Football

[tallen1966]

Fooled you. You probably thought this topic was about soccer/football. Well it's not, although, I hope England wins the world cup. I'd like to know where to watch American football. Are there any bars that show American football (college and professional)? Due to the time difference, football will start at about 1:00 am Pattaya time.

[hiromj]

American football doesn't start until late next month and that's just preseason. (My favorite spectator sport). That is one of the top five things that I miss about America.

[bulzit]

Do they show college football?

[Thaigreg]

Fooled you. You probably thought this topic was about soccer/football. Well it's not, although, I hope England wins the world cup. I'd like to know where to watch American football. Are there any bars that show American football (college and professional)? Due to the time difference, football will start at about 1:00 am Pattaya time.

Hi tallen1966,

Yes, they show NFL games on ESPN and STAR SPORTS, but you will need a subscription to UBC (Gold or Platinum Package) to see them. They usually show 2 Sunday games earlier Monday morning and the Sunday night on Monday morning and Monday night football on Tuesday morning.

There is no regular college football on the weekends, but ESPN did shows almost all the Bowl games in DEC and JAN.

Greg

[icecubes]

Do they show female college football.

[ProfessorFart]

Do they show female topless darts?

[icecubes]

Do they show female topless darts?

A bit dangerous if the darts bounce off the wire.

Ouch.

[moo9]

Anyway, why this strange sport is called FOOTBALL as you can run with the egg in your hands?

Football is soccer nothing else.

[TokyoT]

Anyway, why this strange sport is called FOOTBALL as you can run with the egg in your hands?

Football is soccer nothing else.

Oh, soccer must be the only football because one kicks the ball with one's foot?

Why have all these other sports have been known as football? American football, Canadian Football, Gaelic Football, Soccer, Australian Rules Football, I have even seen Rugby referred to as Rugby football.

I heard a little story once that makes some since to me. In the years long since gone the aristocrats of the world had sports in which they entertained themselves on horseback. The poor peasants of the world not having the means/access to horses had to satisfy themselves with playing "on foot". Hence the name "Football", so the term may come from the fact one is playing "on foot" rather than limiting to sports in which one kicks the ball with "the foot".

I heard another interesting story about soccer. Something about soccer being a gentleman's game played by thugs, while Rugby was a thug's game played by gentlemen. However after watching a little of this years WC it appears to me that soccer is instead a game played by actors, adept at the art of making falling down look like the worst possible torture known to man.

As for me Football can be no other than American Football, while soccer can be Futball.

Go Redskins.

Edited June 29, 2006 by TokyoT

[hiromj]

Anyway, why this strange sport is called FOOTBALL as you can run with the egg in your hands?

Football is soccer nothing else.

Oh, soccer must be the only football because one kicks the ball with one's foot?

Why have all these other sports have been known as football? American football, Canadian Football, Gaelic Football, Soccer, Australian Rules Football, I have even seen Rugby referred to as Rugby football.

I heard a little story once that makes some since to me. In the years long since gone the aristocrats of the world had sports in which they entertained themselves on horseback. The poor peasants of the world not having the means/access to horses had to satisfy themselves with playing "on foot". Hence the name "Football", so the term may come from the fact one is playing "on foot" rather than limiting to sports in which one kicks the ball with "the foot".

I heard another interesting story about soccer. Something about soccer being a gentleman's game played by thugs, while Rugby was a thug's game played by gentlemen. However after watching a little of this years WC it appears to me that soccer is instead a game played by actors, adept at the art of making falling down look like the worst possible torture known to man.

As for me Football can be no other than American Football, while soccer can be Futball.

Go Redskins.

Good post Tokyo. I just hope the Lions don't come in dead last again this year.

[Axel]

Run some translations:

Fútbol (Spanish)

Fußball (German)

Futebol (Portuguese)

Fotball (Norwegian)

De voetbal (Dutch)

Football (French)

Football (Italian)

Soccer seems to be ean English word, that as well translates into above.

Anyway, the controlling association is calles FIFA, Fed. of international FOOTBALL Associations

and not FISA for Soccer.

[somchai jones]

Anyway, why this strange sport is called FOOTBALL as you can run with the egg in your hands?

Football is soccer nothing else.

Oh, soccer must be the only football because one kicks the ball with one's foot?

Why have all these other sports have been known as football? American football, Canadian Football, Gaelic Football, Soccer, Australian Rules Football, I have even seen Rugby referred to as Rugby football.

I heard a little story once that makes some since to me. In the years long since gone the aristocrats of the world had sports in which they entertained themselves on horseback. The poor peasants of the world not having the means/access to horses had to satisfy themselves with playing "on foot". Hence the name "Football", so the term may come from the fact one is playing "on foot" rather than limiting to sports in which one kicks the ball with "the foot".

I heard another interesting story about soccer. Something about soccer being a gentleman's game played by thugs, while Rugby was a thug's game played by gentlemen. However after watching a little of this years WC it appears to me that soccer is instead a game played by actors, adept at the art of making falling down look like the worst possible torture known to man.

As for me Football can be no other than American Football, while soccer can be Futball.

