Turkish Soccer Fans Unfurl World's Biggest Trollface

[ivc392]

and rugby with sissy armour is called American rugby.

Who needs a full body armor to play sports anyway? Are the afraid of getting hurt?

 

[Hal10k]

and rugby with sissy armour is called American rugby.

Who needs a full body armor to play sports anyway? Are the afraid of getting hurt?

They used to play it without padding. People literally died.

You know, I've always wondered where the hell we got the word "soccer" from. I mean, calling it "football" makes perfect sense, and I get that we people who are better at sports had to it call something different so as to avoid confusion with our vastly superior athletic pasttime, but where the hell did we get "soccer"?

The original "soc" comes from a shortened form of "Assoc.", the common abbreviation for "Football Association".

 

[JokerboyJordan]

and rugby with sissy armour is called American rugby.

Who needs a full body armor to play sports anyway? Are the afraid of getting hurt?

Whilst I agree that Rugby is superior to "Football", they do manage to get hurt a lot, even with all the padding, in fact there was apparently money paid by coaches to players, for players to specifically injure their opponents :-/

 

[burningdragoon]

I see what you did there, Mr. Chalk.

 

[ivc392]

we people who are better at sports had to it call something different so as to avoid confusion with our vastly superior athletic pastime, but where the hell did we get "soccer"?

"vastly superior athletic pastime"?

Go play Australian Rugby..

everyone plays football
tough ones play rugby
crazed angry drunks play ozzie rugby

 

[ivc392]

I love how a news article about Turkish football fans unfolding whats probably one of the most awesome flags in the history of the sport turns into a forum discussion about semantics and metalanguage.

 

[Andy Chalk]

SRS BSNS

 

[Andy Chalk]

And yes, this is probably one of the few threads on this entire site where you can get away with a post like that, so enjoy it.

 

[Xan Krieger]

And yes, this is probably one of the few threads on this entire site where you can get away with a post like that, so enjoy it.

or perhaps you should get a warning for a low content post.

Enough with the football/soccer fight, we americans will watch our football and the rest of the world can have it's soccer. Let's just try to stay on the topic of how awesome this troll face is (also I can see why flares would be a safety hazard but based on the soccer riots I've seen safety is not a concern)

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Excuse me, but us Europeans call Football Football. You Americans insinst on calling Handegg Football and Football Soccer, which is absolutely bananas.

Edit: This is Serious Business, which means I will enjoy joking about it.

You know, I've always wondered where the hell we got the word "soccer" from. I mean, calling it "football" makes perfect sense, and I get that we people who are better at sports had to it call something different so as to avoid confusion with our vastly superior athletic pasttime, but where the hell did we get "soccer"?

soccer is actually a slang term developed by english/british who had come to america, and at the time it wasn't a big deal, but the thing is the people who used the term grew up to be the foundation for american soccer/football, so that's where the term began to really stick...that and american's being stubborn and not using the same terms as the english do.

so the sweet irony of it is, it was an english term, that the american's used to be different from the english.

(i don't have the direct sources for this, but it was confirmed through multiple places back when i read about it.)

 

[Nenad]

So. much. win. at all the football/soccer posts.

Oh, and nice trollface.

 

[Ed.]

Football rugby and handegg are all totaly inferior to hurling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmzivRetelE

 

[Marik2]

Excuse me, but us Europeans call Football Football. You Americans insinst on calling Handegg Football and Football Soccer, which is absolutely bananas.

Edit: This is Serious Business, which means I will enjoy joking about it.

You know, I've always wondered where the hell we got the word "soccer" from. I mean, calling it "football" makes perfect sense, and I get that we people who are better at sports had to it call something different so as to avoid confusion with our vastly superior athletic pasttime, but where the hell did we get "soccer"?

The term "Soccer" actually comes from England

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/06/the-origin-of-the-word-soccer/

So I don't know why the hell people get all angry about it when Americans are saying it correctly.

*raises flameshield*

 

[J Tyran]

[they call soccer "football" in Europe] to ban flares from all domestic games.

Its the other way around, you call American hand egg "football".

 

[Imp_Emissary]

SRS BSNS

......What?

Please forgive my lack of information. I have been "in" the internet for a good few years now, but I have tried to "avoid" learning/using internet "language" other then what is most needed/ unavoidable.

So, what does......that/those (words?) mean?

 

[CrazyDave DC]

Was it really necessary to explain to us what soccer is called in Europe? Felt a little patronizing.

 

[MrTub]

SRS BSNS

......What?

Please forgive my lack of information. I have been "in" the internet for a good few years now, but I have tried to "avoid" learning/using internet "language" other then what is most needed/ unavoidable.

So, what does......that/those (words?) mean?

It means Serious business

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-internet-is-serious-business

 

[ipop@you]

Pssh. Real men play Rugby.

But we can all agree that they are all girly games, real men play rugby..... and hopscotch....

Terribly sorry gents but you're both wrong (except on hopscotch)
Now THAT is a manly sport.