<!--QuoteBegin-AvengerX+Feb 7 2005, 03:41 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (AvengerX @ Feb 7 2005, 03:41 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Soccer is a barbaric sport... I mean, the first cave man who kicked a rock between two other ocks invented soccer... and after he did that, he got a couple thousand other cave men to run into the streets, burn down all thier cars and buildings, go get drunk , and wake up the next day and wonder what happened
for reals. soccer is a out of date sport. lets look at all the great Football movies
1- Radio 2- Remember the Titans 3- Friday night lights 4- varsity blues
just to name a few and lets look at what movies soccer has...
1- bend it like beckum (the worse movie I've ever seen) 2- the big green (it might entertain you if your under 6)
football is a game of stradagy
soccer is a game of chaos
Football is just a better game... thats all there is <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> You forgot 'Victory!' with Sylvester Stallone in that POW camp. Though, I'm not sure who's side I'm helping by mentioning it <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> . Baseball has all the good movies, most football movies are boring anyway, because they're canned and predictable, at least the baseball movies are funny...except waterboy, there's the...okay-ish football-type movie.
I think there was also a soccer movie called 'The Ladybugs'...actually I'm not quite sure what it was about, because I saw 2 previews for it and saw about 5 minutes of it on TV and it was so horrendous my TV imploded into a black hole...in fact, I'm being sucked in right now...
...well, okay, it was just terrible. But football movies suck too (especially that one with Keanu Reeves <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> ).
footballs movies do not suck.... they have good messages like
Teamwork - all of them Importence of Education - like... ummm... I'm sure thers one Anti- steriods - like varsity blues Anti - Racism - likein Remember the Titans Never giving up - like in the little gaints
but there are a lot of funny baseball movies out there too....
You know... I often wonder how much grief would have been saved in internet forums around the world and trans-atlantic conversations if the people who came up with these naming conventions had simply made it fashionable to define the two sports by these words:
AMERICAN FOOTBALL INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL
Seriously. Just throw away 'soccer' and suddenly everyone is happy because you pretty much need to specify what kind of football it is to define between the two after that <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-AvengerX+Feb 7 2005, 03:41 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (AvengerX @ Feb 7 2005, 03:41 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Soccer is a barbaric sport... I mean, the first cave man who kicked a rock between two other ocks invented soccer... and after he did that, he got a couple thousand other cave men to run into the streets, burn down all thier cars and buildings, go get drunk , and wake up the next day and wonder what happened
for reals. soccer is a out of date sport. lets look at all the great Football movies
1- Radio 2- Remember the Titans 3- Friday night lights 4- varsity blues
just to name a few and lets look at what movies soccer has...
1- bend it like beckum (the worse movie I've ever seen) 2- the big green (it might entertain you if your under 6)
football is a game of stradagy
soccer is a game of chaos
Football is just a better game... thats all there is <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> .... what?
SOCCER IS A GAME OF CHAOS. FOOTBALL IS A GAME OF STRADAGY.
<b>STRADAGY! GOD THE STRADAGY!</b> <b>FOOTBALL IS FOR THE STRADEGISTS!</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-AvengerX+Feb 7 2005, 08:41 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (AvengerX @ Feb 7 2005, 08:41 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Soccer is a barbaric sport... I mean, the first cave man who kicked a rock between two other ocks invented soccer... and after he did that, he got a couple thousand other cave men to run into the streets, burn down all thier cars and buildings, go get drunk , and wake up the next day and wonder what happened <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Yes, barbaric.
Sweet Jesus, how do you defend a FULL CONTACT sport ("American Football" or "Rugby-Lite") by claiming it's NON-CONTACT opposition (Football, or "Soccer") to be barbaric.
Also, comparing movies made about both sports is pretty much a fruitless endeavour. Yes, we know you Americans have one of the biggest film industries in the world, whilst it isn't the biggest, it still dwarfs the English, German, French and Spanish movie industry on it's own. Also, using movies to justify an activity is a generally ridiculous idea too. I watched Romper Stomper recently and i thought it was an excellent movie, and it's pretty critically acclaimed also, but that doesn't mean that Skinheads, Neo-Nazis and racism are all good things. And yeah, that is a bit exaggerated, but it's the same gyst.
