Turkish Soccer Fans Unfurl World's Biggest Trollface

[Azmael Silverlance]

U can see the 2 large groups of people in Orange uniforms who i bet were there for safety.
It was well organised for sure but it wasnt a Troll event per say. They must`ve asked.

At the begining i saw the yellow security guards at the bottom left and laughed because i realised they couldnt do anything. 5/6 guys against a thousand fans maybe? But after they removed the sheet i saw the orange guys during the zoom in and it was clearly co-ordinated with authorities from the stadium. Unless fans who happened to be firefighters joined in or something.

Even the football teams kind of stopped playing for a bit and were wondering if they should keep going or not. Pretty EPIC yes Id like to see something like this during a Champion`s League Match xD

 

[The .50 Caliber Cow]

Spoiler: Turkish Football Fans

 

[Canadamus Prime]

So we're celebrating stupidity now are we? I would've laughed extremely hard if they'd all gotten severe burns from that stunt.

 

[Sougo]

Hmm... having read this article and its following discussion in this thread, I guess that only actual tad of information that I can take away from this is the confirmation that Turkey is indeed connected to the internet (and accounts for at least some of the trolls you run into online).

also..
football - the game watched and loved my millions that involves kicking ball into goal (for the intellectually challenged who fail to understand this the ball is also called a 'football.' Unfortunately America didn't understand this - they picked up an egg and called it a football).

American football = rugby + loads of safety equipment + beer

soccer = figment of American imagination.

I'm not exactly certain of this but some time ago I read that American football came into being when some chaps were playing 'actual football,' when some douche picked up the ball and started running with it. The rest of players, obviously infuriated gave chase. At some point, I'm assuming alcohol may also have been involved.

 

[Trucken]

... had to it call something different so as to avoid confusion with our vastly superior athletic pasttime..

As a european, I have to agree with football being better than soccer. I'll watch when Sweden plays in a qualifier or championship, but other than that I'll just ignore soccer. The fact that I also play football has absolutely nothing to do with it, not at all.

... Go Truckers!

Ahem.
OT: That's hysterical. They banned roadflares here in Sweden a few years ago, but there was never a response as awesome as this. The fans just complained and kept bringing the flares to the games.

 

[Dogstile]

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?

Funnily enough, when you're wearing pads you feel like you can hit people harder because the force of your hit doesn't bounce back on you so hard, so you end up getting amazing hits. I say this as a fan of rugby over american football.

Oh, I suppose people died too...

 

[Immsys]

[they call soccer "football" in Europe]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Football_Association
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Football_Confederation

Its not a "Europe" thing.

 

[soren7550]

see, it used to be called association football, but then it was abbreviated to assoc. which then somehow translated to soccer

which is fortunate that it did not translate to assball

More like unfortunate. Can you imagine how popular soccer would be in the States if it was called Assball?

 

[Weaver]

I remember when it was called coolface.

 

[Krion_Vark]

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"?

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.

Well according to a couple of the Facebook posts. Soccer was origianally called Soccer by the Brittish and it started getting called it over here before they changed it to football, also still according to the Facebook posts its known as soccer in America, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and Ireland.

Since its a facebook post I don't know how valid it is. Just thought I would throw that out there though.

 

[Zenode]

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"?

What's this Susan Arendt is flamebaiting BAN HER FROM THE FORUMS I SAY

FYI: Americans are only superior in sports that Only Americans play

Problem?

 

[Evil Smurf]

in Australia we call soccer soccer because our football is aussie rules

 

[Vern]

Well shit, if I ever go to a football match in Europe remind me to bring my .50 caliber flare gun. Nothing says "Hey, let's watch a bunch of guys play with a ball" than firing off an incendiary device used for emergencies. I'm amazed that people can be this stupid. Using road flares at a sporting event, seriously? Maybe they should give out shotguns at the entrance and let the stupid control itself.

 

[Dresos]

Haha you hold that egg with your hands and you still call your sport football? Nice XD

 

[Susan Arendt]

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"?

What's this Susan Arendt is flamebaiting BAN HER FROM THE FORUMS I SAY

FYI: Americans are only superior in sports that Only Americans play

Problem?

Not really true. Sure, we'll destroy anyone in football, but Japanese teams regularly crush us in baseball.

 

[schizow]

love how 2 rows of orange safety personal were under the half flaming sheet, way to controle the crowd there guys!

 

[TriGGeR_HaPPy]

News is pretty interesting.

Moreso, I'd like to say "well played" to the staff for this one. The thread itself has turned out to be more interesting and fun to read than many others in recent times.

 

[Zenode]

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"?

What's this Susan Arendt is flamebaiting BAN HER FROM THE FORUMS I SAY

FYI: Americans are only superior in sports that Only Americans play

Problem?

Not really true. Sure, we'll destroy anyone in football, but Japanese teams regularly crush us in baseball.

Really, I didn't think the Japanese were very fond of baseball? From my own personal experience the US of A is good at 1. Basketball, 2. Baseball 3. American Football and Swimming (for some reason) and they dont tend to excel at "world" sports, i.e. Football (soccer), Rugby and cricket

 

[bobmus]

Pssh, look at this nonsense. Everyone knows Hockey is the sport of real men. It's a sport so manly it makes it's fans grow giant beards. Soccer and Football just make them yell about like sissies and apply paints to their body in a pretense of putting on their war attire.

As a hockey player, I must point out that you've confused Ice Hockey and Hockey - another mistake largely restricted to Northern America (and places that haven't played either types ever). Unless of course you've noticed a trend amongst followers of hockey to grow beards, which I can't say I've ever spotted...

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Pssh, look at this nonsense. Everyone knows Hockey is the sport of real men. It's a sport so manly it makes it's fans grow giant beards. Soccer and Football just make them yell about like sissies and apply paints to their body in a pretense of putting on their war attire.

As a hockey player, I must point out that you've confused Ice Hockey and Hockey - another mistake largely restricted to Northern America (and places that haven't played either types ever). Unless of course you've noticed a trend amongst followers of hockey to grow beards, which I can't say I've ever spotted...

I'm confused. A quick googling tells me that the two are synonymous. What's the difference between Ice Hockey and Hockey? How can hockey even be played without Ice? And to your question, a ton of the guys I know grow beards come playoffs. Even some of the girls join in, with varying sized fake beards.

Unless you're talking about lacrosse? In which case...I'd have to guffaw that you think that's the real Hockey.