An Open Letter To All Americans

[Strike For The South]

As some of you know (some of you may not) There is a sport called soccer. In this sport you're only allowed to use your feet unless you are the man in a different color shirt gaurding a rather large net. In which case you use oven mitts to save the ball from going in said net.

Soccer tends to be boring. there is very little scoring and no cracking of pads. There are no cheeleaders and there is no tailgating.

In this sport there is a great get together known as the world cup. I can only assume they stole that from our World Series! This "world cup" happends every 4 years and is watched by many people for a reason I really can't figure out.

At any rate The United States Of America drew england. That's right boys, england. The same country that we beat in the revolutionary war, war of 1812, civil war, Spanish-American war, WWI, WWII, Vietnam and desert storm.

They apparntley are back for more and its time to put them back in the place.

I urge all true Americans to start following soccer and BEAT THE LIMEY'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:unitedstates:

[Sasaki Kojiro]

AWESOME. When do we play?

....

next...summer?

[Strike For The South]

AWESOME. When do we play?

....

next...summer?

I can keep this up for 6 months

[Veho Nex]

Lets do it strike! We'll take em on! BRING IT!

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

I holeheartedly wish you Americans all the best.

Are there any Texans in team USA?

[Whacker]

You have our gwatitude.

I eagerly await the ensuing euroweenie "It's FOOTBALL not soccer!" rage posts and condescendingly smug posts. They are delicious candy to me.

:balloon2:

[Beirut]

:unitedkingdom:

[Beskar]

Don't you mean football? :book2:

[Strike For The South]

I holeheartedly wish you Americans all the best.

Are there any Texans in team USA?

There are 8 Texans in our player pool including Dempsy.

[Samurai Waki]

Just change the name to 'Modified Kick Ball' and more Americans would start watching.

[Snite]

Oh man kickball is awesome!!

Uh.. oh yeah... quoted for truth.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Don't you mean football? :book2:

The germans call american football "Football" and soccer "Fußball" :book:

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

There are 8 Texans in our player pool including Dempsy.
That's more than a third of the total number. Where's your Texan self consciousness? Just find a way to oust the Americans from the team to not be hindered by them (especially if it's a goal keeper). Better with 8 Texans than with 11 Americans, no?

Go and teach them foul-teethed Tommies a lesson. Normally we Germans do it, but I guess it's fair enough to step back this time and leave the honour to Texas alone.

[Megas Methuselah]

That OP was freakin awesome! :laugh4::laugh4::laugh4:

[Louis VI the Fat]

The germans call american football "Football" and soccer "Fußball" :book:Out of sheer reverence for the beauty of England's gift to the world, the French Academie exceptionally allows the French language to honour England for it by not renaming association football with a French term. It is 'le Football' in French. :book:

I don't think there's even a name for Yank padded football.


(But 'soccer' inquébécois. :wall:)

[Sarmatian]

That's the proper way to stir football passion in the US - rivalry with England. Actually, that's probably the only way :laugh4:

Since I always root for the underdog, I'll cheer for the US.

[Ferret]

:unitedkingdom:

:2thumbsup: we'll breeze the group

[Hax]

These are the countries I favour:


:malta:

:vaticancity:

:tajikistan:

[Mooks]

I seriosly hope we win this, just smear it in europe's face that we can beat them in anything -even a sport most of us dont give a damn about-.

[Strike For The South]

That's more than a third of the total number. Where's your Texan self consciousness? Just find a way to oust the Americans from the team to not be hindered by them (especially if it's a goal keeper). Better with 8 Texans than with 11 Americans, no?

Go and teach them foul-teethed Tommies a lesson. Normally we Germans do it, but I guess it's fair enough to step back this time and leave the honour to Texas alone.

In the pool. I think the pool comprises of 40 not 24.

Either way, this is a time where we must stand as one

[miotas]

I seriosly hope we win this, just smear it in europe's face that we can beat them in anything -even a sport most of us dont give a damn about-.

Hey, what about cricket huh? I doubt even the English could lose to you at cricket.

