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>> [_] Anon 3237206 >># are you mad lol
>> [_] :v 3237207 man, Hitler is looking good these days.
>> [_] Anon 3237208 Wake up america
>> [_] Anon 3237211 By Hitler's argument, soccer should be called "kickball" or perhaps "runball"
>> [_] Anon 3237212 >># more like "headball" or "throwball"
>> [_] Anon 3237219 I just feel like you might not be ready for some football.
>> [_] Anon 3237222 >># More like diveball.
>> [_] Anon 3237224 >># Only in Mexico
>> [_] Anon 3237232 >># USA USA USA USA
>> [_] Anon 3237236 niggerball and povertyball both suck. the name "soccer" came from the british, but i wouldn't expect a comedian to be informed. additionally, american football is called such because it is played on foot, rather than on horseback, in water, on bases, on ice or what have you
>> [_] Anon 3237237 I never did get why Europeans care so much about America
>> [_] Anon 3237245 >># We're the more popular sequel.
>> [_] Anon 3237249 soccer aka amateur acting academy
>> [_] Anon 3237252 >># >He said before heading over to /pol/ and shitposting about no-go zones and cucks
>> [_] Anon 3237256 did muhammad reduce the bongs rations or something?
>> [_] Anon 3237259 >># That's 4chan shit Normies in America could not give two shits about what Europeans call soccer
>> [_] Anon 3237274 >># the braindamaged world of football
>> [_] Anon 3237316 My favorite sport is luckswing
>> [_] Anon 3237317 >># O B S E S S E D
>> [_] Anon 3237322 >># I'd really like for that cameraman to give up on his profession >># that's actually a pretty apt description
>> [_] Anon 3237334 brits called it soccer first and we caught it from them, then the brits changed their language while it stuck here because nobody played it or cared about it fuckin brits
>> [_] Anon 3237356 >># In the past there were are plenty of games known as Football. Both Footballs are descended from these. Soccer is actually the more correct term for football if you look into the history.
>> [_] Anon 3237359 >># Basketball is pretty cool though

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>> [_] Anon 2979700 The wonderful thing about football is how it's just a game and nobody has to give a fuck about it if they don't want to. But then there are faggots like this guy.
>> [_] Anon 2979702 Goddamn British Why don't you go back to overtaxing your American colonies? Oh, wait...
>> [_] Anon 2979703 Buttmad americans detected
>> [_] Anon 2979704 >># >gives americans shit for terms the british created >doesn't know football is named because it is played on foot (rugby, soccer, football, gridiron are all football) >actually cares what sports other countries play What an ignorant cunt.
>> [_] Anon 2979713 >># shut up
>> [_] Anon 2979724 >># Football in general sucks. But I do like it when arrogant Brits make fun of us. So good on you OP.
>> [_] Anon 2979734 >># >most of the world calls a sport "apple" >usa instead calls it "banana" and proceeds to call sport potato "apple" instead >"herp derp, they are so ignorant"
>> [_] Anon 2979759 I will always like this. I don't think he's ever not been hilarious. Only difference this time, is he's telling the truth while being funny.
>> [_] Anon 2979776 SURE IS BUTTMAD AMERIFAGS IN HERE.
>> [_] Anon 2979779 I spy Americans playing a few rounds of kekball.
>> [_] Anon 2979780 >># >># >># >># >># Buttblasted yuropoors who cant win any sport outside of soccer detected. go back to playing grass-dive
>> [_] Anon 2979784 >># Well you certainly are the best in a sport nobody else really plays.
>> [_] Anon 2979791 lol 'muricans think they created everything and everything they do is the right and everyone else is wrong. AMERICA BTFO
>> [_] Anon 2979794 I DO SAY, GOOD SHOW OLD CHAP
>> [_] Anon 2979797 I wouldn't mind American football being changed to something more fitting, like handball or passball.
