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CG (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Soccer is short for Association Football. This debate it ignorant and embarrassing. EJ (Sunday, 4 Jan 2009) Yes it it. Chump (Friday, 2 Jan 2009) Would be bat ball wtf (Friday, 2 Jan 2009) base = Items you run too Ball = Thing you hit. No baseball sounds right. Josh (Friday, 2 Jan 2009) Reply Idiot Brits. The arrows more so point to ankle ball and elbow egg. Also, ball doesn't mean round. LandLord (Friday, 2 Jan 2009) Learn to take a joke. elbekko (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Look at the position of the ball and foot. There is still space between them. Hmmm (Sunday, 4 Jan 2009) What does ball mean then? I think you'll find balls tend to be round objects (or ovoid if you want to be finicky). Idiotic American. Connor (Friday, 21 Aug 2009) i reakon the should change the name of football to end-of-the-leg-thing-spherical-inflated-other-thing and American football to guy-gotta-get-to-the-other-end-of-the-field-with-ball-in-his-hand Balls (Friday, 2 Jan 2009) Reply Either way, I can't help but notice the... handegg player has a more prominent crotch. kpt (Friday, 2 Jan 2009) So you are trying to say, that their shorts are more metro-sexual, or something about suspensor ? aapsis (Friday, 2 Jan 2009) and by "prominent crotch" you mean the suspicious yellow stain? someguy (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Actually, the handegg player occupies more of the image, which is why it seems more prominent. But if you compare crotch proportions between the images, the football player has the surprisingly more prominent crotch. GEOFF LEPPARD (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) You tend not to need to wear a cup in a non-contact sport like Association Football. Jaime (Friday, 2 Jan 2009) Soccer is boring ..LOL... NOT! Handegg is boring with all those commercial breaks ... barry sanders (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) I'd rather watch a commercial, then watch a ball get kicked back a forth for two minutes with nothing interesting happening. sup (Friday, 3 Apr 2009) Yeah, watching a ball get passed back and forth with nothing interesting happening until the 80th minute of the game is pretty boring. At least with Handegg, you have more "big" plays and the referees aren't paid. Derp (Tuesday, 4 Aug 2009) Maybe that's why the rest of the world LOVES what you americans call soccer. WhippleDip (Friday, 2 Jan 2009) Reply I am American, and I say soccer wins. I like football and all, but football meant soccer first. Uh-mer-cun (Friday, 2 Jan 2009) Reply Testicles are more egg shaped than a soccer balls. So by this an American Football is more like a testicle, and more masculine. Wha? (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Sorry, but are you actually suggesting that wearing tights and 80s style shoulder pads while fighting over who gets to hold the 'testicle' with similarly attired seating, muscular men is MORE masculine? In which part of the gay village is that true? Jacobin (Saturday, 10 Jan 2009) Masculine does not mean heterosexual, it means an expression of "maleness". Even in homoerotic settings people are masculine. One could say that due to the aggressive, near wrestling, sporting nature of American Football and the form emphasis created by the larger bodies in tight clothing and body armor promote a greater recognition of stereotypical masculinity. This is reflected in the audience, who view this aggression as an outlet for their own masculinity. The whole situation makes me think of the ancient Greeks, and their gymnasiums for wrestling and other athletics. Did you know that gymnasium means "naked place"? Now how much more masculine would football be if all were naked? Sure, far more homoerotic, but as it promotes the glorification of the male for it would also be masculine. Jacobin (Saturday, 10 Jan 2009) and sorry to double post, but I must add that I actually do not care much about watching sports. Most are fairly boring to me, including both versions of Football. Man (Friday, 2 Jan 2009) Reply They both wear cups. Handegg is a great name for football. And quite European. Randy (Friday, 2 Jan 2009) Reply this security question stuff could be improved. it said "2 x 2 equals ?" so i tried with "2 x 2", "4 x 1", "3 + 1" and "9 - 5". it didn't even try evaluating the equation, it just denied it straight off the bat! bad programming... prettybunnys (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Thank you for saying something worthwhile. Woosh (Friday, 2 Jan 2009) Reply Who the hell ever tought it'd be a good idea to name American football FOOTBALL? It's mostly not played with one's feet nor is it played with a ball.... AMR (Friday, 24 Apr 2009) I get tired of explaining this, but it evolved from rugby football, which split from association football. The first football game Americans played was a kicking game similar to soccer, but when the first colleges that played it convened to agree on a set of rules, they ended up borrowing from the English rugby code. So they could have called it "American rugby," but as everyone was already calling it football, the name stuck. The early game was actually much more kicking-oriented anyway, since there were no forward passes and kicks were allowed from anywhere on the field. Of the world's six major football codes, only soccer prohibits use of the hands, all of them employ kicking to varying degrees, and four of them use egg-shaped balls. It's no more odd to call the American game football than it is for rugby (which is really "rugby football") or Australian rules football to use the term. American Girl (Friday, 2 Jan 2009) Reply whether it is played with hands, feet, elbows or fingers football wins no doubt about it. Truth is our "yankee" sport cruses your girly one so if you matched a football team against a futbol team it's no competition. That's all. GOOD DAY. re:girl (Friday, 2 Jan 2009) You will note that the footballer (the T*at) has little protection, while the footballer (the wimp) has fu*k loads on. barry sanders (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) He has padding on, because he's playing a full contact sport you idiot, not just some crappy game where you kick a ball around and hope you get lucky enough to score a goal. rsez (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) so, why exactly don't they