[pevergreen]

This time, italy, you'll be OUR :daisy:

[Louis VI the Fat]

:australia: Ozzie ozzie ozzie! Oi oi oi! :australia:

[naut]

España para el Euro. España para la Taza de Mundo. :spain:

Looking forward to beating you Americans. Probably the best opposition we could have hoped for, similar style to us (strong, physical players with little technique). Anyone continental or South American and we would have been in big, big trouble.

[Sarmatian]

I seriosly hope we win this, just smear it in europe's face that we can beat them in anything -even a sport most of us dont give a damn about-.

That's right, I mean, you're the best in the world in baseball and American football :laugh4:

[Sasaki Kojiro]

That's right, I mean, you're the best in the world in baseball and American football :laugh4:

Serbia:
Gold medals: 0
Silver medals: 2
Bronze medals: 0
Total: 2

USA:
Gold medals: 1008
Silver medals: 810
Bronze medals: 696
Total: 2514

Kiss the medals baby ~:smoking:

[Andres]

Belgium didn't even qualify, again... :shame:

Mexico '86, will those days ever come back?

:bigcry:

[naut]

Serbia:
Gold medals: 0
Silver medals: 2
Bronze medals: 0
Total: 2

USA:
Gold medals: 1008
Silver medals: 810
Bronze medals: 696
Total: 2514

Kiss the medals baby ~:smoking:
It'd be a better comparison if you did medals per capita. :yes:

[Sarmatian]

Serbia:
Gold medals: 0
Silver medals: 2
Bronze medals: 0
Total: 2

USA:
Gold medals: 1008
Silver medals: 810
Bronze medals: 696
Total: 2514

Kiss the medals baby ~:smoking:


It'd be a better comparison if you did medals per capita. :yes:

Or maybe per GDP, or perhaps by how many sport players who won those medals were actually born in the country, ie. are not naturalized... Or, I don't know, not use a country that exists 5 years as a basis for comparison and at least take into account medals won by Yugoslavia?

Even though, I've got another statistics for you, read it and weep. To be fair on you, I picked basketball, a sport you Americans invented.

World Championships:
USA
Gold medals: 3
Silver medals: 3
Bronze medals: 4

Serbia/Yugoslavia
Gold medals: 5
Silver medals: 3
Bronze medals: 2

Point proven, case closed :smash:

[Fragony]

Beating England, where's the fun it that

[InsaneApache]

Beating England, where's the fun it that

I dunno, ask the Scots! :dizzy2:

[Louis VI the Fat]

Beating England, where's the fun it that:huh:

Huh? Wut?



What planet are you from? :huh:

[Boohugh]

Hmm, colonies seem to be getting uppity again. Oh well, only 6 months before we'll give then a darn good thrashing, now where'd my tea go... :coffeenews:

[Sarmatian]

Well, do yourself a favour and get PES instead of FIFA, That way you may actual get some enjoyment while you learn.

[Fragony]

:huh:

Huh? Wut?



What planet are you from? :huh:

They suddenly can play football nowadays without me noticing? They have great teams because they are a good brand and can pay for quality, but their national team is a pushover they are simply not a match to us.

[Hooahguy]

Strike, how could you?:furious3:
::thumbsdown::thumbsdown::thumbsdown:
:no::no::no:

[Sarmatian]

They suddenly can play football nowadays without me noticing? They have great teams because they are a good brand and can pay for quality, but their national team is a pushover they are simply not a match to us.

Any team with Capello on the bench is a serious opponent. England does have some good players, it just took a strong enough coach to get those ballerinas to actually start playin'.

[Ferret]

They suddenly can play football nowadays without me noticing? They have great teams because they are a good brand and can pay for quality, but their national team is a pushover they are simply not a match to us.

Didn't we draw 2-2 with you not so long ago?

In fact according to wikipedia we've played you 18 times, won 5, drawn 9 and lost 4. Pushovers huh? :clown:

And we have a decent manager now so our good players can actually make a good team rather than a good bunch of individuals...

[Strike For The South]

Strike, how could you?:furious3:
::thumbsdown::thumbsdown::thumbsdown:
:no::no::no:

?

