Posted by Bippity10:
Posted by ramtour420:
Lol, football only means 1 thing outside of US. In every other country it means soccer. Interesting that football in america is a name of a sport where the ball is not even touched with feet like 99% of the game. Whats even more interesting is that every american i talk to about this is very proud of their "football" and most feel almost offended to find out that they call football is not really football. The term used in Russia(not sure about other countries) is "American football"
Those silly americans
Football in US is not only a sport game. I think the sport game is just a small part of it.
It is cultural phenomenon. Whole families are following it for generation. It is place to meet and place to celebrate.
It is in the language and in the movies, in books and in stories.
Soccer is more of a sport not a national tradition. Except may be Brazil, Argentina, and some other Latin American countries where soccer is almost same as football for Americans.
Same is true and even more so about Baseball.
These 2 games are difficult to understand if you are new to US. They look boring if you have no knowledge of a bunch of stuff unrelated to what is going on the field.
But if someone want to understand American people he must understand this 2 games.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Hamlet
