[Sparkimus]

Damnit Cougar! This is the Inn! Speak correctly and make up your facts.

[HoosierDaddy]

My favorite part of american football was always running away from the guys who wanted to tackle me as I was running for a touchdown. When they started catching up, I didn't like it anymore.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Cougar, on Feb 13 2009, 01:46 PM, said:

The nearest thing we currently have to the earliest versions of organised football in the modern sense ( the chinese and the aztecs did not play it that's just bollocks) is Aussie Rules. They are all football , Rugby Football, Association Football, American Football, Canadian Football, Australian Rules Football and Gaelic Football, it's just that the rules have diverged, US and Canadian stem from Rugby variations after the Rugby Football Union had been established in opposition to what would become the Football Association. In the past different schools etc would have had differing interpretations of the rules (we are talking 150 years ago) and it was not uncommon for matches to be played with one schools rules in each half. During the first Lions (British Isles combined side) tour to Australia the Lions played Rugby and Aussie rules, even though they didn't play Aussie rules at all in Britain. Furthermore the Rugby Football League was forced to split from the Rugby Football union in the late 1880s following the decision of the union to not allow the Northern working class players to be paid as proffesionals, creating two sports (union did not turn proffesional until 1995 or 96 I can't quite remember).

Soccer is just a colloquial derivation of Association, as Rugger is a nickname of Rugby Union. It was very common for me and my friends to call it soccer and it is very common amongst my rugby playing friends who generally refer to rugby as football, and the players as footballers (not rugby players) and use 'soccer' to distinguish the dribbling game. To my mind it was only in the mid-90s particularly after the 1994 world cup that the British started to object to soccer as a term because it was deemed to be American, before that it was very aceptable slang

Nicely said.

[HoosierDaddy]

So, when I said that "soccer" was an English word... I was right? And thus denigrating Americans for using the term is hypocritical? Huh, this is a funny feeling.

[frookenhauer]

Wat? Wat? Wat?

No, we were happy to use it...Until we found out you guys were using it and then we thought...NO!

It makes us twitch, like when we hear Aluminum *twitches*

[Sparkimus]

This poll is closer than I would have thought.


And here's this for ya, just mute it I don't know why they can't pick a different song for these things

[HoosierDaddy]

Keep telling yourself that Frook. AMERICA - F*** Yeah! Stealing other countries best stuff for 220 years yeah!

[Morgoth]

Cougar, on Feb 13 2009, 10:46 PM, said:

The nearest thing we currently have to the earliest versions of organised football in the modern sense ( the chinese and the aztecs did not play it that's just bollocks) is Aussie Rules. They are all football , Rugby Football, Association Football, American Football, Canadian Football, Australian Rules Football and Gaelic Football, it's just that the rules have diverged, US and Canadian stem from Rugby variations after the Rugby Football Union had been established in opposition to what would become the Football Association. In the past different schools etc would have had differing interpretations of the rules (we are talking 150 years ago) and it was not uncommon for matches to be played with one schools rules in each half. During the first Lions (British Isles combined side) tour to Australia the Lions played Rugby and Aussie rules, even though they didn't play Aussie rules at all in Britain. Furthermore the Rugby Football League was forced to split from the Rugby Football union in the late 1880s following the decision of the union to not allow the Northern working class players to be paid as proffesionals, creating two sports (union did not turn proffesional until 1995 or 96 I can't quite remember).

Soccer is just a colloquial derivation of Association, as Rugger is a nickname of Rugby Union. It was very common for me and my friends to call it soccer and it is very common amongst my rugby playing friends who generally refer to rugby as football, and the players as footballers (not rugby players) and use 'soccer' to distinguish the dribbling game. To my mind it was only in the mid-90s particularly after the 1994 world cup that the British started to object to soccer as a term because it was deemed to be American, before that it was very aceptable slang

you're ruining all the fun. You're suposed to be an angry, cokney illiterate, barfighting bastard.

[Grief]

[HoosierDaddy]

Lol. That second one looks mighty interesting. Can you tell me more?

Runs-lots seems like a fun game too.

[Grief]

You stand.
Holding an egg.
Without moving.
For as long as possible.
Whoever stands longest wins.
Though thats not relevant since its usually played alone.
That is all.

[HoosierDaddy]

Grief, on Feb 13 2009, 05:12 PM, said:

You stand.
Holding an egg.
Without moving.
For as long as possible.
Whoever stands longest wins.
Though thats not relevant since its usually played alone.
That is all.

So it's a mix between tennis and bowling? Awesome.

[Sparkimus]

Man I hate run-lots, we're not talking about that here. You're welcome to call football handegg, but from here on out I'll be referring to rugby simply as circle jerk.

[Grief]

Surely run-lots would be better applied to say, sprinting. Or marathons

[Sparkimus]

No, marathons are run-forevers and sprinting is quickly-winded. That's all I ever see anyone do in a soccer match is run-lots so it seems very appropriate

[HoosierDaddy]

No. Some people like to call it bouncy-ball, but for the most part Runs-Lots is the generally accepted term. They also refer to rugby as: "wtf is rugby?" But that's cause they only pay attention to "American" sports.

[frookenhauer]

They run lots and play with the ball with their feet and stuff, it happens a lot in the game...where the ball strikes the foot and the foot strikes the ball, foot, ball, foot, ball, football...Knew there was a reason

[HoosierDaddy]

Oh, are you referring to kick ball? The sport where they kick a round ball and move around alot?

[frookenhauer]

That is the very same and they use their feet to kick it with

[HoosierDaddy]

Ohhhhhh, okay. Shoe-ball. That's a real fringe sport here.