Why Americans Love Football

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[quote]Auss wrote:
Your such a stereotype of a french hating soccer loving englishman packlondoner haha.

Whos that photo of, I love it, for some reason ‘the butcher’ comes to mind? Alot of blood there, the reason there is usually less blood in Rugby per injury is because such injuries happen all the time so the trainers and docs on the sideline are ready to staple them up or put a few stitches in and throw them back onto the field.[/quote]

Yep… Good old Terry Butcher. I’ve got some of that cowardly French blood in me so I’m naturally too scared to reply properly. ha ha

Here’s Eric Cantona doing what he did best…

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The classic Vinny Jones and Gazza pic.

For the yanks - Vinny went on to be as bad an actor as he was a footballer and can most recently be seen as Juggernaught in X Men III.

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[quote]1-packlondoner wrote:
The classic Vinny Jones and Gazza pic.

For the yanks - Vinny went on to be as bad an actor as he was a footballer and can most recently be seen as Juggernaught in X Men III.[/quote]

So that’s why Gazza’s hair turned white!

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[quote]TQB wrote:
1-packlondoner wrote:
The classic Vinny Jones and Gazza pic.

For the yanks - Vinny went on to be as bad an actor as he was a footballer and can most recently be seen as Juggernaught in X Men III.

So that’s why Gazza’s hair turned white![/quote]

Yep, it was Vinnie (not Vinny!) Jones’ terrible acting!

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[quote]Bauer97 wrote:

It’s the violent physical contact that I “enjoy”, not “being hit”, which typically sucks, unless you’re a serious sadomasochist .[/quote]

If you enjoy being hit, you are a masochist.

If you enjoy hitting, you are a sadist.

That is all.

:slight_smile:

V

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So, 1-Pack…a question regarding Anglophone semantics:

The word “twat” is not such a big deal in the UK, but the word “cunt” is serious enough to require asterisks?

Clearly the English language on both sides of the Atlantic is chock full of synonyms for these two words, but whereas one can use the word “pussy” fairly non-offensively to describe both female genitalia and weak, cowardly men, the two words mentioned in the paragraph above don’t quite fill the bill as effectively. Particularly the latter.

Is the expression “eat pussy” (which I would rather do than play football, rugby, or soccer) used in London, or would one assume that the speaker of said phrase enjoys having house cats for supper?

By the way…my favorite line from Closer, delivered brilliantly by Clive Owen:

“So where’s the apology?..ya cunt!”

Hijack over.

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[quote]Panther1015 wrote:
Even with pads, leading a tackle with your head just isn’t sound. Seems like the art of tackling has taken a nosedive in American FB. The best are the textbook ones that just stop a guy dead in his tracks. BTW, does anyone else here like being hit as much as they like dishing it out or am I just that weird?[/quote]

I was blindsided once and my whole spine cracked like knuckles.

I popped right up and felt awesome.

The (bigger) guy that hit me stayed down.

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[quote]Varqanir wrote:
So, 1-Pack…a question regarding Anglophone semantics:

The word “twat” is not such a big deal in the UK, but the word “cunt” is serious enough to require asterisks?
[/quote]

Yes. Many people get upset by use of the C word, at least when I shout it out in Church, but “twat” seems to be more acceptable.

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[quote]Varqanir wrote:
So, 1-Pack…a question regarding Anglophone semantics:

The word “twat” is not such a big deal in the UK, but the word “cunt” is serious enough to require asterisks?

Clearly the English language on both sides of the Atlantic is chock full of synonyms for these two words, but whereas one can use the word “pussy” fairly non-offensively to describe both female genitalia and weak, cowardly men, the two words mentioned in the paragraph above don’t quite fill the bill as effectively. Particularly the latter.

Is the expression “eat pussy” (which I would rather do than play football, rugby, or soccer) used in London, or would one assume that the speaker of said phrase enjoys having house cats for supper?