>> [_] Anon 2979820 >># i actually agree plus why don't we use the term gridiron. it sounds much better
>> [_] Anon 2979846 like he said in the video. the sports are for making money and sponsors "ONLY". Americans are consumers with sports it not funny. the rest are just opinion based. British football is for fans of their local area and only for the English. Everyone else copied the idea but hey thats good. er profit and you lose
>> [_] Anon 2979850 >># well of course sport is for medialism and commercialism how else would the teams gain a shitload of money? By winning? that would be adorable

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>> [_] MR not white 2782381 >># latinos actually feel rage every time a murican calls it soccer go play handegg fools
>> [_] Anon 2782392 Both of theses sports are equally cringeworthy to watch from an outsiders perspective. best sport=falling down the face of a wall of water with a flat floaty blank to stand upon
>> [_] Anon 2782408 based Cleese.
>> [_] Anon 2782416 >># >hurr sports r dum >I'm so smrt cus I don't like watching big brutes fight over stupid prizes with advertisements
>> [_] Anon 2782423 >># Both sports are shit, AFL is addresses problems for both sports. More action than soccer and Gridiron
>> [_] Anon 2782434 >not supporting esports
>> [_] Anon 2782437 Funny thing is the term "soccer" actually comes from 19th century England as the need to differentiate football and rugby (both called football at the time) arose. Soccer was deemed an abbreviation of "association football" while rugby was shortened to just "rugger". American football was created in 1869, likely during the period when soccer was still a popular term. It remained colloquially for the U.S. sport, while over time European and South American fans and associations readopted the name "football".
>> [_] Anon 2782445 >John Cleese is uninformed in the origin of the term Soccer My world is unraveling! Please NO!
>> [_] Anon 2782446 >># >Thinking esports are important >Thinking esports should be a thing
>> [_] Anon 2782472 >># This guy isn't serious is he?
>> [_] Anon 2782480 >># The origin doesn't matter, the real issue is that US refuses to call the sport what the rest of the world is calling it and they name their new sport the name of an already existing sport instead of naming it more logically ("handegg" actually makes sense) >># with the winning team of dota 2's international tournament getting over 5 million USD esports are definitely already a thing
>> [_] Anon 2782482 >># >Muh prizepool No one cares about your dead game.
>> [_] Anon 2782485 >># >("handegg" actually makes sense) Well, on the upside, if we keep spreading this word, and use it unironically, and IRL then it'll catch on eventually
>> [_] Anon 2782506 Well why is hockey called hockey? I mean, there is no pawning or selling of goods involved, so shouldn't it be called "smackey" or "stickey"? God, Canadians are so fucking dumb sometimes. >thread
>> [_] Anon 2782521 >># Hockey is a word barely ever used for anything but the sport majority of people don't even know it means anything other than that however, everyone knows what both "foot" and "ball" means
>> [_] Anon 2782524 >># >dead game >average of 900,000 players per month ok
>> [_] Anon 2782527 >># i choose to ignore your logic. my point is relevant.
>> [_] Anon 2782529 >># >Two hundred and 65 million male and female players in addition to five million referees and officials make a grand total of 270 million people - or four per cent of the world's population - who are actively involved in the game of football.
>> [_] Anon 2782531 >># a whole continent of autists?
>> [_] Anon 2782533 >># That's pretty ignorant of you but that's fine i'll make another If there was no other game called "football" people wouldn't care so much, sure some would say there's not enough usage of the foot in this game, and bla blah but the majority of people dislike handegg being called football because there already is another game called that one that is more foot and more ball American football is closer to a variation of Rugby
>> [_] Anon 2782535 >># I heard from somebody else that this is indeed true, but there's an extra layer involved. Supposedly there was a large amount of class stratification in UK at the time, and in the first instances of tv, and the lower class had its own words for certain things (called it football) while the upper class insisted on certain terms (soccer), and especially if you managed to get interviewed to be on tv it was a big no-no to not talk like an upperclassman. If not you'd just not be aired or something. In the end the lower class saw "soccer" as an oppressive term used by a coddling class of elitist they didn't want to have anything to do with. Their children picked up that you're supposed to get buttflustered if they called it soccer but I doubt they picked up why.
