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[Nutso]

What we call "water" they call:

[Tsukiyumi]

[SomosFuga]

Is that for real?

[Nutso]

[Nutso]

Is that for real?

Yes. Argentina was flaccid against Brazil.

[Nutso]

He's surely hurt.

[Jim]

He's surely hurt.

He is a soccer player... I do not htink that a soccer play has sustained an actual injury during an actual game in a few decades...

[IanKennedy]

Well a football player at least. "American football" is a very odd name for a game were you are generally not allowed to kick the ball but you can pretty much handle it as much as you want.

[Mikey]

Well a football player at least. "American football" is a very odd name for a game were you are generally not allowed to kick the ball but you can pretty much handle it as much as you want.

Like I mentioned once to Seafort, we won the "recent unpleasantness" back in the late 18th century. We could call the sport "Your Mom's Hairy Ass" if we so chose, but:
a) the name has already been taken by an outdoor party game, and;
b) the etymology would be about a bitch to explain.

In all seriousness, calling our sport "football" merely hearkens back to the origins of the game, when it was very little different from a mix of primitive rugby, Oz rules football, and soccer.

However, Jim is right. Soccer seems to be rather infamous for being played by a huge number of men who would more properly be rewarded with Oscars than with MVP awards.

[IanKennedy]

Well a football player at least. "American football" is a very odd name for a game were you are generally not allowed to kick the ball but you can pretty much handle it as much as you want.

Like I mentioned once to Seafort, we won the "recent unpleasantness" back in the late 18th century. We could call the sport "Your Mom's Hairy Ass" if we so chose, but:
a) the name has already been taken by an outdoor party game, and;
b) the etymology would be about a bitch to explain.

In all seriousness, calling our sport "football" merely hearkens back to the origins of the game, when it was very little different from a mix of primitive rugby, Oz rules football, and soccer.

Football it's sort of there in the name. Foot and Ball. Hot hands. Seems a ridiculous name for a game of hand ball. I'm pretty sure that 'soccer' has never involved using your hands. In fact hand ball is an actual penalty, which if repeated, will get you kicked out of the game (without substitution). Rugby and Oz rules on the other hand I can see the similarity.

However, Jim is right. Soccer seems to be rather infamous for being played by a huge number of men who would more properly be rewarded with Oscars than with MVP awards.

Ah, MVP another oddly American thing. Outside of the US I don't think there's any such thing. Not that our players aren't vain enough without it.

[Nutso]

I didn't think that that last image would inspire a versus debate.

Let's all calm down and remember one of science fiction's greatest burns:

[IanKennedy]

I didn't think that that last image would inspire a versus debate.

Let's all calm down and remember one of science fiction's greatest burns:

Can't see your image? It's not a versus either. I'm not saying that anything is better than anything else. Just that American Football is very badly named. Given that you have great limits on actually using your foot with the ball. That was all.

[Nutso]

I can't really argue with the fact that Football has limited contact between foot and ball. It's just a name that has stuck since the sport's beginning. I've always wondered why you guys don't just call our sport of football, "Soccer?"

[IanKennedy]

I can't really argue with the fact that Football has limited contact between foot and ball. It's just a name that has stuck since the sport's beginning. I've always wondered why you guys don't just call our sport of football, "Soccer?"

We just call it American Football and ours just Football.

[stitch626]

I think it comes from the fact that we run on our feet while doing stuff with the ball. So, if we were driving on power chairs we would call it Chairball.