Longest 2 yard run in NFL

yes, I put football in the tags. Yes, I'm aware Europeans confuse it with soccer. No, I really don't care what you have to say :p
Tofumarsays...

mkone:

I'll say in defense of legacy what I said in defense of my (now expired) video, which you downvoted because I put "football" in the tags:

It is football. It's just American football. We get to name our games whatever we want, just like you do. So get over yourself.

aaronfrsays...

in defense of calling it football (not american football):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_%28word%29

i've lived in england and france for a few years now and have tried to make the argument that "american" football should really just be called football. soccer, according to the fonding documents of FIFA, is actually association football. then there is rugby football, also so termed by rugby union's establishing documents. however, the NFL's charter only refers to their sport as football.

in conclusion:

soccer = association football
rugby = rugby football
"american" football = football

Lithicsays...

It's not football if you use your feet with the ball for a full 2 seconds every game, simple as that really.

I've never been a fan of "football", and I find "soccer" to be about as enjoyable to watch as paint dry, unless the paint happens to be a really cool colour. But to call whatever it was they did in that clip "football", that's just plain silly. Atleast in the european version they actually use thier feet on the ball.

I propose "Armoured Rugby", or "Top heavy men in tights".

Crosswordssays...

Well technically in American football the ball must be carried by foot in order to score a point or kicked with a foot to score a point. While the ball may be thrown it must be caught by someone who is standing on their feet. So in that sense football is a reasonable name for us in America to call that sport.

Perhaps we can call football/soccer fútbol instead. It is an extremely popular sport in the Latin American countries, and they have arguably been playing it since the time of Maya. I'm not sure how many English speaking countries that play fútbol call it football, but I'd imagine less than the number of Latin American countries that call it fútbol, population wise as well.

Or perhaps we should call fútbol kickball, since most of the time is spent kicking the ball, seems to make logical sense to me. Now I know what you're saying, HEY CROSSWORDS YOU IDIOT THERE'S ALREADY A KICK BALL! Indeed there is, that could also be renamed to 'game only kids play because anyone over the age of 12 could launch that red rubber ball into synchronous orbit ball'.

That or we could all pull the snooty stick out from our rears, stop the my culture is better than yours posturing, and accept people in America call American football, football, and people in most other English speaking countries call kicking around a black and white ball football.

zamalsays...

The soccer vs American football… Maybe the most unnecessary, pointless, time-wasting debate of the history of mankind.

And I like football, or soccer, or "the game where 22 players kick the round ball with their feet to score a goal", whatever you like but let me watch my game quietly.

(The video was quite good).

Tofumarsays...

"The soccer vs American football… Maybe the most unnecessary, pointless, time-wasting debate of the history of mankind."

Agreed. Which is why it's shitty to downvote someone's video based on the name/tags including the word "football" without the accompanying "American." Frankly, if you do something like that--or leave comments whose sole purpose is to cheerlead for such douchebaggery--you're just going out of your way to be a dick.

Oh, wait....I meant wanker.

BicycleRepairMansays...

I dont even understand any of the rules in this game, it took 25 years or so before I bothered to learn what "offside" meant in soccer, so I'll never get this game. I have no Idea why they want so desperately to call this "football" as they generally play with their hands.. But go ahead, you can have that word, and please just take soccer too, along with the word "soccer".

campionidelmondosays...

>> ^serosmeg:
They are just jealous that we score more than 2 points a game in our 'football' games. But we don't get to take naps during the games...


you get to take breaks. ALOT. Gotta have time to get snacks, right? Like all the time. Sitting on the couch and getting fat as hell is the real american sport, I call it american snackball (but u can just call it snackball if it makes u happy).

lertadsays...

The more each sport fan argues which sport is "better", the more ridiculous each sport looks.

I would say great vid but I'm not sure it's on the topic of discussion.

steroidgsays...

At least Aussie Rule Football requires the use of foot to score. I don't understand the rational of calling a game that requires players to carry a ball over a line to score (and occasionally kick the ball), "football".

FYI, The Chinese calls American football "American Olive ball" as it has a shape of an olive. The same are applied for Rugby and Aussie Rules football as they use balls of more or less the same shape. Football (soccer) is still called football... Sounds more logical to me.

aaronfrsays...

>> ^Tofumar:
"The soccer vs American football… Maybe the most unnecessary, pointless, time-wasting debate of the history of mankind."
Agreed. Which is why it's shitty to downvote someone's video based on the name/tags including the word "football" without the accompanying "American." Frankly, if you do something like that--or leave comments whose sole purpose is to cheerlead for such douchebaggery--you're just going out of your way to be a dick.
Oh, wait....I meant wanker.


wasn't trying to cheerlead for anyone claiming their sport is better than another. i was really just trying to make an argument based on the etymology of the words, which i think is distinctly different from the arguments about who uses their feet more or who came up with it first, etc.

but to be fair, i've tried this argument on some of my english friends and have been called a wanker several times at the pub, so the reaction here is not really all that surprising. however, don't think i'll be deterred from trying to bring logic to the argument.

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