By the way…my favorite line from Closer, delivered brilliantly by Clive Owen:

“So where’s the apology?..ya cunt!”

Hijack over.[/quote]

I was attempting to be polite with the word cunt because I am aware it is a big deal to many people, especially in the US. Twat however, is not a big deal over here. I would use it in front of my Mum, for example.

Twat is used in the same way one might call someone an idiot.

Cunt is a far more aggresive term, although where I come from we still use it every other sentence, but that’s because we’re an uncouth bunch of cunts. It has no connotations of being a weak or cowardly person like pussy does - more akin to calling someone an arsehole or bastard, just more so.

Best use of the word is Ray Winstone to some random old fella in the rather harrowing Nil By Mouth ‘I’ll stab you in the brain you caaant!!!’

Pussy is pussy anywhere in the world. Except Thailand, in which case trust nothing…

PS Anglophone? Is that like a Saxomaphone?

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So far, I actually watched (1) a 0 to 0 tie, (2) the USA ties 1 to 1 because an idiot on the other team kicks the ball in his own net, (3) guys be hardly touched, lay down and scream in ‘agony’, and the other guy gets a yellow card. (Worst ham acting imaginable.)

This shit actually passes for sport? No wonder the world is one fucked up place! This is NOT sport — just little dogs running in a field after a little white ball.

Anyone who doesn’t agree that this ‘World Cup’ stuff is the stupidest crap imaginable is just plain bullshitting. What a horseshit fucking ‘sport’! LMAO!!!

HH

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After reading this thread, I now understand why the United States of America is the greatest country in the world. The difference is that we actually WANT to live. The rest of the world just wants to avoid death and eek out some miserable existence. We, however, embrace life. They want to kick a little ball around. We want a CHALLENGE, to face one another in a contest of power, speed, and intelligence.

Thank God I live in my country, the most noble and moral country in the history of the planet!!

Headhunter

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[quote]Headhunter wrote:
After reading this thread, I now understand why the United States of America is the greatest country in the world. The difference is that we actually WANT to live. The rest of the world just wants to avoid death and eek out some miserable existence. We, however, embrace life. They want to kick a little ball around. We want a CHALLENGE, to face one another in a contest of power, speed, and intelligence.

Thank God I live in my country, the most noble and moral country in the history of the planet!!

Headhunter[/quote]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha…

I don’t even know where to be begin. You’re right though, the rest of the world doesn’t want to live and on their behalf I would like to thank you most heartily for your noble and moral country’s continuing efforts to rectify that situation by blowing up half of it, and encouraging what remains to blow US up.

Headhunter you don’t have a clue. Exactly how does someone get to your age and manage to completely bypass all the accumulation of knowledge and wisdom that one supposes is one of the few positive byproducts of aging?

Starting to think it is all those years smashing into people headfirst.

All your talk is about America being great because of might, violence, aggression and toughness. You speak nothing of compassion, love, friendliness, respect etc…Strange yardstick to measure greatness.

War does not make life worth living and frankly, for a sports coach to talk of themselves in such terms as being a warrior is embarrassing, and disrespectful to the REAL warriors in the extreme…

Oh and for the record, we get it. You don’t like/understand soccer. Get over it. There is no correlation between Football and America, and there is no correlation between Soccer and the rest of the world. They’re just games, often taken far too seriously by people with little else in their life and the ‘weekend warrior’ mentality, though it may be prevalent, is nothing to be proud of.

PS. Thank God you live in your country too. You wouldn’t last 5 minutes anywhere else.

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[quote]Headhunter wrote:
After reading this thread, I now understand why the United States of America is the greatest country in the world. The difference is that we actually WANT to live. The rest of the world just wants to avoid death and eek out some miserable existence. We, however, embrace life. They want to kick a little ball around. We want a CHALLENGE, to face one another in a contest of power, speed, and intelligence.

Thank God I live in my country, the most noble and moral country in the history of the planet!!

Headhunter[/quote]

lol…ha ha.