And V Man, there's something unsettling about a "Man's Game" that involves wearing the shortest of shorts. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
We Asians are football (the real one) nuts too. Please, be more Anti-AsiaPacific too.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> So much life would have been spared if they'd only called "American Football" "Soccer". But now the carnage will never cease. So sad...so sad.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-esuna+Feb 7 2005, 02:30 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (esuna @ Feb 7 2005, 02:30 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> And V Man, there's something unsettling about a "Man's Game" that involves wearing the shortest of shorts. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Oi lol It's a "Mans game" when you compare it to Soccer <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> look at the knocks a Soccer player will get and how much they play act because of it Compare that to the knocks an player gets in the average Rugby game hehe. I would like to see a soccr player take a knock like that in a game.
<!--QuoteBegin-AvengerX+Feb 7 2005, 10:41 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (AvengerX @ Feb 7 2005, 10:41 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Soccer is a barbaric sport... I mean, the first cave man who kicked a rock between two other ocks invented soccer... and after he did that, he got a couple thousand other cave men to run into the streets, burn down all thier cars and buildings, go get drunk , and wake up the next day and wonder what happened
for reals. soccer is a out of date sport. lets look at all the great Football movies
1- Radio 2- Remember the Titans 3- Friday night lights 4- varsity blues
just to name a few and lets look at what movies soccer has...
1- bend it like beckum (the worse movie I've ever seen) 2- the big green (it might entertain you if your under 6)
football is a game of stradagy
soccer is a game of chaos
Football is just a better game... thats all there is <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Hell yes. Obviously that means everything. You sir, are genius.
<!--QuoteBegin-Spacer+Feb 7 2005, 05:18 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Spacer @ Feb 7 2005, 05:18 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-AvengerX+Feb 7 2005, 03:41 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (AvengerX @ Feb 7 2005, 03:41 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Soccer is a barbaric sport... I mean, the first cave man who kicked a rock between two other ocks invented soccer... and after he did that, he got a couple thousand other cave men to run into the streets, burn down all thier cars and buildings, go get drunk , and wake up the next day and wonder what happened
for reals. soccer is a out of date sport. lets look at all the great Football movies
1- Radio 2- Remember the Titans 3- Friday night lights 4- varsity blues
just to name a few and lets look at what movies soccer has...
1- bend it like beckum (the worse movie I've ever seen) 2- the big green (it might entertain you if your under 6)
football is a game of stradagy
soccer is a game of chaos
Football is just a better game... thats all there is <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> .... what?
SOCCER IS A GAME OF CHAOS. FOOTBALL IS A GAME OF STRADAGY.
<b>STRADAGY! GOD THE STRADAGY!</b> <b>FOOTBALL IS FOR THE STRADEGISTS!</b> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Captain Tsubasa Shaolin Soccer
Just because you Americans don't have a clue on how to make a good football movie...
<!--QuoteBegin-esuna+Feb 7 2005, 09:30 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (esuna @ Feb 7 2005, 09:30 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->And V Man, there's something unsettling about a "Man's Game" that involves wearing the shortest of shorts. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> If THIS is what floats your boat, many professional (NFL) football players don't wear ANYthing under their pants other than their jockstraps. Yes, you can see a player's rosey buttcheeks if he's wearing white pants and bends over. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-V MAN+Feb 7 2005, 03:07 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (V MAN @ Feb 7 2005, 03:07 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Oi lol It's a "Mans game" when you compare it to Soccer <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> look at the knocks a Soccer player will get and how much they play act because of it Compare that to the knocks an player gets in the average Rugby game hehe. I would like to see a soccr player take a knock like that in a game.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> If you believe that being beaten to a bloody pulp makes you more manly, I shall gladly break your legs. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
So, are we done yet? Do we feel enlightened and happy? Have we learned something, aside from the fact that we can't stand each other?
<!--QuoteBegin-lolfighter+Feb 7 2005, 10:16 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (lolfighter @ Feb 7 2005, 10:16 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> If you believe that being beaten to a bloody pulp makes you more manly, I shall gladly break your legs. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
So, are we done yet? Do we feel enlightened and happy? Have we learned something, aside from the fact that we can't stand each other? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> It sounds like you need your legs broken, you WOMAN. DROP AND GIVE ME A HOJILLION.
