Originally posted by: Captante
Rule changes which cut back on things like 1-0 games with like 5 good scoring chances total & World Cups decided by goal kicks instead of game-play would certainly help.
Originally posted by: pillage2001
So every football game has an attendance of 110000 in every match????? :Q Besides superbowl, clue me in, when was the last time there was a 110k attendance.
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
The rest of the world has the metric system, Formula 1, real football, and GSM.
What do we poor saps get in the USA? NASCAR! Yay!
In many respects I wish the USA would get on the world's band-wagon. Our beloved sports like football, basketball, and baseball are in the minority. And we can't win at "our" sports. Remember Greece beat the USA Dream Team last year?
Originally posted by: loic2003
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
The rest of the world has the metric system, Formula 1, real football, and GSM.
What do we poor saps get in the USA? NASCAR! Yay!
In many respects I wish the USA would get on the world's band-wagon. Our beloved sports like football, basketball, and baseball are in the minority. And we can't win at "our" sports. Remember Greece beat the USA Dream Team last year?
this is true. Is seems the US likes internal sports only, like the 'world serioues' of basketball that used to be the US only.
Having said that, the US rocks at the olympics.
Originally posted by: chrisms
Originally posted by: dug777
As an Aussie, i don't give a sh1t.
We hate Portugal
We Hate Portugal
We hate Argentina
But Duestchland we love you!
A bunch of drunk aussies were singing that very loudly at the 3rd place game.. I don't think they gave a sh1t either
Originally posted by: monk3y
Hell no, I hope soccer never makes it big here. Football's an AMAZING game. I hated football when I first came into this country too. It took a good 4 years for me to get REALLY into it. Now I can't stop. Of course coming to a football school like UF helped that a lot.
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: waggy
i enjoy soccer. just can't watch a full game.
Any game that can end 0-0 is officially boring.
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
The rest of the world has the metric system, Formula 1, real football, and GSM.
What do we poor saps get in the USA? NASCAR! Yay!
In many respects I wish the USA would get on the world's band-wagon. Our beloved sports like football, basketball, and baseball are in the minority. And we can't win at "our" sports. Remember Greece beat the USA Dream Team last year?
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
The rest of the world has the metric system, Formula 1, real football, and GSM.
What do we poor saps get in the USA? NASCAR! Yay!
In many respects I wish the USA would get on the world's band-wagon. Our beloved sports like football, basketball, and baseball are in the minority.
Originally posted by: rahul
He started off talking about the World Cup. Last I checked, teams outside the EU are invited to play AND host the tournament. Just because the last edition was held in Germany does not mean he can pick and choose his stadia.
If you want Europe specific numbers, let's try a different tack;
Total NFL regular season attendance for 2007 was just over 17 million. Text
Total English Premiere League attendance for 2002 was just over 13 million. Text
Saying the atmosphere at an American football game is better than one at a football game anywhere in the world is naive. Different, yes. Better, no.
If you think 90,000 fans at an NFL, NCAAF game can get it on louder than 90,000 fans at a Real Madrid-Barca game, you are sorely mistaken.
If you want a chant and response, go to the Salt Lake stadium when Mohun Bagan plays East Bengal. I can assure you that 4 collegefuls of football fans can't match the noise.
Different sport but, if you think a college town celebrating a win or mourning a loss is the best ever, visit India or Pakistan when they play each other at cricket. You'll know what it's like when over a billion people live it up as one
Originally posted by: Eeezee
Any game can end 0-0. Are you mentally challenged or something?
Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
Who's David Beckham?
Wasn't he in a movie?
Originally posted by: jai6638
actually, it drives me crazy that Americans call the sport, football! Don't really have a problem with the fact that they prefer it over the real football!
Originally posted by: palindrome
Originally posted by: jai6638
actually, it drives me crazy that Americans call the sport, football! Don't really have a problem with the fact that they prefer it over the real football!
Maybe if you know a little more about football you would understand. Football, originally, for decades until probably the late 60's wasn't a very big "passing" sport, atleast not by arm.
Soccer freaks are morons.
Originally posted by: Atheus
Originally posted by: palindrome
Originally posted by: jai6638
actually, it drives me crazy that Americans call the sport, football! Don't really have a problem with the fact that they prefer it over the real football!
Maybe if you know a little more about football you would understand. Football, originally, for decades until probably the late 60's wasn't a very big "passing" sport, atleast not by arm.
That is because it was developed from _actual_ football, where you use your feet...
The world 'football' means 'soccer' almost everywhere. Search for 'football' on wikipedia, google, etc - it's the round ball game.
Soccer freaks are morons.
_You_ are a moron.
Football is the name given to a number of different, but related, team sports. The most popular of these world-wide is (association) football (also known as soccer). The English word "football" is also applied to American football, Australian rules football, Canadian football, Gaelic football, rugby football (rugby union and rugby league), and related games. Each of these codes (specific sets of rules) is referred to as "football" by its followers.
While it is widely believed that the word football, or "foot ball", originated in reference to the action of a foot kicking a ball, this may be a false etymology. An alternative explanation has it that the word originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe, which were played on foot. [citation needed] These sports were usually played by peasants, as opposed to the horse-riding sports more often played by aristocrats. This explanation is supported by the fact that the word football has always implied a wide variety of games played on foot, not just those that revolved around kicking a ball. In some cases, the word has been applied to games which involved carrying a ball and specifically banned kicking. For example, the English writer William Hone, in The Every-Day Book (1825-26), quotes the social commentator Sir Frederick Morton Eden, regarding a game ? which Hone refers to as "football" ? played in the parish of Scone, Scotland:
The game was this: he who at any time got the ball into his hands, run [sic] with it till overtaken by one of the opposite part; and then, if he could shake himself loose from those on the opposite side who seized him, he run on; if not, he threw the ball from him, unless it was wrested from him by the other party, but no person was allowed to kick it.[1] [Emphasis added].
However, there is no conclusive evidence for either theory regarding the origins of the word.
The word "soccer" originated as an "Oxford '-er'" slang abbreviation of "association", and was popularised by a prominent English footballer, Charles Wreford-Brown.