plus Rugby actually takes talent and SERIOUS tactics...
You're right about Portugal - Croatia xD and I'm Portuguese LOL! And now we literally eliminated Poland like 30 minutes ago in the penalty shootout in another boring game. I guess we scored everything against Hungary...
[after killing an Irish] Burn him, see if his ashes turn green - Bill the Butcher
Congratulations on making it to the semis. I was rooting for Belgium, but this Welsh team did not disappoint. That should be an interesting match.
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