The problem is Europeans do, in the majority, hate American football, and its a strong feeling that a lot of people hold. Which is awfully strange if you ask me.
I dunno. I watched the superbowl finals in '03. With other europeans. At their initiative. 'Twas fun, except that the game had only an hour of playtime, yet took four hours to complete. Way too slowly paced. We went to bed after three hours, because the game was obviously decided already. So, if they could have condensed it a little (by, for example, not showing commericals half the time), it would have been great. That's my only real quarrel with the game. I mean, I just call the games football and american football. If you say "football," it's football, the kind you play with only your feet (and pretty much every other part of your body too, except for the arms. I mean, what's up with that? Sometimes the game turns into headball for what seems like hours on end. The only relief comes when somebody inadvertently turns it into faceball. So much nosebleeding <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->). If you say "american football," it's american football, the one that resembles rugby. Where can I go wrong? I also enforce it by deliberately misunderstanding people if they say "football" when they mean "american football."
"Yeah, so we were playing a little football, and I caught the ball and ran for..." "wth? you're not allowed to touch the ball with your hands in football!"
Oh that reminds me, the other day they were talking about the Superbowl Championship or something like that on ITV (English TV Channel). New England Vs someone else.
Hey, if it’s spread far enough for an English TV Channel to advertise it, an initiative may be being made to increase popularity in Europe
<!--QuoteBegin-lolfighter+Feb 7 2005, 01:54 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (lolfighter @ Feb 7 2005, 01:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->So, if they could have condensed it a little (by, for example, not showing commericals half the time), it would have been great. That's my only real quarrel with the game. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Superbowls are famous for their commercials, not just the content but the price for 30 seconds which was $2,000,000 usd. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
This year's commercials sucked by comparison, the game was boring, and Paul McCartney at halftime was a SMASH!
Guess it took a Euro star to liven the whole thing up! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
EpidemicDark Force GorgeJoin Date: 2003-06-29Member: 17781Members
<!--QuoteBegin-Fog cartoons+Feb 7 2005, 06:25 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Fog cartoons @ Feb 7 2005, 06:25 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The problem is Europeans do, in the majority, hate American football, and its a strong feeling that a lot of people hold. Which is awfully strange if you ask me. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Uh, hate is a strong word, as Whee said, indifferent is much more appropriate. Personally, I cant stand sports.
<!--QuoteBegin-kwikloader+Feb 7 2005, 07:04 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (kwikloader @ Feb 7 2005, 07:04 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Superbowls are <span style='color:red'><b><u>in</u></b></span>famous for their commercials[...]<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Surely this is what you meant to say?
<!--QuoteBegin-lolfighter+Feb 7 2005, 02:08 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (lolfighter @ Feb 7 2005, 02:08 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-kwikloader+Feb 7 2005, 07:04 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (kwikloader @ Feb 7 2005, 07:04 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Superbowls are <span style='color:red'><b><u>in</u></b></span>famous for their commercials[...]<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Surely this is what you meant to say? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Not at all. I said famous, I meant famous. Even as bad as this year's were, they were not <b><span style='color:red'>in</span></b>famous. <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-lolfighter+Feb 7 2005, 12:54 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (lolfighter @ Feb 7 2005, 12:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I dunno. I watched the superbowl finals in '03. With other europeans. At their initiative. 'Twas fun, except that the game had only an hour of playtime, yet took four hours to complete. Way too slowly paced. We went to bed after three hours, because the game was obviously decided already. So, if they could have condensed it a little (by, for example, not showing commericals half the time), it would have been great. That's my only real quarrel with the game. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> That's really a reflection more of our uber-consumer-capitalist society more than the game itself. And in that I have to agree that we go just a tad overboard with the advertising. I mean, I watch Superbowls more for the commercials than the game itself now... <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-kwikloader+Feb 7 2005, 01:19 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (kwikloader @ Feb 7 2005, 01:19 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-lolfighter+Feb 7 2005, 02:08 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (lolfighter @ Feb 7 2005, 02:08 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-kwikloader+Feb 7 2005, 07:04 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (kwikloader @ Feb 7 2005, 07:04 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Superbowls are <span style='color:red'><b><u>in</u></b></span>famous for their commercials[...]<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Surely this is what you meant to say? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Not at all. I said famous, I meant famous. Even as bad as this year's were, they were not <b><span style='color:red'>in</span></b>famous. <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Come on you guys had to of loved the 'Office Linebacker' commercials for Reebok... with Triple T(Terrible Terry Tate). Oh man i love those, I have them on my computer and watch them every now and then for a good laugh. Infact I was just showing them to a friend the other day who is a pure soccer fan to the core who doesn't like football(I live in Greece) and even he found them funny.