wear all that padding in the full contact game of rugby? Stupid Yanks (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Actually, your weak nancyboy american football players are just prancing around pretending to play a real man's game: rugby Only pussies need that much padding. Dean (Tuesday, 6 Jan 2009) What about Rugby? Its like american football but without all the protection and pissing about. Dave (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) united kingdom .... united kingdoms of england wales scotland etc .... it works douchebag Atli (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) American football Football=50% skill, 50% steroids Wrong (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) 98% acting. blah (Friday, 2 Jan 2009) Reply "They both wear cups. Handegg is a great name for football. And quite European." Football players don't wear cups. Jonny WIlkinson (Friday, 2 Jan 2009) Reply Football is for wusses. Have you seen all the diving. If I was a referee I'd be sending divers off on a stretcher as they are obviously too hurt to play on. Also how does American Football win no doubt. They have to play with HUGE amounts of padding and a helmet FFS! A helmet! Play rugby union. The real mans sport Springbok (Friday, 2 Jan 2009) Yebo... rugby is where it's at. someonewhoplayssports (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) f*ck off fatboy, you'd get buried in any of the sports mentioned fahq (Friday, 2 Jan 2009) Reply it has nothing to with being from the UK or not, Football, soccer to the unwilling/stubborn/dumbass westerners.... was there first, and its better. re: fahq (Friday, 2 Jan 2009) Soccer is correct here (UK) too. Soccer == A set of rules for kicking balls about. Football == All forms of kicking balls about. The Rules of Soccer became popular (as an American wanted to make money and county having different rules for Football make this hard). hejhula (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Ummm... rather like they have a sense of humor? Josh (Friday, 2 Jan 2009) Reply Once y'all discover Handegg in the rest of the world, "football" will be obsolete anyway. FAIL (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) We discovered handegg years ago when we got electricity and television (I think it was the 80's) and roundly rejected it as nothing more than a series of bad commercials interrupted too much by steroid munching gayly attired wimps. However, I recognise that if your attention span is approximately 40 seconds, then handegg is surely the sport for you. Whooooo! tom j (Friday, 2 Jan 2009) Reply both fun sports, no doubt, the both have ups and downs. soccer has speed and finesse, football has power and strength. soccer has diving, football has crazy people that shoot themselves in the legs. although niether of them are my favourite sport, I would pay good money to see the cowboys play, or the LA galaxy play. NK (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Football doesn't require speed and finesse? Two words: Barry Sanders. Just Wait, Losers (Friday, 2 Jan 2009) Reply Yeah yeah. Make fun all you want. But you Euros and Brits and whomever else are going to be pretty tinkered off when the Americans win a World Cup. It will happen someday. Oh yeah, and I don't see your women winning World Cups much, either. kiddi (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) what you yankees call world cup is just stupid:'D does europe compete??nooo..does asia compete??nope..do the australians compete?? no, only the americans compete so it should not be called "the world cup" world_cup (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) @kiddi: I think in your haste to bash Americans, you misunderstood what the poster was saying. The World Cup is for soccer. The Super Bowl is US and football (no world mentioned). The World Series of baseball fits your arguement, but we aren't talking about that sport. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wor...lts_and_hosts.PNG Eric (Friday, 2 Jan 2009) Reply to my understanding, in the early days of football there was a lot more kicking. JC (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Actually, Handegg is a nephew of Football. "Early" Football begat Modern Football and Rugby, and Rugby begat American Football. I never got how it re-acquired the Football name, but I think it's because it re-introduced some of the formal positions from Assoc. Football back into the game; i.e. Fullback, halfback, etc etc. finally (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) finally someone with an IQ over 70 fubla (Friday, 2 Jan 2009) Reply they (yankees & brits) sometimes are very stupid :) "Soccer" is for those who don't know "football" Yank (Friday, 2 Jan 2009) Reply How do you explain Cricket then? Shouldn't it be Paddle Ball or Spanking Device Ball? Johnny Reb (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Reply American football is the most homoerotic "sport" this side of grecco-roman wrestling. A bunch of big, sweaty men in tight, shiny pants slamming into one another and piling atop each other in order to get a ball tossed by a guy who had to place his hands in another man's crotch to start the game. Oh, and soccor is just lamwe. dolfan (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Reply In soccer, if you take a dive, it's seen as an art. In football, only the kickers (the most soccer like player on the field) take dives. If a player at any other NFL position took a dive, they'd get laughed out of the league. isobro (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Call is what you want, but your "football"... bunch of pansies who try to take dives to get ahead. So lame to watch. I remember they even had a commercial about it once. the thing that is different about american football players is they are athletes, your 'football' players are not athletes. Every seen one of them play any sport? Now thats funny. JC (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Most kickers are (former) soccer players. ;) F***YANKS (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) the NFL players should play without padding and helmets like real football players do ... RUGBY !!!!!!!! Red (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Instead of diving, NFL players choose to shoot people, kill dogs and put out contracts on the lives of their pregnant wives. Yes, much more classy. Lord Bellomont (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Agreed. Non-American-Football players practice whining like sissies. F*ck soccer. The announcers shout GOOOOOOL at the top of their lungs in order to wake everyone up that's watching. bob (Monday, 19 Jan 2009) are you serious? American Football players take dives every game! And I have never even seen a kicker dive. What are you talking about? uk_thru_n_thru (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Reply about fu*king time... football is football... rugby is rugby... even if your pussy enuf to need a fu*king crash helmet and joan collins shoulder pads ! Superman (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Reply The girl on the left plays soccer. The man on the right plays American football. Atli (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) And the funny thing is that you don't realize that the whole world is laughing at you guys...and you think everyone wishes to be an american... only reason why other countrys care what US thinks is because you guys are like two retards playing with nukes... and we just rather want that you blow ure hands off then some poor country that wraps towels on their heads instead of going square dancing or doing steroids like a motherf$%ker and start running around with a handegg Rootofevol (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Reply if we beat you in a war, we get to re-name a sport that a majority of your people play. USA - 1 Greater Brittania - 0 Vietnam won and we gave them a shitload of nail salons. Birta (Sunday, 11 Jan 2009) Ok, I think people are forgetting the point of this. This is not an argument on which is better, football or American football. Personally I can't judge which is better, because I've never watched American football. And I'm sure this picture is not just to make American people angry, it's just saying what is logical and what isn't. And those who say football (soccer) is easy have obviously never played it, because it's quite hard to play. And why David Becham? He's old, he used to be good, but now he's old. El Hefe (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Reply finally a good comeback to everyone who loves their "american football" Leslie C (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Reply Poor Brits, They've been pissy ever since that Mr. Washington and his merry band of revolutionaries rained on their empire. Besides, "the Kings English" makes you all sound somewhat retarded. Now, who's up to taking a little joke? David (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Reply Soccer is about tactics, precision, having complete control of the ball. American football is just brute force. The bigger and dumber the player the better. F**king Forrest Gump was great at it! hejhula (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Run Forrest, run!!! LookoutforChris (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Reply All that needs to be said about soccer has been said already in cartoon form: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOAUzfI43sc http://www.hulu.com/watch/315 11/the-simpsons-soccer-riot 4 (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Reply There have always been many versions of football, some if not most involving the use of hands to various degrees. Association football, Australian rules football, many many types of football. Josh (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Reply I can hardly sit through an entire soccer game, and I've tried many times as I have several friends who are huge fans. It's ridiculous how often they take a dive and roll around on the ground whining after what looks like minor contact. As far as the criticism for wearing pads and helmets goes, keep in mind that these guys can weigh in excess of 350 pounds and set up at the beginning of each play to hurl themselves directly into each other with everything they've got. If they weren't wearing helmets and pads, half of the team would die every game. Also, like Eric said, in the early days of "handegg" there was a lot more kicking, and forward passes were illegal. Arstus (Sunday, 22 Feb 2009) Rugby. No pussy padding, played all over the country every weekend, very very few deaths. Don't try to kid yourself that people would die without all that pussy padding. Footballers dive. American footballers hide behind body armour. Both are total pussies. Rugby players? They get ears torn off and scrotums torn open. Stitch them up and they go back on to finish the game. Redders (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Reply NFL is a 4 hour-long Cialis commercial. Everything about American "football" seems to evolve around overcompensation: Penis drugs as the main sponsor, 6 points for a score, inflated sense of self-importance while nobody in the world gives a crap about it. Typical American psyche. Boring, unthinking, played by mutants and criminals. Simmi (Monday, 5 Jan 2009) shit this isn't so hard to figure out the picture says it all... you mostly use your hands in handegg and only the golie and in throw-ins may you use your hands in Football besides even though football is getting commercial handegg is way on top in beeing commercial you can't get through the superbowl without looooads of boooring commercials... Ergo Football Rules and Handegg sucks Joe (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Reply can we have a picture of what a "proper" game of cricket would look like? Addinn (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Reply The only thing i don't understand is why yanks aren't able to play the game of rugby without being dressed as armored tanks.... o and why they had to change to name. Quagland (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Reply So Futbol players like their balls to be kicked and Football players like their eggs cradled by hands. Sounds like the eggs are getting the better treatment here! the man (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Reply soccer is for the thinking man,beautiful game with players that have skills and speed...football is for big,fat,slow dumb apes that cant even kick a ball bob (Monday, 19 Jan 2009) Do you even know how American football works? You cannot play the game of football without plays. They have to study playbooks several inches thick to learn them and then apply them in the game and improvise if something goes wrong. I have never seen any sort of soccer team run a play. It is a