Football For Drama Queens

[diglett]

I used to hate football. Ball goes up the pitch, I thought, ball goes down the pitch. Sweaty men kick ball. Supporters punch in each in face. Big deal. Why do people get so excited? Then I started doing the first aid at Leyton Orient, and I realised I was seeing it all the wrong way. Forget all this stuff with the ball. The ball is a red

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[annayork]

LMAO! It's still less barbaric than American "football"... in that game, the whole object is to mow down the fellow who has the ball.... and the team that does that the most to the opposing team usually wins. They have to get it to their end of the field before being knocked down four times. After the fourth time, the other team gets to try. Such a stupid game and I can't even watch it live, which is sad because I could watch ANY sport live and enjoy it.

I still have NO idea why it's called "football" when they rarely use their *feet* on the *ball*. In fact, football is so wonderful here, and their players are such GODS that they get to go to the best colleges for free irregardless of how stupid they are. *Grumbles*

[bleepyfruhstuck]

...or "touchdown" when in fact they don't have to.
Similar in fact to the popular (ie: they do it a lot) "friendly fire" I guess.

[annayork]

I still can't figure out why they call it "football" much less why they call their score a "touch down", yet on the rare occasion a ball is kicked into the goalpost thingies, THAT is called a field goal. It's like "Let's do things as assbackward as we can" I suppose?? :-P

[diglett]

I thought the object of American football was to have the biggest shoulder pads!

[annayork]

Nah... it's not the size, it's how you use 'em ;-)

I rarely watch it because when I do, I just see a bunch of dumb jocks knocking eachother down in pursuit of a silly little ball that doesn't even LOOK like a ball.

[reddragdiva]

'Strayian Rules football doesn't have shoulder pads. In that game, the objective is to get onto a football show on the telly on Saturday evening, looking like a sack of walnuts in an expensive bad suit, and form a complete sentence in a way that makes you sound like a normal matey Aussie bloke. Don't be smarter than the host or you lose.