>> [_] Anon 2782539 >># of course he's serious. He's a member of the Monty Python crew, to give you an idea of the seriousness you're dealing with.
>> [_] Anon 2782543 >># I dont know if it's an older meaning or something but my grandad uses the word hockey for shit/feces
>> [_] Anon 2782544 >># well from dictionary.com: hockey noun Feces; excrement; shit: Great big blooping hunks of dog hockey/ But it's a lot of horse hockey, on both sides Empty and pretentious nonsense; bullshit: any of that hocky about being a white man Semen; cum [1923+; origin unknown; perhaps fr a variant pronunciation of the hokum, hokey, hocus-pocus cluster, suggested by some spellings, and hence originally ''falsehood, pretentious exaggeration, etc,'' whence ''bullshit,'' whence ''shit'';]
>> [_] Anon 2782553 >># I was going to get into the class division but opted out of doing so. What you say is exactly correct in tandem with the info I gave earlier. I was too lazy to type it all out at the time so I'm glad you added to it.
>> [_] Anon 2782565 >># This is so dumb. Soccer, American football, Rugby, Gridiron, etc all come from the same sport which was called football. It was called football because it was played on foot rather than horses (like polo). Also balls don't have to be round. >a solid or hollow sphere or ovoid, especially one that is kicked, thrown, or hit in a game. Ovoid means egg shaped. Or in other words, the shape of an american football.
>> [_] Anon 2782569 >mfw a yankee was talking handegg next to me
>> [_] Anon 2782574 was waiting for him to get tackled by a linebacker near the end. take notes trolls, this will be on your bigotry final.
>> [_] Spoonfeeder 2782578 >any year ever >watching sports
>> [_] Anon 2782580 >># yes he is
>> [_] Anon 2782586 >># It originated from the sport of Hurley, then after one hundy years it became to be known as hockey around the early 1900's. So, you may now eat your big bag of dicks.
>> [_] Anon 2782590 Reminder that the average American Football game takes over 3 hours, but there's only 11 minutes of total action in the entire game. The rest of the time is replays, shots of players standing around, and commercials. Fucking lel.
>> [_] Anon 2782602 >># I honestly can't understand why people like handegg, it's about as action packed as cricket

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>> [_] Anon 2664978 source?
>> [_] Anon 2664991 >># Every time I see this I just imagine butthurt Europeans bitching about how Americans act. Football is football because the ball is one foot long. The game was not designed around commercials since it existed before those even existed. The commercial flooding is a problem, however, and football fans do not like it. I'd prefer it if the game only went to commercials on timeouts, injuries, and end of quarter. We call is soccer as an abbreviation for Association Football. How ASSOC evolved into soccer is beyond me. Hope you guys learned something.
>> [_] Anon 2664992 those "4 violent seconds" are the most fun times of my life
>> [_] Anon 2665004 >># better just kill yourself then
>> [_] Anon 2665018 >># >muh, muh football
>> [_] Anon 2665021 >># the real issue is that americans get all defensive, like you, about it. instead of just adapting to whats logical and to what most of the world call the sport you make excuses and continue to believe you are right. there was already a sport called football, it's pretty dumb to name a new sport the same as an already existing one. but americans continue to tell themselves that "nah, we r the best", ignoring all logic you throw at them
>> [_] Anon 2665024 >># >Hope you guys learned something I have, actually. >not european
>> [_] Anon 2665027 >># yeah okay..kill myself while having a full scholarship to a university for playing a sport that I like.
>> [_] Anon 2665059 >># >british people >talking about culture >implying they are still relevant they havent been since shakespeare [spoiler] the beatles were shitty pop intended for girls[/spoiler]
>> [_] Anon 2665062 >># topkek, waste of a scholarship on another no necked faggot with his daddy's dick in his mouth about FOOTBALL!
>> [_] Anon 2665063 one of those few occasions around here that made me miss a function to highlight/upvote a comment.

