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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.

[EG NeoMorph]

One thing I could never figure out where Rugger was concerned. Why is scoring at the end called a "Try". I haven't bloody tried to score... I HAVE scored.

It's like going to a Doctor's Practice... I don't want the sods practicing on me... I want the ones who have FINISHED practicing lol.

[Red Intensity]

One thing I could never figure out where Rugger was concerned. Why is scoring at the end called a "Try". I haven't bloody tried to score... I HAVE scored.

It's like going to a Doctor's Practice... I don't want the sods practicing on me... I want the ones who have FINISHED practicing lol.

I was practiced on once... it was in a college art class, and I was paid a couple hundred dollars to pose nude while people painted me. I think one of the women had to douse herself with gas, lit herself on fire, and jumped out of a window to get rid of my ugliness that had saturated her mind. Another person had post traumatic stress disorder, and another lady converted to lesbianism. I even got a free haircut at a barber school once, but those people were pretty nervous, so they messed up my hair badly and they had to shave me. Well, I was just kidding about the whole ugliness thing.

I can't play football to save my life. Tossed the pigskin a couple times in my life, but those times were in elementary school.

[SeeNoEyez]

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.

I think ppl would get a few hits for doing that outside of rugby as well

[EG NeoMorph]

One thing I could never figure out where Rugger was concerned. Why is scoring at the end called a "Try". I haven't bloody tried to score... I HAVE scored.

It's like going to a Doctor's Practice... I don't want the sods practicing on me... I want the ones who have FINISHED practicing lol.

I can't play football to save my life. Tossed the pigskin a couple times in my life, but those times were in elementary school.

That's another thing... why the hell is it called a pigskin when they are made out of plastic these days lol.

[Red Intensity]

Because old-school footballs used to be made out of an actual pig's bladder wrapped in leather, until the companies decided to cheap out and make plastic, and not hurt the squeamish feelings of animal lovers (aka, the scourge of humanity).

[EG Haggard Spartan]

Because old-school footballs used to be made out of an actual pig's bladder wrapped in leather, until the companies decided to cheap out and make plastic, and not hurt the squeamish feelings of animal lovers (aka, the scourge of humanity).

The good ol' days.

[EG NeoMorph]

So calling it a "pigskin" is anti-PC... BANNED!!!!

Actually it should be called a cowskin...

http://www.acasports.co.uk/product_info.php?cpath=21_239&products_id=2324

[Red Intensity]

Pigskin makes for decent leather as well. No point in wasting two animals to make one product, right?

http://www.acasports.co.uk/product_info.php?cpath=21_239&products_id=2324]

Those you can call cow skin. It's only cheaper because we practically mass-breed cows, so why not? And that is the fancy version of a football.

[SeeNoEyez]

I'm going back to football.
I re-realized: Buy a football, take a shot at Peta.

Now to go and play football wearing leather shoes, fur whatever, eagle bone kneepads, and a goat's skull as a helmet while eating a bacon hamburger and hope the football hits a bird.
**** you peta.

anyways.
How popular is football in proportion to rugby up in the UK btw?
I remember this one football player wouldn't play (or even tackle football) unless he could get pads...
Hrm...

[EG NeoMorph]

Sorry for late reply... this got lost when my damned PC crashed and it reset my unread post list.

I think (real) Football is more popular than Rugby but both sports have a large following. Remember England is supposed to be the home of (real) Football. 

Both sports have turned into real gladiator type contact sports. I meant to say that there is one big difference between Rugby and American FehferrrFehff...FOOTBALL (sorry... got a bit of a stutter atm ). Rugby flows more and the game is fast moving. In American Football it is more tactical than flowing. It also is scary as hell to me... No way would I go into a game as a blocker (I think that's what they call him). I bet it's like being hit by a Rhino lol.

I'm not knocking American Football itself... I was just just knocking the name. But since I posted the question regarding the name I have found that Football doesn't mean kicking the ball at all. It is thought that Foot-ball means playing a game with a ball WHILE ON FOOT as opposed to riding a horse. As this term came from the middle ages this differentiated between the two types of game. So actually American Football IS the correct description and I was wrong. 

[EG Haggard Spartan]

HOLD THE PHONE!!!

DID ANY1 ELSE NOTICE THIS!!?!?!?1

NEO WAS WRONG!!!! WOOT WOOT!!!

[Red Intensity]

In American Football it is more tactical than flowing. It also is scary as hell to me... No way would I go into a game as a blocker (I think that's what they call him). I bet it's like being hit by a Rhino lol.

I think those are called defensive linemen. There are a good amount of limber ones that can slip through the line of scrimmage, but the bigger ones are the ones that make some smaller players shit bricks if they have to hold one back.

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