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[daxy1]

na mean na!

soz beef!

innit!

[JoeTerp]

Not that I'm America-bashing or anything, but I hate the use of the word "awesome". Invariably, whatever is being described as "awesome" is most likely or generally abso-bleedin'-lutely NOT awesome.

Judge: "I hate where people who are not from Liverpool try to speak Scouse on this forum"....Calm down, calm down, eh ?

(Sorry - couldn't resist that   )

awseome is the funnest word to say ever. I usually throw a boston accent on it to make it even more fun.

[JoeTerp]

Already (American style)

"*insert ......any..... sentence...* - ALREADY!"

Why the feck do the Yanks chuck "already" at the end of ANY sentence?

it means your doing something to slowly.

I think it was big in New York in the 90s or by annoying spoiled california girls don't really here it said in that context anymore

[JoeTerp]

Also, the way you guys use "just about" is the opposite of what it means over here. In America, if somebody "just about" made a catch, they dove for the ball and did NOT actually catch it despite coming close. But I hear all time after a save is made that the keeper "just about got to that one."

[JoeTerp]

I hate the word confident. Like "you just need to be confident"  "girls like guys that are confident"   Last time I checked, I thought that you had to be confident about something. As In I am confident that Liverpool will not sign Gareth Barry this summer. I am confident that if I jump off of a 30 story building that I will die. Don't understand using the same word in the context of "being confident."

And the way it is thrown around in the British sports world is crazy as well. Its such a self fulfilling prophecy. According to how confidence and sports works over there, whoever wins the first game of the season should win all the rest of their games because they now have the confidence to move forward and continue to win. Apparently you can't win without confidence, and you can't have confidence without winning, so the loosing managers say we just need that bit of luck to go our way so we can get our confidence back. Well if it was all a matter of luck, than why would that make you confident? because you would know it wasn't your skill that got you the win it was the bit of luck.

[Kharhaz]

"soccer"

That isnt a word. Bloody yanks class "Padded Rugby" as football where only the quarterback uses his foot, and the game that is football, where people use there foot, as "soccer".

Bloody soccer, get a grip !

[The Manhattan Project]

Manhattan should mention that contrary to popular belief "soccer" is a word of British origin, not American, and is a perfectly acceptable alternative word for the beautiful game, which originates from the words asSOCiation football.

"Soccer" is comparable to calling the game "footie" or calling rugby "rugger"




Manhattan is full of useless facts of dubious origin.

[Kharhaz]

Manhattan should mention that contrary to popular belief "soccer" is a word of British origin, not American, and is a perfectly acceptable alternative word for the beautiful game, which originates from the words asSOCiation football.

"Soccer" is comparable to calling the game "footie" or calling rugby "rugger"




Manhattan is full of useless facts of dubious origin.

DAMMIT ! errrr....Manhattan smells.... yeah that will do !

[Kharhaz]

NEW YORK (AP) - New York City has many odors, but when the city began to smell a little too good, New Yorkers became alarmed.

Residents from the southern tip of Manhattan to the Upper West Side nearly 10 miles north called a city hot line to report a strong odor Thursday night that most compared to maple syrup, The New York Times reported Friday.

There were so many calls that the city's Office of Emergency Management coordinated efforts with the Police and Fire Departments, the Coast Guard and the City Department of Environmental Protection to find the source of the mysterious smell.

Air tests haven't turned up anything harmful, but the source was still a mystery.

"We are continuing to sample the air throughout the affected area to make sure there's nothing hazardous," said Jarrod Bernstein, an emergency management spokesman. "What the actual cause of the smell is, we really don't know."

Although many compared the smell to maple syrup, others said it reminded them of vanilla coffee or freshly-baked cake. All seemed to agree that it was a welcome change from the usual city smells.

"It's like maple syrup. With Eggos (waffles). Or pancakes," Arturo Padilla told The Times as he walked in Lower Manhattan. "It's pleasant."

Manhattan Smells

Told ya !

[Bad Bob]

where only the quarterback uses his foot

Erm, no, actually.  The quarterback throws the ball, whereas both the place kicker and the punter use their feet. 

[Kharhaz]

where only the quarterback uses his foot

Erm, no, actually.  The quarterback throws the ball, whereas both the place kicker and the punter use their feet. 

Oh FFS ! OK IM WRONG ! I thought I got away with it, obviously not ! But the quarterback can kick it cant he ! The american football league mostly use there hands, and the feet, stick with that while I root around for answers to back up mine !

[Bad Bob]

where only the quarterback uses his foot

Erm, no, actually.  The quarterback throws the ball, whereas both the place kicker and the punter use their feet. 

Oh FFS ! OK IM WRONG ! I thought I got away with it, obviously not ! But the quarterback can kick it cant he ! The american football league mostly use there hands, and the feet, stick with that while I root around for answers to back up mine !

Well, I suppose the quarterback could kick it, technically speaking, but never does. From at least high school teams on up to pro level, there are specialist kickers for such things and the quarterback just focuses on calling the plays and distributing the ball with his hands (throwing or handing off).  On the bright side, your basic point is correct: American 'football' has very little kicking relative to 'soccer'.

[JoeTerp]

If you watched 10,000 games of American football you would be lucky to watch a quarterback kick the ball once. Part of the strategy behind it is similar to what I see sometimes in Rugby league and that is when you punt it away a tackle before it would normally make sense in order to catch the other team off guard and allow for minimal return or extra long bounce.  Don't see it much in the higher levels because there is always the chance of getting a penalty and an automatic reset of the downs, or you actually pick up the amount of yards required.

Also there is the even more rare drop kick, which is like a punt after first letting the ball touch the ground, and it counts the same as a field goal. The thinking is that there is no holder required so you can have an extra blocker, but that isn't really a big deal and its very risky to try and make a drop kick.  Doug Flutie made one in a blowout a couple years ago just because it hadn't happened in an NFL game for 50+ years or something.  I also read a book one time where a qb converted a dropkick on a bad snap on an extra point, but it was a really old book that my dad read when he was a kid.

[andy_g]

The thinking is that there is no holder required so you can have an extra blocker, but that isn't really a big deal and its very risky to try and make a drop kick.  Doug Flutie made one in a blowout a couple years ago just because it hadn't happened in an NFL game for 50+ years or something.  I also read a book one time where a qb converted a dropkick on a bad snap on an extra point, but it was a really old book that my dad read when he was a kid.

i have absolutely no idea what any of that means...

[bunglemark2]

The thinking is that there is no holder required so you can have an extra blocker, but that isn't really a big deal and its very risky to try and make a drop kick.  Doug Flutie made one in a blowout a couple years ago just because it hadn't happened in an NFL game for 50+ years or something.  I also read a book one time where a qb converted a dropkick on a bad snap on an extra point, but it was a really old book that my dad read when he was a kid.

i have absolutely no idea what any of that means...

LOL !!
Have to agree there Andy...PLUS, I reckon American Football is perhaps THE most dull field game in the world...second to baseball, maybe third place cricket...

Now, if you can see it anywhere, do a search for 'hurling'. Watch that for a while. Mad sport..The best field game in the world.