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>> [_] Anon 2649768 it's pointless arguing about this it's not like they're gonna rename it anyway
>> [_] Anon 2649775 but are your goal posts several yards in the air? checkmate, atheists
>> [_] Anon 2649782 >># >http://s.4cdn.org/image/title/262.png
>> [_] Anon 2649788 >># Stop renaming flashes you creative fuck.
>> [_] Anon 2649796 Buttblasted Yuro detected, having to make shit up about creativity and thinking just to sound superior about the shit they kill each other over. >Go down the field >Pass it to open players >Kick the ball into the net Wow, fucking Hawking levels of intellect right there. By the way, Soccer is a term for Assoc, which stands for Association Football. Gr8 b8.
>> [_] Anon 2649803 Haughty, petty nags. Oh, you Brits and your obsession with the United States.
>> [_] Anon 2649810 >># >Buttblasted 'murican detected
>> [_] Anon 2649822 Um, I think the squirrels running the camera need to be stronger or more organized. They were really having a problem keeping the camera straight.
>> [_] Anon 2649841 https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/the -rio-report/mystery-solved-don-t-blame-us a-real-reason-123344142.html lol you so funny HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAAHHA
>> [_] Anon 2649850 >># >they're it's you who have to start calling it by the real name change starts with yourself
>> [_] Anon 2649851 >they keep the action short to fit in more commercials at least they keep the commercials somewhat separate, Eurofags sew advertisements into the uniforms so you get the Bimbos playing against the Lindts at 7 Bong Fields.
>> [_] Anon 2649870 >># let's call it handegg then HEY EVERYBODY STOP CALLING FOOTBALL FOOTBALL AND START CALLING IT HANDEGG INSTEAD!
>> [_] Anon 2649887 kek
>> [_] Anon 2649935 >># heh, youre pretty funny
>> [_] Anon 2649942 >># i know this but it doesnt explain why americans make a sport where you hold an egg-shaped object with your arms and then call it football, especially since there already was a sport named football which they clearly should have known since americans came from the uk. world: football -> soccer -> football usa: football -> soccer. let's make a new sport and call it football!
>> [_] Anon 2649971 >># >hue I'll just take what he said and turn it on him. > That'll show him
>> [_] Anon 2649979 >># because, you dunce, it's because 'football' is the name for an entire class of games played on foot (as opposed to horseback) in a field, with a ball. You have, at least, american football, association football (soccer), rugby. and australian football.
>> [_] Anon 2649999 >># >># >># >being this assblasted about americans >being this assblasted about soccer/football/sports >any year Shiggy
>> [_] Anon 2650001 You know, this is supposed to be funny but he's right in a way.
>> [_] Anon 2650003 >># quads show the way.
>> [_] Anon 2650015 Everyone knows sports are for gay faggots that can't do science anyways. Have fun in the locker room, fags. : ^ )
>> [_] Anon 2650019 >># FUCK YOU!
>> [_] Anon 2650034 >># quad god is here to save us
>> [_] Anon 2650063 >># okay, you dunce, things are making a little more sense now. however, when people say "football" they think about football. USA is the only country in the world that refuse to go with the standard and must complicate things by referring to something else when they say "football" instead of what the whole world considers is football. that's where the problem is really. when someone states just how stupid it is to call a sport like american football "football" the americans get all defensive instead of just doing the logical thing and adapt to the rest of the human race >># assblasted? shiggy? >># yep, he's using logic to create humor. i mean, i know most americans probably understand that handegg would be a better name but i also understand that change of a word doesnt happen overnight
>> [_] Anon 2650069 >># Except that: 1. We're not the only people that call it soccer: http://deadspin.com/map-what-every-count ry-calls-the-thing-we-call-soccer-1491638 984 2. England only started called it 'football' instead of 'soccer' since the 1980's, and this was because of typical eurofag jealousy towards America, offended that we were starting to gain interest in the game. We've always called our american football 'football' since the mid 1800's, and we've always called association football soccer, because that's what you fags were calling it when you introduced it to us. You're the ones who can't make up your mind regarding it's name. I propose, to end this confusion once and for all, we all just call american football 'football', and call association football 'fagball', because that's what it is.
