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05-13-2007, 11:08 PM
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God Complex
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Yeah, but, every spot has adaptations, it's not like the UK are suddenly going to invent a winter sport involving lots of snow.
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05-13-2007, 11:10 PM
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No, but we also didn't invent a sport called English Skiing which doesn't involve snow, skis or anything else to do with skiing but, instead, involves rollerblading down a hill. 
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05-13-2007, 11:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Griever
No, but we also didn't invent a sport called English Skiing which doesn't involve snow, skis or anything else to do with skiing but, instead, involves rollerblading down a hill. |
True, but I suppose we could, it's all adaptations.
You.
Skateboard.
Do you have problems with snowboarding then?
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05-13-2007, 11:14 PM
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Not really; it has a different name and it is a completely different sport where the principles are completely different.
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05-13-2007, 11:16 PM
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That's an opinion, people could see baseball and the variations like that.
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05-13-2007, 11:22 PM
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But not American Football; which is what this whole thing is really about.
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05-13-2007, 11:24 PM
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05-13-2007, 11:25 PM
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Moving swifty on topic.
This guy is insane...
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But, I actually agreed on the american thing, I have no idea why I was giving the other side.
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05-14-2007, 12:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Griever
Exactly...
If the rules weren't different then they wouldn't be different sports...
The whole point is that America sucks at other sports and so invented three of it's own. The three most popular sports in America are barely played (on a large scale) elsewhere in the world (except Baseball which is massive in Japan) which is completely different to Football which is massive in most large countries APART from the US and Canada.
Football is the dominant sport in far more countries and it is definately the most dominant format when it comes to the World Cup.
(Asides, perhaps, the Olympics, but that's not one single sport now is it?)
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We didn't invent sports because we weren't good at other ones. Ours sports just gained steam and now are extremely popular in this country.
Why do you have to hate on our sports? No one was talking bad about you or your country.
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05-14-2007, 01:08 AM
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american football is so much better than Footy.
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05-14-2007, 04:54 AM
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Don't get me wrong, I do like soccer. I love the passion foreign countries have for it. The difference between us North Americans and the rest of the soccer playing world is that for the most part, North Americans haven't been born and raised to like soccer.
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05-14-2007, 09:09 AM
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I don't care that American Football is popular - you just have to realise that it IS NOT Football and it never will be outside of America.
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05-14-2007, 12:31 PM
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05-14-2007, 12:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Griever
I don't care that American Football is popular - you just have to realise that it IS NOT Football and it never will be outside of America.
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In this country it's football. In this country your football is soccer. SO WHAT. Different countries have different names for things.
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05-14-2007, 01:39 PM
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Someone was moaning about how Soccer was the correct name to use on an international forum - in actual fact it's not since it is only called Soccer in a handful of countries. That is the "so what" in this whole thing.
Besides; I hate the way American's take things from other countries and try to label them as their own. For example, American English, American Football...
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05-14-2007, 01:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Griever
Someone was moaning about how Soccer was the correct name to use on an international forum - in actual fact it's not since it is only called Soccer in a handful of countries. That is the "so what" in this whole thing.
Besides; I hate the way American's take things from other countries and try to label them as their own. For example, American English, American Football...
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That happens all over the world. There is not point going crazy about it. We say soccer. It's natural for us to say that.
BTW about American English. We are a country that used to be a British colony. Our language morphed itself into what it is today. So technically it is a totally different language.
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05-14-2007, 01:53 PM
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It's not a different language at all.
French is a different language, Spanish is a different language, Japanese is a different language...
American English is more like a dialect than it is a seperate language and the constant attempts by software companies and the ACS to force it down everyone's throats are ****ing annoying tbh.
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05-14-2007, 01:57 PM
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