THE ATLANTIC OCEAN RUNS BOTH WAYS

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Or maybe per GDP, or perhaps by how many sport players who won those medals were actually born in the country, ie. are not naturalized... Or, I don't know, not use a country that exists 5 years as a basis for comparison and at least take into account medals won by Yugoslavia?

Even though, I've got another statistics for you, read it and weep. To be fair on you, I picked basketball, a sport you Americans invented.

World Championships:
USA
Gold medals: 3
Silver medals: 3
Bronze medals: 4

Serbia/Yugoslavia
Gold medals: 5
Silver medals: 3
Bronze medals: 2

Point proven, case closed :smash:

I like that you chose the world championships instead of the olympics :laugh4:


It'd be a better comparison if you did medals per capita. :yes:

No. Being wealthy and having a large population is a good thing, as good as doing well in sports...

[Sarmatian]

I like that you chose the world championships instead of the olympics :laugh4:

85% of those medals were won by a girl looking good with a ball and similar sporting events. Not really indicative. So, let's discount the events where the family of those competing outnumber the audience, shall we...
Plus, prior to every olympics US have a tendency to send guy in a suit with a briefcase full of money and offer Okenchukwu Nokoronkwo hundreds of thousands of dollars to take US citizenship and compete under US flag.


No. Being wealthy and having a large population is a good thing, as good as doing well in sports...

It is, no doubt about it, but taking into account size of the country and the wealth, you guys suck big time in sports.

[Strike For The South]

It is, no doubt about it, but taking into account size of the country and the wealth, you guys suck big time in sports.
https://img709.imageshack.us/img709/3217/cryingbaby.jpg



85% of those medals were won by a girl looking good with a ball and similar sporting events. Not really indicative. So, let's discount the events where the family of those competing outnumber the audience, shall we...
So they don't count?


Plus, prior to every olympics US have a tendency to send guy in a suit with a briefcase full of money and offer Okenchukwu Nokoronkwo hundreds of thousands of dollars to take US citizenship and compete under US flag.

You got a link for that sweetie?

The really hiliraous part of all this is our best athletes play American football. So if anything we're at a disadvantage.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

85% of those medals were won by a girl looking good with a ball and similar sporting events. Not really indicative. So, let's discount the events where the family of those competing outnumber the audience, shall we...
Plus, prior to every olympics US have a tendency to send guy in a suit with a briefcase full of money and offer Okenchukwu Nokoronkwo hundreds of thousands of dollars to take US citizenship and compete under US flag.

Sexist :beam:

Seems like the right moment to remind you all that the US has won the world cup twice before.


It is, no doubt about it, but taking into account size of the country and the wealth, you guys suck big time in sports.

This is like a 5 foot tall guy saying to a 7 foot tall guy "well taking into account your height, you suck at basketball."

[Sarmatian]

So they don't count?

They do count, but it gives them perspective, doesn't it.


You got a link for that sweetie?


Sorry, can't be bothered to look. It's what you see if you watch - And now in the track 3 athlete from the US, Abdihakem Abdirahman, born in Somalia.

From the top of my head, Preki and Monika Seles come to mind.


Sexist :beam:

Seems like the right moment to remind you all that the US has won the world cup twice before.

Which sport we're talking about now?




This is like a 5 foot tall guy saying to a 7 foot tall guy "well taking into account your height, you suck at basketball."

No that's more like a 0.1 foot tall guy scoring 15 points and 7 foot guy scoring 16 points and 7 foot guy saying "I scored more than you".

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Which sport we're talking about now?

Soccer.





No that's more like a 0.1 foot tall guy scoring 15 points and 7 foot guy scoring 16 points and 7 foot guy saying "I scored more than you".

More like the short guy scoring 2 points and the tall guy scoring 2514 points...

[Strike For The South]

They do count, but it gives them perspective, doesn't it.



Sorry, can't be bothered to look. It's what you see if you watch - And now in the track 3 athlete from the US, Abdihakem Abdirahman, born in Somalia.

From the top of my head, Preki and Monika Seles come to mind.
".

All the people you mentioned are immagrants. Here in America Immagrants are citizens to.

Not to mention, 90% of the medal winners are "americans" (by your definintion)

So let me get this straight America should be penalized for
-Being Big
-Having a counntry that is appealing
-Being able to speacilize in sports.


