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Stickman
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Soccer team names
Why the fuck are so many team nicknames "FC" "United" or "Real"? How about some originality?
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"FC" stands for Football Club. Not a nickname.
And they aren't nicknames anyway. It's the team name. Better than calling them Sharks, Dodgers, Bulls or some other moronic American influenced shite. |
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I like how European teams are emphasized more on the city than a stupid nickname. Some American nicknames are cool and make sense, but so many are just stupid. See Detroit.
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Do soccer teams even really have nicknames? I mean I've heard so many teams called the blues, and Red Devils seems more like just something to say rather than anything official.
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Yeah most do but it's stuff like the blues or what not. Red Devils is Man United's though.
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Stickman
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Also, can't stand the advertizing on the jerseys.
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Triple A
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Well Stickman I'll say this, I prefer advertising on the shirts to commercial breaks between every goddamn half inning or at every time out
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Memphis Grizzlies
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Over Like Rover
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Do they even have bears in Memphis?
Or Vancouver for that matter? |
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I don't think they ever had Raptors in Toronto yknow
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Or Jazz in Utah for that matter, but they started in N'awlins so thats excusable
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"Football"
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Triple A
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EFC
The original and best club in Liverpool
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Bears? Maybe somewhere in Vancouver as a whole, but bears in any suburb of a city seems a bit stretchy.
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Official nicknames are shitty and cheesy. Unofficial ones are alright eg. Manchester United and Red Devils or Arsenal and Gunners.
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New York Red Bulls
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love yourself
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Red Bull*
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Peter Canero.
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WE'RE HERE
WE'RE QUEER WE DON'T WANT ANY MORE BEARS |
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Triple A
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Man Shitty
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Real is Spanish for Royal. It's only common in Spain. You'll notice any of the teams with Real in their name will have a crown on their badge.
It doesn't make much sense for whatever MLS team it is to have a Real on their name. That's a stupid gimmick. Last edited by El Capitano Gatisto; 01-21-2007 at 06:49 PM. |
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So if I understand correctly, there are no commercials shown during soccer games because the teams have corporate logos on their uniforms?
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Only during half time. At least in America...
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Stickman
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Ya, soccer is king at not having commercials. When they do sometimes I notice there's a split screen so you can still watch the game but the commercial is on
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They'd be lynched for trying that here
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The People's Member
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There was something in a technology magazine I was reading recently that had some predictions for this year, and one was that soccer would gain a lot of popularity this year because of how much better it is to watch on the widescreen TV's, which are really taking off this year.
Just thought I'd throw that in. |
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I wish FSC would go fucking HD. Their broadcasts look kinda crappy.
The World Cup looked GLORIOUS in HD. |
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Forever
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lol soccer is so gay
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Yeah, I think FSC isn't HD because a lot of what it shows are shitty foreign broadcasts. At least that is what I gather. Still, hands down my favorite channel. So far I have watched more soccer last semester in the U.S. that I have in England. Sucks not having a working TV.
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They're eating the dogs..
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Everton > Detroit Tigers
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