Yet another football thread

[Synthesizer Man]

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?

American football was inspired by an English public school game called Rugby. So they nicked our game as well as our language!!!

[wayoftheleaf]

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.

[BobBong]

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.

[wayoftheleaf]

Baseball is kick ass

[Psycho4Bud]

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!

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

Have a good one!:jointsmile:

[suhl]

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.

[b0Ng h!tz 4 mE]

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.

americans and british went to war? i dont believe i acctually took a course on history haha

which war was this then? i know the americans didnt go to war with us in WW2 or WW1

[suhl]

ireally hope that was a joke. i figured it had to be but that little smiley has me unsure

[wayoftheleaf]

americans and british went to war? i dont believe i acctually took a course on history haha

which war was this then? i know the americans didnt go to war with us in WW2 or WW1

The revouluntionary war in 1768 I believe. When america won it's independance from England?

[Psycho4Bud]

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: