OT - Can we speak American now?

A spill the Brits caused.  One more reason to call it Soccer. 

P.S. Said with a laugh.

I doubt the Germans, Italians, Argentinians feel compelled to use the British terms.  They have their own vernacular for those terms, just like we do.

Am I the only one who finds it silly when someone who would otherwise say "The US team is well conditioned and has excellent speed" when speaking about any other sport, feels they have to pretend they are British and say something like "The US side are fit and have brilliant pace" when talking about footie, er, soccer.

I have to admit, it does sound lovely when the British World Cup broadcasters say it.  Were it to come out of the mouth of someone like Kirk Herbstreit?  Uh, not so much. 

If footballl and futbol are pronounced the same way, how do you know if someone is saying futbol instead of football?

Its "Freedom Bol"!

I do enjoy the world cup a ton (though this one has kinda sucked IMO)

Wait, what?

I've found this WC to be 100x better than this year's NCAA Basketball tournament, the entire NCAA basketball season, the NBA playoffs, the NHL Stanley Cup finals (the whole playoff outweighs it), anything resembling Michigan's football season (damn you CiLs!), any rugby game I've ever seen, and the Super Bowl.

The only sporting events that have remotely come close over the last year or so was the Olympic hockey games, and Michigan's resurgence to end the hockey year, and on a personal note, the last few weeks of college baseball I've traveled to see, including TCU's last few games and their series in Austin. The last one only because I was there in person for two of the best games of the year.

This has been an exciting WC with several good games spread out, a little bit of controversy to drive interest, and quite a bit of drama around the team I root for. I can't complain.

just made me cackle so loud I almost woke up my daughter.  My wife, in a rage, ran quietly into the computer room and hissed "What the fuck are you doing!?  She's sleeping!"

She was very unimpressed and confused when I whispered "Sorry, I'm bored and it's still something like 67 days to fussyball season."

any time. I would most certainly introduce the american terminology, 'instant replay'.

I'd really love to know who these mythical Brits are, because I've never once heard a British person say STUPID AMAERICAN YOUR SPORT IS CALLED GRIDIRON LOLOLOL.

I've only heard maybe 1 British person even say "Gridiron". Most just call it American Football.

The Brits I know refer to it as "handegg" which... makes some sense iyam.

When I was in Australia, people called it gridiron, but they have several kinds of 'football' over there to keep straight.

Classy...

you may want to locate the <shift> key on your keyboard.

Truer words have never been spoken...the MLS team names are just awful.  There's got to be a middle ground between ridiculous American-style team names (Seattle Sounders, Columbus Crew) and the sadly pathetic attempts at copying the big European clubs (Real Salt Lake, DC United) but most of the teams have not found it.  LA Galaxy and Chicago Fire aren't bad, but the others....yeesh.  All the good players in the world aren't going to make anyone respect the MLS with team names like that.  At least the Tampa Bay Mutiny aren't around anymore, that one was probably the worst.

Souldongpunchball? Or is that too bulky?