The NZA Posted September 11, 2010 Author Share Posted September 11, 2010 <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Choose Life Posted December 5, 2010 Share Posted December 5, 2010 i feel like i have to put my two cents in...... as an american i HATE american football. I <3 soccer  I think you are my new favourite on Hondo's Well said amynicole! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alive she cried Posted December 5, 2010 Share Posted December 5, 2010 I know it's been YEARS since Dark posted this, but I think it needs recognition (y'all just ignored the shit outta him). I agree completely. It's all about were you grew up. Soccer's just not popular in America, because it's considered 'foreign'. Football's not cool everywhere else because of the same reason. 100% agree  Now, let me ask this question to all the 'foreigners' on here: Is there youth football (football is football and soccer is soccer) in your countries? Cause it's not like Americans don't grow up playing soccer. Every little kid in America, for the most part, have been in some youth soccer league. Me included. So why the fuck, if every American kid plays soccer, is it not more popular? Because there are cooler sports here. Simple. Football, baseball, basketball all dominate the American airwaves. Maybe, if you guys were a little more open minded about sports, i.e. having youth football leagues, you'd probably have more appreciation for it. And respect.  Well, you see, being from Europe we have a little something called history, and we play the many sports which we have created over the last few Millennia. Forgive us if we don't feel like playing repackaged, bastardised versions of our own games.  For example,  Ice Hockey (Based on the 3,000 year old Irish game Hurling (The fastest field sport in the world)) American Football (Based on Rugby, Football) Baseball (Based on Cricket, Rounders)  I can't think of of a sport basketball could be ripped off, and surprise, surprise, we do have basketball leagues and it is the most popular of all American sports but it still is nowhere near as popular as our sports. *    * a certain amount of urine may have been extracted in this response. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panch Posted December 5, 2010 Share Posted December 5, 2010 (edited) Forgive us if we don't feel like playing super-awesome, way better versions of our own games. Â That's a shame. Â *edited for correctness. Edited December 5, 2010 by Panch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted December 5, 2010 Author Share Posted December 5, 2010 Â yeah so, 10 pages is a good run for an old thread like this, i think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the division of joy Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 On this board... I'm never gonna win this argument... You should stick with this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panch Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Had to retreat to your Euro Base of Lame Games, huh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 in retrospect, i really just love sports that don't involve me trying to catch. Â so gonna try to get a soccer game going again when it warms up down here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panch Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Howa bout I hand you the ball and you run? Try it. It's funner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the division of joy Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Had to retreat to your Euro Base of Lame Games, huh? I'm not French enough to retreat. Â Don't go getting all pissy because your hand-egg nonsense is a poor mans rugby. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 panch - we tried that for like a decade; it only got fun when it devolved into kill the man with the ball. your brother handed it off to me once and i scored a touchdown cause you guys weren't paying attention.   it was the best day of my life  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panch Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 (edited) I doubt a rugby player makes as much as football players. Â Nick. I played with Ario, Eddie, P-Rez, Reflex, DePena and a bunch of refs on Thanksgiving. It was a blast. Next game we get going, I'm calling you (in 14 years)! Edited January 24, 2011 by Panch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the division of joy Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Your point is what exactly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panch Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Rugby is the poor man's rugby. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the division of joy Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 You're completely not getting what I'm saying, so I'll leave you where you are. High wages do not a good sport make. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panch Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 You're completely not getting what I'm saying, so I'll leave you where you are. High wages do not a good sport make. Â You're saying because the sport of rugby came first and has the same shaped ball and is violent in nature that football is a copy of rugby... and all I'm saying is that football is the PERFECTED version of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the division of joy Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Well if that is your vision of perfect, more power to you. I cannot abide by something that stops for ad breaks every couple of minutes, but I am willing to make adjustments for the average American attention span. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panch Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 I guess if you're used to scoring only happening every couple hours or so then the stop and go of football would be weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the division of joy Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Your general lack of knowledge of the game itself nullifies your argument here. But please, don't let facts get in the way of your perfectly rational argument here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panch Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Oh I forgot. Yellow card, red card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Star Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 I love Soccer with all my heart...the World Cup happening this summer was the best part of the whole summer...it's so sad that it can work out to happen every summer...that would just be so amazing...I played soccer for years, as did all my brothers. It is a sport that takes control, endurance, power, and serious skills...I have nothing but respect and admiration for the men and women that play the sport...here are just a few of my favorites! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Star Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 Watching Argentina play almost makes me wish I was from that country...they are a very talented bunch...it's a beautiful thing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crimsonfire Posted May 21, 2011 Share Posted May 21, 2011 This thread makes no sense! Â American football bears no relation to soccer whatsoever! In fact American football has its roots in Rugby. Now there's a real sport. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelogan Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 NFL football bores the dogshit out of me to watch. I can at least watch Soccer without passing out. Â anyway, why its not big here is a popular topic. Â Well, my personal outsiders view on sports in general kinda explains this. Sports guys get all mad at me everytime I bring this up, but there's clearly a sexual undercurrent here. Right off the bat, you guys shouldn't be all offended by this, but it's also pretty difficult to deny. Not that there's anything wrong with it and it doesn't say anything negative about you, there are millions upon millions of sports fans all over the world. Don't rip me to shreds here. Â Football language is pretty clear about this. The point of the game is to enter your opponents end zone as much as you can while using a variety of backs and ends (including those that are split and tight) who attempt to find the hole so they can penetrate as deeply as possible into their opponents territory. Â That accurately wraps it up, right? Â Am I really supposed to ignore all that language and the relationship between the center and the quarterback? The winner is the one that can butt fuck his opponent the most times, it's just a more civilized form of animal male dominance behavior or prison rape. And they throw a dirty cloth at you if you don't play by the rules, because you're just masturbating instead of fucking. Â Most popular sports have this kind of symbolism. Â Now, take all that as fact (and it is), Americans put a lot more emphasis on scoring. They want to get straight to the fuck fuck fucking, whereas foreplay plays a much bigger role on European culture. American football has a lot of deep dicking and then on to the next quickie, Soccer is a lot of foreplay with the eventual big, long, loud GOOOOOOAAAAAAL. Culturally, I think a lot of American guys just don't have the patience for all the kissing and cuddling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crimsonfire Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 That was fucking marvellous. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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