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minus-squareZamboni_Driver@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down6·3 months agoSeems like you have a pretty strong opinion for someone who doesn’t give a shit 😂
minus-squarex00z@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months ago that no other country in the world partakes in. Well there’s rugby. Maybe they should call it American rugby.
minus-squareohulancutash@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 months agoToo much body armour to be called rugby.
minus-squarequpada@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 months agoAlso far too many clock stoppages. Rugby: an 80-minute game that completes in around 100 minutes, inclusive of the 15 minute break between halves. Gridiron: a 60-minute game that inexplicably takes 3.5 hours. Very little fucking about in rugby, they just get on with it.
minus-squaresauerkrautsaul@lemmus.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoin Ireland it often will get called soccer a lot of the time because football means Gaelic Football (depending on some context), but then sometimes they definitely say football for english football and gaelic for gaelic
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Seems like you have a pretty strong opinion for someone who doesn’t give a shit 😂
Well there’s rugby.
Maybe they should call it American rugby.
Too much body armour to be called rugby.
Also far too many clock stoppages.
Rugby: an 80-minute game that completes in around 100 minutes, inclusive of the 15 minute break between halves.
Gridiron: a 60-minute game that inexplicably takes 3.5 hours.
Very little fucking about in rugby, they just get on with it.
in Ireland it often will get called soccer a lot of the time because football means Gaelic Football (depending on some context), but then sometimes they definitely say football for english football and gaelic for gaelic
*angry metric noises*