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Topic: A Football is...
Posted By: Dean
Subject: A Football is...
Date Posted: April 02 2011 at 18:51
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...and the clown who says "football shaped" gets to captain the team made up of kids who didn't get to college on a sports scolarship.. ------------- What? |
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Posted By: Evolutionary Sleeper
Date Posted: April 02 2011 at 18:56
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The latter of course. Also, soccer. ------------- 
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Posted By: Luna
Date Posted: April 02 2011 at 22:00
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You mean a handegg?
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Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: April 02 2011 at 22:45
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I never liked American Football all that much, and saying Football and meaning soccer makes me sound European  So choice 1. ------------- http://ow.ly/8ymqg" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: April 02 2011 at 23:48
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Handegg all the way And don't hate on it...not our fault the US has evolved enough to use our hands... instead of just kicking something around. Like savages.  |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: April 03 2011 at 01:00
 This is a football............
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JJLehto wrote:Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: April 03 2011 at 01:22
Damn straight it is. Although apparently this year a football is going to look more like this:  I almost can't believe they won't be able to find a way to split nine billion damn dollars... |
Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: April 03 2011 at 01:28
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The rest of us (the rest of the world) unfortunately disagree with you Americans. A football is a sphere. Football is a sport where you kick the ball around with your feet, hence the name. Football is also the most popular sport on the planet, and unites people and peoples from all over the world in a way that no other sport or any other thing for that matter is able to do. |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: April 03 2011 at 01:33
I was unaware that the rest of the world calls (soccer) football. Thanks for clearing that one up  And that's also why football riots are the most extreme. You guys only have one sport. Our insane fans our spread throughout multiple sports. Keeping the madness much less condensed. |
Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: April 03 2011 at 01:38
Although in my home country Finland ice hockey is the most popular sport (Canada I believe is the only other country where this is the case).  And overall we're (not myself though!) much more of a winter sport nation, but I guess the climate does that. Riots and hooliganism are indeed the downside. These people take sport way too seriously  |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: April 03 2011 at 01:43
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The only handegg riots that break out are at college games, and pent up student rage + excessive alcohol consumption is mainly the culprit there. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: April 03 2011 at 03:06
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 03 2011 at 03:27
And this is a rugby ball...so what?  You see when we use our hands we change the name. Something americans couldn't seem to cope with. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: April 03 2011 at 03:35
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Yeah but when has rugby been considered a sport? I mean really now.... And in seriousness I have no problem with football at all. I just prefer handegg. Football is actually really fun to play but I can't watch it, no idea why. Guess its not exciting, but playing it can be intense. Its also funny to joke but I know its not a "wimp" sport for sissy Europeans you get messed up playing that game! |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 03 2011 at 03:38
 QED ------------- What? |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 03 2011 at 03:53
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^Well that settles that. I never knew Dean. Thank You!
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: April 03 2011 at 05:19
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I think I'd actually watch a game of either if they'd swap balls.
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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: April 03 2011 at 05:45
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: April 03 2011 at 05:50
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The name soccer originates from a corruption of the expression Association Football
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: April 03 2011 at 13:24
| A football is a sphere; the latter is a handegg |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: April 03 2011 at 14:37
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It's a sphere. But I still hate soccer. And American football. And rugby. And furball. But I can deal with handball. |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: April 03 2011 at 15:37
Football shaped. 
Choice 2?
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Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: April 04 2011 at 09:41
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Sphere. American "football" should be called violent handball. You don't see any big fat slobs playing real football ( sometimes called soccer ). You have to be in bloody shape and be fast. The prolate spheriod in American football spends more time "dead" than in play. It's a bit of a wimpy sport as well. All the equipment, tape and cam stick. Soldiers going to war don't wear that much protection. Sphere, that's my final answer Regis. ------------- |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: April 04 2011 at 09:52
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Sphere? A soccer ball is a spherical truncated icosahedron.  ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: April 04 2011 at 10:54
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I think because you can use your hands in American football, soccer should gets the rights to use the name. Furball is what the cat yaks up or alternately a curled up cat.
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Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: April 04 2011 at 13:06
That wasn't one of the choices. What would the Goodyear Blimp be? ------------- |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 04 2011 at 13:08
Pah! that's the new-fangled modern one - a real football isn't.
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Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: April 04 2011 at 14:13
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Both are correct, I suppose, though being one of those people who believe that watching sports shouldn't be like watching paint dry I picked prolate spheroid.
I'm with Daniel Tosh on this one:
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"Nothing can help me care about soccer. Oh, ‘it’s the most popular sport in the world.’ Probably because it’s cheap to play. It costs a ball. Once every four years, America pretends to care about it. And yes, I call it ‘soccer.’ Don’t correct me because I don’t care what they call it in other lands — I speak America. Sorry world, we already have football and it’s way better. It’s supposed to be played by 300 pound men eight seconds at a time, not five-foot, six-inch fairies lightly jogging for three hours, or however long your game is…buy a scoreboard! It’s hard for me to get into a sport that I mastered at the age of seven. Excuse me for not being able to get revved up for this corner kick that never works. Hooray! The game ends without a single goal. I want to kill myself when an NBA team doesn’t break a hundred. That’s because you don’t get a free taco. Maybe there would be more scoring if they weren’t flopping all of the time. And hooligans, instead of killing players that screwed up, murder the ones that fall down crying because their toe got stepped on. The only good thing about soccer is the movie “Ladybugs.” That’s a classic. Don’t try to re-do it, Hollywood. I love women’s soccer. It’s a beautiful game, and America is actually good at it. Probably because we’re the only country that allows women to wear shorts. It’s nice to have an activity that terrorist countries can excel at. Enjoy your 15 minutes, Algeria. Then go back to being number one at car bombs. But just know that the only reason you’re beating us is because our best athletes are busy playing real sports. You think LeBron James might make an okay goalie? Oh, and good move, giving us Beckham ten years past his prime. That really panned out."
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Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: April 04 2011 at 14:21
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Handegg is indeed better for the average American's 10-second attention span.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: April 04 2011 at 14:51
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Thin at one end, much much thicker in the middle, then thin again at the far end. Oh wait, that's my theory about the brontosaurus.
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: April 04 2011 at 14:56
I'm glad you said brontosaurus. I was about to tell you that you needed to get your doctor to look at that thing! ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: April 04 2011 at 15:27
| ...is a football is a football is a football. |
Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: April 04 2011 at 15:55
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When describing something as "football shaped", I think of the second option. There are more spherical comparisons to make other than having to say "football shape". In fact, just saying "ball-shaped" would often suffice. And while we're all showing different footballs, here's the Canadian football:  ------------- A fun place to review and discuss metal: http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/" rel="nofollow - MetalMusicArchives |
Posted By: Any Colour You Like
Date Posted: April 04 2011 at 16:00
| Cricket. |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: April 04 2011 at 16:34
 Not quite a foot but you get the idea. -------------   
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Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: April 05 2011 at 09:09
A league with 8 teams is not a league. ------------- |
Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: April 05 2011 at 11:26
I have it on good authority that all the world is football-shaped. ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: April 05 2011 at 19:45
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Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: April 06 2011 at 13:25
Heh heh heh heh heh |
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: April 09 2011 at 05:59
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... a sphere! (this thread makes my day...) |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: April 14 2011 at 16:57
| It is called FOOT-ball for some reason |
Posted By: fuyuakiworld
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 01:31
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what's a football?
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Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 13:52
| a football is when abounch of people get together and watch TV and yell at it. |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: April 17 2012 at 18:27
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