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Lux (Polaris) Fleet Admiral Raven Warriors
Joined: April 20, 2004 Posts: 835 From: Asgard
| Posted: 2006-06-23 16:34  
Hmm...in my school it's not thought of as 'sissy'. Football (soccer) is considered a great sport, and I think it's fun playing it. I'm usually right wing defender, but the coach occasionally makes me play center midfielder.... too much running in that position... :/
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Bobamelius Grand Admiral Galactic Navy
Joined: October 08, 2002 Posts: 2074 From: Ohio
| Posted: 2006-06-23 17:04  
The "football" thing is something I've always been aware of, although it's never really bothered me... it is a strange curiosity that American football is called football, because as you said, dear Jack, it really has little to do with one's feet, but again, never really bothered me. Maybe we should call it "pigskin" or something (although the ball isn't really made of pigskin though is it?). Maybe "Run Abunch Back And Forth Along Field Tackling Each Other (RABAFAFTEO!)
Soccer vs. football is just a difference of terminology. As far as I know soccer is called soccer because it came into the mainstream later than El Futbol Americano did (dunno if I'm correct on that), but whatever. I say pants, you say trousers.
As for insulting one sport or another... that's just silly to do either way. The players of American football don't wanna kill themselves out on the field (and they are not wimps, it's still a rough sport), and the Rugby guys, uh, don't mind injury so much I guess. Good for them.
I personally don't find soccer/football all that interesting, but a lot of other people do so I try not to ridicule it too much. The only sports that I will frequently make fun of are "professional" (i.e. dead fake) wrestling and golf.
The Bob has spoken. Let American football from this point forward forever be known as Rabafafteo.
[ This Message was edited by: Bobamelius on 2006-06-23 17:05 ]
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BackSlash Marshal Galactic Navy
Joined: March 23, 2003 Posts: 11183 From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2006-06-23 17:08  
RABAFAFTEO! sounds good to me.
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-Flipasaurus Wench- 1st Rear Admiral Sundered Weimeriners
Joined: August 28, 2002 Posts: 449 From: 44° North, 88° West
| Posted: 2006-06-23 17:12  
All that really sounded like was a rant about how you think you, (European) are better than I, (American) am.
Taking that into consideration, I was unable to read and comprehend most of that post clearly.
It's not you, it's me!
I still <3 ya though Jack. You're just silly...
I do think it is quite funny when they say...
"GOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAL!!!!!!!!!!
I was watching two World Cup games at once today thank you very much... Just waiting for them to say... GOAL!
[ This Message was edited by: -fLiPPeR- on 2006-06-23 17:14 ]
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rangar Cadet
Joined: February 02, 2006 Posts: 100
| Posted: 2006-06-23 18:46  
havent really been watching it (since i cant be stuffed staying up late/getting up early)
but...... GO AUSTRALIA!
any1 who's seen em play has to admit they're going pretty good. hell, brazil didnt score a goal against em until the 2nd half, and we only lost 2 nil (which, IMO is excellent since what, its been 30 years since we went to the World Cup, and brazil are a top team)
anywho, most people call it soccer down here in australia since we have AFL (australian football league).
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Drow Fleet Admiral
Joined: June 06, 2003 Posts: 449 From: USA, WI
| Posted: 2006-06-23 20:27  
football.. not played with feet
Socker.. do you?
badmitten.. if its so bad why do you play it? And where are the mittens?
Bugger picking is the only sport I care about. and the named makes perfect sense.
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-Flipasaurus Wench- 1st Rear Admiral Sundered Weimeriners
Joined: August 28, 2002 Posts: 449 From: 44° North, 88° West
| Posted: 2006-06-23 20:32  
Are you drunk?...
I cannot help but laugh.
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rangar Cadet
Joined: February 02, 2006 Posts: 100
| Posted: 2006-06-24 03:30  
yes that has always confused me. american "footballers" kick the ball once a game?
Soccer is basically ALWAYS using your feet.
IMO, american football ==> rugby w/ battle armour
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Musiqsoulman Grand Admiral *Renegade Space Marines*
Joined: November 26, 2005 Posts: 209 From: Italy
| Posted: 2006-06-24 03:56  
Well let's take a look at the etymology of the words:
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1889, socca, later socker (1891), soccer (1895), originally university slang, from a shortened form of Assoc., abbreviation of association in Football Association (as opposed to Rugby football); cf. rugger, but they hardly could have taken the first three letters of Assoc. |
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the open-air game, first recorded 1409; forbidden in a Scottish statute of 1424. The first reference to the ball itself is 1486. Figurative sense of "something idly kicked around" is first recorded 1532. Ball-kicking games date back to the Roman legions, at least, but the sport seems to have risen to a national obsession in England, c.1630. Rules first regularized at Cambridge, 1848; soccer (q.v.) split off in 1863. The U.S. style (known to some in England as "stop-start rugby with padding") evolved gradually 19c.; the first true collegiate game is considered to have been played Nov. 6, 1869, between Princeton and Rutgers, at Rutgers, but the rules there were more like soccer. A rematch at Princeton Nov. 13, with the home team's rules, was true U.S. football. The earliest recorded application of the word football to this is from 1881. |
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1864, after Rugby, public school where the game was played, from city of Rugby in Warwickshire, central England. The place name is Rocheberie (1086) "fortified place of a man called *Hroca," second element from O.E. burh (dat. byrig), replaced by 13c. with O.N. -by "village." First element perhaps rather O.E. hroc "rook." Rugby Union formed 1871. Slang rugger for "rugby player" is from 1893. |
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In Italy "soccer/eu-football" is called "calcio" which means "kick". Rugby has the same name, then we say "american football".
Let's not forget, that there is also the Australian football
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Dragonterro Fleet Admiral
Joined: December 24, 2005 Posts: 70 From: Germany
| Posted: 2006-06-24 17:01  
in german is it Fussball and we call it Soccer cause there is a sport that called Amerkian Football so there is no misunderstud (confoundedor mistake) to it.
direkt translatesion of Fussball is Football but in the USA Football is another sport and thats why we call it soccer.
[ This Message was edited by: Dragonterro on 2006-06-24 17:08 ]
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