one man game where he either shoots or loses the ball. There is no leader, there are no plays, and they are all wussies. By the way, soccer players don't run a 4.3, 40. Arstus (Sunday, 22 Feb 2009) Hahaha. "Soccer" has a million different strategies, plays, tactical styles, formations and such. They just do it all on the fly in a fluid way that you yanks are too dumb to read. Your so called plays need everyone to stop every few seconds and get into their positions so you can understand what's going on. Don't try critisizing something based on your own inability to read the game. Moonrise (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Reply I live in America and I honestly want to see this happen. TIS THE RISE OF HANDEGG! Benny (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Reply I always though the name was steroidsball. I guess that's the one with the batty thing. Or the hoops. Or the guns and the hadjis. All those American sports are so competitive, it's hard to keep up anyway. Conrad (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Reply As an American fan of American football, I have to agree that the name "Handegg" is more appropriate. However, the acronym "NHL" is already used for the National Hockey League, so the National Football League wouldn't be able to change it's name to the National Handegg League. Maybe "National League of Handegg" (NLH) would work? Conan the Librarian (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Reply An NFL player would KILL a rugby player and a futball player at the same time. I'm not taking anything away from either sport, but have you seen the size of an average American Football player? Unless you're 6.5, and 250lbs or bigger you're not playing. Then consider the amount of training they do, there is just no competition. End of story, and anything you could possibly say to the contrary will be quite simply wrong. Hejhula (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) That's because if you are 6'5 in height and don't weight over 250lb, then you probably aren't an american... JollyMan (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Not without armor^^ Tim (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Reply American Football players are far more athletic than any soccer player. To compare the speed and strength of RB Adrian Peterson to say Ronaldo, Ronaldihno or anyone else is laughable .... (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) nobody is talkig about stenght and speed... its the name of the sport... American football should not be called football at all! .... (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) nobody is talkig about stenght and speed... its the name of the sport... American football should not be called football at all! KlitonBozgo (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Correct it's Fußball in german language (so it is spelt as 'foozball'), but in english language it is called football, because it is played with feet. That's logical. American football is mainly played with arms and barely with feet and it's also called football. Trat's NOT logical. I don't give a $#!t if those games are boring or not. I just say, what's logic. CrackerJack121 (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Reply Perhaps us Brits should just rename it ORIGINAL football, so everybody can be happy..... yeah why the f*ck would we wanna do that. Iceland (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Reply wow...i just read a bunch of crap from a bunch of retarded people. and you american peeps...who are you to say that "American football" is more athletic than the other....in fact in american football you got offencive team and defencive team and a whole lot of steroids, not as much speed or stamina so eat that...and the ball is tossed ?? not kicked ! :D Don John (Saturday, 3 Jan 2009) Reply Quit your useless arguing and look it up bloody queers! Why It's Called Football Some might say, simply, "because they kick the football." But the real story is deeper. The origin of Gridiron (American football) is in the history of the world's most popular sport: Football (soccer). When soccer -- more universally known as "football" (which of course makes sense because soccer players use their feet) -- players decided to change their centuries-old game with restrictions such as the no-use-of- hand rules, people who disliked this broke away to create rugby. In the states we have created our own version of the game under the same old name "football" (Gridiron) with more of a rugby style, the whole time forgetting why we call it that. Here are other answers: * Gridiron (American football) is a derivative of rugby football, and while the feet are used more often in rugby than on the gridiron, much of the game is still played by handling the ball. Both variations are still considered football. * North America style Gridiron (american football) didn't used to allow the "forward pass" and much more of the play involved foot work, such as the "drop kick" and the running punt kick. In the first rules, only the " side pass" was allowed, as long as the two players were side by side, with no forward motion of the ball, similar to rugby rules. The Canadian Football League ( CFL ) still allows a drop kick to score a field goal, and also has a thing called a "rouge" when the kicker is able to kick the ball thru the end zone, so it lands out of play , it is worth 2 points. Both the NFL and the CFL still have the drop-kick available as a weapon - on the point-after-touchdown, or from the field for 3 points. The "rouge" is worth a single point here in Canada. Answer The global name for football is of course football. The global name for american football is Gridiron. Gridiron is a code of handball and not football. Football is a sport where players control the ball with their feet and only football does this. Gridiron is where hands are used to control a ball. Football has been played for many centuries but had no official rules. The British created rules for football in 1848. After that many codes of handball arose including rugger and gridiron, none of which are codes of football. Football, known only in canada and the USA as soccer (a nickname termed by the English), is the worlds most popular sport. There are many reasons for this. In football you mainly use your feet, chest and head thus making the ball always open and so the game is fast paced and demands intelligence