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Cuss
13 years ago
THESE COLORS DONT RUN!
Toothfairy
13 years ago
“Go on, raise the flag. I’ve got stars in my eyes. I’m in love with her, and I won’t apologize.”
Why do Americans call American Football – Football when it’s mostly running with a ball in your hands and yet call football – soccer – when that’s predominately a game which does involve manipulating a ball with your feet?
Why’s it called the World Series in baseball when only a handful of countries actually play? At least in the World Cup it’s a truly global game.
The world cup? Win? Who cares! It’s soccer for god’s sake… nobody cares. It’s a game invented so the girls could play along with the boys.
Hard Right
13 years ago
Gaffe, no one cares who will win a game beloved to second and third rate countries.
Little heads up for you.
In pro-hockey you have guys who are skating on ice, decked out in pads, pushing a small rubber puck around with a stick. A goalie who resides in a goal not much wider than him tries to keep them from puting that puck in the goal. Plus, they are constantly harassed by other guys in pads, on skates, with sticks who also want to keep them from scoring. YET THEY SCORE MORE OFTEN THAN IN SOCCER! It should be exactly opposite of that.
Soccer is for fans who have a low threshold of excitement and celebrate frustration and failure.
Skookum
13 years ago
Sitting here near the top of the world with the with the Yukon River running fast about 100 feet away. Have participated in staking one claim and walked and flown over many more; panned some gold, more than enough to pay for the trip. Great country up here, I suggest it for a vacation during the summer. Dawson City, Yukon Territory.
Richard
13 years ago
This is a picture of Obama’s front entrance door mat.
Jim B
13 years ago
Donald Bly, I remember when I was in high school in Chicago(1965), the gym coach wanted to get us to play soccer. We had no interest and called it “girls football”. We’ve always called it that since then.
Neo
13 years ago
(SF Gate) — It turns out that San Francisco’s eco-conscious Mayor Gavin Newsom and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, own a piece of the deepwater rig at the center of the gulf oil disaster.
According to the mayor’s most recently filed economic disclosure statement, last year the couple invested between $10,000 and $100,000 in Transocean Inc. – the company whose ruptured deepwater rig, which is leased to BP, is spewing millions of gallons of oil, endangering wildlife and beaches all along the Gulf Coast. Just last month, Newsom told the San Diego area East County Magazine that “the environmental catastrophe devastating the Gulf of Mexico is a tragic reminder of why we must take a stand against the oil companies and oppose all offshore drilling off California’s precious coast.”
I guess I need to update my definition of “eco-conscious”
The liberals are asking us to give Obama time.
We agree and think 25 to life would be appropriate. – Jay Leno
Q: Have you heard about McDonald’s’ new Obama Value Meal?
A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you has to pay for it. – Conan O’Brien
Q: What does Barack Obama call lunch with a convicted felon?
A: A fundraiser. – Jay Leno
Q: What’s the difference between Obama’s cabinet and a penitentiary?
A: One is filled with tax evaders, blackmailers, and threats to society. The other is for housing prisoners. – David Letterman
Q: If Nancy Pelosi and Obama were on a boat in the middle of the ocean and it started to sink, who would be saved?
A: America! – Jimmy Fallon
Q: What’s the difference between Obama and his dog, Bo?
A: Bo has papers. – Jimmy Kimmel
Q: What was the most positive result of the “Cash for clunkers” program?
A: It took 95% of the Obama bumper stickers off the road. – David Letterman
America needs Obama-care like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask. – Jay Leno
President Obama decided to do one of his public addresses against the backdrop of an American farm, but the ceremony couldn’t get started because of all the flies buzzing around his head. Obama demanded to know why the flies wouldn’t leave, so the farmer explained to him, “Well, those are called circle flies. They always circle around the back end of horses.” Obama angrily replied, “Hey, are you saying that I’m a horse’s ass?” The farmer answered, “No Sir, Mister President. I would never call someone a horse’s ass. It’s hard to fool them flies though.”
*****
Barack Obama, at a recent rural elementary school assembly in East Texas , asked the audience for total quiet. Then, in the silence, he started to slowly clap his hands once every few seconds, holding the audience in total silence..
Then Obama said into the microphone, “Children, uh, every time I, uh, clap my hands together, a, uh, child in America dies from, uh, gun violence.”
Little Richard Earl, with a proud East Texas drawl, pierced the quiet and said, ” Well, dummy, stop clapping!”