Once again, America really doesn't care about any other sport besides our football.

The world plays Americas second string and still gets whipped around everywwhere.

The rest of you suck.

[Louis VI the Fat]

http://www.medalspercapita.com/weighted.html

:study:



Edit:

Hah! :knight:


Olympic medals per capita:

30 France 70 63,753,140 910,759
32 Germany 83 82,191,000 990,253
34 Canada 33 33,353,600 1,010,715
35 Russian Fed. 139 141,888,900 1,020,783
37 Italy 54 59,619,290 1,104,060
38 Ireland 4 4,422,100 1,105,525
40 Spain 38 46,063,000 1,212,184
44 United States 220 304,935,000 1,386,068
46 Poland 22 38,115,967 1,732,543
51 Belgium 5 10,584,534 2,116,906
52 Portugal 5 10,623,000 2,124,600
56 Serbia 4 9,858,000 2,464,500

[Sarmatian]

All the people you mentioned are immagrants. Here in America Immagrants are citizens to.


They're not immigrants. Predrag Radosavljevic was a professional footballer, so he was just working in America. He's no more immigrant than Fernando Torres is immigrant in England.

Same with Monika Seles.

Both of them were athletes born and trained elsewhere who were offered citizenship because they were better than anything America had to offer at the moment.


Soccer.

Two world cups? Not really, no.



More like the short guy scoring 2 points and the tall guy scoring 2514 points...

actually it's 96 to 2514. And most of our medals are in pathetic events not many athletes compete. Jasna Sekaric won like 10 of those 96 in shooting with various weapons. Olympic medals don't mean much, except for boasting, that's why I prefer world or continental championships and in sports where there's actually some competition.



EDIT: My good friend Louis proves the point for me. You guys are in the 44th place per capita. If someone takes into consideration GDP and how much is spent in sports, you're perilously close to being relegated :D

[Strike For The South]

http://www.medalspercapita.com/weighted.html

:study:
Once again. Our second string in sports that play second fiddle to football.

We are beating you lot with 1 hand while cheking football stats with the other.

You Europeans can spin it anyway you'd like.

Hell I have no doubt I'd be an olympic shotputter had I not played Nose gaurd.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Relax.

I, for one, will be firmly rooting for the US to send England packing. Go Yanks!





Less good teams for us to meet in the knock-out stage...

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Two world cups? Not really, no.

Yes. Two. I think we came in third place a couple years as well.




EDIT: My good friend Louis proves the point for me. You guys are in the 44th place per capita. If someone takes into consideration GDP and how much is spent in sports, you're perilously close to being relegated :D

Try that argument on the next girl you meet. "Taking into consideration my height..."

[drone]

Yes. Two. I think we came in third place a couple years as well.

Even our men have a third place. :2thumbsup:

[Pannonian]

http://www.medalspercapita.com/weighted.html

Olympic medals per capita:

30 France 70 63,753,140 910,759
32 Germany 83 82,191,000 990,253
34 Canada 33 33,353,600 1,010,715
35 Russian Fed. 139 141,888,900 1,020,783
37 Italy 54 59,619,290 1,104,060
38 Ireland 4 4,422,100 1,105,525
40 Spain 38 46,063,000 1,212,184
44 United States 220 304,935,000 1,386,068
46 Poland 22 38,115,967 1,732,543
51 Belgium 5 10,584,534 2,116,906
52 Portugal 5 10,623,000 2,124,600
56 Serbia 4 9,858,000 2,464,500
22 Great Britain 98 60,975,000 622,193
23 Croatia 7 4,555,000 650,714
24 Czech Republic 15 10,403,136 693,542
25 Korea 67 48,224,000 719,761
26 Kazakhstan 21 15,422,000 734,380
27 Finland 7 5,318,105 759,729
28 Switzerland 10 7,637,300 763,730
29 Azerbaijan 11 8,467,000 769,727
30 France 70 63,753,140 910,759

[Gregoshi]

Okay, can we zip up and put away the tape measures?