and a vast array of techniques. In football size is not as important as in Basketball, Gridiron or rugby, so anyone with skill can become good at it. Rich and poor alike can play the game as it requires little equipment at a basic level, although at the top level it is the richest sport on earth by some way. Though Gridiron in US is largely made up of people from poor areas as the nfl is predominantly contested by blacks from downtrodden parts, slums, ghettos, given scholarships to play. Baseball too is played by many poor in the likes of Cuba, Dominican Republic. Football is watched and played by more than any other sport globally mainly due to the excitement of hoping to see a goal and the importance each goal scored has on the flow of the match. Its 90 minutes non stop action. Gridiron on the otherhand is constant stop start and spread out up to a 4 hour marathon....in that period the average actual playing time of an nfl Gridiron game is 12 minutes which is one of endless reasons why its never been accepted outside US. Easy scoring is another reason as teams get the entire width of the pitch and also dont even have to touch the ball down...also get multiple attempts to do so. Each year Football becomes more popular than the year before, no other sports have ever been able to achieve this over such a long period of time. Gridiron on the other hand is played almost entirely by americans as every attempt made to spread the game has largely failed with leagues folding due to zero fan interest..examples being the "World League"..and more recently "NFL Europe" as one report summed it up by stating "not only did most Europeans not know it collapsed, they didn't even know it existed". Person (Sunday, 4 Jan 2009) That was quite a comment Hejhula (Sunday, 4 Jan 2009) Doesn't anyone have shorter version of the comment? This one is too long to read... Arstus (Sunday, 22 Feb 2009) Too long to read? Obviously an American. Would you find it easier to read if it had a commercial break in the middle? AMR (Friday, 24 Apr 2009) Sorry to burst your bubble, but soccer, American football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby league, and rugby union are ALL codes of football. Del Boy (Sunday, 4 Jan 2009) Reply Well whatever you say Don John it still comes down to the fact that americans are retarded yankees are only kind of stupid (Sunday, 4 Jan 2009) Reply yeah there's no European "football" either. its futbol. the point loses its gravity when its misspelled... bb (Friday, 9 Jan 2009) Your comment has no credibility because of ignorance. Football is English, futbol is Spanish. Aron Ingi (Sunday, 4 Jan 2009) Reply i agree with this brilliant photos, but why on earth is beckham there, he sucks! FACE IT HOMOS!! (Sunday, 4 Jan 2009) Reply More athletic in Handegg? Most of the guys are f*cking obese, and their only mission is to jump at each other, take each other down, and go in pileups. F*cking barbaric homos. alien from space (Sunday, 4 Jan 2009) Reply two facts: 1) That's a funny pic :) 2) Everyone who keeps arguing which sport is more "manly" is a retard. Raudmees (Sunday, 4 Jan 2009) Reply I don't like football but soccer is the real football. Ragby or Handegg looks kinda gay to me, c'mon 2 teams of men hugging on the field? sphincter (Monday, 5 Jan 2009) Reply American Football more athletic?? The guys are standing still most of the time and you never see the bloody ball. The most athletic handegg version is definitely Australian. Now those guys are fit. Sali (Monday, 5 Jan 2009) Reply American football and Baseball and Basketball,are very boring 2watch,they always play few minutes,then there is a break,BORING edmondo (Tuesday, 6 Jan 2009) Reply the americans call their "american football" football because the suck so much in the REAL football ("soccer") wtf (Thursday, 8 Jan 2009) Reply Why do people from a small island in europe seem to be so defensive of their culture? If you don't like the sport then why say anything at all. Your just coming off as stupid so please shut the f*ck up. We americans should have let hitler take england then they would be speaking german. And not be bitching about how they don't like a sport which they don't play. Mr.Ericson (Sunday, 11 Jan 2009) americans seem to be ego-maniacs, and they would never admit how dumb they are..common you guys we dont need proof you voted George Bush for president last time. ALL americans are so f*cking materialistic, that if it looks tough, if it looks brutal than it ROCKS...like wrestling,super bowl and almost anyother sport that americans like...and the main reason for that is these people that support those 80% african-americans running around are the fattest and most out of shape people in the world and it seems it does not help when they have internet connections in the trailer park so rednecks like yourself argue about something they dont know what is..never played it? and just because its not american kinda. Billy Bob give your mom a kiss from me when you are done humping her! Billy Bob= All those americans tjwitt (Friday, 9 Jan 2009) Reply the thing i dont get is the dam brits make fun of americans yet we've kicked thier a** ouut of our country and bailed them out of two wars. so i think soccer and football sounds good really? (Tuesday, 21 Jul 2009) You need to learn some history. It was the French Spanish and Dutch that stopped the English keeping America and not the English settlers and farmers alone like you believe. Also you helped us eventually but not for right reasons only because Japan brought you into the war otherwise you'd have gone through the whole war eating cheeseburgers, drinking coke and watching hollywood. We halted the German advance alone and then the Russians changed side and caused them to retreat with Monty cleaning up the mess you made in Africa and then sorting out your army after the D-Day landings (which was Montys plan) The outcome was inevitable when you guys shown up last so the Nazis would have been stopped without you being there. Now if the Russians hadn't changed sides you'd be speaking Russian and us Brits still speaking English as Hitler planned. Its Football and Hand egg. We invented the sport, we named it so why do you think you can steal the name and use it for your touch rugby? Uhh (Friday, 9 Jan 2009) Reply I don't give a shit either way (I love playing futbol actually and I'm ambivalent on football), but Europe's gotta get their facts straight. Only half