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Re: Football (soccer) quotes
« Reply #15 on: July 14, 2014, 12:40:56 pm »
I didn't even watch the final until the last 15 min, lol

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Re: Football (soccer) quotes
« Reply #16 on: July 14, 2014, 03:46:39 pm »
I just watched it when wandering in the streets of Quebec City. We could see TV screens from bar Terraces because all windows were wide-open. I don't think I even have a TV channel that broadcasted the world cup because I don't have cable/satellite

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Re: Football (soccer) quotes
« Reply #17 on: July 14, 2014, 04:18:22 pm »
internet streams :P

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Re: Football (soccer) quotes
« Reply #18 on: July 14, 2014, 04:53:03 pm »
I personally prefer ice hockey since it's faster-paced, has more goals and shots, although it's more dangerous. I also like baseball due to the strategy aspect of the game and the fact that a 12-1 game can end up 12-13 in the span of two innings (basically the final outcome of the game is not known right from the start like in soccer, where a 2-0 goal deficit is pretty much impossible to overcome).


In football's defense, though, the 90 minutes of nothing during a game is far worse in "Handegg", because each play lasts like three seconds. In hockey, time stops completely during game stoppages, so you're guaranteed to get 60 minutes (or more) of hockey plus a few minutes of fights. In baseball, games don't have much action but at least there's no time limit.
I was not saying Football was the worse, maybe Handegg is not better (never watched that, I don't even know how it's meant to be played except that there is no ball but an egg and you mostly don't play with your foot but your hand). I was just saying that there are things that are far more interesting, like ice hockey as you mention it.

Welp, football is corrupted by money, that's the main problem. :P
Good point... :P
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Yeah, I don't know why Football is seen as a man's sport, women are a lot better at faking (understand what you want here).
I think handegg is American football

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Re: Football (soccer) quotes
« Reply #19 on: July 15, 2014, 12:48:45 am »
I'm not one to judge football players in terms of sex or the fact it's a man sport or not, but yes they fake a lot compared to other sports. It seems to be an overused strategy to give the other team a red/yellow card. In ice hockey, you can get the hockey equivalent of a yellow card when you are caught diving (falling on purpose to make it look like the other player gave him an illegal hit) and very few pro teams are known to dive (Vancouver Canucks for instance). Even the Canadian and American soccer teams often fake. >.<

As for Handegg it's a word used by Europeans to describe American Football (and Canadian Football, which is slightly different than American Football) because they hate how Americans call association football "soccer". It's also used sometimes when talking about both sports with europeans to make it easier to make the difference. :P

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Re: Football (soccer) quotes
« Reply #20 on: July 15, 2014, 02:50:51 am »
I think handegg is American football
Well I know that, I am using this word to make the difference with Football, as DJ_O said. I can call it American Handegg if you want, but I don't see why there should be "Foot" or "Ball" in its name :P
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Re: Football (soccer) quotes
« Reply #21 on: July 15, 2014, 04:33:35 am »

As for Handegg it's a word used by Europeans to describe American Football (and Canadian Football, which is slightly different than American Football) because they hate how Americans call association football "soccer". It's also used sometimes when talking about both sports with europeans to make it easier to make the difference. :P
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Re: Football (soccer) quotes
« Reply #22 on: July 15, 2014, 12:51:47 pm »
I think handegg is American football
Well I know that, I am using this word to make the difference with Football, as DJ_O said. I can call it American Handegg if you want, but I don't see why there should be "Foot" or "Ball" in its name :P
I think it's because of the kickoff part of American/Canadian football where a player kicks the ball and attempt to score or something. Pretty much the rest of the play is with hands and running around, plus the ball isn't even round.

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Re: Football (soccer) quotes
« Reply #23 on: July 15, 2014, 01:14:47 pm »
and they try to kill each other! Sounds like fun!
I think football is more dangerous...

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Re: Football (soccer) quotes
« Reply #24 on: July 15, 2014, 05:37:57 pm »
True but at least with football you don't constantly run the risk of having your throat slit by someone's skate (if anyone remembers the Clint Malarchuk incident, I can't watch the incident myself so I move down the page or close the video.)

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Re: Football (soccer) quotes
« Reply #25 on: July 16, 2014, 01:17:10 am »
That happened? Well, there's a risk...

And now this becomes general sports discussion

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Re: Football (soccer) quotes
« Reply #26 on: July 18, 2014, 03:33:20 am »
Isn't American football called that way because the 'ball' is one foot long? I think I read that somewhere.
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Re: Football (soccer) quotes
« Reply #27 on: July 18, 2014, 04:10:46 am »
Erm, is a ball even supposed to be a sphere ? :P

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Re: Football (soccer) quotes
« Reply #28 on: July 18, 2014, 06:03:14 am »
From Wikipédia.
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In the context of sports, "ball" need not refer to a spherical object, as is the case in American football."

This means "all balls are supposed to be spherical objects, but since American foorball did not understand that, we are adding them as an exception in our definition."
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Re: Football (soccer) quotes
« Reply #29 on: July 18, 2014, 06:04:55 am »
Lol nice one. :P