• Why americans call it "soccer"
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Ray Lewis is a pretty small guy for being a Linebacker, but I bet he could bring that guy down. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-I4h0s2jnU[/media] Look how easily he stops this man. [img]http://www.helixelite.com/images/athletes/ahmard.jpg[/img]
Does it matter? They're 2 different names for the same thing. Get over it. And I honestly don't care if you guys are talking about something completely different at the moment.
[QUOTE=ryno5660;23045475]you're right with the technique, but have you seen this man? he's not just some really good rugby player, if he was donned in pads and was playing in a game of american football, the man under that helmet is still jonah fucking lomu, no matter what game or situation you put him in he is a monster i'm not questioning the game, i'm just saying lomu is a force regardless of what game is being played[/QUOTE] I don't really know him, but even the monsters in football still get taken down. In football you don't really take the hits and keep running, you try and prevent yourself from getting hit, which is why you have an offensive line.
[QUOTE=iusehax;23043579]No dont wear pussy pads and come play a real man sport in stead of Amerishit football [editline]01:58AM[/editline] I dont actually i play rugby i play Hockey (yes the real one not stupid ice hockey) and cricket and both a dangerous sports you would poo it if a 100mph leather ball of death wall thrown at you.[/QUOTE] i play wide receiver on varsity and i have to say, i've broken both my ankles on two consecutive games i broke one when i was intercepted (cornerback was quite good) and was pushed back from the air the game after my recovery, i was running and someone dive tackled me and slammed my leg to the ground the pads did not really help at all i'd kill to be starter
Also, this thread is making me wish football season was here. :frown:
[QUOTE=Bman212;23045538]i play wide receiver on varsity and i have to say, i've broken both my ankles on two consecutive games i broke one when i was intercepted (cornerback was quite good) and was pushed back from the air the game after my recovery, i was running and someone dive tackled me and slammed my leg to the ground the pads did not really help at all[/QUOTE] I can one up this story. I was running the ball as a fullback during a varsity game and a guy dove at my legs. I went to jump over him, turning a bit to the side in the air. A guy came from the side while I was in mid-air and drilled me in the back, right where the pads cover you up and supposedly protect you. The muscles on the entire left side of my back were ripped off my ribs. Yes, ripped off. Also, I pissed foam for a few days because my kidney was fucked beyond belief. My back still bothers me every once in a while today. So yeah, I got nailed square where the pads are and they didn't do shit. Probably would have shattered all of my ribs and destroyed my kidney completely if I didn't have pads. Hell, I've seen guys get ruptured spleens and shit because they've been hit so hard, and that's in high school. Also: I kept playing for the rest of the game. Played the next week too. All I had to do was get drugged up on muscle relaxers and I was good to go for the duration of the game. Felt like I was being stabbed once they wore off, though.
granted, american football is just as dangerous as rugby, but honestly i just prefer rugby - don't wear any armour and i just prefer it that way, i hate wearing helmets and pads and stuff if it wasn't for that i think i'd warm to american football more though, with less restrictions on tackling
There's more restrictions on tackling in Rugby than there is in football. You're generally not allowed to tackle/hit above the waist in Rugby, whereas in football, you can drill the shit out of someone wherever you want as long as you don't lead with your head, since you can easily break your neck doing so. On a completely unrelated note, I found this video and it makes me want to cringe watching some of this stuff. It's all modern which is a good break away from those "Greatest hits" videos that show all of the same old clips. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04KbNh0cFlM[/media]
this thread has made me want to play
Honestly, I've played both sports and have to say hand's down football is a lot more physical and more injuries occur. Rugby is tough, no doubt, but you can't go all out like in football, thus preventing a lot of injuries but it's a lot tougher cardio wise. Just today I tore a ligament in my back playing football. And that Jonah Lomu guy wouldn't be dominant in the NFL, he wouldn't even be big compared to most of the guys. Highschooler's going to D1 colleges for linebackers consistently weight well over 240lbs and are fast as fuck, and D-Lineman are 270+,regulary going into the 300's and running 40's under 5 seconds. That's just college too. [url]http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recruiting/player-Dominique-Easley-92086[/url], 260lbs and runs a 4.7, and lean as fuck. He's not even a freshmen in college yet.
Im gonna keep calling it a pussy sport for 4th graders PFTBAHAHA No but seriously I dont care what its called
[QUOTE=ryno5660;23045304]i'm british and i agree, but show me an american football player who can stop jonah lomu he has run the length of the pitch with 3 men hanging off of him before without slowing down, this is his average performance, the man is a human train i agree and great, everyone wins because everyone is really hard but i can't see an average american footballer regardless of size simply stopping jonah lomu[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7qrlWhXe8c[/media] Guaranteed.
average football player [img]http://blogg.visir.is/nfl/files/2008/04/golst.jpg[/img] average rugby player [img]http://gayguidetoronto.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/a-naked-french-rugby-player11.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=David29;23041507]The thing is though, we Brits mock the USA for calling it soccer for three reasons that are completely irrelevant to what the article is saying: 1. 'Football' still makes more sense than 'soccer'. 2. 'Football' was still used before the invention of the word 'soccer'. 3. The rest of the world uses 'football', or a variation of it (e.g. fussball).[/QUOTE] How do you expect us to change? American Football here is easily the most watched sport, theres no way you can suddenly change the names around.