The true measure will take place on the football/soccer field. Everything else is just contributing to global warming. :laugh4:

[Gregoshi]

Let me contribute some to global warming... :shrug:


Plus, prior to every olympics US have a tendency to send guy in a suit with a briefcase full of money and offer Okenchukwu Nokoronkwo hundreds of thousands of dollars to take US citizenship and compete under US flag.
Actually, we ask for:

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore...
Heck, no wonder we are only 44th. We need to change that plaque. :laugh4:

[Pannonian]

From Major Star:

Private Baldrick: You mustn't do that to me, sir, 'cause that is a bourgeois act of repression, sir!
[B]Captain Blackadder: What?
Private Baldrick: Haven't you smelt it, sir? There's something afoot in the wind! The huddled masses, yearning to be free!
Captain Blackadder: Baldrick, have you been in the diesel oil again?
Private Baldrick: No sir, I've been supping the milk of freedom! Already our Russian comrades are poised on the brink of revolution. And here too, sir, the huddled wossnames - such as myself, sir - are ready to throw off the hated oppressors like you and the lieutenant! Present company excepted, sir.
Captain Blackadder: Go and clean out the latrines.
Private Baldrick: Yes, sir! Right away, sir!

[Sarmatian]

Yes. Two. I think we came in third place a couple years as well.


Nope, trust me, US haven't won a single world cup in football/soccer ever. You were 3rd placed once, 1930 I believe.

[drone]

Nope, trust me, US haven't won a single world cup in football/soccer ever. You were 3rd placed once, 1930 I believe.

You are being sexist. ~;)

[Louis VI the Fat]

You are being sexist. ~;)Yeah, that's what I was thinking too.

In fact, I was even getting a bit worked up at Sarmatian being such a dreadfully conservative chauvinist, completely obvlivious of knowing that women play excellent football. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27ZctTlE3Rs)

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too.

In fact, I was even getting a bit worked up at Sarmatian being such a dreadfully conservative chauvinist, completely obvlivious of knowing that women play excellent football. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27ZctTlE3Rs)

See, no wonder the european teams lose so much. Here's how american girls play soccer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvEobeNfGcc

[Gregoshi]

In fact, I was even getting a bit worked up at Sarmatian being such a dreadfully conservative chauvinist, completely obvlivious of knowing that women play excellent football. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27ZctTlE3Rs)
Very nice Louis, but if those are the kinds of TV shots we can expect in the men's game, I'm NOT watching. :worried2:

[Hosakawa Tito]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too.

In fact, I was even getting a bit worked up at Sarmatian being such a dreadfully conservative chauvinist, completely obvlivious of knowing that women play excellent football. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27ZctTlE3Rs)

Needs mud or jello or sumptin'.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too.

In fact, I was even getting a bit worked up at Sarmatian being such a dreadfully conservative chauvinist, completely obvlivious of knowing that women play excellent football. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27ZctTlE3Rs)

Heck, even American lingerie football (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTR95Xkqk_k&feature=related) is better than yours ~;p Not to mention American football women are tougher than European football men (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q-Zqvlz3bA).


Two world cups? Not really, no.

O RLY? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_women%27s_national_soccer_team) :beam:

CR

[Louis VI the Fat]

Heck, even American lingerie football (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTR95Xkqk_k&feature=related) is better than yours ~;p THAT THAR GAL SCORING THAT TOUCHDOWN IS STRIKE'S MUM I SWEAR I'VE SEEN HER ON HIS FACEBOOK.

[naut]

22 Great Britain 98 60,975,000 622,193
23 Croatia 7 4,555,000 650,714
24 Czech Republic 15 10,403,136 693,542
25 Korea 67 48,224,000 719,761
26 Kazakhstan 21 15,422,000 734,380
27 Finland 7 5,318,105 759,729
28 Switzerland 10 7,637,300 763,730
29 Azerbaijan 11 8,467,000 769,727
30 France 70 63,753,140 910,759

Ah. Once again we beat everyone:

6 Australia 89 21,394,309 240,385

:2thumbsup:

[pevergreen]

Ah. Once again we beat everyone:

6 Australia 89 21,394,309 240,385

:2thumbsup:

Oh yeah. :smoking:

[ajaxfetish]

Ah. Once again we beat everyone:

6 Australia 89 21,394,309 240,385

:2thumbsup:
Except HoreTore and Sigurd
5 Norway 21 4,778,500 227,547

Ajax

[Sarmatian]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too.