*****
Joe Biden was trying to sell his clunker that had already been driven 310,000 miles, but he was having a mighty hard time with it. Barack Obama offered to help him out and turned the car odometer back to just 10,000 miles. The President asked the Biden a few days later whether he had been able to sell the clunker. “Why would I want to sell it?” asked Biden. “There’s only 10,000 miles on it.”
*****
Q: What is the difference between ObamaCare and a car battery?
A: The battery has a positive side.
*****
Exhausted and ill from the effort of enacting the Obama healthcare plan, an elderly Senator goes to the doctor. Doctor says, “I have bad news, good news, and bad news, Senator. The bad news is that you only have six months to live. But the good news is that there’s an operation that is 100% successful in curing this illness.” “That sounds great, Doctor,” says the Senator, “but what’s the other bad news?” The Doctor replies, “The Department of Health and Human Services says the first available slot is seven months from today.”
******
In the washroom at the airport I saw a handwritten sign posted over one of those hot air hand dryers: “Please push button and listen for a short message from the President!” There’s nothing like “hot air” and the smell of crap to give you that true Obama experience!!!!
*****
Q. Why did Obama cross the road?
A. Actually, Obama promised to cross the road, but then he didn’t.
If Obama had half a brain, his butt would be lopsided.
President Obama is to statesmanship as an Etch-A-Sketch is to art.
Q. What is Barack Obama’s favorite lunch meat?
A. Mao Tse Tongue.
Q. Why didn’t the aliens give Obama an anal probe?
A. They couldn’t get the instruments past his head.
Q. Why was Obama staring at the frozen orange juice can?
A. It said “concentrate”
Q. Why did President Obama feel it was necessary for him to apologize to the world and to degrade the United States?
A. Jimmy Carter had laryngitis.
Barack Obama told Oprah Winfrey that he deserves to get a “good, solid B-plus” for his first year as President. He also claimed that Bo, the White House dog, ate the economy.
A woman in a hot-air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”
The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, “You’re in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.
“She rolled her eyes and said, “You must be a Republican.”
“I am,” replied the man. “How did you know?”
“Well,” answered the balloonist, “everything you told me is technically correct. But I have no idea what to do with your information, and I’m still lost. Frankly, you’ve not been much help to me.”
The man smiled and responded, “You must be an Obama Democrat.”
“I am,” replied the balloonist. “How did you know?”
“Well,” said the man, “you don’t know where you are or where you are going.. You’ve risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. You’re in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but somehow, now it’s my fault.”
*****
The teacher asked her 6th grade class how many of them were Obama fans. Not really knowing what an Obama fan is, but wanting to be liked by the teacher, all the kids raised their hands except for little Johnny. The teacher asked Little Johnny why he has decided to be different.
Little Johnny said, ‘Because I’m not an Obama fan.’
The teacher asked, ‘Why aren’t you an Obama fan?’
Johnny said, ‘Because I’m a Republican.’
The teacher asked him why he’s a Republican.
Little Johnny answered, ‘Well, my Mom’s a Republican and my Dad’s a Republican, so I’m a Republican.’
Annoyed by this answer, the teacher asked, ‘If your mom was a moron and your dad was an idiot, what would that make you?’
With a big smile, Little Johnny replied, ‘That would make me an Obama fan.
*****
Q: What’s the problem with Barack Obama jokes?
A: His followers don’t think they’re funny and other people don’t think they’re jokes
Q. Why won’t Obama release his real birth certificate?
A. The ink isn’t dry yet.
Q. Why won’t Obama laugh at himself?
A. Because it would be racist.
Q. Why did Obama change his name from Barry to Barack?
A. He thought Barry sounded too American.
*****
A little girl was talking to President Obama about whales.
Obama said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal, its throat was very small.
The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale.
Irritated (what Obama always becomes when contradicted), Obama reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible.
The little girl said,”When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah.”
Obama asked,”What if Jonah went to hell?”
The little girl replied,”Then you ask him.”
*****
Q. What does Obama cry out during sex?
A. Oh Me, yes, Oh Me!
It’s a game invented so the girls could play along with the boys.
Funny and so true.
Patvann
13 years ago
@GuffaUK
Jeez…An Englishman who is ignorant of his own sport…Here, let the stupid-American help you:
The word “soccer” was invented by an Englishman; Charles Wreford-Brownin in 1880, to differentiate it from the other forms of football, including rugby-football. He was a well-known team captain of the time.
