England World Champions Again

[metcalfedj]

Oh well only took 37 years since are last one but now we can say we are champions again, ok its rugby and not football this time but who cares we won! England Champoins of the world

[Solfius]

We probaly invented both games anyway, so it doesn't matter which one we win

[rklenseth]

When you mean football, I suppose you mean soccer and not the football we have over here in the states.

Damn Giants suck this year. So, who do you guys think is going to win the Superbowl. Certainly not the Giants.

[Solfius]

when we say football, we mean football. A game where you play using your foot to kick a ball. Any game where you pick up a kind of elongated egg shaped ball and run to the far end to place it down is called rugby :p:p:p

[rklenseth]

Well, in your country it is. Football here is where you pick up a pig skin egg shape ball and either try to get a touchdown or get a field goal.

And there is a big difference between football (the one I'm talking about) and rugby.

[Solfius]

difference? you wear softy protection, we don't? :p

[rklenseth]

Should I point out the games are also totally different from each other. And if you ever saw some of the hits these guys get in the NFL, you would want pads too. Rugby is more physical contact, sort of like wrestling, instead of all out hitting like it is in football. Not that I'm defending the NFL. I think the game would be a whole lot interesting if they didn't wear pads though I could imagine there would be a whole lot more people on the injury list because of that.

And there was a time when they didn't wear any pads and I think that changed after a few people were killed during games because of it.

[Solfius]

the ultimate spectator sport, explained to me by a firend as something like "murderball". Probaly illegal, if not then if it grew in popularity it soon would be.

1 ball
2 goals
whoever gets the ball in the goal the most wins
no other rules

Like I said, the ultimate spectator sport, cus very few would want to join in...

[rklenseth]

Never even heard of that. Must be a European thing. Over here we have Ultimate Fighting which is illegal but people do it anyways. People get killed all the time doing that. It's pretty much no rules fighting match and the objective is to knock your opponent unconscious which I assume counts if you kill him.

[metcalfedj]

Yes when i said football i meant soccer to you. As im not aware that you actually have a football as in the american type world cup and also how can your type of football actually be classed as football as you can handle the ball unlike english football or soccer as you call it

[rklenseth]

Well, we call what you call football soccor. It's always been that way over here.

Not sure about your question but if I ever meet the guys that created American football (quite impossible since it was created sometime around the late 1800's, I believe) I'll ask them.

[metcalfedj]

yes i know sorry it just seems odd thats all and i guess i forgot about the soccer thing when i first wrote it

[swymir]

Well if Philadelphia doesn't choke AGAIN. I say they are making quite a comeback this season. I'm currently watching their game right now. Philadelphia is winning and if they finish they will have 8 wins out of the past 9 games. This is the best I have ever seen them play.

Abou thwy it's called football. I'm not sure exactly why, but they do use their feet it's just they use them about 3% of the time.

I'm not going to get into the big conflict about which is better, but I would rather watch American Football over soccer any day. I guess it's just the American brutality of me. And I bet if that murderball thing ever came to the states it would be the most popular thing on TV.

[Solfius]

it aint a recognised sport or anything in the UK, just summin a friend mentioned to me.

[kroner]

America really needs to find another name for that sport. It creates so much confusion. I mean, someone obviously wasn't thinking when they said "Hey, I've got a great name for this game! Even though it has little to do with feet AND the name's taken, we should call it FOOTBALL!" yeah, and where did "soccer" come from. I think I'm gonna boycott that word.