In fact, I was even getting a bit worked up at Sarmatian being such a dreadfully conservative chauvinist, completely obvlivious of knowing that women play excellent football. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27ZctTlE3Rs)

Ok, it was a trap and I got caught. Everyone happy now? Yes? Good.

[Wishazu]

more Americans would start watching.

Why would we want that?

[Fragony]

About time they join the fray no, they did surprisingly well last time for a virgin team, got a bit lucky here and there and ended up somewhat out of their lague but it as great fun.

[Husar]

Heck, even American lingerie football (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTR95Xkqk_k&feature=related) is better than yours ~;p

I think I need to reconsider my stance on american football. :juggle2:

Now it's a chauvinistic, sexist and sinful display of flesh for the perverted minds. :sweatdrop:

[Sarmatian]

Now it's a chauvinistic, sexist and sinful display of flesh for the perverted minds. :sweatdrop:

Yes, and what's your point?

[Fragony]

I think I need to reconsider my stance on american football. :juggle2:

Now it's a chauvinistic, sexist and sinful display of flesh for the perverted minds. :sweatdrop:

Hmm, there isn't much hanging onto her, but I am in love regardless, what an incredibly cute girl

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/Fragony/GoBRUhoochimama.jpg

[pevergreen]

I can't entirely articulate why, but those legs make me feel sick.

I can't look at them.

[cmacq]

whats a bloody LIMEY?

[Prussian to the Iron]

Don't you mean football? :book2:

football? dont you mean soccer?



meh. i never liked soccer. maybe it was the fact that i was forced to play when i was 7(8?) or, maybe that i just dont like a sport that you only use your feet in. anyway, whatever.

[pevergreen]

whats a bloody LIMEY?

Brit?

I could be wrong, but during the lovely british empire sailing days, limes to stave off scurvy, hence limey.

Yeah PI, because a sport that you only use your feet in and focuses on a ball is not football.

You need a simple way to say the difference.

Here, football could mean a number of things, so we keep it simple

Union: Rugby Union
League: Rugby League
AFL: Aussie Rules
Grid Iron: American Football (aka: pansies :tongue:)
Gaelic Football: obvious
Football: soccer

this, of course, depends on the circle of people, if you only talk about league, then that will be football. But in a big group...

[Louis VI the Fat]

whats a bloody LIMEY?


https://img192.imageshack.us/img192/2909/article10882320032c7ac0.jpg (https://img192.imageshack.us/i/article10882320032c7ac0.jpg/)

[Beskar]

I can't entirely articulate why, but those legs make me feel sick.

I can't look at them.

She is wearing tights, which makes her legs look unnatural.

[cmacq]

https://img192.imageshack.us/img192/2909/article10882320032c7ac0.jpg (https://img192.imageshack.us/i/article10882320032c7ac0.jpg/)

thats more like it.

[Fragony]

I can't entirely articulate why, but those legs make me feel sick.

I can't look at them.

More for me than I think she is a big ball of pure joy, she is just lovely, perfection is overrated imho, yeah someone forgot to add boobs I can deal with that boobs aren't important with a smile like that.

[Prussian to the Iron]

Brit?
Yeah PI, because a sport that you only use your feet in and focuses on a ball is not football.


i know! finally someone understands!

[Jolt]

https://img192.imageshack.us/img192/2909/article10882320032c7ac0.jpg (https://img192.imageshack.us/i/article10882320032c7ac0.jpg/)

...He scares me! :worried2:

[Prussian to the Iron]

thats more like it.

??? what?

[The Stranger]

I seriosly hope we win this, just smear it in europe's face that we can beat them in anything -even a sport most of us dont give a damn about-.

proves your inferiority...

[The Stranger]

how the hell did australia get so many medals? that cant be right surely.

edit... hehe belgium sux

[Strike For The South]

proves your inferiority...

