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1927 wrote:

bmb|danCer wrote:

1927 wrote:

It's the biggest adrenaline rush you will ever experience at football.  I'm not a hoolie but have been caught up loads of times.  You'd be suprised about the people who join in these activities, people from all ages I have seen, youngest being 14 sh oldest being in there 60's, I kid you not.

I do not condone violence, certanly not at football, but it happens.

The german government shitted their pants totally because of their fear because of hools coming to the championships.

It's ridiculous. They should worry about having enough beer at the stadiums.

I been banging this drum for a while now so forgive me if you have already read it.

I was in Berlin last year and locals scared the life out of me. Young lads wearing stomper boots, skin heads, and all had dogs.  If England or anyone else think they can go and "own" a city they will have the shock of there life.

Thats Berlin for you I can't speak about other areas

Yes, unfortunately. Berlin got the most skinheads, i think.
But feel free to contact the green guys (The guys).
They are hard to find sometimes because of their green dresses. One of the only countries with green police uniforms.

swaggie wrote:

Football = Aussie Rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Played with an inflatable egg on a cricket pitch.

next ...

Instant spell in the jail thanks to Mrs Merkel (or whoever runs that side of the country). Brits been wanred to leave them home along with saluts and anything else offensive. Rightly so aswell, its 2006 now, time to move on.

Lets hope the usual boring anti German songs dont appear cos they arnt funny and never were.

Go AFL!  The Mighty Blues!  Spread thy influence!

I prefer the second. Love watching football, and Im a BEAST as QB.

Purse That Made Rugby Player Cry for Sale
Reuters
SYDNEY (June 2) - New Zealand rugby fans are bidding thousands of dollars for the chance to own the handbag that reduced a burly All Blacks player to tears.


In one of the more bizarre off-field sporting incidents, former New Zealand captain Tana Umaga tangled with Hurricanes club team mate Chris Masoe in a nightclub after losing the prestigious Super 14 tournament final last Saturday.


Masoe, who has played two tests for New Zealand, tripped over a man's feet in the Jolly Poacher bar in Christchurch early last Sunday and then hit the unidentified man in retaliation.


Umaga, one of New Zealand's greatest players who played 74 tests for the All Blacks, stepped in to break up the scuffle, picking up a woman's handbag and hitting Masoe twice over the head.


Rugby players are among the toughest in sport, regularly ignoring the pain of dislocations, head cuts and other aches and sprains but being hit with a handbag was too much for a tired and emotional Masoe.


The hefty 233-pound Samoan-born forward dissolved into tears, New Zealand media reported this week.


Adding to the indignity, rugby officials fined him $3,000 in New Zealand dollars, or $1,890, after an inquiry into the incident but let Umaga off because he was trying to calm things down.


The unidentified woman who owns the small black handbag has put it up for sale, as well as a broken cell phone that was inside it.


The Trade Me Web site (www.trademe.co.nz) had received 71 bids for the handbag and phone by Friday, the latest offering $5,500 in New Zealand dollars, or $3,500.


"Is there any guarantee hitting someone with this will make them cry?" one potential bidder asked on the Web site.


"Does it come with any makeup included? Do you have any matching belts or shoes?" asked another.

GunSlinger OIF II wrote:

Purse That Made Rugby Player Cry for Sale
Reuters



The Trade Me Web site (www.trademe.co.nz) had received 71 bids for the handbag and phone by Friday, the latest offering $5,500 in New Zealand dollars, or $3,500.

It sold for $22,800.00 NZD

football is...zzzzz

RUGBY FTW!
AFL FTW!

AFL is a mixture of rugby, football and ultimate fighting competition.

yerded wrote:

football is...zzzzz

Football is the biggest sport in the world. More people like football that don't like football. That means the "haters" are the minority, no one ever listens to the minority.

If a film gets called for eg "zzzzzzz" nobody goes to see it, ie waterworld.

Perhaps you'd rather describe football as something else?  The football world cup is the biggest sporting even in the world, it's bigger than the olympics.  More people watch the WC, more money is brought in through sponsors.

My GF will watch a game with me and say "football is shit".  Yes of course all of those people we can see at just the 1 game have been paid to go and watch, and they got dragged by there hair kicking and screaming.

Yeah right.  If you don't like something don't rubbish it, just admit you don't like it, no body will mind.

obmit666 wrote:

xintegrityx wrote:

American football players wear pads because it's much harder on the body than European football. I know European football is also a contact sport but not to the extent that American football is - take for example the wedge breaker, whose sole purpose is slam into the "wedge" formation of players on the kicking team to break the formation. Imagine having a 230-pound man running at full speed directly into you, and you're not wearing pads. That's what I thought. The hits in American football are much harder. Although American football is based on rugby, and rugby players don't wear much protection - so I have to give them respect for that, although it's maybe a bit stupid.

But.......surely.......they only slam into each other, because they wear all that pansy arsed body armour.
Take it away from them and then see how hard they hit each other.

Yeah obviously people are going to be more brave when they're wearing pads. But in the early days they didn't wear nearly as much padding and there were probably a lot more injuries. The padding was added as a preventative measure in a sport that calls for grown men running headlong into each other, which really isn't safe without armor.

Last edited by xintegrityx (2006-06-06 09:00:21)