It’s not insular.
How could a rugby ball ever be called a football?
[quote=“farmerinthecity”]It’s not insular.
How could a rugby ball ever be called a football?[/quote]
i believe the ball used for aussie rules is called a football also…
got a definition for you if it makes it easier farmer…
A football is a ball used to play one of the various sports known as football. In the distant past, crude balls such as inflated pigs’ bladders were used, but balls are now designed by teams of engineers to exacting specifications. Each code of football uses a different ball, though they all belong to one of two different basic shapes:
a sphere: used in Association football (soccer) and Gaelic football
a prolate spheroid (‘oval-shaped’)
either with rounded ends: used in Rugby football and Australian football
or with more pointed ends: used in American football and Canadian football
and another difinition as to why it is called rugby football…
any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other’s goal
Why is American “Football” so called when the ball is so rarely kicked and the two players on a team who do kick it ie the field goal kicker and the piunter are the most looked down upon in the game? Just a thought.
In fairness, I don’t just pick on rugby. I call American Football ‘Gridiron’ and I call rugby ‘Ridiculous Crap’.
I think you’ll find that it’s baseball that is ridiculous crap.
the likes of rugby, american football and aussie rules etc all can thace their origins back to association football and have roughly the same idea in principle…they all probably just kept the word football for their respective ball as they were used to calling it that…
Nah, pretty sure that’s rugby.
You will concede possession to the opposition if you push the ball forward with your hand.
But in what form will play restart?
We’ll get 8 men from each team to shove their heads up each other’s arseholes and push.
Ridiculous carry on.
That Dempsey gobshite on Setanta.
‘We have two games for you this afternoon. Liverpool and Stoke first and then Bolton and Arsenal later on. All this and you have Pat Dolan thrown in as well.’
Everything that idiot Lou Macari says is stupid as well.
Karlsson was standing over his ball and he faced a shot over a lake to the green.
On-course reporter Howard Clark sized matters up and uttered, ‘He really needs to get this ball up in the air.’
No shit Howard.
When Priesident McAleese was being introduced to the Tyrone players Ger Canning was commenting on the facial hair on some of the Tyrone players and says
“I hope poor Gilette won’t go out of business what with the current recession we are in”
I realise how futile it is putting up Ger Canning comments on this thread, (A bit like nominating/voting for Flano in Idiot of the month) but this comment was so stupid I just had to add it.
“That was almost John Terry-esque”
Andy Gray, as Alex threw himself in front of a shot in the Chelsea United game on Sunday.
What a fooking retard.
Colm O Rourke is a proper jerk.
Which commentator or pundit is that quote from?
Dion Dublin talking about Spurs’ gutless performance today:
‘I don’t see any leaders there. When I was playing with Norwich last season, I was a leader. Darren Huckerby was a leader too. Spurs don’t have anyone like that.’
I know Spurs are rubbish but I reckon they’re not quite at the stage of needing Huckerby to sign for them in January.
Ruud Gullit tonight:
“Celtic’s problem is the league they play in. They have only a few games that are at a good level. They have Glasgow Rangers and maybe Dundee and the rest of the teams aren’t good enough.”
God love him. Dundee! They’ll be some force when they get back to the SPL.
Clive Tyldesley tonight saying Paul Scholes got up off the stretcher and onto his feet rather gingerly.
Excellent stuff from Tyldesley. Comic genius
frank in home alone! i think its the appropiate word to describe Colm O Rourke. Im not even going to bother justifying why I picked him, the main reason is his slating of the Wexford football team despite their achievement this year, obviously he hates Wexford cos they embarrased Meath this year and so on…
Have to agree on O’Rourke. A competely incompetent analyser and general wankstain.
Anyone hear Dunphy going on last night about how United don’t have any real imposing men in their team like John Terry and Frank Lampard?
Thought I was on Sky for a second.