No it would prove the oppisite. :smash:

[Husar]

Yes, and what's your point?
I was just kidding, insinuating to have changed my (tapical european, as in bad) opinion about football to the better, then disclosing that my new opinion was bad as well. But it was all a joke and it's even worse a joke than it already was to begin with now that I explained it. :help:


Hmm, there isn't much hanging onto her, but I am in love regardless, what an incredibly cute girl

Yes, yes. just yes. Good point about the smile as well.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

More for me than I think she is a big ball of pure joy, she is just lovely, perfection is overrated imho, yeah someone forgot to add boobs I can deal with that boobs aren't important with a smile like that.
QFT.

[Snite]

Grid Iron: American Football (aka: pansies :tongue:)


Oh of course, American Football has the pansies. It makes sense that AF players who get too injured to keep playing and so switch to rugby where they can play are the pansies. Or when rugby players who've also played AF confess that rugby is the easier and less-dangerous sport then of course AF players are pansies. And of course it makes sense that none of the rugby players I've known were ever willing to pad up and go head-to-head with an AF player that the AF player was the pansy. It all makes sense.

Don't project your guilt onto us. You made an easier going sport cuz you couldn't handle American Football, the truth is obvious.

USA! USA!

[miotas]

meh. i never liked soccer. maybe it was the fact that i was forced to play when i was 7(8?) or, maybe that i just dont like a sport that you only use your feet in. anyway, whatever.

In soccer(football) you can use you entire body with, of course, the exception of your arms.


Yeah PI, because a sport that you only use your feet in and focuses on a ball is not football.

You need a simple way to say the difference.

Here, football could mean a number of things, so we keep it simple

Union: Rugby Union
League: Rugby League
AFL: Aussie Rules
Grid Iron: American Football (aka: pansies :tongue:)
Gaelic Football: obvious
Football: soccer

this, of course, depends on the circle of people, if you only talk about league, then that will be football. But in a big group...

They are all called football because they are played on foot with a ball.

[Owen Glyndwr]

Belgium didn't even qualify, again... :shame:

Mexico '86, will those days ever come back?

:bigcry:

You and me both, brother. Wales once again didn't qualify. We haven't been in 51 years! :shame:

We had a halfway decent shot this year, just blew it, unfortunately. Oh well, there's always 2013 :2thumbsup:

[Prussian to the Iron]

Oh of course, American Football has the pansies. It makes sense that AF players who get too injured to keep playing and so switch to rugby where they can play are the pansies. Or when rugby players who've also played AF confess that rugby is the easier and less-dangerous sport then of course AF players are pansies. And of course it makes sense that none of the rugby players I've known were ever willing to pad up and go head-to-head with an AF player that the AF player was the pansy. It all makes sense.

Don't project your guilt onto us. You made an easier going sport cuz you couldn't handle American Football, the truth is obvious.

USA! USA!

meh, i assume that rugby players having a tough time with american football is mostly due to the 300 pound linebackers and otherwise up-scaling of everyones size. i know that rugby is a much rougher sport, but i dont think that the players are as enormous as ours (of course this is from an extremely limited knowledge. i'd like to watch a rugby game if anyone has a video of it)

[Sarmatian]

I was just kidding, insinuating to have changed my (tapical european, as in bad) opinion about football to the better, then disclosing that my new opinion was bad as well. But it was all a joke and it's even worse a joke than it already was to begin with now that I explained it. :help:


Nah, I got it, I just tried to make another joke, but it has to be spoken, not written. Bah.

[Samurai Waki]

I got to give it the Rugby Players. If you count the per man average of missing teeth, I'm sure Rugby players got the advantage. And as we all know, it takes a real man to play a sport that he knows he's going to walk out a hell of a lot uglier, than how he walked in.

[Prussian to the Iron]

it takes a real man to play a sport that he knows he's going to walk out a hell of a lot uglier, than how he walked in.

eeeehh.........the fame fortune and women make up for it.

[naut]

You and me both, brother. Wales once again didn't qualify. We haven't been in 51 years! :shame:

We had a halfway decent shot this year, just blew it, unfortunately. Oh well, there's always 2013 :2thumbsup:
Most of your better players are between the ages of 18-24 (Ramsey, Collison, Ledley, Bale, Hennessey) so you'll certainly be up for the next one, good draw permitting.

