What shall we call their game?

[lord_dude]

Due to the bad excuse of the people that call american football, football ( http://forums.vb-world.net/showthrea...threadid=68635 ) i hate decided to start a poll so that we can find a new suitable name for their game. I have some suggestion in the poll but any other ideas can be posted.

[SurfDemon]

Cheerleader watching?

[chrisjk]

How about "Dull", just plain and simple Dull.

[lord_dude]

rofl, dull sounds quite good but i dont think they will go along with it. As for cheerleader watching, thats not bad, coz its the good thing about the game. I am surprised that idea has caught on that much over hear. The only place i have seen it in the premiership is upton park at half time.

[Beacon]

A game for the WEAK, FRAIL OR UNCORDINATED!
WHY?
Weak/Frail = Easy. In GRIDIRON you were protective clothing etc. Why?
Uncordinated = Because you couldn't quite get the hang of throwing the ball backwards!
SARCASIM PPL

Whats with that new version of the game though??

And for the POMS:
SOCCER SOCCER

By the way lord dude i don't want to have to bore you senseless on history or anything but basically the Aboriginies Invented FOOTBALL(wasn't called that it was called some aboriginal name) hundreds of years
ago. Probably around the time the neandethals(spelling) moved to Europe. haha.
Then the POMS came across saw the game and called it Football...

[lord_dude]

in football and rugby we wear some protective clothing, shin pads. Thats it coz we aint wimps. And the name football and the game football has been going in england for hundreds of years. The game has changed a bit over the centuries (it started off with much more players and on a bigger pitch) but it and the name origanated in england. And if you were the origanal owners of the name, then why football, when you pick the ball up with your hands and run along with it. Surely just by the name you can see it origanated from english football, the game that envolves feet.

[Beacon]

No I said YOU POMS called it Football.Why? Ask the convicts who called it Football.

Owners of the name never said we were but i did say that a game similar to aussie rules has been played for hundreds if not thousands of years by the native australians.
I also said that it was the only Football game without another name.

In AFL we were no protective gear. Shin pads pphhhht.

I agree with the Foot partr though.

[ricmitch_uk]

American Football = Excuse to make lots of crap, predictable films about usless people overcoming the odds and beating crap out of people by far their superior and everyone living happily ever after.

[ricmitch_uk]

Rugby. A maculine game? Oh no. Lots of men rolling around in the mud, then every time the ball goes off, sticking their heads up each others' arses and when the game is over all jumping stark bollock naked into the showers together. Hmm, yeah.... Masculine sport my arse.

[Paul Warren]

oh, listen to those bloody Aussies - all they do is argue You'd think they had something to feel inferior about

[Kzin]

Originally posted by Beacon
. . . i don't want to have to bore you senseless on history or anything but basically the Aboriginies Invented FOOTBALL(wasn't called that it was called some aboriginal name) hundreds of years
ago. Probably around the time the neandethals(spelling) moved to Europe. haha.
Then the POMS came across saw the game and called it Football... [/B]

Just to clarify are you one of these POM decended fellahs?

[Beacon]

Kzin:

Bloody well hope not!
As far as i know my family is aussie for generations b4 that i think we landed here in a UFO!

[barrk]

How about Steriod/Testosterone Ball?

[lord_dude]

I saw some autrailien football on tv earlier today and from what i saw, it was different from american football? Not that i know anything about american football, but for a start, they wweret padded up to the max. In US footballthey sem to have about half a ton of padding coz there scared of getting hurt. But anyway, this means b4 we can rightfully reclaim our name, we need to think of 2 new names (assuming they r different sports?). Any suggestions?

[chrisjk]

as rugby was named after the town it was invented, how about US/AUS football is named likewise...?

[lord_dude]

that might be hard with aus as it was invented hundreds of years ago (aparently) by the aboriganies

[Beacon]

Lord_dude:
I'll try and find the name for you!

American and Aus Football.
They are not similar in any way whatsoever.
Yes, in GridIron(american football) they r big *****'s(yes i will say that while they're more than 1000km's+ away from me) coz of the big padding.

Aussie Footie you don't wear any protection except your own skin! We play on a oval not a rectangle. We kick not throw it or we handball. We use a bigger oval shaped ball. Our game involves skill and ability.
Many many more.
Did You KNow:
1 of the greatest kickers in American Football is an Australian. Was selected after some Americans saw our game and how far we kick the ball!

1) American Football = ChuckBall
2) Aussie Rules = Football or The Great Game

You will also call Modra = Lord and Ablett = Satan
Good call barrk.

[Kzin]

Originally posted by chrisjk
as rugby was named after the town it was invented, how about US/AUS football is named likewise...?

Didn't it orginate in Rugby School which is about 450 years old

[chrisjk]

Originally posted by Kzin
Didn't it orginate in Rugby School which is about 450 years old

Which is in the town of Rugby.....