>> [_] Anon 2650076 >># where the problem is really. getting all defensive instead of following the standard. it doesnt matter what the name was first and where, all that matters is that USA should fucking adapt to the world. it didnt use to be a problem because the world was big before, but now when it's small and people communicate through borders it causes a bunch of confusion. confusion that the US could avoid. the standard should be respected. just like the metric system and the european time format, standars should be followed. britain should start driving on the right side of the road as well, would fix a lot of confusion and advance us as humans as well
>> [_] Anon 2650087 >># >Confusion the US could avoid Is anyone anywhere really confused by the term "soccer"? Everyone understands what is being referred to with that term. On the other hand, "football" could mean either American football or soccer. In short, either you faggots adapt to us or we're going to start calling it fagball.
>> [_] Anon 2650088 >># And while we're at it lets all just go sit in grey cubes for the rest of our lives eating nutrient paste and pass the time by reading dictionaries because we're such fucking boring useless shits that we care about what someone 7000 miles away calls it when you get with your mates and kick a ball into a net

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>> [_] Anon 2563075 >># >guaranteedreplies.swf >implying the Euro-soccer scene isn't corrupt to all hell >implying
>> [_] Anon 2563093 >># cool story, post it on /sp/
>> [_] Anon 2563097 >># Why do you hate freedom?
>> [_] Anon 2563102 So some British faggot is mad about football. Who cares?
>> [_] Anon 2563104 >># what's the status of your jimmies?
>> [_] Anon 2563124 >># implying anybody cares<
>> [_] Anon 2563127 op i love you. im reposting this everywhere
>> [_] Anon 2563153 I agree with the concept. Handegg would be a better term, yes. Doesn't mean the guy isn't obnoxious as hell in the delivery though. Course handegg is stupid while football is boring. Steroidstick is lame and jumpball / niggerhoop is impossible to follow since it all blends. Sports a shit these days.
>> [_] Anon 2563156 >># >this is what europoors actually think
>> [_] Anon 2563157 >># >implying USA comments that says: "whocares" equal to "i butt hurt 2200%" >implying im not an amerifat retard >GG
>> [_] Anon 2563164 >># At least in American football, players don't take a dive at the slightest provocation like little bitches.
>> [_] Anon 2563166 >># yes your point stands,but your players are dressed in armour.
>> [_] Anon 2563169 >># doesn't matter, divegrass is the absolute shit tier poor people sport. 3rd World Ball is the worst inclusion into the sports world ever.
>> [_] Anon 2563174 EVERYBODY'S SUPER SONIC RACING TRY TO KEEP YOUR FEET RIGHT ON THE GROUND WHEN YOU'RE SUPER SONIC RACING THERE'S NO TIME TO LOOK AROUND WE'RE JUST SUPER SONIC RACING RUNNIN' TO THE POINT OF NO RETURN EVERYBODY'S SUPER SONIC RACING COME ON, LET THE FIRES BURN
>> [_] Anon 2563175 >># Our players are dressed in armor so that they can keep going after a couple games. Football is extremely injury-prone, WITH the armor. Soccer is decidedly not.
>> [_] Anon 2563185 >># >making a sport about running into each other >adding armor to be able to run into each other for a longer time >calling the practice by the same name as another sport >refusing to call the original sport by its own name >confusing something not round for a ball yup, sounds like americans alright
>> [_] Anon 2563187 american football sucks, i like muh baxitball
>> [_] Anon 2563209 >football >a ball that looks like a foot >has laces
>> [_] Anon 2563210 >># >implying feet have laces >veins growing out in a special pattern It's called cancer, Anon.
>> [_] Anon 2563211 American football is for edge kids that want to be hardcore, even when 80% of the game is hugging and groping muscular men
>> [_] Anon 2563214 >># So you're saying that 'Murican football is like wrestling, just armored and running? It must add up to the fetish multiplier.
