Random Rants XLII: The Four-Part Plan

[Joecoolyo]

Depends on if it should bother you...

I dunno, I got a 98 on my first midterm, so I guess it balances out to an A.

Maybe its just that I felt it was an easy exam, and a for sure A, that an 86 is bugging me.

Even though an 86 is just fine and dandy grade wise.

 

[Takhisis]

Went to a football match, ended in a riot, wooo!

Oh but this wasn't a soccer match.

...does not compute...

Easy. Soccer is a game played in America, not a matter of life and death. Football is a game too, and it's not a matter of life and death either. It's MUCH more important than that.

 

[The_J]

I dunno, I got a 98 on my first midterm, so I guess it balances out to an A.

Maybe its just that I felt it was an easy exam, and a for sure A, that an 86 is bugging me.

Even though an 86 is just fine and dandy grade wise.

Oh, that sounds totally fine for me.

Easy. Soccer is a game played in America, not a matter of life and death. Football is a game too, and it's not a matter of life and death either. It's MUCH more important than that.

Always these imperialist wordings .
And I thought it would be the other way round .

 

[_random_]

The difference explained:

 

[Tee Kay]

Nope.


Link to video.

 

[Takhisis]

Always these imperialist wordings .
And I thought it would be the other way round .

Yes, the Imperialist Schweindhund Amerikaners use a 'wording' from the imperialist intellectual centre of Oxbridge while civilised nations use 'football' or a similar name (voetball, fußball, jalkapallo, fótbolti, jalgpal, etc.). Proletarian nonimperialist naems FTW!

The difference explained:
<nonsense pic snipped>

Please, man, don't post while drunk.

 

[JohannaK]

Nope.


Link to video.

Hahaha.

Indeed, Cleese is brilliant and, of course, completely right. This is the thing I've been wondering for long: why call football a sport where the foot is nearly never involved?

 

[Borachio]

"Saying one thing and meaning something completely different."

Hmmmm.

Hate to say it, but that's how language does work a very great deal of the time.

Egregious outstandingly bad (originally outstanding)
Wicked pretty good (originally rather bad)
Awful pretty bad (originally full of awe)
Awesome mediocre (originally pretty good)

stuff

(Let the ranting begin. I'll fetch my hat.)

 

[salty mud]

Awesome means mediocre? What strange dialect do you speak?

 

[Borachio]

I knew it!

Awesome has become so very over-used, surely it must mean less than awesome? By now.

 

[sophie]

Hahaha.

Indeed, Cleese is brilliant and, of course, completely right. This is the thing I've been wondering for long: why call football a sport where the foot is nearly never involved?

Yeah, completely misses the point of the game. Anybody who says that players other than the quarterback do not do any thinking obviously does not understand the intricacies of the game. See: defensive formations

Also the sport is called football because it developed in university-wide rivalry-style games of soccer. While in theory these games were soccer games, in reality they were very large scrums where hordes of students on each side would beat, kick, punch, push, and carry out whatever was deemed necessary to port the ball to the other end of the field. Eventually these games became standardized through the creation of rules and regulations until eventually football became the sport you see today.

Although there are mentions of Native Americans playing ball games, modern American football has its origins in traditional ball games played at villages and schools in Europe for many centuries before America was settled by Europeans. There are reports of early settlers at Jamestown, Virginia playing games with inflated balls in the early 17th century.[5]
Early games appear to have had much in common with the traditional "mob football" played in England, especially on Shrove Tuesday. The games remained largely unorganized until the 19th century, when intramural games of football began to be played on college campuses. Each school played its own variety of football. Princeton students played a game called "ballown" as early as 1820. A Harvard tradition known as "Bloody Monday" began in 1827, which consisted of a mass ballgame between the freshman and sophomore classes. Dartmouth played its own version called "Old division football", the rules of which were first published in 1871, though the game dates to at least the 1830s. All of these games, and others, shared certain commonalities. They remained largely "mob" style games, with huge numbers of players attempting to advance the ball into a goal area, often by any means necessary. Rules were simple, violence and injury were common.[6][7] The violence of these mob-style games led to widespread protests and a decision to abandon them. Yale, under pressure from the city of New Haven, banned the play of all forms of football in 1860, while Harvard followed suit in 1861.[6]

The name is a reminder of the history that the sport has, and as a giant eff you to the rest of the world because, frankly, we took your tired, boring old sport and made it a lot better.

 

[JohannaK]

Since when is "more violent" synonymous to "better"?

 

[azzaman333]

Yeah, completely misses the point of the game. Anybody who says that players other than the quarterback do not do any thinking obviously does not understand the intricacies of the game. See: defensive formations

Also the sport is called football because it developed in university-wide rivalry-style games of soccer. While in theory these games were soccer games, in reality they were very large scrums where hordes of students on each side would beat, kick, punch, push, and carry out whatever was deemed necessary to port the ball to the other end of the field. Eventually these games became standardized through the creation of rules and regulations until eventually football became the sport you see today.



The name is a reminder of the history that the sport has, and as a giant eff you to the rest of the world because, frankly, we took your tired, boring old sport and made it a lot better.

When stuff is actually happening in Grid Iron, it's an interesting sport. Unfortunately, 80% of the match duration has no gameplay happening, and hence inferior to a more continuous game like soccer or Aussie Rules.

 

[Camikaze]

Yeah, I watched the last two minutes of a game recently to see what it was like, and it was a pretty entertaining half hour.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

When stuff is actually happening in Grid Iron, it's an interesting sport. Unfortunately, 80% of the match duration has no gameplay happening, and hence inferior to a more continuous game like soccer or Aussie Rules.

Yeah, I watched the last two minutes of a game recently to see what it was like, and it was a pretty entertaining half hour.

As an Australian, I in no way endorse these posts and declare American football most awesome.

I'd also point out that simply noting the existence of it's stop/start nature is not evidence itself of it sucking.

 

[azzaman333]

As an Australian, I in no way endorse these posts and declare American football most awesome.

I'd also point out that simply noting the existence of it's stop/start nature is not evidence itself of it sucking.

I never said it sucks, it's just not as good as other sports that get called football.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

I never said it sucks, it's just not as good as other sports that get called football.

Conceded.

 

[cybrxkhan]

I've never understood the point of football, but, well, whatever.


In other news, I didn't realize it was daylight savings, so I got a rude awakening today.

 

[Borachio]

You mean you got up an hour too early. Or are you in the southern hemisphere?

 

[Takhisis]

Hahaha.

Indeed, Cleese is brilliant and, of course, completely right. This is the thing I've been wondering for long: why call football a sport where the foot is nearly never involved?

We-ell&#8230; it originally meant any game played on foot with a ball, as opposed to games played on horseback (ancestors of polo and related sports), or games on foot played without a ball. But it's always good for a thread's spirits to have some John Cleese and banter.

You mean you got up an hour too early. Or are you in the southern hemisphere?

Eurgh! Summer time.