Less than a week to go.

[Sean]

Before the second biggest football competition on the planet kicks off.

http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/season=2012/matches/index.html

 

[Saint Peter]

The Super Bowl is months away.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Sean]

Football? You mean kick ball right?

No, I mean football. Because you play it with your feet.

 

[IndieSnob]

No, I mean football. Because you play it with your feet.

You have to excuse him. He's still pissed that he was always picked last for team sports in school.

 

[Sean]

It must suck for yanks, never to know the joy and despair of watching your national team play your national sport against enemies centuries old.

 

[Sean]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLjMcK77BFU

 

[islandman]

It must suck for yanks, never to know the joy and despair of watching your national team play your national sport against enemies centuries old.

We're nice people and as such don't have enemies centuries old.

 

[Saint Peter]

It must suck for yanks, never to know the joy and despair of watching your national team play your national sport against enemies centuries old.

I watched your "hockey" team last week on the telly.

Fuck.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Sean]

I watched your "hockey" team last week on the telly.

Fuck.

Proper hockey or ice hockey?

 

[pointless]

i would watch this, but it's probably going to be on that fucking fox soccer channel and i aint got that fucking channel anymore.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Saint Peter]

Pussy hockey or ice hockey?

Ice hockey.

 

[Adre]

It must suck for yanks, never to know the joy and despair of watching your national team play your national sport against enemies centuries old.[

Just you wait until we can understand the rules for cricket. Then you're in trouble

 

[Sean]

i would watch this, but it's probably going to be on that fucking fox soccer channel and i aint got that fucking channel anymore.

http://www.firstrowsports.eu/

 

[IndieSnob]

Yeah sure, pudgy midget.

³

Pudgy midget?

Quit looking at my photos so close. Ken will throw a hissy fit, princess.

 

[pointless]

Ice hockey.

you're a sick man.

 

[renard_ruse]

No, I mean football. Because you play it with your feet.

Actually, association football is called football because it descends from Medieval football (or foote balle) games which were played on foot (as opposed to horseback like polo) and which often involved kicking the ball through some sort of goal to score or win the game. Association football, rugby union, rugby league, American football, Canadian football, Gaelic football, and Aussie Rules all have common roots in these Medieval European football games which were normally played between large groups of villagers on holidays and festivals. Whether the ball is primarily moved via kicking, running, or throwing, doesn't define whether it is football, but rather whether the sport ultimately derives from these Medieval games.

Whichever code of "football" is most widely played in a country is the game that is normally called "football" in that country. Since association football is the most popular of these games in Britain, it is normally called "football" there. Since gridiron football is the most popular of these games in North America it is normally just called "football" here. In New Zealand, for example, rugby is often called "football" though there are increasing pressures from FIFA to force people to call Association Football football rather then soccer as they have already done in Australia, though in the vernacular language people still say soccer.

Here's some more information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_association_football

 

[pointless]

http://www.firstrowsports.eu/

is that working again? last i heard it got shut down.

 

[ksmybuttons]

We're nice people and as such don't have enemies centuries old.

Ha! We just like to make new enemies.

 

[Sean]

Here in the land of real football, we play it with our brains.

That would explain why you have so many fucking cabbages walking around.

Ice hockey.

Incredibly minor sport over here. Field hockey is way more popular, but still a tiny sport.

Just you wait until we can understand the rules for cricket. Then you're in trouble

Cricket doesn't have rules, it has laws.

 

[Sean]

is that working again? last i heard it got shut down.

It was working last week.

 

[islandman]

Ha! We just like to make new enemies.

New is better, no?

 

[pointless]

hey. it is working again. neat. also, andorra has a soccer team. huh. i'm surprised they have enough people.