>> [_] Anon 2563219 >># >caring about sports
>> [_] Anon 2563223 >># Except that in wrestling they all know is supposed to be silly and over the top In their football, whoever, they take the gayness and PATRIOTIC SPIRIT seriously. Making it even more silly than Hulk Hogan ripping his shirt off
>> [_] Anon 2563226 ITT, babies who don't know who John Cleese is
>> [_] Anon 2563229 so this faggot is mad because America is undefeated in worldwide football leagues?
>> [_] Anon 2563231 >># /bread
>> [_] Anon 2563232 >># I thought he meant real wrestling not WWE wrestling
>> [_] Anon 2563235 ITT: >># >># >># >># >># >># >># >># >># >># >># >># >># >># >># >># >># >># >># >># >># >># >># >># >># yep
>> [_] Anon 2563236 >># Holy shit some jimmies gonna get rekt
>> [_] Anon 2563237 Imagine the day the US wins FIFA.
>> [_] Anon 2563240 John Cleese is a personal hero of mine.
>> [_] Anon 2563241 >># with 316M population, good economy, even niggers, it only took forever
>> [_] Anon 2563242 >># is this b8?
>> [_] Anon 2563249 >># John Cleese has been responsible (along with the rest of monty python) for some of the funniest material of recent past.
>> [_] Anon 2563252 >># >inb4 you say "who's dat" kill yourself
>> [_] Anon 2563267 >># Actually the extra protective gear just leads to more injuries, because these dumbasses will get shit like concussions and keep playing. With less pads, players won't hit each other as hard. There is grassdiving in divegrass, but I think americans aren't really trained to tell the difference between fake injuries and real ones because our sports always hype up the big hits and shit. We see even legitimate injuries in a sport like european football and we think it looks fake because TV trained us that way.
>> [_] Anon 2563278 >># Its called football because of its relation to rugby.
>> [_] Anon 2563280 >People not realizing a famous comedian is making a joke. :|
>> [_] Anon 2563281 im 90% sure this is intended to be comedic and im sure that 90% of the people in this thread are taking it way too seriously
>> [_] Anon 2563282 >># >implying
>> [_] Anon 2563291 There is so much mad here
>> [_] Anon 2563296 >># Where? Nobody in this thread cares.

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>> [_] Anon 2481100 all sports are ghey bothering with them is not worth your time if your time
>> [_] Anon 2481103 >># You calling League of Legends ghey?
>> [_] Anon 2481107 >># >implying league is a sport u fat neckbeard shit
>> [_] Anon 2481112 >># >not worth your time >pros make enough money to last their lifetime and their children's children's lifetime before they are 30 years old >also get tons of respect and good health plus get to travel all around the world and have lots of fun doing what they love all while getting paid for it
>> [_] Anon 2481114 >Monty Python Friday I like it.
>> [_] Anon 2481120 >># >enough money to last their lifetime yeah and they spend it all and go broke anyway >good health pls >have lots of fun pls stahp
>> [_] Anon 2481123 murrica got TOLD
>> [_] Anon 2481138 >butthurt europoors in a nutshell
>> [_] Anon 2481143 >># (American) football is actually really fucking bad for you you can still easily get concussioned while wearing proper safety gear
>> [_] Anon 2481145 >># You get paid more to kick a ball around than you do to take a bullet for your country. And you imply sports are not worth the time of day. >># Yep, it's very ghey. So ghey, that when I got an email from Twitch regarding a LoL match, my desktop went full rainbow.
>> [_] Anon 2481151 >># It was obvious that I was responding to the flash which talked about the interest of sport itself, not playing professional sports
>> [_] Anon 2481154 God this guy is fucking retarded. We all already know how fucking rigged American football is and how we should call "soccer", football instead. Just because some assholes in the NFL set this shit up doesn't mean all Americans agree with it. We don't get a say. Fucking idiot.
>> [_] Anon 2481160 >># >maximum damage controll
>> [_] Anon 2481162 >># God you sound entitled as fuck. Shame you ain't.
>> [_] Anon 2481164 Americans call it football because we use feet to measure how far the ball was carried.