EpidemicDark Force GorgeJoin Date: 2003-06-29Member: 17781Members
<!--QuoteBegin-Aries8+Feb 7 2005, 07:50 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Aries8 @ Feb 7 2005, 07:50 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-kwikloader+Feb 7 2005, 01:19 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (kwikloader @ Feb 7 2005, 01:19 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-lolfighter+Feb 7 2005, 02:08 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (lolfighter @ Feb 7 2005, 02:08 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-kwikloader+Feb 7 2005, 07:04 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (kwikloader @ Feb 7 2005, 07:04 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Superbowls are <span style='color:red'><b><u>in</u></b></span>famous for their commercials[...]<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Surely this is what you meant to say? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Not at all. I said famous, I meant famous. Even as bad as this year's were, they were not <b><span style='color:red'>in</span></b>famous. <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Come on you guys had to of loved the 'Office Linebacker' commercials for Reebok... with Triple T(Terrible Terry Tate). Oh man i love those, I have them on my computer and watch them every now and then for a good laugh. Infact I was just showing them to a friend the other day who is a pure soccer fan to the core who doesn't like football(I live in Greece) and even he found them funny. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Yeah, I loved him <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> Though, isnt that quite rare? Mostly it's flashing colours with a product name.
Most of the commercial time is taken up by teams returning to one end of the field or other (after a score or for a kickoff), a timeout or an injury. Only a few seconds is actually cutting into actual play time...which they usually gloss over by skipping pictures of the huddle and using more than 7 seconds lead time on the live game.
...if that makes sense, I think I worded it a tad wrong.
I'm also getting a bit tired of the anti-American/anti-European/anti-YourMom stuff going on in this thread. Bah, be more original with your cross-country insults. "American film industry sucks" bah, we've known that one for 10 years - but you guys still show them in theatres over there <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> (I'd say it went down hill a little after Jurassic Park and a lot before Dude, Where's my Car?).
Soccer is generally a filler sport for younger people over here, kind of like how parents don't want their scrawny little kid to end up on the bottom of a 1,000 pound pile of kids looking for a ball the size of their heads. The worst you usually get in soccer (...football, <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> ) is generally kicked shins (because they usually don't use headbutts). I stopped playing soccer when the coach got all picky (with an experienced team) saying stuff like, "if you're the goalie and you've caught the ball if you back up like this [steps backwards into goal box], then it still counts for the other team" yea, thanks, we've been doing this for 4 years, I think we know how to play...
Anyway...
Football = strategy (tactics during a play) Soccer = tactics (strategy before the game)
Kind of like turn-based and RTS games (okay, maybe not <i>quite</i> like them), you can like one, you can like both or neither, but no need to knock the other.
<!--QuoteBegin-Caboose+Feb 5 2005, 02:22 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Caboose @ Feb 5 2005, 02:22 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I just want to know from both sides, other than petty nationalist reasoning, what's wrong with Soccer (if you are American) and what's wrong with Football (If you aren't)? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Staying on topic here, and being an American, I'd like to say that nothing is wrong with soccer whatsoever. I prefer football simply because I played it all through school, and it's a much more physical game.
<!--QuoteBegin-Fog cartoons+Feb 7 2005, 07:01 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Fog cartoons @ Feb 7 2005, 07:01 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Oh that reminds me, the other day they were talking about the Superbowl Championship or something like that on ITV (English TV Channel). New England Vs someone else.