of the players are enormous fat slob homos. Most of the other half either runs like hell to catch the ball, runs like hell with the ball, or runs like hell to get the guy with the ball, all while wearing cumbersome gear. And in futbol, unless the ball is within 10-15 meters the players are more than likely jogging or walking. Football is a game of short, intense bursts and futbol is a marathon. Both are valid sports. Everyone just shut up lol. Another Icelander (Friday, 9 Jan 2009) Reply You people are funny and Handegg is a dead-boring sport to watch. Football on the other hand.... jocko (Friday, 9 Jan 2009) Reply Soccer is for sissies who fall down and whine like they're dead hoping to draw a yellow card. I hate that soccer is so populated with pussies. In football, guys play with broken bones and blood pouring out of them. They're tough, not wimpy. Adrian Mutu (Tuesday, 13 Jan 2009) Reply I am an european moved to US. I hated american football in the beginning but later when I understood it I began to love it. Still eurpoean football (soccer) is my favorite sport. The reason I think soccer is better than football is because more people can play soccer than football. You can play anytime anywhere, girls or boys, children or adults, young or old. You don't need a measured fields, neither do you need 10 referees to watch you. You don't come out with broken feet, broken ribs, concussions and handicapped for life. How many normal people do you see playing american football?? zero, nada!!! Even here in US when you go to parks you see regular folks playing soccer. Football is only played by the few and in special conditions. Soccer gives you a chance whether you are short, tall, big or small. BB (Thursday, 15 Jan 2009) Reply football is the greatest sport ever with 90 minutes full of excitement!!! you american should love football than yours football with 2 hours wacthing of pussy guys playing sports. a real male (Friday, 16 Jan 2009) Reply football and handegg are both boring and totally gay...synchronized swimming is far more interesting to watch. :p Non-plussed (Friday, 16 Jan 2009) Reply To Leslie C: No, we're not pissy about losing a colony - remember that your revolution started here. We're a bit more pissy about how we had to stand alone in Europe against socialism for three years before you entered WWII and have only just finished paying you back the money we had to borrow off you to do it and now find ourselves under that yolk anyway - and how your revolution has died and we've now lost any hope of getting out to somewhere freer. OK. American football player (Sunday, 5 Apr 2009) You didn't have to "stand alone" for three years, you had to "stand alone" for 2 years, since WWII started in 1939 and the U.S. entered in 1941. Also you weren't fighting against socialism, you were fighting against national socialism, which is a completely different ideology altogether. Also I don't really think either sport is "better", it's kind of a personal preference thing, although I personally like American football. To all the people who are saying either sport is for "pussies", that's really not true. Association football kind of focuses on stamina, whereas American football focuses more on physicality, and I would say it's hard to play either sport, considering that in Association football you are basically running around for an hour and a half and in American football you're basically trying to inflict physical harm on someone, who's trying to do the same thing to you. So neither sport is for "pussies", it just takes a different kind of person to play each. mega (Sunday, 18 Jan 2009) Reply Yankees call their country "america" when america its a whole continent. and they call "football" a sport that its not played with their feet... come on, be serious. you still want us to not think that they are not retarded?????? Kossu (Tuesday, 20 Jan 2009) And why is the World Series called World Series? There is one Canadian team, rest is from US. World = America? Canaduck (Wednesday, 21 Jan 2009) Reply I am American and I laughed at this. Then I laughed at all the insecure British people whining about how terrible the mean ol' Yankees are. kevin (Wednesday, 21 Jan 2009) Reply you brits are stupid please dont call soccer football, i think i have only met like three people in my life that actually like soccer. in football there is still a ball it is not an egg and the ball is kicked. OBEY (Wednesday, 21 Jan 2009) Reply American Football is for people who want to play Rugby but are afraid of getting hurt. Awwwwh! Look at the poor delicate black man wearing all those guards! :( MAN THE F*CK UP AND DITCH THE PADS BITCH! soccer sucks balls 09 (Wednesday, 21 Jan 2009) Reply Grow a pair and play a real sport where you dont fake injuries as strategy IQ (Sunday, 25 Jan 2009) Reply It's not a matter of which sport is better. It's about calling football to the sport which is actually played with the feet (and a ball of course)... "Handegg" has its own good points but its a completely different sport as football (soccer) with different set of rules... The bottom line here who care which is better sport? Just call things the way they get correctly described. Andy (Monday, 26 Jan 2009) Most people are very silly and irrational on both sides of this argument. As Americans, demanding that the world uses our names for these two sports is ignorant and provincial. Similarly, it's inappropriate to demand our conformity or to claim that our names are stupid. American football is called football because it evolved from rugby football. This sort of thing happens all of the time in English. As far as the football (American) vs. rugby argument, they both have areas of greater and lesser demand. Rugby is more aerobic, and a lot like "soccer" or hockey in that people keep moving during very long plays, shifting between conserving energy and attacking, sometimes stopping to scrum/faceoff. American football evolved gradually from rugby. One reason is that college players were dying. In 1910, the addition of the forward pass decreased the number of injuries and cut DEATHS from 11 down to 4. American football developed a unique depth of strategy out of rugby's scrum. Teams with a predetermined offensive or defense status take to the line of scrimmage in myriad formations with specialized assignments as planned in team playbooks with hundreds of pages, further altering their assignments based upon "reads" of the other