Mint Report This Comment Date: January 12, 2009 05:16AM
fieldgoals kickoffs and punts all use the foot. game starts off with a
kickoff. Sounds like FOOTball to me.
Lexx Report This Comment Date: January 12, 2009 05:33AM
Yeah and most field goal and kick off players come from the real game of futbol
(soccer); cuz they are experts and know how to make them fly best/farthest.
Seeker Report This Comment Date: January 12, 2009 08:55AM
Mint, if you haven't noticed: In what you call football the ball is in
somebodys hands most at the time. In soccer only feet are allowed when dribling
and passing the ball. Still you americans claim the right of using the name
football. How about using some sence here!
GAK67 Report This Comment Date: January 12, 2009 09:53AM
Seeker - i have seen plenty of games of football where players use their legs,
chest, head and even hands (keepers, throw ins, and Diego Maradonna against
England). A lot of goals are scored off the head!
It (the eggs shaped ball version of the game) is called football because of,
allegedly, William Webb Ellis, at a school in a town called Rugby, who while
playing football, picked up the ball and ran with it. Rugby Football was born
from that and all other oval ball games are derivatives of that, and are still
called football because of it.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 13/01/2009 12:07AM by GAK67.
Lexx Report This Comment Date: January 12, 2009 12:36PM
Hmmm are you saying it's called Football because someone playing Futbol kicked
the ball so hard it deformed and wouldn't roll anymore so they had to break the
rules and pick it up and start running with it? There was no ref and they other
team got so upset at the illegal hand manuever that they ran the guy down and
tackled him to stop him from making it to the goalie?
Let's change the name to "Highly Paid Armored Egg Warriors".
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/01/2009 12:39PM by Lexx.
Seeker Report This Comment Date: January 12, 2009 02:21PM
Thanks for the info, GAK, which was interesting. And of cource you are right,
all parts of the body except arms and hands are used in football=soccer.
However my point was, as the picture indicates, that soccer has more to do with
football than the American egg handling game.
Actually I don't care much what it is called, but each time somebody calls
soccer football there are Americans protesting against that, which I don't think
is fair.
FrostedApe Report This Comment Date: January 12, 2009 04:03PM
"each time somebody calls soccer football there are Americans protesting
against that"
Yes, but those are the same people who watch American Idol, and think Coor's
Light is beer. We don't listen to them, and neither should anyone else. It
just makes them think their opinions are valid and important.
quasi Report This Comment Date: January 12, 2009 06:08PM
Then there are those of us who don't give a rat's ass, but it's fun to watch
people get crazy over silly things.
pro_junior Report This Comment Date: January 12, 2009 07:55PM
Frosted Ape and Quasi...BINGO!
ToucanSam Report This Comment Date: January 12, 2009 09:27PM
...Giants got their asswhipped in Handegg last night.
zx12r Report This Comment Date: January 12, 2009 09:57PM
LOL. My God, this has reared its ugly head again.
pro_junior Report This Comment Date: January 12, 2009 10:15PM
cant believe lando and fossil haven't put in their two cents...
Thanatos Report This Comment Date: January 12, 2009 11:29PM
(...Giants got their asswhipped in Handegg last night)
ToucanSam that comment hit me so
unexpectedly... my ribs are sore from laughing!