Your a total dick. Noble and moral! lol. You lot are still pissed off at when you kicked the Brits out the country and we took all the good beer with us.
Now carry on brainwashing your football team that you pass ‘25 years of coaching experience’ onto and fuck off.

I like the sport of ‘football’ as you know it and refuse to argue with someone who is below my intellectual level. However, i will continue to insult you with glee so have a fucking word with yourself and come back down from planet fucktard.

In short, stop being a complete fanny and take time to read the complete bollocks that you post before submitting it. I await your continued flaming.

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[quote]Headhunter wrote:
…the USA ties 1 to 1 because an idiot on the other team kicks the ball in his own net,…[/quote]

Pathetic. This is not the way to grow popularity of the sport in the US.

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[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
…the USA ties 1 to 1 because an idiot on the other team kicks the ball in his own net,…

Pathetic. This is not the way to grow popularity of the sport in the US.
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Notice how the two gents from ‘across the pond’ didn’t respond to my examples how lame their beloved ‘sport’ is.

If I were evil, I might think this HH fellow set that up on purpose — just to see if they’d respond. If I were evil…

HH

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[quote]1-packlondoner wrote:

All your talk is about America being great because of might, violence, aggression and toughness. You speak nothing of compassion, love, friendliness, respect etc…Strange yardstick to measure greatness.
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Oh, I don’t know. The word “great” has many connotations. The Great Plague. The Great Depression. The Great Wall. The Great Satan.

Just look at Peter the Great. Frederick the Great. Alexander the Great. Catherine the Great.

Were these individuals compassionate or friendly? Not bloody likely. Had the game been invented in their times, I am confident that they all would have played American football.

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[quote]Varqanir wrote:
1-packlondoner wrote:

All your talk is about America being great because of might, violence, aggression and toughness. You speak nothing of compassion, love, friendliness, respect etc…Strange yardstick to measure greatness.

Oh, I don’t know. The word “great” has many connotations. The Great Plague. The Great Depression. The Great Wall. The Great Satan.

Just look at Peter the Great. Frederick the Great. Alexander the Great. Catherine the Great.

Were these individuals compassionate or friendly? Not bloody likely. Had the game been invented in their times, I am confident that they all would have played American football.[/quote]

What positions?

The Great Wall would obviouly have been a lineman.

From what they say about Alexander he would have started his career as a tight end but quickly morphed into a wide receiver.

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[quote]Varqanir wrote:
1-packlondoner wrote:

All your talk is about America being great because of might, violence, aggression and toughness. You speak nothing of compassion, love, friendliness, respect etc…Strange yardstick to measure greatness.

Oh, I don’t know. The word “great” has many connotations. The Great Plague. The Great Depression. The Great Wall. The Great Satan.

Just look at Peter the Great. Frederick the Great. Alexander the Great. Catherine the Great.

Were these individuals compassionate or friendly? Not bloody likely. Had the game been invented in their times, I am confident that they all would have played American football.[/quote]

How about Napoleon?

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[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Oh, I don’t know. The word “great” has many connotations. The Great Plague. The Great Depression. The Great Wall. The Great Satan.

Just look at Peter the Great. Frederick the Great. Alexander the Great. Catherine the Great.

Were these individuals compassionate or friendly? Not bloody likely. Had the game been invented in their times, I am confident that they all would have played American football.[/quote]

You compliment us too well. Football fans everywhere are blushing.

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[quote]TrainerinDC wrote:
Varqanir wrote:
Oh, I don’t know. The word “great” has many connotations. The Great Plague. The Great Depression. The Great Wall. The Great Satan.

Just look at Peter the Great. Frederick the Great. Alexander the Great. Catherine the Great.

Were these individuals compassionate or friendly? Not bloody likely. Had the game been invented in their times, I am confident that they all would have played American football.

You compliment us too well. Football fans everywhere are blushing.
[/quote]

Really don’t think HH used the term great in anything other than its most obvious context.