Girly sports?
#1
Girly sports?
OK, I gotta ask... why do yanks take the piss and say/think that football (soccer) is a girls sport? I don't think I have ever heard one say... 'oh yeah nice game'.
They have American football basically padded up rugby (right?) and Baseball aka rounders (not trying to sound sexest, don't flame me I am female too) but it is/was mostly played by girls only when I was at school... and they take the piss out of footie?
Ash
They have American football basically padded up rugby (right?) and Baseball aka rounders (not trying to sound sexest, don't flame me I am female too) but it is/was mostly played by girls only when I was at school... and they take the piss out of footie?
Ash
#2
Re: Girly sports?
Originally Posted by Ash UK/US
OK, I gotta ask... why do yanks take the piss and say/think that football (soccer) is a girls sport? I don't think I have ever heard one say... 'oh yeah nice game'.
They have American football basically padded up rugby (right?) and Baseball aka rounders (not trying to sound sexest, don't flame me I am female too) but it is/was mostly played by girls only when I was at school... and they take the piss out of footie?
Ash
They have American football basically padded up rugby (right?) and Baseball aka rounders (not trying to sound sexest, don't flame me I am female too) but it is/was mostly played by girls only when I was at school... and they take the piss out of footie?
Ash
I used to play (field) hockey at school and oh my god did those hockey sticks hurt when they collided with your shins. No shinpads for us girls only the boys playing football got to wear them. Not to mention the pain when the hockey ball hit you in the ribs or even worse the face.
#3
Re: Girly sports?
Originally Posted by mandpete
Not forgetting basketball which obviously started as netball.
I used to play (field) hockey at school and oh my god did those hockey sticks hurt when they collided with your shins. No shinpads for us girls only the boys playing football got to wear them. Not to mention the pain when the hockey ball hit you in the ribs or even worse the face.
I used to play (field) hockey at school and oh my god did those hockey sticks hurt when they collided with your shins. No shinpads for us girls only the boys playing football got to wear them. Not to mention the pain when the hockey ball hit you in the ribs or even worse the face.
and speak of getting tw@ed by a ball, they should try playing cricket and catch one of those balls in there nads or face
#4
Re: Girly sports?
Originally Posted by Bob
noticed that they don't play netball over here...it's all basketball...
and speak of getting tw@ed by a ball, they should try playing cricket and catch one of those balls in there nads or face
and speak of getting tw@ed by a ball, they should try playing cricket and catch one of those balls in there nads or face
#5
Re: Girly sports?
Originally Posted by ScousePete
or any ball without a big silly glove on
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#6
Re: Girly sports?
Originally Posted by mandpete
I used to play (field) hockey at school and oh my god did those hockey sticks hurt when they collided with your shins. No shinpads for us girls only the boys playing football got to wear them. Not to mention the pain when the hockey ball hit you in the ribs or even worse the face.
#7
Re: Girly sports?
Originally Posted by NC Penguin
Have to say that I once nearly broke a finger catching a baseball in a mitted hand!
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If you had broken it, maybe you could have sued the Mitt company :-)
#8
Re: Girly sports?
Originally Posted by TRPardoe
If you had broken it, maybe you could have sued the Mitt company :-)
#9
Re: Girly sports?
Originally Posted by Ash UK/US
OK, I gotta ask... why do yanks take the piss and say/think that football (soccer) is a girls sport? I don't think I have ever heard one say... 'oh yeah nice game'.
Ash
Ash
..... because football is the most popular world team sport, and if American football/basketball/baseball etc can't compete with world popularity, then American pride just can't take it. World series baseball ?????????
#10
Re: Girly sports?
Originally Posted by king.bob
..... World series baseball ?????????
I always understood that the series was named for it's original sponsor, The World newspaper, and the name stuck. However if you search Ask Jeeves you will find that this is claimed to be apocryphal.
Who knows.........?
#11
Re: Girly sports?
Originally Posted by TRPardoe
I always understood that the series was named for it's original sponsor, The World newspaper, and the name stuck. However if you search Ask Jeeves you will find that this is claimed to be apocryphal.
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Re: Girly sports?
Maybe football is considered a girly sport because of constant prima donna's rolling around on the floor as if there leg was just taken off below the shin. Then a minute later after the magic sponge/spray, they run off like nothing happened.
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Re: Girly sports?
Originally Posted by Ash UK/US
and Baseball aka rounders (not trying to sound sexest, don't flame me I am female too) but it is/was mostly played by girls only when I was at school... and they take the piss out of footie?
Ash
#14
Re: Girly sports?
Originally Posted by Lion in Winter
Oh yeah. I went to an all-girls school for quite a few years (discovered the boys later though ), and we played field hockey and lacrosse, all without protective gear. We also played British Bulldog (I know, I know, I was young, what can I say), which seemed to involve full body tackles, on a tarmac playground. Girlies are pretty tough stuff, esp. when the boys aren't watching.
#15
Re: Girly sports?
As I said on a previous thread alot of the soccer teams here are non contact. Could be why they think its girly cause they're not playing real soccer