Flame Fest - Subject: what you Americans call "football" is neither

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

You don't play with the feet (except 0.01% of the time), you play with the hands.

Also, balls are by definition spherical. That leather egg ain't a ball.

THIS is football.

[realisticphish]

1. yeah

but your version sucks. we win! :evilgrin:

[histohoney]

5. Woo, woo

like that realisticphish!

[jpgray]

2. If you don't need hundreds of dollars worth of equipment and steroids

We ain't interested. Call it "soccer" or some shit.

[Squeech]

3. I couldn't agree more

But I'm practically an honorary Brasilian.

When's the next Copo da Mundo?

[ThorsHammer]

8. Believe it or not, next summer

It seems like the last one was yesterday, but it's already been 2 1/2 years. I can't wait for '06, and am also a huge Brazil fan. The new qualifying thing for the defending champs is incredibly stupid, but shouldn't matter too much anyway.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

16. ...until the champion is an European.

Then they'll be in deep doo doo. European quals are deadly.

[Blue_Tires]

25. i'm going to try to make it to germany if i can

[yvr girl]

4. Are you poaching on my turf?

I start the wars in the lounge.

[Debi]

6. AAAAKKK so I've been watching leather-egg-hand all this time

:scared: What to do...what to do :scared:

[kick-ass-bob]

7. definition of ball:

solid non-explosive missile (not always spherical) for cannon, rifle, pistol, etc

See!? Not always spherical
(ignore that cannon crap after...)
:P

[forgethell]

9. Only wussies

play soccer. Only people with too much time on their hands would watch such a boring game. You know it's true.

[fob]

10. Don't play with feet? Just because the "feet" in football don't

constantly strike the "ball" doesn't mean you don't play with feet! The ENTIRE game is played with feet, in fact a major point comes about when you are no longer on your feet and your knee, or butt or elbow hits the ground.

That's like saying in your "football" no one plays with arms.

Polk High School Football Rules!!

:evilgrin:

[BlueManDude]

11. I love our football AND your football - Go Arsenal!!!

[RevolutionaryActs]

12. That has always bothered me.

It makes sense, that the game in that picture, is football, it's played with the feet, and what we Americans call football should be soccer. Or something..

[3lefts]

13. Hmmm...technically what you are referring to also can not

be football. It should be called feetball since you use more than one foot.

Soccer: Worst. Sport. Ever.

Okay, it was fun when I played it but, like they say...When I became a man I put away childish things.

[AngryAmish]

14. No, that is metric football

[RagingInMiami]

15. That's not football!

That's futbol.
Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooal!

[MrModerate]

17. Yeah, I suppose it's "football"

But it's really, really, really dull to watch.

It also calls for a substantially narrower range of athletic and intellectual skills, is all tactics and no strategy, and is little more than the sports equivalent of an aerobic workout.

While American-style football requires strategy and tactics, hundreds of variations on approach, a precise and highly technical coordination of all players soccer doesn't come within a light year of, requires a of field-reading skill unequalled in any other sport, and fetures a dramatic momentum in the ebb and flow of play that can't be matched.

Feet-schmeet. And rugby balls aren't round either.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

18. They don't call rugby "football". (nt)

[MrModerate]

21. True, but they still call 'em "balls" n/t

[SmileyBoy]

19. It's a complex name for a complex sport.

The most complex sport in the world.

I mean, what other sport requires a person to study hours of film every day to prepare for one game??

[underpants]

20. "It is comprised of the worst two elements of American society....

violence and committee meetings"-George Will

[Robeson]

22. Quoting George Will on this site?!!!....

...:puke:

[MrModerate]

24. He's a dip, but that's great quote!

-- and I love football.

(not to be confused with futball or soccer)

[Fleshdancer]

23. We switched it for some stupid reason

American football should be called soccer and soccer should be called football. But that's America for some strange reason.

[NomoBreaks]

26. 0.01 of my foot in yo azz!

Now stop all that nonsense and put on some long pants !