>> [_] Anon 2481166 >># >maximum brain power was used to formulate this response
>> [_] Anon 2481167 >># >implying fifa isn't the biggest rigging association on earth next to maybe the mafia
>> [_] Anon 2481168 Dear rest of the world: It would kind of be weird if we called football Hand-Lemon Shaped Projectile.
>> [_] Anon 2481171 >># well i didn't say handegg, did i? thread's about football
>> [_] Anon 2481173 >># i have never watched more than two minutes of any sport and have no regrets
>> [_] Anon 2481175 >># Aww man, did I hurt the little redneck's feelings? Here look, I'm sorry for giving my opinion out over the internet. See? Is that better?
>> [_] Anon 2481176 What? The British are the ones who named it Soccer, not us.
>> [_] Anon 2481178 >># which mafia in particular are you thinking about when you refer to "the mafia"
>> [_] Anon 2481180 >># >implying he knows what he's talking about
>> [_] Anon 2481183 >Smug brit Dropped The brits named it soccer first, we just stuck with the name instead of flopping about to sell it to the planet. Also, reminder that all sports are lame as shit, and trying to make yourself superior (American football = potato chip garbage, Soccer = smooth jazz hurrdurr) makes you seem like a cunt. The sports are played differently because they're different sports. Americans play soccer too, in case you forgot.
>> [_] Anon 2481186 If anything, American football is jazz. Football football is superior big band.
>> [_] Anon 2481187 >sports
>> [_] Anon 2481195 We are the United States of America. We do not like the metric system and not eating beef, and we will continue to call our sport Football and yours Soccer because fuck you.
>> [_] Anon 2481199 >># YOO WUH SAY YOO WUH SAY YOO WUH SAY YOO WUH SAY
>> [_] Anon 2481204 >># Are you ready for Hilary? >to openly state we are a Chinese vassal state in her address to the UN
>> [_] Anon 2481209 >># HIL UH REE HIL UH REE
>> [_] Anon 2481213 >># YOO ESS AYY YOO ESS AYY YOO ESS AYY
>> [_] 9/11 bones were rattled 2481224 It's not just the QB issuing the commands... As a center, I also command the O-Line when they're feeling stupid. It could easily be rigged, but y'know what? That doesn't make it not entertaining for me at least. I play LoL CS:GO and football quite a bit, and in my opinion, E-Sports shouldn't be a thing.
>> [_] Anon 2481234 >all these anons not knowing John Cleese
>> [_] Anon 2481237 John Cleese still got it.
>> [_] Anon 2481240 >># Go to bed, John. Nobody liked Fawlty Towers, and Michael Palin is doing infinitely better.
>> [_] Anon 2481242 Soccer was originally a BRITISH TERM, to distinguish ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL (SOCCER) from RUGBY FOOTBALL (RUGGERS). Please note, the term Ruggers is still in common usage in Britain. Why they named Rugby a kind of Football is stupid, and the only reason nobody makes fun of them for it is because Americans are easier targets. Now, before American Football, the term Football used to refer to Soccer in America. When American Football became popular, Americans took a page from the Limeys, and called Football SOCCER, JUST LIKE THE BRITS DID.
>> [_] Anon 2481244 >># >cont'd Then, around the 60's and 70's, the British found that the term SOCCER had an American connotation to the word now, and they decided "EW WE DONT LIKE THOSE BLOODY YANKS WE HAVE TO DISTANCE OURSELVES SOMEHOW OH I HAVE AN IDEA LETS CALL FOOTBALL "FOOTBALL" SO NOW THEY LOOK STUPID INSTEAD OF US AHAHA BLOOODY GOOD OL' CHAP GOD SAVE THE QUEEN WHERE ARE MY CRUMPETS ITS ALMOST TIME FOR TEA" So now, 40 years down the road, their grand deception worked, and they've actually gotten in on the fun of making fun of America for a term that they fucking invented. Fuck Britain, also, Basketball is the king of sports, suck it nerds, Go Spurs Go.
