World Cup 2006...

[Slim Pickens]

I'm with Unc...played keeper for my ship's team in the league at the duty station...I am slower than hell, but I have really good hands

 

[chcr]

We called it center-halfback when I was in school but I played center midfield mostly. Prof and I wouldn't have gotten along. Fair play and good sportsmanship were really important to me back then.

...then I grew up.

 

[Professur]

That was us playing fairly. When the kid gloves came off, we went after the opposing goalie. That was a certain red card, but also an almost certain win.

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

US attitudes toward soccer are changing, too. I personally attribute this to the fact that a lot more kids are playing soccer. That started in my generation, and more than a few of my childhood friends retained a love for soccer. Before my group, you never saw it played here. That's probably why baseball is considered the American pastime. EVERYONE played it in their youth in the past. It's all about traditions, and slowly changing them.

Or retaining them.

I have never understood a sport that has a ball but you can't use your hands.

IMO, soccer fields are a waste of a good baseball diamond. Gimme Babe Ruth over Pele every time.

 

[Professur]

Or retaining them.

I have never understood a sport that has a ball but you can't use your hands.

IMO, soccer fields are a waste of a good baseball diamond. Gimme Babe Ruth over Pele every time.

How do you expect to throw a decent punch when you've the ball in your hands?

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

Tell ya what, Heir Fungus.

You hold that soccer ball in your hand and punch me three times with ball in punching hand.

Then I'll hold a baseball in my hand and punch you three times with ball in punching hand.

Then we'll get you a medic.

 

[Professur]

Why would I be holding a football in my hands in the first place.


Kim!!!! Mike forgot his meds again.

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

Because any sensible ball sport requires that one maintain control of said ball. That requires hands. God gave us opposable thumbs. We should use them. We should use them to help us put on baseball gloves with which we use our hands to catch the friggin ball.

 

[Professur]

OK, I'll say it slowly for you. The ......sport .....isn't .......called .....soccer. It's .... called .... football.

Foot.


Ball.


Get it yet?

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

I'll say this real slow too.

I'm....not....in...Portugal.......football.....means.......wide.....receivers......soccer.....means....twits.....not.....using....their......farkin......hands

 

[Professur]

Portugal???

 

[rrfield]

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I'll say this real slow too.

I'm....not....in...Portugal.......football.....means.......wide.....receivers......soccer.....means....twits.....not.....using....their......farkin......hands

You cannot give Reputation to the same post twice.

 

[chcr]

I'll say this real slow too.

I'm....not....in...Portugal.......football.....means.......wide.....receivers......soccer.....means....twits.....not.....using....their......farkin......hands

Yep, football because one or two guys very occasionally hit the ball with their foot.
Makes perfect sense.
I guess.
Kind of.

 

[rrfield]

You know, it's perfectly legal to drop kick a FOOTBALL through the uprights at any spot on the field for 3 points.

 

[chcr]

You know, it's perfectly legal to drop kick a FOOTBALL through the uprights at any spot on the field for 3 points.

Yeah, but nobody ever does it, do they? OTOH, Canuckistani "football" is pretty closely akin to American "football" except for the whole looking like a Chinese fire drill thing.

 

[rrfield]

No, that would be Aussie Football.

 

[unclehobart]

Howcome the World Cup takes 4 years to put together between championships?

 

[Professur]

Doesn't 'take' 4 years anymore than it 'takes' 4 years to put together an Olympics. If it was held every year, it would be too much for the national leagues to support losing players. Just like pro american basketball during the summer olympics or hockey during the winter.

 

[chcr]

No, that would be Aussie Football.

You've never watched the Canuckistani stuff? I'm pritty sure that everybody has to be running in different directions before they snap the ball. Aussie rules is a little more like (but not the same as) Rugby (also more fun to play or watch than American football).

 

[rrfield]

ive seen canadian football fo sho, arena too (where a WR is always in forward motion at the time of the snap). In the CFL they have to be more creative since they only have 3 downs to get 10 yards instead of 4. The rouge is strange too, rewarding failure like any good socialist society would

aussie football is kinda close to rugby, i guess. i played rugby in high school, flanker. rugby isn't all that fun to watch on tv. i actually like watching aussie football better than rugby, but rugby is my all time favorite sport to play.