It’s taken from the abbreviation of “association” as in “Association Football”, with the old Oxford-type “er” added to it.
In the beginning era of American-style football, the ball was kicked much more often during the game, than it is today.
Toothfairy
13 years ago
@Donald Bly #10: Thanks for the laughter! Since I grew up in East Texas, I especially enjoyed that one. The people there have quite a sense of humor. Last time I visited I noticed a sign for a new beauty parlor — Curl Up and Dye. Priceless!
lol – you got that the wrong way round. Football predates basketball, baseball & American football. Now it seems basketball and baseball derive from the English games of netball and rounders – games predominatly played by women. Whereas I believe American football derived from rugby (itself derived from football) – which is somewhat more masculine but the Americans had to ruin it with all that padding (and stopping the play) – in case someone got hurt;) Although never seen the attraction of a sport where you have to hurl yourself at another man’s legs – takes all sort I guess. lol.
@Hard up right
Funny as US was in the last 16 of the World Cup – does that mean the US is a 2nd or 3rd rate country? The countries who didn’t enter to be part of the World Cup are only handful which include such countries like Greenland, Phillipines, Laos, Western Sahara – I guess they are 1st rate countries. Also apparently according to th 2010 FIFA World Cup Wikipedia – ‘Hundreds of broadcasters, representing about 70 countries, are transmitting the Cup to a cumulative TV audience that is predicted by FIFA officials to reach more than 26 billion people’. How does that compare to ice hockey? Hmm?
@Patvann
I know where the term comes from – but why do Americans use a phrase coined by an Englishman which most of the rest of the world including the English don’t use? American Football should be renamed Handball.
Patvann
13 years ago
@Guffa
The word “stuck” here, because in the late 19th C, the game was pretty much only played in the larger East-coast colleges and universities, which at the time were staffed by many from England and Europe who still used the term. Meanwhile in Europe (and the rest of the world) the word “football” overtook the English term, and in the end, the English went back to it as well….except for those who call it “footie”. 😉
My Dad (not a sportsfan by any measure) says our football should be called “bashball”. 😛
Keep in mind that the actual etymology of the word does not have anything to do with the ball-foot relationship, but the fact that the game(s) are played while on foot, as opposed to on a horse.
Now can you please explain the Shrove Tuesday Football Ceremony of the Purbeck Marblers?
I’m wondering where those extra 19.5 billion people FIFA is broadcasting to live… since the population of the entire planet is only 6.5 billion people.
‘Hundreds of broadcasters, representing about 70 countries, are transmitting the Cup to a cumulative TV audience that is predicted by FIFA officials to reach more than 26 billion people’. How does that compare to ice hockey? Hmm?
CURT: hi, the new HEADING of FA is very nicely done, it gave me a shock the first time,;
I realy like the other one,i could not get tired to look at it. we’ll get use to this one over time because right now I miss the other one. bye and thank you.
Do you understand the word ‘cumulative’ or has brain damage prevented you comprehending this? lol
@Hard Up
Who cares? Well depends who you definie as who. A large part of the world cares. But don’t non-americans count as people? And in the US about as many Americans 13.5 million watched the US-England match – as many as the LOST finale – so hardly an insignificant figure. http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/21/us-uk-world-cup-match-draws-as-many-viewers-as-lost-finale/. That doesn’t compare to your existing entrenched sports of american rugby, netball & rounders but does sporting events only count if the majority watch it? lol – what happened to American individualism? Or do you just follow the herd?
Here’s another clue for you…there is more than one game played at the World Cup. Now see if you can work it out. lol
Missy
13 years ago
Happy Birthday President Bush! Hope your special day was filled with all things that make birthdays appreciated, family, friends and love. Best to you….and, we are missing you!! 😉
MISSY: I join you for wishing the best to THE PRESIDENT BUSH, and the best to LAURA WHO has shown with PRESIDENT BUSH to project such CLASS to the good AMERICANS, AND TO ALL OTHERS COUNTRYS.
GAFFA UK: ON 22; ARE YOU BULLYING my friend?. WHAT is that brain damage talk?.
I SUGGEST, you take a step back and appologyse, AS you see, donald is showing you tolerance over an inferior person like you. NOW you can learn that lesson.
GAFFA UK, I suggest you apologyse to DONALD, for your 22 remark, and acknowledge
the tolerance that he display on you. AS he does for inferieur caracters.