>> [_] Anon 2481247 Brits are retarded. American football is called football because the ball is about a foot long. It's like they didn't even google it before they started spouting off bullshit. This is why you guys are one of the least relevant modern countries in the world.
>> [_] Anon 2481249 >># What ball? I see feet but no ball.
>> [_] Anon 2481268 The only reason soccer doesn't do as many commercials is because the players wear the advertisements on their jerseys, plus every single stadium is lined with video screen ads. Without those ads spots, god knows soccer would find a reason to stop the clock every 5 minutes to hawk Bimbo bread and Boddington's.
>> [_] Anon 2481269 >># also dubs dont lie
>> [_] Anon 2481272 I wonder if there's anything this guy can say or do that I can disagree with or can't laugh at.
>> [_] AnalDestroyer !rbkCodnII2 2481277 OP, you'll cut yourself with that edge.
>> [_] Anon 2481284 >># I used to think this guy was cool. >># Not to mention football was made back when TV adds weren't even a thing, and also talking about the name at all is completely irrelevant. >lol, Americans call it football, you don't even kick the ball with your foot that often! >they call it rugby when there aren't any rugs involved >they call it cricket when their aren't any insects involved. >they call it squash when their isn't any plants involved >they call it boxing when there isnt any cubes involved It was a rant about nothing, this is what eurofags call entertainment, any incoherent rant that is against America, to sooth their complex.
>> [_] Anon 2481285 >># >The word "soccer," which is believed to have originated in Britain some 200 years ago, comes from the official name of the sport, "association football." Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/13 /soccer-not-football-_n_5492714.html So it was called football before soccer, soccer was just a nickname. Apparently the US started using this nick instead of the real name because they had already their own sport called "football" and they wanted a different word to make things less confusing. The issue is why invent a sport, call it the real name of another sport and then start calling the real football sport by its nick. Especially when calling it handegg makes more sense (or anything else, like "tacklefeast").
>> [_] Anon 2481287 >># You're going to have to provide source on that. Sounds like something someone would invent just to defend the name "football". But it makes a little sense I guess so I won't find it hard to believe. But then there's what this guy says >>#... it's still not a ball! >># You prefer not watching the sport and only focusing on the ad instead of watching the sport and have ads in the background? Also don't handegg have that too?
>> [_] Anon 2481290 Oh i get it, jazz is boring as fuck and so is soccer.
>> [_] Anon 2481295 >># now defend the issue of calling your own sport the already-existing name of a different, much larger sport, when the name doesn't even make sense. nobody would complain if american football was called something imaginary that doesn't make sense if they just picked a word that wasn't already in use why not call american football "swimming" and start calling swimming something else?
>> [_] Anon 2481297 >># Its not an issue at all, nobody here watches fucking soccer so nobody gives a fuck, only you give a fuck for the sake of trying to make a non issue some massive problem for the simple fact that America is involved.
>> [_] Anon 2481299 >># >Jazz >100% American made :^)
>> [_] Anon 2481301 >># see >># >># >># >># >>#
>> [_] Anon 2481304 >># He used a tasteful form of music invented by Americans to try to prove how distasteful Americans are, fucking generous. Its sad when Europoors do this, for example the ones in this thread are on an American website, on a machine invented by Americans, on a method of communication created in America, and they still try to "prove" they are better, the only way they can attempt to prove they are better is by utilizing recourses from a country that is truly better.
>> [_] Anon 2481306 >># My dad grew up in england in the 50's, never heard the term "soccer" until he moved to canada.
>> [_] Anon 2481309 >># >.swf video >comments: Nobody gives a fuck about football football, or football. >Over 50 comments and counting.
>> [_] Anon 2481318 Saying america is so much better just makes us look reaaally conceited guys. The logic is simple. Football makes shit sense as a name for a sport played with hands and an egg-thing. >Oh look at this guy on the not-americas side Im on reason and equality's side. And tactfulness. Ya'll sound like children.
>> [_] Anon 2481329 because football is the only sport in America, right?
>> [_] Anon 2481338 >a brit shits on something american once again MAN FUCK THESE YUROPOORS, FUCK THEM HARD