"touchdown"

>"touchdown"
>the "ball" never touches the ground

>"rug"by
>played on grass

>New Zealand
>so unimportant it gets routinely left off maps

Nothing about the terms of football, including the name, make much sense.

>"New" Zealand
>178 years old

>Drumpf land

>"socc"er
>they actually slurp

>"United" States
>Most divided country on earth

Holy shit you're gay

>Australia

What's your fucking problem?

>"Goal"
>Nothing was actually achieved minus kicking a ball around a few defenders

>griget
>no grig

>side out
>Perfectly logical sequence of events where teams leave the side they are playing on

>putting “ball” in quotes

>rugby
>not played on a rug

I wonder what they called it before the forward pass was introduced.

kinda makes sense when you view it as rugby with a lateral pass. what made it really fucking confusing was having it platoon football where defense and offense are different

>nothing but something

Ok amerifat

>United "States"
>a state consisting of provinces

>baseball
>all of it does not belong to us

underrated

Dumb frog frog

>"Sup Forums - sports"
>allows soccer discussion
i don't get it either

>fencing
>competitors fight with swords not fence posts

*Gronkspikes ur mum*

>bowling
>no use of pottery or fine china

>grand slam home run
>not slamming the ball at home while running

frogs protest everyday so they can get more days off to eat snails

>bumping a thread after 10 hours for this shockingly poor attempt at banter

>Skipper
>Doesn't skip

>Captain

>Doesn't even own a ship

>coxswain
>isn't gay twink

>Manager
>Does no managing whatsoever

It was still called football. The forward pass wasn't introduced until 40 years later and the forward pass didn't become a regular thing until roughly twenty years after that as the halfback was still seen as the most important aspect of offense

Holy shit you're retarded.

>coach
>isn't a large people carrying vehicle

wow usa BTFO how can they ever recover?

>Fan

>Not a giant metallic whirring blade

He manages players and tactics you brain dead retard

>go"al"
>nobody on the team is named Al

Fpbp

>Phil Younghusband
>30 and not even married

That is fairly new though

>try
>worth 5 points, not 3

kek

>all blacks
>bunch of polynesians and white dudes

That makes sense though. The country is without a real name (America doesn't really count) because at it's literally just some united states. Compare that to Mexico, literally the United Mexican States but it goes by Mexico.

kek

Criminally underrated

>Homerun
>The player doesn't go home

>Field goal
>The ball goes out of the field

>safety
>QB got tackled in the endzone, that wasn't very safe

yes he does

>safety
>hits people really hard

>janitors
>don't clean or earning compensation

And don't you forget it

t.wog

(OP)
The term touchdown arose out of America's space exploration legacy. Meticulous preparation and exact precision go into execution on the field and launchpad. When descending onto a far off world and consummating our position above the rest of the world it only makes sense to say we've "touched down."

>cricket
>not even an insect that communicates with audible signalling

>trying to tie non-conjunctive nonsence together
>thinking it's funny enough to post
I feel sorry for you and your interaction with those around you.

>manchester """""united"""""
>theres 2 teams in Manchester

It's a 'goal' from the field of play (as opposed to the endzone)

But the player does retard

and the rest you mong

Of course it does, that’s why players customarily spike the ball once they score. It dates back to the early years in football where the first player to set the ball in the end zone got the point. Even though rule changes no longer require it many players will spike it or hand it to the ref to let them do it out of respect. If you notice players throwing balls in the stands get penalized that’s why, it’s considered rude and unsportsmanlike.

What?

>But the player does retard
The ball only needs to break the plane. The player doesn't need to touch the endzone at all. Now who's the retard?

>But the player does retard
Not true faggot, you can just reach over the line

fine, then the ball touches down in a plane normal to the ground :^)

you can't win 'ere m8

It's an old rugby term

However the explanation is very simple

As long as the player has control of the ball, the ball and the player are essentially a single thing. So if the player isn't in bounds that includes the ball it doesn't count.

Like your feet can be out of bounds and you catch a pass. It's not a touch down. As long as the last time you touched the ground was in bounds, if the ball breaks the plane of the goal, it's a touch down.

that's why it's called a touch-down

hence touchdown

>"cricket"
>no insects involved

>freekick
>it costs getting hit by your adversary

>"face-off"
>nobody loses their face