Go Redskins.

Good post Tokyo. I just hope the Lions don't come in dead last again this year.

Hi Folks

If watching grown men mincing around in tights is your thing, you don't have to tune into American 'Football' on television, you'd probably be moved by all the live action over at Tiffany's on 2nd Road!

[hiromj]

Hi Folks

If watching grown men mincing around in tights is your thing, you don't have to tune into American 'Football' on television, you'd probably be moved by all the live action over at Tiffany's on 2nd Road!

I would reply to this but it's time to go home (priorities). Maybe tomorrow

[icecubes]

Hi Folks

If watching grown men mincing around in tights is your thing, you don't have to tune into American 'Football' on television, you'd probably be moved by all the live action over at Tiffany's on 2nd Road!

Love this one.

American, Tights, Football, Mincing and Tiffany?s, all in the same phrase.

They all go hand in hand in my honest opinion.

Makes perfect sense to me.

[Pattaya_Fox]

Anyway, why this strange sport is called FOOTBALL as you can run with the egg in your hands?

Football is soccer nothing else.

Oh, soccer must be the only football because one kicks the ball with one's foot?

Why have all these other sports have been known as football? American football, Canadian Football, Gaelic Football, Soccer, Australian Rules Football, I have even seen Rugby referred to as Rugby football.

I heard a little story once that makes some since to me. In the years long since gone the aristocrats of the world had sports in which they entertained themselves on horseback. The poor peasants of the world not having the means/access to horses had to satisfy themselves with playing "on foot". Hence the name "Football", so the term may come from the fact one is playing "on foot" rather than limiting to sports in which one kicks the ball with "the foot".

I heard another interesting story about soccer. Something about soccer being a gentleman's game played by thugs, while Rugby was a thug's game played by gentlemen. However after watching a little of this years WC it appears to me that soccer is instead a game played by actors, adept at the art of making falling down look like the worst possible torture known to man.

As for me Football can be no other than American Football, while soccer can be Futball.

Go Redskins.

Good post Tokyo. I just hope the Lions don't come in dead last again this year.

Hi Folks

If watching grown men mincing around in tights is your thing, you don't have to tune into American 'Football' on television, you'd probably be moved by all the live action over at Tiffany's on 2nd Road!

..ah! yes games played usually with no ball(s)

[somchai jones]

Hi Folks

If watching grown men mincing around in tights is your thing, you don't have to tune into American 'Football' on television, you'd probably be moved by all the live action over at Tiffany's on 2nd Road!

Love this one.

American, Tights, Football, Mincing and Tiffany?s, all in the same phrase.

They all go hand in hand in my honest opinion.

Makes perfect sense to me.

Yes, considering that the baseball players also wear tights and one of the most famous US basketball players in recent history is infamous for his cross-dressing habit, it would seem that we could be onto something here.........

Perhaps an idea for a new theme bar......mincing waiters dressed in American sports outfits mingling amongst the baseball cap wearing clientele whilst Pattaya's finest drag queens camp it up on stage.

Mom's apple pie on the menu.....

The marines would love it!

[Pattaya_Fox]

Hi Folks

If watching grown men mincing around in tights is your thing, you don't have to tune into American 'Football' on television, you'd probably be moved by all the live action over at Tiffany's on 2nd Road!

Love this one.

American, Tights, Football, Mincing and Tiffany?s, all in the same phrase.

They all go hand in hand in my honest opinion.

Makes perfect sense to me.

Yes, considering that the baseball players also wear tights and one of the most famous US basketball players in recent history is infamous for his cross-dressing habit, it would seem that we could be onto something here.........

Perhaps an idea for a new theme bar......mincing waiters dressed in American sports outfits mingling amongst the baseball cap wearing clientele whilst Pattaya's finest drag queens camp it up on stage.

Mom's apple pie on the menu.....

The marines would love it!

Sounds a bit of a Drag ....but the apple pie could be a bit tasty

[dboy]

i like football but right now my friends south of the border dont

[TokyoT]

The World Cup is over, and NFL training camps open in less than three weeks. - Thank all that is good in the world.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/5774072...T=HCP>1=8393

Which got the FOX Funhouse staff thinking about why we like our football better than the world's football ...

Much better looking trophy given to the champions.

Overtime is sudden death ... first to score, wins.

Championships not decided by the random guessing game that is a penalty kick.

Though it has yet to happen, a Super Bowl champion would be decided in sudden-death overtime.

We won't have to wait another four years for a new Super Bowl champion.

No third-place game played before the Super Bowl.

The French aren't any good at our football.

Football has cheerleaders.

Football has cheerleaders who wear revealing clothing.

No need to make apologies when you tell friends you're a football fan.

Players only carried off field on stretchers for real, serious injuries.

There's no "magic spray" in football.

Our football players can use their hands, and feet, and whatever else they feel like using.

Prevent defense only played in final couple minutes, rather than 90 minutes.

Games not decided by penalty kicks, only kicks that are made by an undersized kicker being pursued by hulking 300-pound behemoths.

and weak, and everybody makes fun of them.

Roughing the kicker penalty doesn't give a team a free shot at a touchdown.

