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John Cleese bashes American "Football"

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Osietra said:
Whenever I try watching handegg it seems like they just make rules up as they go along.
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Me watching Handegg is like Fry watching future baseball in Futurama. I don't get that shit.

MULTI BALL! MULTI BALL!
 
Rugby, now there's a sport I can get behind. It's like American Football, but better.

Wish it'd be bigger here. :/

It's probably not even in the Top 10 of popular sports here.
 
Haunted said:
Now that's just dumb.

At least I can understand where the US boys who love football instead of handegg are coming from.
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I prefer physical sports, what can i say? Rugby League and American footy are my main interests.
 
I always wanted to know what kind of injury is most rugby players get and how many injuries occur every season
 
Jamaican born and raised but finished high school+ in the US and they're both pretty eh.

Soccer (football) is more fun to actually play.
 
Football comes from Rugby Football whose rules predate your silly "Association Football" or soccer. You used to be able to carry the ball in soccer until it got banned.
 
Steppenwolf said:
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Might wanna remove that.

I don't like american football because i've never bothered to learn about it and i would imagine it's exactly the same for Americans watching football.
 
Zeke said:
I always wanted to know what kind of injury is most rugby players get and how many injuries occur every season
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judging by scrums probably prolapsed anus injuries.


Aussie rules for the win!
 
killer_clank said:
I actually think it's much less than you would expect.
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In Rugby League its pretty high i think. Cant remember watching a game without at least one injury :P

http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/37/1/36.full - study of injury in semi-pro Rugby League.

Found another.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the incidence of injury in English professional rugby league over a period of four playing seasons. METHODS: All injuries that were received by players during match play were recorded. Each injury was classified according to site, type, player position, team playing for, activity at the time of injury, and time off as a result of injury. RESULTS: The overall injury rate was 114 (95% confidence interval 105 to 124) per 1000 playing hours, the most frequent type of injury were muscular injuries [34 (29 to 40) per 1000 playing hours], while the most frequently injured site was the head and neck region [38 (16 to 25) per 1000 playing hours]. Players received the largest percentage of injuries when being tackled [46.3% (41.9 to 50.7)], most injuries required less than one week away from playing and training [70.1% (66.1 to 74.2)], and forwards had a higher injury rate than backs (139 v 93 injuries per 1000 hours). CONCLUSIONS: The high rates of injury in rugby league are undoubtedly due to the high amount of bodily contact in the game. Being tackled has the highest risk of injury, because of being hit forcibly by other players. Forwards suffer higher injury rates than backs, probably because they are involved in a larger number of physical collisions.
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Source
 
thefro said:
Football comes from Rugby Football whose rules predate your silly "Association Football" or soccer. You used to be able to carry the ball in soccer until it got banned.
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Bam.
 
Brian Fellows said:
Soccer is good for some comedy value every now and then. Nothing funnier than seeing supposed world class athletes cry like babies from the slightest contact.
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Yeah because being an athlete is everything to do with contact. I guess Olympians aren't athletes either
 
MagniHarvald said:
Aren't you Spanish? Or am I confusing you with someone else? The only time I played hockey against a Spanish team, it was against Barcelona's club, we beat them something like 30-0 so I don't expect you guys to understand hockey :lol
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When you talk about hockey on GAF, most people assume or only know about ice hockey. Not this weird field hockey thing.
 
Yoboman said:
Yeah because being an athlete is everything to do with contact. I guess Olympians aren't athletes either
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That doesn't mean you need to look like a wuss over some incidental contact.
 
wormstrangler said:
When you talk about hockey on GAF, most people assume or only know about ice hockey. Not this weird field hockey thing.
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hockey is hockey

ice hockey is ice hockey
 
Goron2000 said:
:lol That doesn't make any sense at all. On the American one it completely misses out the fact that 95% of the game your holding the ball.
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Unless you're Adrian Peterson.

thefro said:
Football comes from Rugby Football whose rules predate your silly "Association Football" or soccer. You used to be able to carry the ball in soccer until it got banned.
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Not strictly true. The first codified form of rules for Association Football (1863) predates the first of Rugby Football (1870). Although Association Football comes from a history of games that permit carrying the ball, it was never permitted by the laws set down by the Football Association from which Association Football gets its name.
 
Tell the incontinent old man that Jazz is American.
 
Brian Fellows said:
Soccer is good for some comedy value every now and then. Nothing funnier than seeing supposed world class athletes cry like babies from the slightest contact.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnPGV9f0F8A


Though I do find the whole complaining about American football being called "football" obnoxious when it's obvious that it's the shape of the ball that's being referred to and "soccer" as a word originated in England and Australia. I mean, yeah yeah, handegg and all that, but as an American who prefers "soccer" I still find the complaints over words stupid.
 
iapetus said:
Well, it's true isn't it? It's a rush of testosterone to the brain as you hear your local version of football criticised, or some dirty foreign version praised.

The 'handegg' whiners strangely often come from countries where 'rugby football' (to give it its full name) is played.
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It's got nothing to do with that, it's a simple matter of right and wrong - i'm a fan of both sports and calling the American game 'football' is simply wrong, for the reasons already pointed out ad nauseum; in American Football you don't use your goddamn foot in conjunction with the ball the majority of the time, and while in Football (soccer) you can use your head, knee or chest to control the ball, the majority of the time the ball is at a players feet. If you guys had just called it 'American Rugby' (because, really, that's what it is) we'd never have this silly arguement.

*edit, and here comes the manly man's man Americans with their time-honed "soccer players fake injuries and cry like babies!" schtick.
 
Bootaaay said:
It's got nothing to do with that, it's a simple matter of right and wrong - i'm a fan of both sports and calling the American game 'football' is simply wrong, for the reasons already pointed out ad nauseum; in American Football you don't use your goddamn foot in conjunction with the ball the majority of the time, and while in Football (soccer) you can use your head, knee or chest to control the ball, the majority of the time the ball is at a players feet. If you guys had just called it 'American Rugby' (because, really, that's what it is) we'd never have this silly arguement.

*edit, and here comes the manly man's man Americans with their time-honed "soccer players fake injuries and cry like babies!" schtick.
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Rugby is also called football...
 
how can anyone possibly get hurt kicking around a ball. what a bunch of weaklings


edit:500'd when i posted this. must've pissed someone off
 
iapetus said:
Unless you're Adrian Peterson.



Not strictly true. The first codified form of rules for Association Football (1863) predates the first of Rugby Football (1870). Although Association Football comes from a history of games that permit carrying the ball, it was never permitted by the laws set down by the Football Association from which Association Football gets its name.
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If we're deciding who gets to use the term football, Australian Rules Football is the older than them all, being codified in 1859.

So please only use the term football to refer to Australian Rules Football in the future please.

And continue arguing whether soccer is better than American football whilst Aussie rules craps on them both from a great height.

:D
 
Atrophis said:
Rugby is also called football...
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It's official name might be Rugby Football but I doubt there are many people who call it football. Just like there aren't any people who call football soccer outside of the US
 
Bootaaay said:
It's got nothing to do with that, it's a simple matter of right and wrong - i'm a fan of both sports and calling the American game 'football' is simply wrong, for the reasons already pointed out ad nauseum; in American Football you don't use your goddamn foot in conjunction with the ball the majority of the time, and while in Football (soccer) you can use your head, knee or chest to control the ball, the majority of the time the ball is at a players feet. If you guys had just called it 'American Rugby' (because, really, that's what it is) we'd never have this silly arguement.
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Why is the full name for rugby 'Rugby Football'?

Exactly. Because you're wrong.
 
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