We Finally Beat the Hurricanes!

[MillsJROSS]

By we, I mean FSU (American) Football, and by Hurricanes I mean the University of Miami. Most of you probably won't be excited at all by this, but for the past five years we've lost to them six times (we played them twice last year), and they have all been close games. Games where we were ahead and they caught up, and games where if we had a good kicker we would have won. I went to the game expecting the same thing to happen. We scored ten points in the first quarter and Miami didn't get anything, but they were Miami and they have a knack for catching up. Second quarter they score a touch down, making the score FSU 10, Miami 7. If it was any other team I'd still be excited about having the lead, but this had been the situation for the past five years, we start out well and they finish well. Third quarter yielded nothing. We were one yard away from goal, on first down, and by golly if their defense didn't shut us out and bring us back four yards and another five for a penalty, and we missed the kick from 9 yards away. Fourth quarter. This is the one. I'm feeling absolute dread in my stomach. This is the quarter that Miami excells at. And for a tense thirteen minutes as the ball goes back and forth, mainly because both teams have an excellent defence and both have a lacking offense. Miami is at field goal range, two minutes to go for the game...fourth down...and they fumble. And that's when I realise as long as we can eat two minutes from the clock, we've beaten them. Which is exactly what happened. WE WON! We beat the curse.

I'm sorry if this bored you all, but this is easily the most memorable game that I've been to. And it definatly makes you feel good when the fans tell you that you kept the team strong (I'm in the band, Marching Chiefs, and if you've seen a FSU game, you're bound to have heard us). So that's really all. I'm excited and wished to share with you all.

-MillsJROSS

[Kinoko]

Faaantastic Great thread title at an appropriate time.

[Vel]

And CSKA Sofia beat Liverpool at Anfield.

I mean, real football.

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[Privateer Puddin']

That's not nearly a big a deal as you think it is, Vel. ¬¬

[Vel]

Well not for a team such as Real Madrid or Machester United... Now we gotta eliminate Bayer leverkusen in the Uefa cup ¬_¬

[Las Naranjas]

Liverpool is still in the top flight? OMG!

[Anarcho]

How did I know that a thread about football would immediately veer into a thread about soccer?

[Privateer Puddin']

Spoiler

a thread about football is about 'soccer' (horrible word), a thread about american football is about american football

[close]

[Anarcho]

Right, except this thread is about football, not soccer.   

[Mr Jake]

I think his point was that its not. Its about American Football, not REAL football!

[Anarcho]

And my point was football is football.  Not soccer!

Hotspot.

[Helm]

most of the world calls soccer football

let's continue having this interesting conversation.

[Nikolas]

And my point was football is football.Ã,  Not soccer!

Ok. can somebody tell me the difference?

Anyway, there are at least how many (?) different kinds of balls, no?

[Nacho]

As said before... I am quite pro american, I tend to believe that the supposed "European moral superiority" is assuming too much, blah, blah, blah...

But in this case:

Calling American football football is IMO quite silly. The only plays which require to kick the ball are the kick off, the field goal, the extragoal and the punt (AFAIK).

Only one player could do that. Calling all the sport "Football" when only one player could do the "foot job" is IMO ridiculous.

I think it could be called "Threwball" or "Yardgain" or "Endzone".

Soccer is played with feet. All the players can touch the ball with the feet, and only one is allowed to touch the ball with the hands in a very specific area. Soccer is Football. Football is whatever you wanna call it but football.

[joke]Anarch, if you don't accept it, your invitation to come to Spain next year won't be valid.[/joke]

[Anarcho]

Look, I understand that it's strange that Americans call soccer soccer and football football, but that's just the way it is.  295,734,134 Americans aren't going to one day wake up and say, "man, we should call Football...Yardgain!"  That's about as likely as the rest of the world calling football soccer.

And I'm largely joking by the way...you just have to understand how, in the US, if you were to say..."hey guys, wanna go play some American Football?" people would look at you like you're crazy.  It's all so complicated, given that there are 600-700 million people in the world who speak english regularly, but it's often an almost different language.

nikolasideris--In the United States, football refers to a different sport: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football

It's actually a very fun, exciting sport.  Sounds like a great game MillsJROSS.

[Nikolas]

As soon as I saw the ball on the picture in the wikepedia, I knew what you were talking about.

It's just that I was always playing... soccer, and I've never played American-football (and since I'm European, I get to use the term... )

[aussie]

In Australia football refers to rugby most of the time.

Just my two cents.

[Nacho]

This is so funny! 

[Las Naranjas]

At least, it does in the eastern states Aussie.

I believe soccer is derived from assoc., which was the abbreviation used to indicate that games were being played by the football association under the codified rules called "Association Football", which is the official name.

The most absolutely stupid thing anyone can do is claim that one sport has a right to the name "Football". It was, and always has been, a wide plethora of sports which later became codified in different forms. No sport has any more right to it than another.

P.S American Football [usually called Gridiron here] sucks

[SSH]

I'd just like to take a moment to bask in the happiness that is Scotland beating a good team AND England losing to a crap team ON THE SAME DAY. 

Thank you. I think that this proves that there is a God.