Hey, if it’s spread far enough for an English TV Channel to advertise it, an initiative may be being made to increase popularity in Europe <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Yeah the Superbowl has been on the news recently but not for what it is but what happened when janet jackson got her boob out and the uproar it caused <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->. There was talk about if something like that ws going to happen again.
<!--QuoteBegin-V MAN+Feb 7 2005, 06:28 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (V MAN @ Feb 7 2005, 06:28 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Fog cartoons+Feb 7 2005, 07:01 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Fog cartoons @ Feb 7 2005, 07:01 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Oh that reminds me, the other day they were talking about the Superbowl Championship or something like that on ITV (English TV Channel). New England Vs someone else.
Hey, if it’s spread far enough for an English TV Channel to advertise it, an initiative may be being made to increase popularity in Europe <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Yeah the Superbowl has been on the news recently but not for what it is but what happened when janet jackson got her boob out and the uproar it caused <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->. There was talk about if something like that ws going to happen again. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> That's old news man, a year old actually.
*sigh* Paul McCartney showed us nothing ... ('cept some damn good rockin'!)
its not possible to compare soccer and Football, its like comparing Apples and Oranges.
Soccer and football both have emesne team work and stradagy invovled in the game, but each has a diffrent way of the sports execution I believe that both sports are both very noble and good indeed.
but the real question is, if you put up the Best football team agaisnt the best soccer team in some kind of competion , see who would come out ahead
<!--QuoteBegin-AvengerX+Feb 7 2005, 11:17 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (AvengerX @ Feb 7 2005, 11:17 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> its not possible to compare soccer and Football, its like comparing Apples and Oranges.
Soccer and football both have emesne team work and stradagy invovled in the game, but each has a diffrent way of the sports execution I believe that both sports are both very noble and good indeed.
but the real question is, if you put up the Best football team agaisnt the best soccer team in some kind of competion , see who would come out ahead <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Somehow I can't picture soccer players prancing about the field wearing all that "heavy armor". <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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for reals. soccer is a out of date sport. lets look at all the great Football movies
1- Radio
2- Remember the Titans
3- Friday night lights
4- varsity blues
just to name a few
and lets look at what movies soccer has...
1- bend it like beckum (the worse movie I've ever seen)
2- the big green (it might entertain you if your under 6)
football is a game of stradagy
soccer is a game of chaos
Football is just a better game... thats all there is <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
You forgot 'Victory!' with Sylvester Stallone in that POW camp. Though, I'm not sure who's side I'm helping by mentioning it <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> . Baseball has all the good movies, most football movies are boring anyway, because they're canned and predictable, at least the baseball movies are funny...except waterboy, there's the...okay-ish football-type movie.
I think there was also a soccer movie called 'The Ladybugs'...actually I'm not quite sure what it was about, because I saw 2 previews for it and saw about 5 minutes of it on TV and it was so horrendous my TV imploded into a black hole...in fact, I'm being sucked in right now...
...well, okay, it was just terrible. But football movies suck too (especially that one with Keanu Reeves <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> ).
Teamwork - all of them
Importence of Education - like... ummm... I'm sure thers one
Anti- steriods - like varsity blues
Anti - Racism - likein Remember the Titans
Never giving up - like in the little gaints
but there are a lot of funny baseball movies out there too....
AMERICAN FOOTBALL
INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL
Seriously. Just throw away 'soccer' and suddenly everyone is happy because you pretty much need to specify what kind of football it is to define between the two after that <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
for reals. soccer is a out of date sport. lets look at all the great Football movies
1- Radio
2- Remember the Titans
3- Friday night lights
4- varsity blues
just to name a few
and lets look at what movies soccer has...
1- bend it like beckum (the worse movie I've ever seen)
2- the big green (it might entertain you if your under 6)
football is a game of stradagy
soccer is a game of chaos
Football is just a better game... thats all there is <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
.... what?
SOCCER IS A GAME OF CHAOS.
FOOTBALL IS A GAME OF STRADAGY.
<b>STRADAGY! GOD THE STRADAGY!</b>
<b>FOOTBALL IS FOR THE STRADEGISTS!</b>
Yes, barbaric.