team. awesome00 (Monday, 2 Feb 2009) Reply From now on americans have Handegg and the rest of the world - football. Case closed. Gavin (Wednesday, 11 Feb 2009) IF (handegg = football) AND (football = soccer) THEN LOL END another fem yank (Tuesday, 17 Feb 2009) Reply In my opinion you have to be an excellent althelte to play any of them. We're talking about two different sports here. American football is like chess. It's a game of war where you have a strategy and do your best to execute it while anticipating and foiling the other teams plans. It's a contact sport so size matters and it's played differently than soccer. In soccer (football) (futbol) you have to run continuously! You have to be agile and speed is something you're born with so those guys are top athletes. They never stop. Having to run and keep playing without stopping is enough but to play against others that are as fast and unstoppable as yourself is a real challenge! Rugby and Australian rules football are just bad ass! :) Arstus (Sunday, 22 Feb 2009) Your little American brain would pop if we tried to. Stick to Handegg, it's nice and easy to understand. Mahmood (Thursday, 19 Feb 2009) Reply Why do you think only the brits think like that? Football is an internationally respected sport and the World Cup usually enjoys the same sphere of Olympics in my country, even more. And as long as I know, nobody even knows whats the difference between handegg, baseball and rugby here. STFU (Wednesday, 18 Mar 2009) Reply Seriously...it's a cultural difference. Shut the hell up. It's almost as stupid as saying Americans are stupid for calling them "cookies" and not "biscuits." Anon (Friday, 3 Apr 2009) Reply Ok, first off the question seriously needs to be harder to stop some of these posts. I will use football to mean the sport the world plays and eggball to mean the sport only America plays. Now if we look at what I said we can see that Football players are clearly going to be in better athletic condition than Eggball players. This is because there are far more teams, so more competition. It also means there is a wider talent pool to select from. I have now got to clear up a misunderstanding for the Yanks. You gained independence because we were at the same time fighting a much more important and larger scale war in Europe against Napoleon at the time. Not only that, but at the same time you were gaining funds from France to help you with that war. Lets add to that the relative insignificance of America and I think defeating Napoleon was the better option. Now we'll move onto WW2, Hitler wanted England to take over the rest of the world and Germany to have Europe. Be glad that you are allowed to play your sissy eggball. You also claim you bailed us out of that war. Once again England was fighting to save Europe from a dictator who would not have been a threat to us. The Royal Navy would have destroyed any army Hitler tried to send over the British Channel. By the time you joined the war the tables had turned. Hitler was losing to the Russian Winter and had lost momentum against England. Your loans were useful, but Hitler would not have beaten England and Russia. A sport like Handegg which is played on such a relatively small scale can't utilise the same sort of tactical depth as a game like Football. With so many people playing it, far more styles of play will be created. People from different cultures will have vastly different styles of play as such things as environment also affect the style as well as the different cultures and genetic makeup of the difference races. Onto Cricket. You are missing the point completely. If you had played a game where you used crickets to do something and called it cricket then I'd see the logic of renaming our cricket. You don't however, or if you do you aren't making that suggestion so your point is moot. American football player (Wednesday, 29 Apr 2009) Enlighten me as to how you could have been fighting Napoleon, since at the time of the American Revolution the French Monarchy, more specifically Louis XVI, was in power. Now if you were referring to the War of 182, then yes England was also fighting Napoleon, although America was by no means insignificant at that time or any other, other wise why would you have fought to keep the U.S. from seceding? Also the U.S. is not the only country that plays "eggball", or American football as it's more commonly known, for example Canada. Admittedly American football is not popular on the same scale that Association football is worldwide, but in the U.S. and Canada, where it is predominately played it is very popular. As to your comments about WWII, the U.K. and the U.S.S.R. were very much in danger of losing, and the only reason that the U.K. had not been conquered at that point was because it is an island. That is not a slur on the British, it's a simple statement of fact, because if the combined military force of Europe minus Russia, Finland, and the neutral nations could not defeat Germany before Germany invaded Russia then it's a bit of a stretch to say that the U.K. could have done it by itself. Also American football has quite a bit of tactical depth as quarterbacks must memorize entire playbooks and be able to recall any play from memory on the spot. That's not to say that there's no tactical depth in Association football, just not exactly on the same level. Also the etymology of the word cricket, as it relates to the sport of the same name, is believed to have developed from the word "cryce" which in Saxon means stick. soccer aka Europen football (Sunday, 5 Apr 2009) Reply Instructions on how to play European football... step one, get ball run down field as soon as opposing player gets near you fall down grab part of body and cry. step 2, if ref believes you get up slowly and cry harder. step 3, if ref doesn't believe you get up quick and join play as fast as possible. Eurofootball players are fags lol. cinda (Saturday, 11 Apr 2009) Reply oh gosh, americans get more ignorant every day. take a joke guys ! Gareth (Friday, 17 Apr 2009) Actually rugby came from football. it was invented when a football player picked up the ball and ran between the goalposts and laid it down. and the town it happened in, Rugby, UK gareth (Friday, 17 Apr 2009) and oh yeah, it's a joke, chill the f**k out AMR (Friday, 24 Apr 2009) Gareth, the William Webb Ellis story is a myth. Football (soccer) rules at the time allowed players to catch the ball and take