Congratulations Australia

Stapel · Dec 17, 2004

From now one, Football will officially be called Football in Australia (used to be soccer) :goodjob:

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I hereby congratulate the people of Australia!

Now, if the Yanks could please follow this example!

WickedSmurf · Dec 17, 2004

A great step indeed! Cheers Australia! :thumbsup:

Iggy · Dec 17, 2004

Highly commendable! Well done chaps. Although I must say the "footballroos" does not have quite the same ring to it.

Rik Meleet · Dec 17, 2004

What will Rugby league, Rugby Union, Aussie Rules , Touch Football be called from now on ? They all went by the designation "football".

IglooDame · Dec 17, 2004

Rik Meleet said:
What will Rugby league, Rugby Union, Aussie Rules , Touch Football be called from now on ? They all went by the designation "football".

Probably "Full-contact ballet".

Wolfe Tone · Dec 17, 2004

Boo! Down with this sort of thing.

classical_hero · Dec 17, 2004

I thought this was something serious. I do agree that is goos that we are calling it football, and not soccer. We now have the FFA (Football Federation of Australia), rather than the ASA (Australiain Soccer Accosiation). I think our national team should still be called the Socceroos because it does have a nice ring to it.

Stapel · Dec 17, 2004

classical_hero said:
I think our national team should still be called the Socceroos because it does have a nice ring to it.

Well, I will never be able not to associate the word soccer with Lesbians.....

dgfred · Dec 17, 2004

Stapel said:
Well, I will never be able not to associate the word soccer with Lesbians.....

Why is that? :confused:

classical_hero · Dec 17, 2004

Stapel said:
Well, I will never be able not to associate the word soccer with Lesbians.....

At first i did not get that until I read the Football or Soccer? thread in Sports talk.

Lord_Sidious · Dec 17, 2004

Hurray, Football will conquer the world :evil:

the next is Canada, and then is US!!!!

Cheetah · Dec 17, 2004

Woho! A game were you play a ball with your feet should be called football.

A game were you pick up the ball with your arms and runs should be called Armsball.

Stapel · Dec 17, 2004

dgfred said:
Why is that?

It has something to with football being a men's sport AND the American phenomenon of abusing the game as a girl's game.
:nono:

!

Sword_Of_Geddon · Dec 17, 2004

You Euros just can't handle the tough machoness of America......Soccer shall remain Soccer....hehe

You should know by now....nobody tells us Americans what to do but other Americans....

Wolfe Tone · Dec 17, 2004

Sword_Of_Geddon said:
You Euros just can't handle the tough machoness of America......Soccer shall remain Soccer....hehe

You should know by now....nobody tells us Americans what to do but other Americans....

American Football is just as wussy as soccer if not more so, look at all that padding. A real manly sport is Hurling, especially if yor the goalkeeper. Getting a very hard ball aimed at you at great speed with only a stick you protect you, good luck. Most of the goalkeepers don't even where helmets.

Iggy · Dec 17, 2004

Wolfe Tone said:
A real manly sport is Hurling, especially if yor the goalkeeper.

I have hurled :vomit:

a few times, but never tried it as a team sport before.

nonconformist · Dec 17, 2004

Huzzah for the Aussies!

kryszcztov · Dec 17, 2004

Sword_Of_Geddon said:
You should know by now....nobody tells us Americans what to do but other Americans....

I disagree, Sire ! :scan:

Congrats to Aussies, I like them a bit more now. :goodjob:

Another step towards the elimination of all the Commonwealth's obscurantism like the Imperial measurement system or many other things, I'm sure. Next for Aussies : the metric system or the Australian Republic, as you want.

One day the USA will be REALLY alone, and some don't find it freaky. :eek:

At that time the USA will be told what to do.

stormbind · Dec 17, 2004

Wolfe Tone said:
Boo! Down with this sort of thing.

Hypocrit

stormbind · Dec 17, 2004

kryszcztov said:
One day the USA will be REALLY alone, and some don't find it freaky. At that time the USA will be told what to do.

Aspects of the USA are trapped in the 1800s, with each passing year they look more and more outdated.

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