"The reason we have feet"...

[Skybird]

... is the "beautiful game".

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,670803,00.html

World championship in Africa this year.

[TarJak]

Looking forward to seeing this years World Cup. Go Australia!

[Freiwillige]

In his best American voice...Thats not Football its Soccer! Football is the NFL!

[Skybird]

Ehem... :stare: NFL...? What's that? OH, I remember, we made it giving up in Europe in 2007, after it lived for some miserable years without leaving an impression. :yawn:

Now, do you know what the DFB is? It is the biggest organised sports association on the planet: the German Football Association. :salute: People may not know what the Superbowl is, what is absolutely understandable :O:, but all over the planet they know what FIFA's continental and World Championships are.

Last but not least, there are only 320 million US-Americans, but there are 485 million EU-people, 390 million Southamericans, 1 billion Africans, and 4 billion Asiens. :cool:

So when almost 6 billion people tell you 320 million Bowling-fans that FOOTBALL is the name of the game, cute tiny bowl-playing America better believes it...! :shucks:

[Skybird]

Go Australia!
Yes - home! :O:

:woot:

[Snestorm]

Danmark! Danmark! Danmark!

[antikristuseke]

In his best American voice...Thats not Football its Soccer! Football is the NFL!

http://www.gleason.to/leech/handegg.jpg

[Snestorm]

http://www.gleason.to/leech/handegg.jpg

This is genius!
Finaly, they have a fitting name for it.

The only other possible option would be HuddleBowl.
(They do more talking than playing).

[Sailor Steve]

HANDEGG!

I love it!

Another possibility would be CRASHBALL!

[August]

http://www.goalnepal.com/userfiles/image/funny_soccer.jpg

Now we know why soccer is so popular among Europeans...

[Jimbuna]

Actually...they're south americans :DL

The europeans will be looking forward to meeting your countrymen with extreme relish :O:

[Happy Times]

The Hanson Brothers - The Hockey Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6jwyMiilgE&feature=related

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YpGei6ikgZc/SsVe1N9RUpI/AAAAAAAAAlM/3fQJO2HVh4E/s320/Hanson+Bros.jpg

[Freiwillige]

Well than lets just put our American football players on the field against your football players and who ever lives through it can claim the name:yep:

All Joking aside why do they not call it Soccer? Isn't that the official name of the sport?

[TarJak]

Soccer is a colloquialism. The official name is Association Football from the laws originally drawn up by the UK based Football Association in 1863 and now goverened by FIFA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football

http://www.thefa.com/TheFA/WhoWeAre/HistoryOfTheFA.aspx

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=soccer

[August]

Actually...they're south americans :DL

They are, why do you think they're so popular with Euros? :DL

The europeans will be looking forward to meeting your countrymen with extreme relish :O:Do we still even have a soccer team? :DL

[Spoon 11th]

Do we still even have a soccer team? :DL

No, all the soccer moms are faking it.

[TarJak]

http://www.trojanwire.com/reggiebush-draft%5B1%5D.gif
Maybe we could form another Association!:D

[Jimbuna]

They are, why do you think they're so popular with Euros? :DL

Do we still even have a soccer team? :DL

Actually the USA team is really quite good atm :yep:

[Skybird]

Actually the USA team is really quite good atm :yep:
Indeed. FIFA's (questionable, though) list of national teams world rankings currently has them on 14th place.

http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/ranking/lastranking/gender=m/fullranking.html

The greatest title-collectors, are the Brazilians. The most constant top team, are the Germans.

Germans most feared opponent, are the Italians. Brazils most feared opponents they stumble most often over - they are themselves. :)

[antikristuseke]

Estonia is at 102! AWESOME

[Jimbuna]

I laugh at England in 9th position but I seriously question both Argentina and France being ahead of them when recent form shows they both only just scraped into a world cup qualifying position :hmmm:

[Dowly]

http://www.gleason.to/leech/handegg.jpg

See, this is the reason why he should've gotten the best poster award in the subsim thing. :haha:

[Skybird]

I laugh at England in 9th position but I seriously question both Argentina and France being ahead of them when recent form shows they both only just scraped into a world cup qualifying position :hmmm:

Remember it is a statistical thing only, calculating past placements and results, no judges' assessment of present team form.

