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How can Americans claim to use the term 'Football' for thier version of Rugby? The ball (hell, its not even a ball, its a 'thing') is not even kicked!!!!
Football is a round bit of leather and air that is 'kicked' (with feet).
So call it something else, ya dopey beggers!
The term has been around for a very long time, several generations. That is like americans saying the name rugby is entirly wrong because a rug is something on the floor and by is a linking verb. When you have nothing to do with the name, it too has been around for several generations.
No point.
Its not a point, cos rugby is shit anyway. the point is, americans, get ur own name for football.
^which is like me saying
American football is shit anyway, get a new name for rugby.
Maybe the Americans came up with their version of football before anyone else...?
Who knows, plus I don't really care. :p Debating over different sports and people rioting over primates kicking a ball in a net is just so...outdated. Haven't we evoloved to intelligent beings, who surely can find a form of entertainment rather than kicking or hitting an object around? :D
yeah but nor. rugby has no relevance to football.
So why we talkin about it? its a totally different game to american football too
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Originally Posted by Nochowderforyou
All I am asking is:
Why call it FOOTball, when you dont use feet to connect with the ball. Ya's should call it Throwball. Cos thats what happens :D
Ohhhh, I see what you're saying. :oQuote:
Originally Posted by cambam
I agree with what you're saying. Why do the US call Euro. football, soccer? What the hell does soccer mean?! :p Makes more sense to call it football.
US football, like NFL stuff, is a mix between rugby and football (soccer), so it should be called Ruccer.
more like footby.
F*ck knows where soccer came from.
In the thread that started all this, I was told American Football was called that, because the ball used was a football. Why is it called a football? :D
American football was inspired by an English public school game called Rugby. So they nicked our game as well as our language!!!
techincally....You gave us your customs and we didn't like your government so we went to war with you, won, and afterwards there was a development of new customs in which we exchanged over the years, abdopted independtly and altered.
Football is known as Soccer..
American Football... is... American Footbal. Canadian football doesn't even have the same rules.. and it's the same bloody game!
Hockey or Baseball for this cat.
Baseball is kick ass
We only have one name for football.........soccer, rugby, football........MAKE UP YOUR MINDS!! No wonder we had to bail ya's out of WW1 and WW2, ya don't know if your comin' or goin'.........LOL:DQuote:
Originally Posted by cambam
Have a good one!:jointsmile:
yeah, who really cares about the name. has no one in england heard of the phrase a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. call football whawtever you want and its the same shit.
americans and british went to war? :confused: i dont believe i acctually took a course on history hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by wayoftheleaf
which war was this then? i know the americans didnt go to war with us in WW2 or WW1
ireally hope that was a joke. i figured it had to be but that little smiley has me unsure
The revouluntionary war in 1768 I believe. When america won it's independance from England?Quote:
Originally Posted by b0Ng h!tz 4 mE
Ya, we kicked some ass in the Revolutionary war and then they had to come back for seconds in 1812.
Well, in eighteen and fourteen we took a little trip
along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip.
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans,
And we caught the bloody British near the town of New Orleans.
We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
Have a good one!:jointsmile:
nitty gritty dirt band version is best version there
is that back when england used to rule the world? or some shit like that haha i dont really care about those kinda things much to know about themQuote:
Originally Posted by wayoftheleaf
:)
who's we u got a turd in you're pocket?Quote:
Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud
Lol sorry i had to.. but whenever someone refer's to a country as a "we" i always picture cartman lmao
Reminds me of that Butters song.LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by b0Ng h!tz 4 mE
Have a good one!:jointsmile:
French Canadians burnt the whitehouse out... most of it anyway.. it was rebuilt..
lmao... i love that episodeQuote:
Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud
you got served dawg haha :p
I know its called football. Rugby isn't a different name for football, its rugby.
I still think you should change the name to Throwball, as all you use your feet for is to run with.
We kick out with our feet to connect with the ball, and other players, you just push over and drag down.
Football is us, we are football.
thats nice, the name isnt getting changed. because honestly the nfl could care less what british people think of the name, and that goes for pretty much everyone else too. thanks for the opinion though, it has been noted and ignored :thumbsup:
Yeah, but WHY???Quote:
Originally Posted by suhl
in recent wars more british have been killed by friendly fire from the us than have been killed by the enemy,are we meant to b on the same side .
its pretty funny seein a bunch of stoners argueing over which names better for a certain sport.. then it brings up the subject of war... LOL, i always thought it'd be better with a stoner runnin the county but then they'd probaly be wars over what the name of a sport should be..
next they'll be wars over which cartoon is the best lol
haha wtf.. *yank shoots some brit*Quote:
Originally Posted by weedmaster
"erm yea.. sorry dude.. it was err..... an accident?"
Lolz
....it was the people's of Tennessee/Kentucky....finest hour...the British tried to come in the backdoor...Quote:
Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud
Anyone see the Arsenal - Chelsea match? Gunners ALMOST came away with a win, but I guess I'll take a draw. FUCK Chelsea. ~
i explained, it is a fucking label it is the same game either wayQuote:
Originally Posted by cambam
FOOTBALL(american) and RUGBY is CRAP
they require no skill, just a bunch of fags looking for an exuce to touch each other
liverpool fc number 1
oh yeah FUCK Chelsea
see the last 15 mins,looked a good gameQuote:
Originally Posted by Its a Plant
Ofcourse i watched it ;) I thought flamini had it in the bag for us but that Essien! What a brilliant goal. Unstoppable. To be honest, even though i'm a gunners fan, chelsea deserved to win coz they hit the post like 2 times and Essien should have scored a second. Oh well, i'll take a draw from the repeating champions away from home =]Quote:
Originally Posted by Its a Plant
This thread is so ridiculous because the original poster has stated numerous times that the ball does not connect with the feet. Even though on every change of possesion minus a turnover you use your FOOT to deliver the ball to the opposing team. 98% of teams run the ball more than they throw it, and the kicker is usually the leading scorer on the team. All reasons why throwball is a stupid, ignorant statement. The ball is oblong so you can chuck it 60 yards downfield to a wide receiver who makes an acrobatic catch in the endzone in the last seconds of the game to seal a victory for his team. Unlike in soccer where it takes cricket-esque lengths of time to score a goal. Football is interesting because there are so many ways to score, it's just better in every way, just like America.