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[X-Pac]

DUDE SLAYER posted this a while back.

unfortunately he's been busy with football, and unable to post.

and when that's not going on,

WE RIDIN' FRESH.

Speaking of football... my school's JV team sucks ass, big time.

[EG NeoMorph]

OK... Neo Confused Mode Activated!

How did this change topic to football? The only thing I can think of is the Green Bay Packers (and even THEN I don't know where I remembered them from).

Anyway, why the **** do they call it football when you carry the bloody thing most of the time! 

[VioletZer0]

OK... Neo Confused Mode Activated!

How did this change topic to football? The only thing I can think of is the Green Bay Packers (and even THEN I don't know where I remembered them from).

Anyway, why the pock do they call it football when you carry the bloody thing most of the time! 

Because you kick the ball...every now and then?

[EG NeoMorph]

So Tennis should be named "Handball" because you throw it up to serve?

There was this guy who was playing REAL football and picked it up and ran to the goal... he realised it wasn't football anymore and named it Rugby. In that game they occassionally kick the ball too. It ALSO is shaped like what american football players use.

So perhaps it should have been called American Rugby instead. Rugby is a far closer game than football. 

[VioletZer0]

Maybe because you...foot the ball around?

[EG NeoMorph]

Maybe because you...foot the ball around?

[VioletZer0]

No! Just making conversation.

[SeeNoEyez]

American football originated from football.
Just a change of rules when some people decided to change some of the limitations given by soccer.(no hands use by all players). In the states we made our own variation from the rugby(think soccer>rugby>american football) while we forgot why it was even called football.

so blah. American football is just a "variation" of football(soccer). Very diff yes, but many of the same basic concepts.

If anything, call it by something else. A google search just calls it "gridiron".

[EG NeoMorph]

Turns out both answers are right... it originated from Rugby AND football...

Gridiron (American football), distinct type of football that developed in the United States in the 19th century from soccer (association football) and rugby football.

Both Gridiron (American football) and Football (soccer) have their origins in varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, and Gridiron (American football) is directly descended from rugby football.

Rutgers University and Princeton University, played the first game of college Gridiron (american football) on Nov. 6, 1869 in New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers won that first game, 6-4.

Go Rutgers!

Oh yeah and look at the balls of this guy...

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[EG Haggard Spartan]

I watched a rugby game the other day, gooood lord. Those guys are freakin crazy, they hit harder than our American Football guys, and they dont even wear pads. They must be juicin, drunk, and on stimulants to get through their games.

[Guyyug]

It's not as bad as it looks, though mouthguards are needed otherwise you may lose some teeth.

[Red Intensity]

I would definitely wimp out on a game of rugby. Looks a little extreme for my taste, and I'd rather not suffer concussion-inducing blows just because I had a ball in my hands.

[Guyyug]

As I said, not as bad as it might seem, I've been taken down into the dirt during a game of rugby, completely fine.

We were also made to play rugby when I went to school, so you pretty much had to get used to it.

[EG NeoMorph]

I played Rugby when I was at school and as Guyyug said it's not that bad. I always used to think that American Footb... Gridiron players were wimps to have to wear armour to play the game... then I saw some of the monsters they call "players" you have and they are freakin HUGE compared to our Rugby players. I swear to god they are a new species heh.

Mind you I still remember this one US/UK army matchup the one time of an American Foo...Foot... OH OK... AMERICAN FOOTBALL game that got mixed up with Rugby and most players drunk out of their heads. Oh those arguments lol. The Americans were trying to explain how to play AmiFootball and we were trying to explain how to play Rugby and the game turned into a real warriors game. Next day there were many shiners to be seen in both American and British forces and when asked by the officers they always said "WALKED INTO A DOOR SIR!". I still remember the officers name stage whispered to an NCO, "Bloody good fighters these doors are... perhaps we could recruit some of them?" and the officer and NCO's were trying really hard not to laugh.

The officers next comment to the senior non-com was, "So, who won?" to which the NCO replied "Was declared a draw due to most of the players ended up arguing the rules of American Football vs Rugby via superior firepower Sir!"

I think my views on American Football stemmed from that one "match". My arguments were pretty tame here compared to that match and Vi's "Foot... the ball sometimes" just hit a nerve as when I was arguing the same thing with this US Private and went. "Foot... Ball... you Yanks don't usually kick the Effin ball in your game. Here is an example... Here is my foot..." I said as I pointed to my foot and then I kicked him in the nuts with it "... and those are your balls" (did I mention I was drunk lol). I then got knocked onto my back by one of the freaks in the US team when he punched me in the face. Actually I think he came off worse because I think he busted a knuckle or something. And no... I wasn't the one who started the fight.

[KronicMayhem]

I played rugby in higschool gym class also, i was always the guy way out on the edge of the field furthest away from the scrum and always tried to be ahead of the ball that way you couldnt legally pass it to me, lol.  Man i hate(d) contact sports like that, even if its to tackle i dont want no guy touchin me.

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