Soccer Fans: 3D TV is "Better Than Being There"

correction not soccer but football

I'm seriously considering making that picture my desktop.

Second that!
side note: Wonder who the hell name a sport FOOTBALL when you play with your hand

Next thing you'll be saying it's Net and not Ball Bag, and Forward not Goal Attack :-P

I've always asked myself the same question. I think a more appropriate name for american football should be, american handball. That sounds more logic.

*logical

Soccer = European Football

When you think of it, it actually makes more sense than American Football since the later doesn't use feets.

I am impressed! Normal Mr Smith likes 3D gimmick! It may be possible that 3D may actually become the next mainstream after dvd-players and flat screens...
It allso mean that Blue Ray may actually have an extra edge compared to DVD because the bigger capasity allows better 3D experience, than it would be possible with dvd.
Well, well this is something that I did not supose to happen quite soon.

American Football = missunderstood rugby

I too have always asked myself the same question, but then again i'm also always wondering why the US have an event call "World series" where only local teams participate.

Because naming it 'HANDBALL' sounds "dirty."

Man U fans will be very pleased

I really don't like this thing with the glasses... For the cinema I can see it happening, but wearing glasses in a pub that is plain weird. Maybe fashion designers will start making models of 3D glasses to stand out among the crowd

Just before the holidays I donned a pair of those glasses and look at a 3D display at an electronics store. I was not impressed. The technology needs additional development.

In 5 years it will be cheaper than paying for travel, tickets and hotel.

I have one bad eye so 3d is worthless to me. Pretty sad. So no, I won't be watching 3d whe it's available.

Yeah, because when I think of the term "soccer", I think that's the name they should have gave to boxing. When I think of the term "boxer", A) the dog comes up or B) I think of those guys who have to box merchandise at Wal-Mart. HAHAHA!

Its named Football based on army excercises that were done on foot. In the US, US Football came before Soccer. US Football league formed in 1820's, Football Association (Soccer) formed in 1865. So to replace the name Football with something else made no sense.
Also saying American Football is wierd as well. America is 2 continents. Nearly all of America refers to Soccer as futball.

"i'm also always wondering why the US have an event call "World series" where only local teams participate."

That one is easy. America has the best baseball, basketball, and American football players, so when we play those sports, it is the best in the world playing.

America's soccer leagues do not call the championship Copa Mundial because America does not have the best football players. Same with cricket, ping pong, etc.

They guy in the front cracks me up... "Uhmm DUH 3-D"

As for calling it soccer or football. Technically it is Association Football. Association shortended to "soccer". America didn't come up with that name either the "Football Association" did in England, so don't pin it on us. Plus America's football is called Gridiron Football. So technically we should call them by their full names and stop the bickering.

Interestingly, soccer is called 'Football' (or shortname 'Foot') in many other non-english-speaking European countries.

i have the answer guess what the U.S.A. football is a foot long (at my school we use 11.5 inch but what ever)=) I guess the number of highschool football player on this site is low. lol why wouldnt it.

Ask any American football player and they will tell you that 80% of the game is played with their feet.

So I guess they should have called it foot-hands-helmetball? You try coming up with a name that fits the sport and let me know what it is. It's always the same ignorant europeans that make remarks about the name when they know nothing of the sport or how it's played. sigh...

Uh? As in "they use their feet to run"? Just kidding ... (Go Colts!, btw)
What is relevant here is the part of the body or instrument that is used to control the ball. Hence we have handball, where the ball is carried and thrown with, you guessed it, your hands; football (soccer), where the ball is carried and kicked with your feet; racquetball, where the ball is hit with a racquet; and so on.
I agree that basketball and volleyball don't quite fit the schema, but they both succeed in conveying what each sport is about through their names.
But American football doesn't. Feet are seldom used in that sport (except for punts, FG attemps, etc.) while hands are used to carry and throw the ball. Going back in time, and considering that the forward pass wasn't allowed in the early days of American football, a more appropriate name for the sport would have been "rushball", wouldn't it?

"That one is easy. America has the best baseball, basketball, and American football players, so when we play those sports, it is the best in the world playing."

it has the only baseball(yeah I know some countries tried to copy cat it, but let's be real that's not serious) and american football players in the world. not the best, but the only ones. Still basically it could be correct calling it the world series considering this, but I do belive it has something to do with: americans(us citezens) viewing the U.S. as the only world.

baskteball is a little difrent because is popular in a lot of places and nba has best players in the world, but without being a basketball watcher I do wonder what would happen in real matches between nba teams and good european ones. because US isn't as clear of a winner at the olympics or world cup and the teams that win don't have all theire players in nba.

So your argument is that the nomenclature MUST fit a certain criteria. But like you said, what about basketball, volleyball, baseball, paintball, softball??? None of them come close to conveying what the sport is about, just how football doesn't come close to conveying what it's about. They may all include a very small part of the sport, but lets be honest here, if i told you I was going to play football (assuming you had never heard of it), would you know that i was planning on dribbling a little ball down a field and then kicking it through a rectangular goal? probably not.

The argument here is useless. There is not a single person out there that could come up with a name that would accurately convey the complexity of the sport "American football". So why not just call it football, because like i said 80% of the game is played with the feet. Your assumption is that the actual scoring takes place with the hands. But what about the other 20 players that NEVER touch the ball with their hands on a single play? They use their feet. It's the same reason why 350 lb lineman take ballroom dancing lessons. They improve their footwork because it's such an integral part of their game.

Like I said before, if you haven't played the game then you have no position on commenting on the legitimacy of the name.

The World Series is so called because it was originally sponsored by a newspaper called 'The World'.

http://media.fukung.net/images/12967/handegg.jpg

"Foot + Ball = Football
Hand + Egg = Handegg"

baseball should go 3d where the ball just seems to smash into your face

it will looks like "Man In Black" if everyone wearing the black coat and that glass

I'd watch it in 3-D, but 3-D TV's are lopster.

...For what it's worth, it sounds slightly better if you say it aloud.

I'd be willing to try it, but I think it will have a slow adapation rate. Imagine going to say Buffalo Wild Wings and watching the games in 3-D.