Football or Football or Futbol or Soccer or..

[The Reality Salesman01]

Oh, and by the way, here's another good reason to watch American Football...

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Got bad seats? No problem. You won't miss a thing if you watch this 60 yd HDTV that stretches over the field!...

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Handegg, s'il vous plait

I don't care what we call it. It's fucking AWESOME!!!

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[sarcasticgeographer]

It was sad to watch the niners fall to the Seahawks, but I must salute the Hawks to a great display of defense. Too bad the niners were asleep on D, since Lynch was running all over the place.

I don't understand the silly banter between rugby and American football. It is just a name and there is no harm meant in it. I mean in England, an elevator is called a lift, while here in the states, it is an elevator. You don't see bar fights happening over whether it is a lift or elevator?

But, we all know, there is only one true soccer team and they are:

[Jackalope]

It was sad to watch the niners fall to the Seahawks

If by "sad", you mean "awesome", I wholeheartedly agree.

[Cyberman]

To an extent, you're right about celebrating the linguistic differences as opposed to fighting over them. Divided by a common language and all that. Thing is, there are areas in which using the 'proper' words might make all the difference in the world. For instance, in America, playfully tweaking a lady's fanny, though frowned upon as a practise, probably won't get you in nearly as much trouble as it will here in the UK.

Similarly, sitting on one's bum over here is reasonably harmless; across the big water, there's a risk of accidentally smothering a homeless person.

At one time here in the UK, a child rushing to their parents in tears saying that they'd just lost their cherry would merely have engendered a soothing response and promises of another cherry. Now I believe it means something quite different and the response is more likely to come from Social Services cunts and botanically-euphemismed sting operations.

[Cyberman]

After some reflection, I decided I'd better just clarify my usage of the term "Social Services cunts". I may have given the impression that this opinion of them might be connected to the context of the passage, ie that they are cunts for becoming involved with cases of abuse, sexual or otherwise. I wish to establish for the record that this is not at all the case and such was not my intention. Regarding abuse and similar cases, such intervention by an agency authority is almost invariably necessary and perfectly laudable. My labelling them as "cunts" stems from first-hand experience of their other more secretive and insidious practises, beyond the scope of this thread.

[sarcasticgeographer]

It was sad to watch the niners fall to the Seahawks

If by "sad", you mean "awesome", I wholeheartedly agree.

An interesting phenomenon has been happening as of late in the bay area and that is there are a lot of "O" stickers appearing on cars. I am wondering where the sudden influx of Ducks fans appeared?

But, yes you are right, I was sad at the abysmal beating the niners got.

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To an extent, you're right about celebrating the linguistic differences as opposed to fighting over them. Divided by a common language and all that. Thing is, there are areas in which using the 'proper' words might make all the difference in the world. For instance, in America, playfully tweaking a lady's fanny, though frowned upon as a practise, probably won't get you in nearly as much trouble as it will here in the UK.

Similarly, sitting on one's bum over here is reasonably harmless; across the big water, there's a risk of accidentally smothering a homeless person.

At one time here in the UK, a child rushing to their parents in tears saying that they'd just lost their cherry would merely have engendered a soothing response and promises of another cherry. Now I believe it means something quite different and the response is more likely to come from Social Services cunts and botanically-euphemismed sting operations.

Hopefully, I don't railroad this thread. But, on the linguistic note, I have heard homeless referred to as "Outdoor Citizens" here in the states. So much for P.C.

Stimbo: No doubt you have heard this before, you are quite eloquent in your writing chap!

[Jackalope]

An interesting phenomenon has been happening as of late in the bay area and that is there are a lot of "O" stickers appearing on cars. I am wondering where the sudden influx of Ducks fans appeared?

This phenomenon is explained in much the same way as the phenomenon of the appearance of the most recent Super Bowl winning team's paraphernalia on those who previously did not sport it - everyone loves a winner.

Either that, or it's because Stanford sucks.

But, yes you are right, I was sad at the abysmal beating the niners got.

Look at the bright side. You'll only have to get beaten down by the Seahawks one more time this year. Unfortunately, it'll be in your house this time.

[Tonus]

It was sad to watch the niners fall to the Seahawks,

Seahawks fan for about 30 years here. It was anything but sad to watch that.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

I'm a Brit but I actually really like American Football.

I don't have a favourite team, I mostly watch it because it has bright colours and lots of movement (when they're not stopping to discuss plays).

Quite funny, a game of lower league English football (soccer) commentated on with American football sytle commentators (a paraody, and yes, there is a place in England called Boston):





vis an actual game of soccer being commentated on by an actual US commentator:





RELEASE THE KRAKEN. lol

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There are several officials on an NFL field as well, but no matter how many people you have, none of them are impervious to error. When the games on the line, you want the right call. I just wish baseball was as progressive.

That's arguably part of the fun of 'Soccer'. The controversey makes it great.