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On December 20 2011 11:01 Gann1 wrote:
top US athletes play basketball/football, top european athletes play soccer
there's the explanation of the discrepancy right there.
imagine a soccer team composed of 11 top NFL WRs or CBs, and imagine they played soccer all their life instead of football. team would be top-tier for sure.
The type of physique optimal for football, hand egg, and basketball are completely different. You don't need to be particularly tall or large to excel at football. Some positions in basketball don't require height, but height certainly helps. And hand egg... well, it's probably more interchangeable with sumo wrestling.
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On December 20 2011 11:14 Newbistic wrote:Show nested quote +On December 20 2011 11:01 Gann1 wrote:
top US athletes play basketball/football, top european athletes play soccer
there's the explanation of the discrepancy right there.
imagine a soccer team composed of 11 top NFL WRs or CBs, and imagine they played soccer all their life instead of football. team would be top-tier for sure. The type of physique optimal for football, hand egg, and basketball are completely different. You don't need to be particularly tall or large to excel at football. Some positions in basketball don't require height, but height certainly helps. And hand egg... well, it's probably more interchangeable with sumo wrestling.
You are thinking of linemen. There are many positions in american football and each has it's own physical optimum. The best Wide Receiver in the league would be a trash Tackle, and vice verse.
Edit: What Gann1 said is right, the physical attributes that make one a good wide receiver/corner back in football overlap almost entirely with the physical attributes that make one a good soccer player.
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Here's a couple of games that I think you should also change:
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LongStickSmallBall
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SlightlyBentLongerStickFrozenPuck
Also known as FistFace
![[image loading]](http://cdn.gunaxin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/hockey-fight-300x259.jpg)
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HandBall
![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Baseball_pick-off_attempt.jpg/220px-Baseball_pick-off_attempt.jpg)
HandBall
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HandBall
And finally
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FingerKeyboard
There really are a lot of sports that are named incorrectly now that you mention it. We should really do something about it. I really appreciate you taking the time to let us know that there are sports whose names are confusing, I never really heard about the whole football/soccer thing!
/sarcasm
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Whatever, if one nation in the world wants to call the most popular sport on earth the wrong name constantly and act like fools, let them.
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On December 20 2011 11:01 Gann1 wrote:
top US athletes play basketball/football, top european athletes play soccer
there's the explanation of the discrepancy right there.
imagine a soccer team composed of 11 top NFL WRs or CBs, and imagine they played soccer all their life instead of football. team would be top-tier for sure.
Don't hate on baseball. There's a lot of great athletes in the MLB also.
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Even as an American, I have often wondered why we call it football instead of handball. I actually prefer calling futball "soccer" because it pisses off my family in europe and asia. Trolling them is so much fun because they care so much and I could care less what either sport is called.
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On December 20 2011 11:01 Gann1 wrote:
top US athletes play basketball/football, top european athletes play soccer
there's the explanation of the discrepancy right there.
imagine a soccer team composed of 11 top NFL WRs or CBs, and imagine they played soccer all their life instead of football. team would be top-tier for sure.
Oh sweet ignorance. Truth is you will never be even decent at football cause it has not become and never will be a social phenomenon over there.
And btw great athletes/=great sportsmen. Guys like Babe Ruth would school all today guys like Lebron despite LbJ's physical dominance. Maradona was a gambler and a junkie and yet he was in the top.
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On December 20 2011 17:23 Steveling wrote:Show nested quote +On December 20 2011 11:01 Gann1 wrote:
top US athletes play basketball/football, top european athletes play soccer
there's the explanation of the discrepancy right there.
imagine a soccer team composed of 11 top NFL WRs or CBs, and imagine they played soccer all their life instead of football. team would be top-tier for sure. Oh sweet ignorance. Truth is you will never be even decent at football cause it has not become and never will be a social phenomenon over there. And btw great athletes/=great sportsmen. Guys like Babe Ruth would school all today guys like Lebron despite LbJ's physical dominance. Maradona was a gambler and a junkie and yet he was in the top.
