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 Jul 31 2006, 11:11 PM
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I say soccer because I grew up with everyone saying soccer o_o
If I say football everyone would think I'm talking about the american football. I'm Canadian so yeah =\ |
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| *kryogenix* |
Aug 1 2006, 11:09 AM
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I'll call it soccer if I want.
Asocciation football = soccer. Rugby football = rugger. |
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Aug 2 2006, 11:48 PM
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Some soccer players disgust me. They are more actors than athletes, imo. You give them a tap to the knee and they fall down crying, exaggerating their "injury" in the hopes that they get the other player carded. If the other team doesn't get penalized, oh then they just hop up and be on their merry way. I just felt like saying.
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Aug 20 2006, 10:20 PM
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Have you ever watched college basketball? They do the same thing. There's always some "acting" in every team sport. It's part of the game.
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| *RiC3xBoy* |
Aug 21 2006, 03:04 AM
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I wanna play Soccer.
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Aug 25 2006, 04:39 PM
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Newbie Group: Member Posts: 7 Joined: Aug 2006 Member No: 457,887 |
I totally agree the word (soccer) shouldn't be a word. The americans just took the word football because there to stupid to think of another word for themselves. American football isn't football because you don't use your feet
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| *xcaitlinx* |
Aug 25 2006, 04:42 PM
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well, american football > european football
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| *yrrnotelekktric* |
Sep 8 2006, 03:29 PM
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QUOTE(RiC3xBoy @ Jul 9 2006, 2:00 PM)  Just make up a name. Call it Ovalball. Or This-Sport-Needs-More-Asians. 
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Sep 9 2006, 01:32 PM
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 Pokeball, GO! Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 2,832 Joined: Jul 2006 Member No: 433,009 |
QUOTE(pAiNt It BlAcK @ Aug 25 2006, 5:39 PM) I totally agree the word (soccer) shouldn't be a word. The americans just took the word football because there to stupid to think of another word for themselves. American football isn't football because you don't use your feet Actually, American football is directly descended from rugby football. "Rugby Football" is actually the correct name for rugby but when discussing rugby, people usually just drop the football part. Last I checked, rugby football was brought over to America by the British and they're also the ones who started calling it football. They varied it from its original form and dropped the "rugby" part from its name and just called it football. And for the record, as stated before, the word "soccer" doesn't come from America. Public school and university students in the U.K., including Oxford, in the 19th Century shortened "Association Football" to Soccer. They added an "er" at the end just like they did with Rugby. (Rugby is also known as rugger.) |
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Apr 1 2007, 08:17 PM
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 awestinnn Group: Member Posts: 624 Joined: Aug 2006 Member No: 460,069 |
lmao.
i love this and i agree with pretty much everything you said especially about american "football" and how they takes every three minutes. wow this is the greatest haha. im still laughing about how stupid you make american football players sound. lol. |
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| *WHIMSICAL 0NE* |
Apr 1 2007, 08:31 PM
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But if Football is American soccor, what would we call actual American Football?
Long live Fußball! |
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May 7 2007, 08:18 PM
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 vengeance. Group: Official Member Posts: 3,058 Joined: Jul 2006 Member No: 437,024 |
^ In spanish thats how they define it. Futbol (football) = soccer. Futbol Americano (american football) = what the americans define as football with that oval shaped ball type deal thing.
Didn't futbol (the spanish way) from from a hispanic decent... not from the british? eh what do i know? 
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