Republican plot to undermine US World Cup team, promote US separatism uncovered

[Dorian Gray]

http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/wo...traffic-jam-stops-U-S-team-bus?urn=sow,247655

"The U.S. team bus containing about 10 players going to an open-air market at the entrance to the team hotel got stuck in a traffic jam Friday caused by an elephant, spokesman Michael Kammarman said.

The congestion occurred outside the Bakubung Bush Lodge in Rustenberg. Players timed the trip to get back to the hotel in time for the start of the World Cup opener between South Africa and Mexico.

It was an elephant. I rest my case.

 

[quadraginta]

http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/wo...traffic-jam-stops-U-S-team-bus?urn=sow,247655



It was an elephant. I rest my case.

Note also that it happened "outside the Bakubung Bush Lodge".

Looks like pretty compelling evidence.

(Why does Dubya hate soccer?)

 

[dudalb]

Of course 99% of the American people don't give a damn about Soccer......

 

[Dorian Gray]

That statistic sounds totally accurate.

 

[NoZed Avenger]

Of course 99% of the American people don't give a damn about Soccer......

That statistic sounds totally accurate.

Well, it was rounded down for convenience.

 

[DC]

That statistic sounds totally accurate.

as they don't even know how that sport is called properly.....

 

[Travis]

as they don't even know how that sport is called properly.....

It's not our fault the rest of the world decided to change it's name to "football."

 

[quadraginta]

It's not our fault the rest of the world decided to change it's name to "football."

That's right! We're just preserving a fine old British tradition.

 

[DC]

It's not our fault the rest of the world decided to change it's name to "football."

at least our football gets played by feet

 

[Dorian Gray]

at least our football gets played by feet

Ha ha! Other than the goalie! Ha ha! And throw-ins! Ha ha!

At least our legal system doesn't still involve wearing powdered wigs. Barrister, or embarrassed-er?

 

[DC]

Ha ha! Other than the goalie! Ha ha! And throw-ins! Ha ha!

At least our legal system doesn't still involve wearing powdered wigs. Barrister, or embarrassed-er?

ha, we have a few exceptions were we don't play by feet, you have a few exceptions where you play football by feet.....

ha and im not from the UK. i am from the place real football fans come from. FC Basel!!!

 

[quadraginta]

at least our football gets played by feet

Well ... sorta.

The rules of football were codified in England by the Football Association in 1863, and the name association football was coined to distinguish the game from the other forms of football played at the time, specifically rugby football. The term soccer originated in England, first appearing in the 1880s as an Oxford "-er" abbreviation of the word "association",[50] often credited to former England captain Charles Wreford-Brown.[51]

 

[DC]

Well ... sorta.

only because you didn't understand the rules of Ts’uh-chüh

 

[Travis]

at least our football gets played by feet

It'd be pretty hard to play American Football without feet.

 

[DC]

It'd be pretty hard to play American Football without feet.

ok, you won by semantics

 

[JoeB]

It'd be pretty hard to play American Football without feet.

I remember a news story about a high school student/athlete without legs, who was a very good wrestler and nose tackle. Tough to get leverage on him, "Get Low!" and "Low Man Wins!" are common phrases from line coaches.

(now that I'm thinking about it more, I remember an opposing coach getting the player removed from a game on the technicality that he wasn't wearing all of the required equipment, which included shoes. The player tied a teammates cleats to his belt and went back in).

 

[Jekyll's Guest]

It'd be pretty hard to play American Football without feet.

American Football needs more people without feet.

Preferably lesbian single mothers without feet.

Also, you should get a certificate for taking part.

Losing possession could be changed to 'I know you're having fun, but the other team gets their turn now. It's only fair."

Oh, and Brett Favre should be allowed an electric wheelchair if he gets tired.

 

[Aepervius]

It's not our fault the rest of the world decided to change it's name to "football."

It is not the fault of the world that one single country decided to name a sport in which MOSTLY hand are used *foot*ball.

Please carry on.

 

[quadraginta]

It is not the fault of the world that one single country decided to name a sport in which MOSTLY hand are used *foot*ball.

Please carry on.

That would be the Brits.

The same country that decided to name a sport "soccer".

Funny how these things change. The U.S. becomes the bastion of British tradition in the face of callow populism.