Thank you! President Bush and the beautiful and gracious First Lady Laura restored dignity to our nation’s home. They were book-ended by one administration that did not respect that home and one that is blatantly taking advantage of it and all the perks.
I think you may have had a humour bypass if you are so easily offended when I question whether Donald has brain damage in response to his query whether soccer causes brain damage (funny you didn’t find his comment offensive) based on FIFA’s predicted culmative figures on the audience watching the World Cup.
I don’t know why Donald & now GoGoTraffic find it so hard that FIFA are adding up the predicted audience of all the matches so obviously people are counted more than once. 🙄
GAFFAUK: what happen, I wrote 2 comments, they where not accepted than, and I
came back to write the last one with the word ‘PLEASE”, and they brought back the other 2 previous,and I just notice it now, okay. bye 🙄
Mr Gaffa UK, you disappoint me with your 26 billion fans saved or created. Do you know that hockey is played up to 25 mph. Hockey pucks, as slap shots travel at more than 100 mph. Hockey fights stem from dirty hits and cheap shots. It takes years to develop skating skills and a knack to find open ice to pass and score goals. It is not for the faint hearted and the effeminite types who play act for yellow and red cards. IE. Team Italia.
Imagine what the TV audience would have been if US had got to the final of the World Cup? lol
I’ll also be interested to see what the international viewing figures for the World Cup final will be compared to the Ice Hockey Olympic final.
Ice Hockey is hardly a world game as it’s dominated by countries with colder climates. There are millions more players in the world who professional play football and millions more fans who watch it than there is with Ice Hockey. And a sport which continually breaks into fights like Ice hockey does (which isn’t part of the rules as it isn’t boxing) – gives sport a bad name. Who wants to see Thugs on Ice? Does it take years to develop that? lol.
THESE COLORS DONT RUN!
“Go on, raise the flag. I’ve got stars in my eyes. I’m in love with her, and I won’t apologize.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwZ2R4nmEEw
or
A few questions…
Who do you think will win the World Cup?
Why do Americans call American Football – Football when it’s mostly running with a ball in your hands and yet call football – soccer – when that’s predominately a game which does involve manipulating a ball with your feet?
Why’s it called the World Series in baseball when only a handful of countries actually play? At least in the World Cup it’s a truly global game.
The world cup? Win? Who cares! It’s soccer for god’s sake… nobody cares. It’s a game invented so the girls could play along with the boys.
Gaffe, no one cares who will win a game beloved to second and third rate countries.
Little heads up for you.
In pro-hockey you have guys who are skating on ice, decked out in pads, pushing a small rubber puck around with a stick. A goalie who resides in a goal not much wider than him tries to keep them from puting that puck in the goal. Plus, they are constantly harassed by other guys in pads, on skates, with sticks who also want to keep them from scoring. YET THEY SCORE MORE OFTEN THAN IN SOCCER! It should be exactly opposite of that.
Soccer is for fans who have a low threshold of excitement and celebrate frustration and failure.
Sitting here near the top of the world with the with the Yukon River running fast about 100 feet away. Have participated in staking one claim and walked and flown over many more; panned some gold, more than enough to pay for the trip. Great country up here, I suggest it for a vacation during the summer. Dawson City, Yukon Territory.
This is a picture of Obama’s front entrance door mat.
Donald Bly, I remember when I was in high school in Chicago(1965), the gym coach wanted to get us to play soccer. We had no interest and called it “girls football”. We’ve always called it that since then.
I guess I need to update my definition of “eco-conscious”
The liberals are asking us to give Obama time.
We agree and think 25 to life would be appropriate. – Jay Leno
Q: Have you heard about McDonald’s’ new Obama Value Meal?
A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you has to pay for it. – Conan O’Brien
Q: What does Barack Obama call lunch with a convicted felon?
A: A fundraiser. – Jay Leno
Q: What’s the difference between Obama’s cabinet and a penitentiary?
A: One is filled with tax evaders, blackmailers, and threats to society. The other is for housing prisoners. – David Letterman
Q: If Nancy Pelosi and Obama were on a boat in the middle of the ocean and it started to sink, who would be saved?
A: America! – Jimmy Fallon
Q: What’s the difference between Obama and his dog, Bo?
A: Bo has papers. – Jimmy Kimmel
Q: What was the most positive result of the “Cash for clunkers” program?