There's no pretending to be fouled.

There's no pretending to be hurt.

A blowout isn't 2-0.

Ties rarely ever happen.

Offsides rule in football easier to understand than offsides rule in soccer.

The U.S. would never lose to Ghana in a game of football.

Fat guys can play. (Don't under estimate the importance of this point in the good old US of A)

Unlimited substitutions in football make for a faster, and therefore, better game.

Breaks in play allow for much-needed bathroom breaks.

Bone-crushing hits in our football are considered highlights and applauded. Bone-crushing hits in soccer get players reprimanded, red cards and immediate ejections. (Please see the recent Zidane incident - that should have been applauded rather than red-carded - more stuff like this in soccer and it make actually get classified as an actual contact sport)

With obvious exception of Philly and Oakland, very few hooligans.

As amazing as this is to admit in light of the 2006 Super Bowl, referees are more competent in our football.

We know exactly how much time is remaining in the game at all times.

[somchai jones]

C'mon admit it, the real reason you watch American 'football' is the tights.

[TokyoT]

C'mon admit it, the real reason you watch American 'football' is the tights.

Yes, yes those cheerleaders look good in and out of their tights.

Certainly more fun watching American Football cheerleaders than watch European Football players taking a dive.

[icecubes]

Fat guys can play. (Don't under estimate the importance of this point in the good old US of A)

I never new most Americans played football.

thats a lot of large size tights.

[hiromj]

Fat guys can play. (Don't under estimate the importance of this point in the good old US of A)

I never new most Americans played football.

thats a lot of large size tights.

Most Americans (males) have played football at some point in their lives, mostly high school. It's serious, hard hitting, dangerous, and a great sport to watch once you know the rules. Just can't get into the other "football".

[somchai jones]

Fat guys can play. (Don't under estimate the importance of this point in the good old US of A)

I never new most Americans played football.

thats a lot of large size tights.

Most Americans (males) have played football at some point in their lives, mostly high school. It's serious, hard hitting, dangerous, and a great sport to watch once you know the rules. Just can't get into the other "football".

If we're talking about a real hard hitting game where no prisoners are taken, let's talk rugby.

Enjoyed by the Brits, Aussies, Kiwis, Springboks, etc, etc, no tights, no silly helmets just good hard tackles.

[hiromj]

Fat guys can play. (Don't under estimate the importance of this point in the good old US of A)

I never new most Americans played football.

thats a lot of large size tights.

Most Americans (males) have played football at some point in their lives, mostly high school. It's serious, hard hitting, dangerous, and a great sport to watch once you know the rules. Just can't get into the other "football".

If we're talking about a real hard hitting game where no prisoners are taken, let's talk rugby.

Enjoyed by the Brits, Aussies, Kiwis, Springboks, etc, etc, no tights, no silly helmets just good hard tackles.

Agreed. I know many Aussies that refer to American football as "Rugby with pads". I'm not a Rugby expert but I do know that it is also a serious game played by very big people. I saw on Japanese television a story about female Rugby players in Australia and they were huge.

[somchai jones]

Fat guys can play. (Don't under estimate the importance of this point in the good old US of A)

I never new most Americans played football.

thats a lot of large size tights.

Most Americans (males) have played football at some point in their lives, mostly high school. It's serious, hard hitting, dangerous, and a great sport to watch once you know the rules. Just can't get into the other "football".

If we're talking about a real hard hitting game where no prisoners are taken, let's talk rugby.

Enjoyed by the Brits, Aussies, Kiwis, Springboks, etc, etc, no tights, no silly helmets just good hard tackles.

Agreed. I know many Aussies that refer to American football as "Rugby with pads". I'm not a Rugby expert but I do know that it is also a serious game played by very big people. I saw on Japanese television a story about female Rugby players in Australia and they were huge.

Yes, on the whole played by big guys. There are exceptions, e.g. the scrum halfs, but even the smaller fellas are still tough, fit blokes.

Also, without wishing to sound sexist though I undoubtably will, the female players are so big and ugly that they are more like blokes than women!

[TokyoT]

Is the reason they don't wear tights in Rubgy so that it is easier to p*ss on the field?

Or do the tights clash with the All Blacks new handbags?

Is there a rule in Rugby about p*ssing on the field?

Or is that some kind of local (All Black's) ritual?

Seems to have worked (All Blacks 32 – Wallabies 12) – maybe Mr. Collins should part take in this ritual for the rest of the Tri-Nations?

Edited July 13, 2006 by TokyoT

[somchai jones]

Is the reason they don't wear tights in Rubgy so that it is easier to p*ss on the field?

Or do the tights clash with the All Blacks new handbags?

Is there a rule in Rugby about p*ssing on the field?

Or is that some kind of local (All Black's) ritual?

Seems to have worked (All Blacks 32 – Wallabies 12) – maybe Mr. Collins should part take in this ritual for the rest of the Tri-Nations?

No worries about pissing on the field mate, rugby players aren't afraid to take their pr*cks out.

American 'football' players on the other hand, wouldn't want to stain their tights; a little bit like male ballet dancers!