[Meneldil]

Football is retard, and so is soccer.

Here, everybody's happy. And all countries keep up at the Olympics only do so because they have black men to do the job for them. Most american athletes are black, most french athletes are black, most arab athletes are black too. Who cares? Olympics are a freaking joke anyway, as any kind of professional sport is.

Except Rugby.

[Cyclops]

Look soccer is a very beautiful game and worth looking at for sure but Australia is 10 times more likely to beat England than the Yanks* are. Not because we're better than the Yanks, but because of our "special relationship".

OK it may have slipped recently with the abysmal ashes losses (2-3 or 1-2 is far more embarrassing for us than 5-0 is for them) and there was some World Cup Rugby hiccup a few years ago but it was just that, a hiccup.

There's something that happens to a Pom when he meets an Aussie on the pitch: his balls shrink and he loses the will to live. If we were ever lucky enough to fake it through to the last couple of rounds and meet the Poms this time then every man jack of them would be sweating bullets.

Warnie and McGrath could be specialist sledging** coaches.


how the hell did australia get so many medals? that cant be right surely...

hehehe Academy of Sport (professional amateurs), and our guys (prolly) use as many drugs as the Americans too!

We haven't been around too long and we haven't won many wars (we generally come along for our allies sakes and cop a beating) so we make up for it with weiner-strengthening sports wins. In real sports like hockey and swimming.

* All citizens of the USA are Yanks to us, even the Texans because the Yankees won the war.

**Sledging is seriously unsportsmanlike personal abuse that the rather bitchy and meanspirited Aussie cricket team is infamous for. Bunch of thinskinned prima donnas, all they are good for is beating the Poms.

[pevergreen]

We haven't been around too long and we haven't won many wars (we generally come along for our allies sakes and cop a beating) so we make up for it with weiner-strengthening sports wins. In real sports like hockey and swimming.

I've never seen you post before, but you're poised to take over from STFS in awesomeness.

[Captain Blackadder]

Its the Melbournian in him we are the tougher breed of Australians.

[Strike For The South]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01NHcTM5IA4

That is all

[Husar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01NHcTM5IA4

That is all

:laugh4:

That's one of my favourite movie scenes of all times. :2thumbsup:

[pevergreen]

TBH, first time I saw it, just then.

:shrug:

[Prussian to the Iron]

TBH, first time I saw it, just then.

:shrug:

2ed

[RoadKill]

So how bout' them Canadians. :2thumbsup:

[Louis VI the Fat]

So how bout' them Canadians. :2thumbsup:Alas! The Canadians are missing out on the party! Already these are the Anglosaxon games: Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, England, America. Only the last two are World Cup regulars.

But no Canadians. They lost out to global football power Honduras. No Irish either - but they got further than usual, I must hand that to them.

[A Very Super Market]

We play hockey and mingle with the Reds.

[Cyclops]

...But no Canadians...

They save their finest manflesh for an indigenous sport no other civilised country plays, just like us. I have no doubt if they tried they would have a fine soccer team, seeing as they are the second bravest of all commonwealth countries.

I think they have a mozz on the Yanks like we do on the Poms, no doubt a lowly ranked Canadian team would wallop team USA off the park if they snuck through.

[Crazed Rabbit]

No Irish either - but they got further than usual, I must hand that to them.

:stare:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01NHcTM5IA4

That is all

Good stuff. Also, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiiKwNOIZT4

CR

[Louis VI the Fat]

:stare:

CRIt was just an off-hand remark...

[InsaneApache]

Now you've put your foot in it! :laugh4:

[Sarmatian]

Nah, Louis was always an even-handed guy.

[Cyclops]

Nah, Louis was always an even-handed guy.

I know you're up to something but I can't put my finger on it...

[johnhughthom]

Stop taking the mick out of the Irish, it's getting out of hand.

[Cyclops]

Stop taking the mick out of the Irish, it's getting out of hand.

I can't for the Liffey me work out what you mean. I used to be an Irish banker, and I was good at it because my capital was always Dublin, but I watched South Park and I saw them Kilkenny, (you b******s!) which was Offaly upsetting, to be Suir.