Sweet Jesus, how do you defend a FULL CONTACT sport ("American Football" or "Rugby-Lite") by claiming it's NON-CONTACT opposition (Football, or "Soccer") to be barbaric.
Also, comparing movies made about both sports is pretty much a fruitless endeavour. Yes, we know you Americans have one of the biggest film industries in the world, whilst it isn't the biggest, it still dwarfs the English, German, French and Spanish movie industry on it's own. Also, using movies to justify an activity is a generally ridiculous idea too. I watched Romper Stomper recently and i thought it was an excellent movie, and it's pretty critically acclaimed also, but that doesn't mean that Skinheads, Neo-Nazis and racism are all good things. And yeah, that is a bit exaggerated, but it's the same gyst.
And V Man, there's something unsettling about a "Man's Game" that involves wearing the shortest of shorts. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
We Asians are football (the real one) nuts too.
Please, be more Anti-AsiaPacific too.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> So much life would have been spared if they'd only called "American Football" "Soccer". But now the carnage will never cease. So sad...so sad.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Damn true.
Oi lol It's a "Mans game" when you compare it to Soccer <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> look at the knocks a Soccer player will get and how much they play act because of it Compare that to the knocks an player gets in the average Rugby game hehe. I would like to see a soccr player take a knock like that in a game.
for reals. soccer is a out of date sport. lets look at all the great Football movies
1- Radio
2- Remember the Titans
3- Friday night lights
4- varsity blues
just to name a few
and lets look at what movies soccer has...
1- bend it like beckum (the worse movie I've ever seen)
2- the big green (it might entertain you if your under 6)
football is a game of stradagy
soccer is a game of chaos
Football is just a better game... thats all there is <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Hell yes. Obviously that means everything. You sir, are genius.
for reals. soccer is a out of date sport. lets look at all the great Football movies
1- Radio
2- Remember the Titans
3- Friday night lights
4- varsity blues
just to name a few
and lets look at what movies soccer has...
1- bend it like beckum (the worse movie I've ever seen)
2- the big green (it might entertain you if your under 6)
football is a game of stradagy
soccer is a game of chaos
Football is just a better game... thats all there is <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
.... what?
SOCCER IS A GAME OF CHAOS.
FOOTBALL IS A GAME OF STRADAGY.
<b>STRADAGY! GOD THE STRADAGY!</b>
<b>FOOTBALL IS FOR THE STRADEGISTS!</b> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Captain Tsubasa
Shaolin Soccer
Just because you Americans don't have a clue on how to make a good football movie...
If THIS is what floats your boat, many professional (NFL) football players don't wear ANYthing under their pants other than their jockstraps. Yes, you can see a player's rosey buttcheeks if he's wearing white pants and bends over. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
If you believe that being beaten to a bloody pulp makes you more manly, I shall gladly break your legs. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
So, are we done yet? Do we feel enlightened and happy? Have we learned something, aside from the fact that we can't stand each other?
So, are we done yet? Do we feel enlightened and happy? Have we learned something, aside from the fact that we can't stand each other? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
It sounds like you need your legs broken, you WOMAN.
DROP AND GIVE ME A HOJILLION.
I mean, I just call the games football and american football. If you say "football," it's football, the kind you play with only your feet (and pretty much every other part of your body too, except for the arms. I mean, what's up with that? Sometimes the game turns into headball for what seems like hours on end. The only relief comes when somebody inadvertently turns it into faceball. So much nosebleeding <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->). If you say "american football," it's american football, the one that resembles rugby. Where can I go wrong? I also enforce it by deliberately misunderstanding people if they say "football" when they mean "american football."
"Yeah, so we were playing a little football, and I caught the ball and ran for..."
"wth? you're not allowed to touch the ball with your hands in football!"
Hey, if it’s spread far enough for an English TV Channel to advertise it, an initiative may be being made to increase popularity in Europe
<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Superbowls are famous for their commercials, not just the content but the price for 30 seconds which was $2,000,000 usd. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
This year's commercials sucked by comparison, the game was boring, and Paul McCartney at halftime was a SMASH!
Guess it took a Euro star to liven the whole thing up! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Uh, hate is a strong word, as Whee said, indifferent is much more appropriate.
