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With Maurice Jones-Drew or Drew-Jones and others complaining that football has gone soft, this story is a nice counterpoint - does anybody want anything quite this tough?
"The Devine era is actually worse than you remember if you go back and look at it."
it's not the other football though. it's the real thing. american football is the [b]other football[b]
While this may be factually true - its not perceptible truth.
Kinda like realcheese being from happy cows in California.
Um, one play's football with one's feet. No hands allowed, except for the 'keeper.
This is not only perceptively true, it is, indeed, reality.
Gridiron, as it is commonly referred to in Oz-tralia, is a game play by carrying - running or throwing/catching/carrying - running. Rarely, one player will actually use a foot for a split second at a time.
Kinda like real Budweiser being a city in the Czek Republic where real beer is brewed...
it's not the other football though. it's the real thing. american football is the [b]other football[b]
While this may be factually true - its not perceptible truth.
Kinda like realcheese being from happy cows in California.
Um, one play's football with one's feet. No hands allowed, except for the 'keeper.
This is not only perceptively true, it is, indeed, reality.
Gridiron, as it is commonly referred to in Oz-tralia, is a game play by carrying - running or throwing/catching/carrying - running. Rarely, one player will actually use a foot for a split second at a time.
Kinda like real Budweiser being a city in the Czek Republic where real beer is brewed...
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All I'm really saying is that growing up calling what "we" consider football by the name "football" and calling the other game Soccer - It just doesn't seem right to switch it up now.
Where the hell did the word soccer come from anyway?
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"Everyone's born anarchist and atheist until people start lying to them" ~ wise philosopher
What if a rugby match were played between two teams, one of which was wearing black and yellow bumblebee socks as part of it's uniform, and they are playing the match on astroturf (dumb, would never happen, but for arguments sake we'll pretend). Does this count?
Chuck Norris doesn't cut his grass, he just stares at it and dares it to grow
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