a mark. They were awarded a free kick for doing so. What Ellis allegedly did differently was that instead of taking his kick after catching the ball, he took off and ran with it. Rugby School eventually made that action part of its school's playing rules, and the reason rugby survived when many other similar games were lost to history was that someone at Rugby School actually took the time to write down the rules of their game. AMR (Friday, 24 Apr 2009) What I don't understand is why so many non-Americans get so bent out of shape by what we choose to call our peculiar version of rugby. What difference does it make? ekvv (Saturday, 16 May 2009) Reply Football may be more "masculine" but that is because it is a stupid sport. Literally stupid. While Soccer is a competition of strategy and skill, football just depends on the guy with bigger muscles and a fatter ass. BB (Tuesday, 26 May 2009) Reply In advance sorry for bad English. First of all, I agree that american football should be called differently, and it already have a name, Gridiron. Second, Basketball is more intense sport than Gridiron (Basketball is only american sport worth mentioning) and because lazy americans now in Europe we have four quarters instead usual, only, half-time. Football is real sport for thinkers and for those who want to be strong because in football you use every single muscle. If you see Football player laying, that's only an act for referee. If player doesn't fall down foul is not so obvious. Now let's talk about Americans, they are offspring from English (no offense lads) criminals and and lazy people who did not wanted to work or be caught by the police. America become big country only because there is lot of natural resources which you stole from native americans. And later, when country was formed, smart people from Europe came and there children and grandchildren are making almost all scientists there. In my country there is saying "ko o cemu baba o ustipcima" that almost literary means "if anyone is talking about anything grandma will always talk about noodles". I mentioned that just for only reason, if americans don't have any smarter answer they always talk about WW2 and how they "saved us", guess what you didn't, everything would be just fine if you let us alone. You always have to be world cop because war is only thing you know to do, only mindless people go into wars. For conclusion, rugby is much more interesting sport then handegg but Football is no.1. RS (Friday, 26 Jun 2009) Reply ...That was a whole lot of bullshit for nothing. You people need to get laid or something. Too damn tense. Handegg is funny. The end. Chris MacShane (Wednesday, 8 Jul 2009) Reply Folks, American football or as some countries call it Gridiron football is played around the world. Check out "Football, Not Just America's Game" on Associated Content. Besides where is the strategy in soccer? Where is the tactics? And where the heck are the Cheerleaders? Oh, I'm sorry, you don't have that in soccer! To bad!! butcher (Thursday, 16 Jul 2009) Reply What's so exiting with felling on the ground every two meters? And that's what football is about,right? CureSR (Wednesday, 19 Aug 2009) Reply You Americans say that football is for sissies and handegg is for real men.Here are some facts: Injury rate per 100 participation hours Soccer 6.2 Rugby 1.92 Basketball 1.03 Football 0.1 Handegg just looks tough,but with all those protection it's not.Here are some examples of "soccer sissies": Terry Butcher-http://www.ave-it.net/terry%20Butcher.htm Bert Trautmann-http://www.ave-it.net/Bert_trautmann.htm Billy Whitehurst-http://www.ave-it.net/billy_whitehurst.htm Andoni Goikoetxea-http://www.ave-it.net/andoni_goikoetxea.htm You also say that football players are not athletic.Football players are very athletic.Average professional player runs around 12km in 90 minutes.You have players like Obafemi Martins who runs 100m in 10.5 sec.That's pretty fast.Football players also must be very agile because they need to change direction very fast,very often with ball in their possession.Technique in football and handegg is not comparable.In handegg you have throwing and catching.That's all.In football you have hundreds of elements.Tactic is complicated in both sports. One more thing-atmosphere on stadiums.On handegg games you have fat-asses who are eating hot-dogs,burgers and drink coke.On football stadiums there are fans who are singing during the whole game,making choreographies with flages,flares and other pyrotechnics. bored (Friday, 4 Sep 2009) Reply I cant believe i just read every single comment. It's a joke, laugh and click Next>> w (Sunday, 27 Sep 2009) agreed bah (Monday, 5 Oct 2009) Reply Well in the American football they use the foot like in 10% of the game. And in the football they use the foot like in 90% of the time. The fact is that the American football is just a modified version from the Rugby. Here's some historic facts for you: football (aka soccer) was created first, in the GB. Most of you don't know but in the beginning, like in 200 years ago (I'm not sure about the dates), you could use your hands to play football. Based on this primitive football they created another sport, the "rugby football". It's kinda like the rugby they play in the Australia and Wales today. And based on the rugby football, the Americans created the "Football". The name isn't wrong because they got the word football from the name "rugby football". So it's correct use the name of your "grandpa" someway. But the fact is that American football is based on a sport who is based on football. And the last but not least, it's pointless compare them each other. Now they are sports different each other. People like American football because some things and people like football because another things. PS: it's more like a spheroid. Rugby kid (Wednesday, 18 Nov 2009) Reply Americans call it football because it developed from it. It started when a pupil called willaim web ellis picked up a ball and ran with it at Rugby school while playing football. So a new game was created called Rugby football. This was then brought to america who changed it futher and gave it the name football (as they felt their mgame to be the modern form of football). As for the name soccer it was used by many people before the u.s and is short for Association football (the name of the most popular kind of football). I might have made sum mistakes but thats more or less it. |