Personally, I cant stand sports.
Surely this is what you meant to say?
Surely this is what you meant to say? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Not at all. I said famous, I meant famous. Even as bad as this year's were, they were not <b><span style='color:red'>in</span></b>famous. <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
That's really a reflection more of our uber-consumer-capitalist society more than the game itself. And in that I have to agree that we go just a tad overboard with the advertising. I mean, I watch Superbowls more for the commercials than the game itself now... <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Surely this is what you meant to say? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Not at all. I said famous, I meant famous. Even as bad as this year's were, they were not <b><span style='color:red'>in</span></b>famous. <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Come on you guys had to of loved the 'Office Linebacker' commercials for Reebok... with Triple T(Terrible Terry Tate). Oh man i love those, I have them on my computer and watch them every now and then for a good laugh.
Infact I was just showing them to a friend the other day who is a pure soccer fan to the core who doesn't like football(I live in Greece) and even he found them funny.
Surely this is what you meant to say? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Not at all. I said famous, I meant famous. Even as bad as this year's were, they were not <b><span style='color:red'>in</span></b>famous. <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Come on you guys had to of loved the 'Office Linebacker' commercials for Reebok... with Triple T(Terrible Terry Tate). Oh man i love those, I have them on my computer and watch them every now and then for a good laugh.
Infact I was just showing them to a friend the other day who is a pure soccer fan to the core who doesn't like football(I live in Greece) and even he found them funny. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yeah, I loved him <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> Though, isnt that quite rare? Mostly it's flashing colours with a product name.
...if that makes sense, I think I worded it a tad wrong.
I'm also getting a bit tired of the anti-American/anti-European/anti-YourMom stuff going on in this thread. Bah, be more original with your cross-country insults. "American film industry sucks" bah, we've known that one for 10 years - but you guys still show them in theatres over there <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> (I'd say it went down hill a little after Jurassic Park and a lot before Dude, Where's my Car?).
Soccer is generally a filler sport for younger people over here, kind of like how parents don't want their scrawny little kid to end up on the bottom of a 1,000 pound pile of kids looking for a ball the size of their heads. The worst you usually get in soccer (...football, <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> ) is generally kicked shins (because they usually don't use headbutts). I stopped playing soccer when the coach got all picky (with an experienced team) saying stuff like, "if you're the goalie and you've caught the ball if you back up like this [steps backwards into goal box], then it still counts for the other team" yea, thanks, we've been doing this for 4 years, I think we know how to play...
Anyway...
Football = strategy (tactics during a play)
Soccer = tactics (strategy before the game)
Kind of like turn-based and RTS games (okay, maybe not <i>quite</i> like them), you can like one, you can like both or neither, but no need to knock the other.
Staying on topic here, and being an American, I'd like to say that nothing is wrong with soccer whatsoever. I prefer football simply because I played it all through school, and it's a much more physical game.
Hey, if it’s spread far enough for an English TV Channel to advertise it, an initiative may be being made to increase popularity in Europe <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yeah the Superbowl has been on the news recently but not for what it is but what happened when janet jackson got her boob out and the uproar it caused <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->. There was talk about if something like that ws going to happen again.
Hey, if it’s spread far enough for an English TV Channel to advertise it, an initiative may be being made to increase popularity in Europe <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yeah the Superbowl has been on the news recently but not for what it is but what happened when janet jackson got her boob out and the uproar it caused <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->. There was talk about if something like that ws going to happen again. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
That's old news man, a year old actually.
*sigh* Paul McCartney showed us nothing ... ('cept some damn good rockin'!)
Soccer and football both have emesne team work and stradagy invovled in the game, but each has a diffrent way of the sports execution I believe that both sports are both very noble and good indeed.
but the real question is, if you put up the Best football team agaisnt the best soccer team in some kind of competion , see who would come out ahead
Soccer and football both have emesne team work and stradagy invovled in the game, but each has a diffrent way of the sports execution I believe that both sports are both very noble and good indeed.
but the real question is, if you put up the Best football team agaisnt the best soccer team in some kind of competion , see who would come out ahead <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Somehow I can't picture soccer players prancing about the field wearing all that "heavy armor". <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->