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“Inventing the game doesn’t mean you get to name it” trollcat
Thu, Sep 3, 2009
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September 3rd, 2009 at 10:48 pm
‘you Europeans’… ‘old Europe’… LMAO! they’re so passionate about their idiotic sports wherever (whenever i hear it called ‘footie’, i fucking cringe), they embarrass me. then again, so do the facepainting jerks back in the States. ‘footie’ as if it’s an affectionate name like ‘telly’ for TV; is there a word for simultaneously cringing, eye-rolling and face-palming? nah? there should be.
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February 3rd, 2010 at 10:04 am
Is there a word for simultaneously cringing, eye-rolling and face-palming?
Why YES, there is.
That would be “Getting Squicked”.
September 4th, 2009 at 1:52 am
Well, call it soccer if you want, but talking American football… why is it called FOOTball when they run around with this thing (which isn’t really round enough to call it a ball), carrying it in their hands? I don’t mean to say that it’s not a good game… it’s just not a very good name for it
December 23rd, 2009 at 12:39 pm
It’s because both evolved out of the same sport (“football” was the general name for that sport, “soccer” was the name for it that people in whatever Association for the sport that was around at the time called it).
Eventually, one branched off when they took to carrying the ball around more than kicking it around. BTW, I think there are some parts of England that calls “football” (in the European sense) soccer, too.
September 4th, 2009 at 3:53 am
Can anyone explain to me how a sport in which you run around with the ball UNDER YOUR ARM can be called football?
Please! Anyone! Rid me of this mystery.
September 5th, 2009 at 12:29 am
And then they call football “American Football”. As if there should be any other kind. Ha.
January 13th, 2010 at 8:29 am
Americans are dumb
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January 31st, 2010 at 4:58 am
Well…. There is other kind of football game around the world. There is “rugby football”, “Australian football” “American football” and “Association Football”. And no only the Europeans call Association football just football, almost the entire world call it football. But you think that the world ends in your borders and your country is the center of the universe, right? Sorry but the world is not flat, it is round, you know.
September 5th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Well, about 10-15 times a game, someone does actually kick the ball. So there’s that…
Plus it’s too late to call it “Throwball” or “Carryball”.
September 22nd, 2009 at 1:12 pm
I. Just. Lost. The. Game.
October 16th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Americans are known to have 4 legs.. that’s why they call it football. They also use feet instead of meters.. that’s why their Engineering is so much Zoongineering.