Why Do American’s Change Everything??
August 2, 2008
Lauren
Tags: America, American, foot, football, hand, john cleese, soccer
This is a video from John Cleese, which to me hits the nail right on the head when it comes to American’s stealing everything from us, just to then totally change its meaning all together. Just why do American’s call our football soccer??? Are they too lazy to say football??? But then again, they don’t even play football with their feet do they so why not call it handball???
I think this is a touchy subject for the Americans having just looked at the comments left under this video on YouTube…i think i saw a comment that said ‘why does the name matter so much? Fuck you Europeans!’ Touchy touchy
If anyone can explain the rules of American ‘Football’ to me then i will die slightly more ‘intelligent’ than i already am…
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mao | August 4, 2008 at 12:04 am
Yeah, lots of Yanks hate soccer. It’s really too bad because it’s such a fun game. I think it’s ultimately an inferiority complex that made Americans call the game soccer and name their own football game, which is really originally based on rugby. Americans will always be really bad at soccer compared to Europeans, though don’t forget about the 1950 World Cup!
Either way, this is a really funny video.
ps – nice weekend by our Spurs and your man Bentley!