An Open Letter To All Americans

[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 )
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...

Mexico '86, will those days ever come back?

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

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

[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.

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!

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

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

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

[pevergreen]

TBH, first time I saw it, just then.

[Prussian to the Iron]

TBH, first time I saw it, just then.

2ed

[RoadKill]

So how bout' them Canadians.

[Louis VI the Fat]

So how bout' them Canadians.

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.

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]

CR

It was just an off-hand remark...

[InsaneApache]

Now you've put your foot in it!

[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.