A: It took 95% of the Obama bumper stickers off the road. – David Letterman
America needs Obama-care like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask. – Jay Leno
President Obama decided to do one of his public addresses against the backdrop of an American farm, but the ceremony couldn’t get started because of all the flies buzzing around his head. Obama demanded to know why the flies wouldn’t leave, so the farmer explained to him, “Well, those are called circle flies. They always circle around the back end of horses.” Obama angrily replied, “Hey, are you saying that I’m a horse’s ass?” The farmer answered, “No Sir, Mister President. I would never call someone a horse’s ass. It’s hard to fool them flies though.”
*****
Barack Obama, at a recent rural elementary school assembly in East Texas , asked the audience for total quiet. Then, in the silence, he started to slowly clap his hands once every few seconds, holding the audience in total silence..
Then Obama said into the microphone, “Children, uh, every time I, uh, clap my hands together, a, uh, child in America dies from, uh, gun violence.”
Little Richard Earl, with a proud East Texas drawl, pierced the quiet and said, ” Well, dummy, stop clapping!”
*****
Joe Biden was trying to sell his clunker that had already been driven 310,000 miles, but he was having a mighty hard time with it. Barack Obama offered to help him out and turned the car odometer back to just 10,000 miles. The President asked the Biden a few days later whether he had been able to sell the clunker. “Why would I want to sell it?” asked Biden. “There’s only 10,000 miles on it.”
*****
Q: What is the difference between ObamaCare and a car battery?
A: The battery has a positive side.
*****
Exhausted and ill from the effort of enacting the Obama healthcare plan, an elderly Senator goes to the doctor. Doctor says, “I have bad news, good news, and bad news, Senator. The bad news is that you only have six months to live. But the good news is that there’s an operation that is 100% successful in curing this illness.” “That sounds great, Doctor,” says the Senator, “but what’s the other bad news?” The Doctor replies, “The Department of Health and Human Services says the first available slot is seven months from today.”
******
In the washroom at the airport I saw a handwritten sign posted over one of those hot air hand dryers: “Please push button and listen for a short message from the President!” There’s nothing like “hot air” and the smell of crap to give you that true Obama experience!!!!
*****
Q. Why did Obama cross the road?
A. Actually, Obama promised to cross the road, but then he didn’t.
If Obama had half a brain, his butt would be lopsided.
President Obama is to statesmanship as an Etch-A-Sketch is to art.
Q. What is Barack Obama’s favorite lunch meat?
A. Mao Tse Tongue.
Q. Why didn’t the aliens give Obama an anal probe?
A. They couldn’t get the instruments past his head.
Q. Why was Obama staring at the frozen orange juice can?
A. It said “concentrate”
Q. Why did President Obama feel it was necessary for him to apologize to the world and to degrade the United States?
A. Jimmy Carter had laryngitis.
Barack Obama told Oprah Winfrey that he deserves to get a “good, solid B-plus” for his first year as President. He also claimed that Bo, the White House dog, ate the economy.
A woman in a hot-air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”
The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, “You’re in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.
“She rolled her eyes and said, “You must be a Republican.”
“I am,” replied the man. “How did you know?”
“Well,” answered the balloonist, “everything you told me is technically correct. But I have no idea what to do with your information, and I’m still lost. Frankly, you’ve not been much help to me.”
The man smiled and responded, “You must be an Obama Democrat.”
“I am,” replied the balloonist. “How did you know?”
“Well,” said the man, “you don’t know where you are or where you are going.. You’ve risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. You’re in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but somehow, now it’s my fault.”
*****
The teacher asked her 6th grade class how many of them were Obama fans. Not really knowing what an Obama fan is, but wanting to be liked by the teacher, all the kids raised their hands except for little Johnny. The teacher asked Little Johnny why he has decided to be different.
Little Johnny said, ‘Because I’m not an Obama fan.’
The teacher asked, ‘Why aren’t you an Obama fan?’
Johnny said, ‘Because I’m a Republican.’
The teacher asked him why he’s a Republican.
Little Johnny answered, ‘Well, my Mom’s a Republican and my Dad’s a Republican, so I’m a Republican.’
Annoyed by this answer, the teacher asked, ‘If your mom was a moron and your dad was an idiot, what would that make you?’
With a big smile, Little Johnny replied, ‘That would make me an Obama fan.
*****
Q: What’s the problem with Barack Obama jokes?
