John Cleese rants - Soccer vs Football

John Cleese tells the truth. From the excellent documentary "The Art of Football from A to Z". More info @ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804228/

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Comedy

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• soccer
• football
• cleese
• rant

[YWKMNITLWILMVAT]

I think sports by nature fuels the dark side of humanity (the desire to overpower and dominate one and other and enjoy a good time at our neighbors expense) but I agree with this fellow 100%. By calling American football the all-American sport is an insult that frankly is being justified by our mindless culture. I get the impression that we're being deliberately taught to be idiots. It's not hard to see the political advantage to tyrants in idiots doing the voting. And we DO vote like idiots.

[kshhashim]

@HillsideKlepht so how many countries play AMERICAN FOOTBALL? baseball is not even popular as cricket lol...too slow too boring.

[HillsideKlepht]

@kshhashim last time I checked all the best baseball players from the around the world play in MLB so to say it's just "by americans" is just another ignorant statement in a long line of ignorance I've seen from people on this message board talking about american sports.... it's like whenever Europeans talk about the USA they all turn into big raging cunts.

[HillsideKlepht]

@adampb23 calling a sport boring is ignorant now? well then you are ignorant for thinking (american) football is boring.... you see how easy that is?

[HillsideKlepht]

@anonUK exactly.... so soccer was coined by europeans and given to Americans, we just held on to the word while the Brits let it go.... "American football is essentially rugby" you know... you dont like it when we Americans spout off our ignorance, and we equally don't like it when you do the same... and that statement is just ignorant, the sports are very very different. their evolutions and style of play are just so different, it's not even close really.

[HillsideKlepht]

@e77net actually the US is NOT the only country who calls it soccer.... that word is used in Australia, New Zeleand, Canada and the US.... all places where the brits left their influence, "soccer" was made up by the brits, who also came up with the rules for the sport.... so stop blaming us for mislabeling your sport... Europeans came up with the name and we just stuck to it!

[e77net]

america is a continent, not a country, us people only call soccer, rest of america named futbol!!!

[anonUK]

@HillsideKlepht

Well, "soccer" was used for asSOCiation football, while in English public schools at least (that is, top end private schools), "rugger" was short for RUGby football (that is, rugby union as opposed to the Northern English game rugby league). American Football is essentially rugby, but with even less claim to be a form of football. Also, the fact you have to be dressed like Terminator to play American "football" is another major difference between that and rugby.

[RealMadrid281997]

@klm4298 Perp Los pelotudos pie San q son Los Unicom americanos

[RealMadrid281997]

@bkillian231 I understand the rules and I have watched it for me the game is fucking boring that's just my opinion