Football? [IMG]http://grahammilton.com/cutenews/data/upimages/afl.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=lulzbocks;23044695] Baseball is one of the hardest sports to master. It is also one of the most fun. And I'm guessing that you never played or you played when you were a kid and sucked, so now everyone who play it is stupid. Or you're English and just disrespect everything that smells American at every given chance.[/QUOTE] Great job Detective, You've found that I'm English, while I am in fact, Floridian. Baseball is just where Irish Americans, and Puerto Ricans duke it out tossing a small stitched, cork ball at high speeds into someones face.
Baseball is by far the lamest sport, boring to watch, boring to play a lot of the time and not very athletic at all, all it requires is coordination. I'm american, and proud to say that baseball sucks.
I don't like most sports at all...only soccer and dodge ball.
[QUOTE=Second-gear-of-mgear;23047270]Great job Detective, You've found that I'm English, while I am in fact, Floridian. Baseball is just where Irish Americans, and Puerto Ricans duke it out tossing a small stitched, cork ball at high speeds into someones face.[/QUOTE] Can't forget Asians. :eng101: [QUOTE=Swilly;23047361]I don't like most sports at all...only soccer and dodge ball.[/QUOTE] My favorite sport is cheerleading. :smug:
[QUOTE=Funky Pickle;23043677]Wow, you sure hate America. What, are you gonna call us fat next? Also, to one of your older comments, Americans don't really have an accent. They just talk normally, without any type of accent.[/QUOTE] I'm sorry, what? It's impossible not to have an accent. No matter where you're from, people who have lived near you and grown up with you will sound "normal", and everyone else will sound like they have a strange accent.
[QUOTE=Brage Nyman;23041371]Now to the important question, why do they call football for football when you run with the ball in you hands.[/QUOTE] Because we drive on parkways and park on driveways.
[QUOTE=MaverickIB;23045514]Ray Lewis is a pretty small guy for being a Linebacker, but I bet he could bring that guy down. [URL="http://www.facepunch.com/#"]View YouTUBE video[/URL] [URL]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q-I4h0s2jnU[/URL] Look how easily he stops this man. [/QUOTE] or wait i dunno which one he is but that guy got smacked in the face
[QUOTE=Bredirish123;23041920]Have you ever watched Rugby? Breaking bones is a normal occurance, hell people have had their ears ripped off/to shreds, and in some cases people die.[/QUOTE] We have players die during summer training. TRAINING
[QUOTE=iusehax;23041359]Rugby players rip the shit out of American footballers tbh pussy padding[/QUOTE] Way to pass fundamental science classes. To be put in the most simple terms possible. Mass x Velocity = Force. Pads add more weight to a player and hardly make them slower. This results in harder hits. So if you are going by those terms, rugby players are the pussy players.. but they aren't.
[QUOTE=Fire Kracker;23048199]or wait i dunno which one he is but that guy got smacked in the face[/QUOTE] Lewis is #52, he's the one who hit Hall and knocked his helmet off. Ray Lewis is a motherfucking beast, he's gone to the Pro Bowl 11 times out of his fourteen seasons, and at least two of the seasons he didn't go to the Pro Bowl, he was out due to injury. Such an huge hit right here, he's my favorite player of all time. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4KZnxHFrVk[/media]
[QUOTE=David29;23041507]The thing is though, we Brits mock the USA for calling it soccer for three reasons that are completely irrelevant to what the article is saying: 1. 'Football' still makes more sense than 'soccer'. 2. [B]'Football' was still used before the invention of the word 'soccer'.[/B] 3. The rest of the world uses 'football', or a variation of it (e.g. fussball).[/QUOTE] [quote]Not only that, but the sport being referred to as "Soccer" preceeded the first recorded instance of it being called by the singular word "Football" by about 18 years. This happening when it became more popular with the middle and lower class. When that happened, the term "Football" gradually began dominating over "Soccer" and the then official name "Association Football".[/quote] [quote]Just as intriguing, for those who like to lambaste American Football for being called such when the ball interacts primarily with your hands, most of the earliest forms of Football were named thus, not because you kicked a ball with your foot, but because they were played on foot. Peasants played most of their sports on foot; aristocrats played most of theirs on horseback. Thus, games played on foot were called "Football", whether they had anything to do with kicking a ball or not. Indeed, many of the earliest forms of football involved carrying balls in an attempt to get across goal lines passed some opposing team or individual.[/quote] [URL]http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/06/the-origin-of-the-word-soccer/[/URL]
Brits originated the one thing they bash Americans for the most? Irony!
[QUOTE=Kinversulath;23048595]*Quotes about origins of soccer and football* [URL]http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/06/the-origin-of-the-word-soccer/[/URL][/QUOTE] You should post that as a thread in GD.
[QUOTE=CoolKingKaso;23042964]Germans mostly influenced English.[/QUOTE] Wrong sir, Latin.
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;23049797]Wrong sir, Latin.[/QUOTE] English is a germanic language, not a romantic one.
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