Our high school "handegg" teams can beat the top teams from other countries. The descrepancy in soccer isn't even near as close, we're a top 16 world cup team ffs.
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On December 20 2011 17:23 Steveling wrote:Show nested quote +On December 20 2011 11:01 Gann1 wrote:
top US athletes play basketball/football, top european athletes play soccer
there's the explanation of the discrepancy right there.
imagine a soccer team composed of 11 top NFL WRs or CBs, and imagine they played soccer all their life instead of football. team would be top-tier for sure. Oh sweet ignorance. Truth is you will never be even decent at football cause it has not become and never will be a social phenomenon over there. And btw great athletes/=great sportsmen. Guys like Babe Ruth would school all today guys like Lebron despite LbJ's physical dominance. Maradona was a gambler and a junkie and yet he was in the top.
1. You proved his point
2. Wtf does that have to do with anything? LOL
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On December 20 2011 12:30 awwnuts07 wrote:
Even as an American, I have often wondered why we call it football instead of handball. I actually prefer calling futball "soccer" because it pisses off my family in europe and asia. Trolling them is so much fun because they care so much and I could care less what either sport is called.
If you actuallt wanted to know I could explain it for you. Football was at the time of the coneption of america mostly played in the schools of England. All these schools played under their own rules. The thing they had incommon was a ball needs to travel over a certain line to score points. Make up the rules as best you wish. Most of the schools used a mixture of what later would become rugby and football, some schools however noticed that they were much better at making the ball travel from feet to feet, while others were better at the pick up and run with it style. Hence they made it their style of play at their school making up the 2 distinct sports, both at these times named football.
So the English went to America and brought with them the sport of football, which we now call rugby and football. The rugby rules were the more popular ones and they developed them from there. The English however now noticed that it was pretty much 2 different sports that were being played and split them up into Rugby and Football.
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On December 20 2011 11:35 Gogleion wrote:HandBall And finally FingerKeyboard There really are a lot of sports that are named incorrectly now that you mention it. We should really do something about it. I really appreciate you taking the time to let us know that there are sports whose names are confusing, I never really heard about the whole football/soccer thing! /sarcasm 1/5
Judging by the look on his face I'm pretty sure that one should be called handball aswell.
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On December 20 2011 22:58 Hynda wrote:Show nested quote +On December 20 2011 12:30 awwnuts07 wrote:
Even as an American, I have often wondered why we call it football instead of handball. I actually prefer calling futball "soccer" because it pisses off my family in europe and asia. Trolling them is so much fun because they care so much and I could care less what either sport is called. If you actuallt wanted to know I could explain it for you. Football was at the time of the coneption of america mostly played in the schools of England. All these schools played under their own rules. The thing they had incommon was a ball needs to travel over a certain line to score points. Make up the rules as best you wish. Most of the schools used a mixture of what later would become rugby and football, some schools however noticed that they were much better at making the ball travel from feet to feet, while others were better at the pick up and run with it style. Hence they made it their style of play at their school making up the 2 distinct sports, both at these times named football. So the English went to America and brought with them the sport of football, which we now call rugby and football. The rugby rules were the more popular ones and they developed them from there. The English however now noticed that it was pretty much 2 different sports that were being played and split them up into Rugby and Football.
Thanks for the explanation. I'll actually use it one of these days to show my friends who love watching the NFL how little they know about their favorite sport's history.
Come to think of it, this thread has given me an awesome idea. I think I'll start trolling my friends by calling football...HANDEGG!!! My relatives in EU and Asia shouldn't be the only ones annoyed.
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Well since a soccer ball is technically a truncated icosahedron we should call it Foot-truncated-icosahedron game or F-Tig for short. Since footballs were initially made out of inflated pig bladders wrapped in leather we should call it Foot-Bladder-airfilled-and-laminated-in-leather, or football for short.
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