Why do americans play girl games?

[Bagpuss]

Basketball=Netball
Baseball=Rounders

But then in the US, soccer is a girls game. How did this confusion begin?

Can we not standardise man sports accross continents. Just wondered.

[Mich the Tester]

US Football = glorified pillow fight

[Doggy Styles]

US Football = glorified pillow fight

Mmm, pillow fights in the girls dorm.

[Bagpuss]

US Football = glorified pillow fight

They seem to go forward a few feet then some bloke blows a whistle. Plus why do they need all that body armour? Breaking your neck and bashing your brains never did our rugby players any harm!

[Mich the Tester]

I just spoke to a chap from Afghanistan called Al, and he says the yanks are a bunch of woofters.

[Mich the Tester]

Plus why do they need all that body armour, breaking your neck and bashing your brains never did our rugby players any harm!

Indeed. The British empire wasn't built by overgrown babies in padded 1980s power suits, but solid chaps who didn't complain about the odd bout of quadriplegia and just went out and got on with giving fuzzy-wuzzies a good whacking.

[expat]

Basketball=Netball
Baseball=Rounders

But then in the US, soccer is a girls game. How did this confusion begin?

Can we not standardise man sports accross continents. Just wondered.

Netball was developed from baseball, not the other way round.

Rounders was the poor man's cricket: the egalitarian Americans adopted that as the basis for their baseball because it was the people's game.

[BrilloPad]

I hate them declaring themselves world champions in sports only they play.

[ratewhore]

I just spoke to a chap from Afghanistan called Al, and he says the yanks are a bunch of woofters.

Don't mention the war...

[Doggy Styles]

Netball was developed from baseball, not the other way round.

F*** me, they changed the rules a bit then.