[CaptainHaplo]

Well than lets just put our American football players on the field against your football players and who ever lives through it can claim the name:yep:

True (aka AMERICAN) football is a true sport - men battling each other all over the place, scrumming and pushing and gouging even when the ball is nowhere nearby. If memory serves me right, you can't even run over someone unless the ball is involved in "soccer". I mean - whats the point of a good scrum if you have to worry where some bloody ball went?

If you want to define a real sport - its where someone can get seriously injured in a legal collision that has nothing to do with where the "scoring" thing is...

Thus - only Hockey, real (aka AMERICAN) Football, and Auto Racing qualify as real sports.

[Skybird]

That is more a definition of anarchy, circus or war, than sports. :hmmm:

Maybe egg-carrying would find greater acceptance outside the US if the players would not stand around so much of the time, and play would see more flow and action instead of brakes and interruptions, not to mention commercials. Concerning dynamics and match flow, egg-carrying is just this:

L-A-Z-Y - 'N - L-A-M-E !!!

:woot:

The best of it are the chearleaders, which proves that it is a true girls sports! :yeah:

[August]

Personally I hope American Football is never accepted outside the US (and maybe Canada). It is our sport and the last thing I want is a bunch of silly foreigners trying to take it over.

[antikristuseke]

True (aka AMERICAN) football is a true sport - men battling each other all over the place, scrumming and pushing and gouging even when the ball is nowhere nearby. If memory serves me right, you can't even run over someone unless the ball is involved in "soccer". I mean - whats the point of a good scrum if you have to worry where some bloody ball went?

If you want to define a real sport - its where someone can get seriously injured in a legal collision that has nothing to do with where the "scoring" thing is...

Thus - only Hockey, real (aka AMERICAN) Football, and Auto Racing qualify as real sports.

Rugby.
Those padded pansies who play handegg can take a hike.:D

[August]

Rugby.
Those padded pansies who play handegg can take a hike.:D

Rugby is ok but they'd be padding up too if they made NFL grade hits and tackles. We tried it without pads and helmets and the body count was just too great for society to accept.

[TarJak]

Aussie Rules Footbrawl anyone?

http://education.theage.com.au/userimages/issue3_080421.jpg

http://images.theage.com.au/ftage/ffximage/2009/10/22/svKIRK_narrowweb__300x410,0.jpg

http://halfbackflanker.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/hallagain.jpg

[August]

Gotta love the Aussies! :salute:

[kiwi_2005]

Rugby anyday. Rugby World cup 2011.

Trouble with soccor is to many hollywood injuries where they scream murder after getting hit in the calf muscle where 99.9% of the time the injury that has cause them to roll over the false grass screaming for their mummy NEVER happened, faking injuries for their team is now what that game is all about! I can't stand the game. Only time i seem interested is when its NZ v Aus.

[Happy Times]

If you want to define a real sport - its where someone can get seriously injured in a legal collision that has nothing to do with where the "scoring" thing is...

Thus - only Hockey, real (aka AMERICAN) Football, and Auto Racing qualify as real sports.

Hockey being the 1 from the three.:D

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_V4w18ZWaPas/ScA_UsqGd9I/AAAAAAAAEHc/a6SazpIN99Y/s400/Hockey-Fight-Injuries-01.jpg

http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Sports/images-2/hockey-fight.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3BaJMgGKAmE/RwPJIqUzADI/AAAAAAAABt0/PN0JjfMv_jE/s320/nhl+hit.jpg

[Skybird]

Rugby anyday. Rugby World cup 2011.

Trouble with soccor is to many hollywood injuries where they scream murder after getting hit in the calf muscle where 99.9% of the time the injury that has cause them to roll over the false grass screaming for their mummy NEVER happened, faking injuries for their team is now what that game is all about! I can't stand the game. Only time i seem interested is when its NZ v Aus.

Check the pics. No, these are no fakes. The foul against Lienen (first b/w) I even remember from my schooldays.

[Jimbuna]

Pah....rugby/eggball callit what you will........just another game played by men with funny shaped balls http://www.btsmods.com/Smileys/classic/Ah_fooey.gif

[Skybird]

Rugby anyday. Rugby World cup 2011.

Trouble with soccor is to many hollywood injuries where they scream murder after getting hit in the calf muscle where 99.9% of the time the injury that has cause them to roll over the false grass screaming for their mummy NEVER happened, faking injuries for their team is now what that game is all about! I can't stand the game. Only time i seem interested is when its NZ v Aus.
[Check the pics. No, these are no fakes. The foul against Lienen (first b/w) I even remember from my schooldays.