A: His followers don’t think they’re funny and other people don’t think they’re jokes
Q. Why won’t Obama release his real birth certificate?
A. The ink isn’t dry yet.
Q. Why won’t Obama laugh at himself?
A. Because it would be racist.
Q. Why did Obama change his name from Barry to Barack?
A. He thought Barry sounded too American.
*****
A little girl was talking to President Obama about whales.
Obama said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal, its throat was very small.
The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale.
Irritated (what Obama always becomes when contradicted), Obama reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible.
The little girl said,”When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah.”
Obama asked,”What if Jonah went to hell?”
The little girl replied,”Then you ask him.”
*****
Q. What does Obama cry out during sex?
A. Oh Me, yes, Oh Me!
Funny and so true.
@GuffaUK
Jeez…An Englishman who is ignorant of his own sport…Here, let the stupid-American help you:
The word “soccer” was invented by an Englishman; Charles Wreford-Brownin in 1880, to differentiate it from the other forms of football, including rugby-football. He was a well-known team captain of the time.
It’s taken from the abbreviation of “association” as in “Association Football”, with the old Oxford-type “er” added to it.
In the beginning era of American-style football, the ball was kicked much more often during the game, than it is today.
@Donald Bly #10: Thanks for the laughter! Since I grew up in East Texas, I especially enjoyed that one. The people there have quite a sense of humor. Last time I visited I noticed a sign for a new beauty parlor — Curl Up and Dye. Priceless!
TOOTHFAIRY: hi, there’s one; NEVER go to bed mad, STAY up and fight, from PHILLYS DILLER. bye 🙄
@Donald
lol – you got that the wrong way round. Football predates basketball, baseball & American football. Now it seems basketball and baseball derive from the English games of netball and rounders – games predominatly played by women. Whereas I believe American football derived from rugby (itself derived from football) – which is somewhat more masculine but the Americans had to ruin it with all that padding (and stopping the play) – in case someone got hurt;) Although never seen the attraction of a sport where you have to hurl yourself at another man’s legs – takes all sort I guess. lol.
@Hard up right
Funny as US was in the last 16 of the World Cup – does that mean the US is a 2nd or 3rd rate country? The countries who didn’t enter to be part of the World Cup are only handful which include such countries like Greenland, Phillipines, Laos, Western Sahara – I guess they are 1st rate countries. Also apparently according to th 2010 FIFA World Cup Wikipedia – ‘Hundreds of broadcasters, representing about 70 countries, are transmitting the Cup to a cumulative TV audience that is predicted by FIFA officials to reach more than 26 billion people’. How does that compare to ice hockey? Hmm?
@Patvann
I know where the term comes from – but why do Americans use a phrase coined by an Englishman which most of the rest of the world including the English don’t use? American Football should be renamed Handball.
@Guffa
The word “stuck” here, because in the late 19th C, the game was pretty much only played in the larger East-coast colleges and universities, which at the time were staffed by many from England and Europe who still used the term. Meanwhile in Europe (and the rest of the world) the word “football” overtook the English term, and in the end, the English went back to it as well….except for those who call it “footie”. 😉
My Dad (not a sportsfan by any measure) says our football should be called “bashball”. 😛
Keep in mind that the actual etymology of the word does not have anything to do with the ball-foot relationship, but the fact that the game(s) are played while on foot, as opposed to on a horse.
Now can you please explain the Shrove Tuesday Football Ceremony of the Purbeck Marblers?
@Gaffa
I’m wondering where those extra 19.5 billion people FIFA is broadcasting to live… since the population of the entire planet is only 6.5 billion people.
Is this proof that soccer causes brain damage?
Ice Hockey is a sport “real people” watch.
CURT: hi, the new HEADING of FA is very nicely done, it gave me a shock the first time,;
I realy like the other one,i could not get tired to look at it. we’ll get use to this one over time because right now I miss the other one. bye and thank you.
Bees…the new header is just for the July 4th holiday, the old one will come back up after the holiday
Ummm Gaffe, re-read what I wrote.
“Gaffe, no one cares who will win a game beloved to second and third rate countries.”
Tell me, is soccer a popular sport in the U.S.? Not even close.
I also see you are a practitioner of liberal math.
CURT: thank you, and happy 4rt of july, bye 🙄
@Donald
Do you understand the word ‘cumulative’ or has brain damage prevented you comprehending this? lol
@Hard Up
Who cares? Well depends who you definie as who. A large part of the world cares. But don’t non-americans count as people? And in the US about as many Americans 13.5 million watched the US-England match – as many as the LOST finale – so hardly an insignificant figure.
http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/21/us-uk-world-cup-match-draws-as-many-viewers-as-lost-finale/. That doesn’t compare to your existing entrenched sports of american rugby, netball & rounders but does sporting events only count if the majority watch it? lol – what happened to American individualism? Or do you just follow the herd?