Tzzzz... It seems I indeed forgot the link in the posting above. Sorry. "Schalk oder Kalk" - that is the question.

http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3138/2989015986_ff7d37c217_o.jpg&imgrefurl=http://betting.betfair.com/de/sport-kurios/die-funf-ubelsten-fouls-der-fussball-geschichte-210809.html&usg=__skdnmjV5IVItFilzvEZfjszhqMY=&h=378&w=500&sz=38&hl=de&start=5&tbnid=4ySY4Nri56FHhM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlienen%2Bfoul%26as_st%3Dy%26hl%3Dde%2 6sa%3DG

[August]

Soccer players are a bunch of no talent drama queens. Don't believe me? See for yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZavXabGsuA

[Thomen]

Soccer players are a bunch of no talent drama queens. Don't believe me? See for yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZavXabGsuA

They are just trying to keep up with the drama queen division of the NFL. ;)

[OneToughHerring]

Personally I hope American Football is never accepted outside the US (and maybe Canada). It is our sport and the last thing I want is a bunch of silly foreigners trying to take it over.

Yea because all it takes is a measly Cuba to whoop your butt in another one of your national sports, baseball. :DL

[CaptainHaplo]

For once OTH - you and I agree - Cuba could beat the snot out of the US in baseball - oh wait - if all the cubans had to play for cuba - could the US even field a team?

"America's pastime" = watching a bunch of people with hard to pronounce names find ways to waste time on a baseball diamond.....

No wonder its audience - both live and on tv - has dropped steadily over the years.

Not to mention the whole steroid issue....

[Dowly]

Soccer players are a bunch of no talent drama queens. Don't believe me? See for yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZavXabGsuA

So true. Cant say I've never been a football fan, but the acting has gone way too far in the past years. Hell, I grade football to the level of show wrestling. :nope:

[August]

So true. Cant say I've never been a football fan, but the acting has gone way too far in the past years. Hell, I grade football to the level of show wrestling. :nope:

Dood we call it "soccer", you can call it anything you want in your own language.

Haplo: Those "Cuban" MLB players are mostly American citizens. Immigrant nation here, remember?

[August]

They are just trying to keep up with the drama queen division of the NFL. ;)

:DL

Seriously though, any injury in the NFL, fake or real, costs the "victims" team a valuable time out. Therefore most of the drama queen stuff is kept off the field, where it should be.

[Snestorm]

:DL

Seriously though, any injury in the NFL, fake or real, costs the "victims" team a valuable time out. Therefore most of the drama queen stuff is kept off the field, where it should be.

How many EXTRA time outs do they get in addition to all that time of rubbing each others butts in the circle?

Too much dead time in handegg. Dull. Boring. Dumb.

[August]

How many EXTRA time outs do they get in addition to all that time of rubbing each others butts in the circle?

Extra time outs? By that statement I have to wonder if you've even ever seen a football game.

Too much dead time in handegg. Dull. Boring. Dumb.

I feel the same way about soccer.

[Jimbuna]

I wonder how many of you football fans remember this infamous shot of Vinnie Jones and a young Paul Gascoine :DL

http://www.sportsjournalists.co.uk/img/gazza_and_vinnie.jpg

[frau kaleun]

I tried to get into soccer but watching it just bores the life out of me.

American NFL-style football, I enjoy watching.

Rugby or any other sport that's more like NFL football, only without all the pads and so much downtime, I enjoy most of all. Sadly I can't seem to find any of it on the teevee channels I have here.

I remember back when ESPN first started up, and had zero affiliations/contracts with the big US sports leagues. So we got all kinds of stuff from all over the world. Rugby, Aussie rules, World Cup skiing...

Once I watched a rugby match - might've been the All Blacks playing somebody - and I swear I saw a guy with his ears duct-taped to his head. I can only assume it was to keep them from getting ripped off.

*sniffle*

Good times, good times.

[TarJak]

Once I watched a rugby match - might've been the All Blacks playing somebody - and I swear I saw a guy with his ears duct-taped to his head. I can only assume it was to keep them from getting ripped off.

*sniffle*

Good times, good times.Correct on both counts. Rugby props often tape their ears to prevent them being ripped off:

http://www.bristolrugby.co.uk/images/news/Alex-Clarke_Saxons_525x340.jpg

http://one.wfp.org/newsroom/img/inbrief/0502_john_eales.jpg

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200510/r61978_170858.jpg