@Gaffa…. yeah I understand the word cumulative… and I understand that there aren’t a cumulative 26 billion people on the face of the earth.
Maybe soccer is big on Alpha Centari
@Donald
Here’s another clue for you…there is more than one game played at the World Cup. Now see if you can work it out. lol
Happy Birthday President Bush! Hope your special day was filled with all things that make birthdays appreciated, family, friends and love. Best to you….and, we are missing you!! 😉
MISSY: I join you for wishing the best to THE PRESIDENT BUSH, and the best to LAURA WHO has shown with PRESIDENT BUSH to project such CLASS to the good AMERICANS, AND TO ALL OTHERS COUNTRYS.
GAFFA UK: ON 22; ARE YOU BULLYING my friend?. WHAT is that brain damage talk?.
I SUGGEST, you take a step back and appologyse, AS you see, donald is showing you tolerance over an inferior person like you. NOW you can learn that lesson.
GAFFA UK, I suggest you apologyse to DONALD, for your 22 remark, and acknowledge
the tolerance that he display on you. AS he does for inferieur caracters.
GAFFAUK, please dont use offensives words when you talk to my friend as you did on 22
@ilovebeeswarzone:
Thank you! President Bush and the beautiful and gracious First Lady Laura restored dignity to our nation’s home. They were book-ended by one administration that did not respect that home and one that is blatantly taking advantage of it and all the perks.
@ilovebees
I think you may have had a humour bypass if you are so easily offended when I question whether Donald has brain damage in response to his query whether soccer causes brain damage (funny you didn’t find his comment offensive) based on FIFA’s predicted culmative figures on the audience watching the World Cup.
I don’t know why Donald & now GoGoTraffic find it so hard that FIFA are adding up the predicted audience of all the matches so obviously people are counted more than once. 🙄
GAFFA UK: If someone would do it to you, I would do the same thing , for you, 🙄 bye
GAFFAUK: what happen, I wrote 2 comments, they where not accepted than, and I
came back to write the last one with the word ‘PLEASE”, and they brought back the other 2 previous,and I just notice it now, okay. bye 🙄
God Bless you Bees… 🙄
Mr Gaffa UK, you disappoint me with your 26 billion fans saved or created. Do you know that hockey is played up to 25 mph. Hockey pucks, as slap shots travel at more than 100 mph. Hockey fights stem from dirty hits and cheap shots. It takes years to develop skating skills and a knack to find open ice to pass and score goals. It is not for the faint hearted and the effeminite types who play act for yellow and red cards. IE. Team Italia.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/06/AR2010070605271.html?hpid=topnews
@Wordsmith:
Heh, desperate democrats:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/07/independents-abandoning-obama-gallup-poll.html
Donald Bly-My Hero:
Thanks so much for your humor. Made my day.
@Donald Bly, thanks for the jokes, they are in my secret stash to be hoarded through the dark days of the Fall of the Republic– 😉
@Oil guy
So in Olympic ice hockey FINAL where Canada beat the US – was watched by 16.6 million US viewers…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_hockey_at_the_2010_Winter_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_tournament
And yet 19.4 million US viewers watched their team get beat by Ghana in the World Cup 1ST ROUND of the knockout stage –
http://www.worldcupblog.org/world-cup-2010/soccer-more-popular-than-baseball-basketball-with-us-tv-viewers-briefly-anyway.html
Imagine what the TV audience would have been if US had got to the final of the World Cup? lol
I’ll also be interested to see what the international viewing figures for the World Cup final will be compared to the Ice Hockey Olympic final.
Ice Hockey is hardly a world game as it’s dominated by countries with colder climates. There are millions more players in the world who professional play football and millions more fans who watch it than there is with Ice Hockey. And a sport which continually breaks into fights like Ice hockey does (which isn’t part of the rules as it isn’t boxing) – gives sport a bad name. Who wants to see Thugs on Ice? Does it take years to develop that? lol.
And does football have skills? Of course – can you do the following…?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9foCJDVTbYg&feature=related
Oh and if are so keen on speed of inanimate objects when kicked or struck watch this.
A 131mph shot – that faster than any ice puck has gone! lol.