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Seriously. At least football players are trying to play a game instead of randomly bumping their heads into each other like in handegg.
- Thomas: I didn’t think you’d be such a big football fan. Is it your favorite sport?
- Luna: No. I still prefer real football to American football.
- Caption: ~ DEAFENING SILENCE ~
- Spectator #1: Blasphemy!
- Spectator #2: Burn the heretic!
- Thomas: Religious tolerance has its limits, Luna, even in America!
- Luna: I’ve noticed.
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I hear you, Luna.
they are both inferior to the glory of Rugby Union. none of that prissy foppery Association has let run rampant, and non of that namby-pamby armour that Handegg players wrap themselves in
Seconded – as a patriotic New Zealander, the All Blacks are better than any of the American football teams
I prefer American Football over international football.
D’aww 😀 look at that cute litte blond girl and her morning star. I bet it has a pet name!
Mace. goddammit. fuzzy brain.
Hey Luna! Come and see Sunderland AFC play.
We’ll sharp get that nonsense straightened outta ya.
Just in case you forgot that Sandra and Woo was written by a European. 😛
Although, as a fellow European, I say: Hear, hear. Hear, hear.
Association football is best football.
@ Hogtree Octovish
My invite can extend to the real world, Hogtree old son.
Canadian football, eh?
@ Lucy:
BLASPHEMY! BURN THE HERETIC!
Weird. Even in the US the real football game sells more games than American Football
See Fifa 2016 and PES 2016
@ Morgan Walter Champion:
You have excuse to be so.
@ Whirlwound:
ONLY Yankees to say that even … Burn the Yankees.
Oh, right. Calling “football” a sport where you move an *egg* with your *hands*, instead of granting the name to the sport where you kick the *ball* with a *foot*.
Where’s ma shotgun, too may ureapans for my murican liking. Want to talk that smack after ww2, I’ll be damned.
I’m not a sports fan by any means, but it has always confused me why American Football isn’t called American Rugby, seeing as those two sports have much more in common than American and International Football.
I used to be a fan of all three until 2005.
Then I gave up completely on ALL sports due to me getting fed up with all those steroid scandals.
You won’t believe how much money I’ve saved from NOT buying sport team paraphernalia 😀 😀 😀
So, no, I no longer watch the World Cup, nor care who won the last one, nor do I care about the Super Bowl (coughdeflategatecough), and the movie “Invictus”? Not gonna see it 🙂 😉 😉
I wonder if it’s the perspective or what, but Luna’s foot is about twice the size of Thomas’. Weird.
antema wrote:
It’s a combination of distance (Thomas seems to have longer legs than Luna, so his foot is farther away than her’s), and different shoe types (Luna’s wearing sneakers, which tend to have a boxier profile than the dress shoes that Thomas has).
The J.A.M. wrote:
Invictus is worth seeing anyway. I mean, I don’t even know the RULES of the game, and I still loved it – it’s not a sports movie, it’s a movie about post-Apartheid South Africa.
Before anyone asking about the weapons, its probably just merchandise, after all, this is a Warrior’s game.
Not sure about the torch though, it may be the candle thing Americans do during the anthem.
Also, the foam finger would’ve looked good as a gauntlet in my opinion 😉
hahaha, nice way to start a comments war.
Despite the consequences, very funny strip.
By the way, late congratulations to the US Women’s team for beating the crap out of every nation that hates when we call it soccer!
If more Americans knew about Rugby, the NFL would go out of business! I’ve stopped a safari in mid hunt to watch Tri-Nations Cup games on satellite TV. Go Springboks!
There is no “real” football. Football refers to a group of sports. The football that Luna is talking about here is association football, and it’s no more “real” football than rugby or American football.
Only football I recognise is Australian Rules… Which is not recognised anywhere outside of Australia. Always takes me a second or two to realise when people are not specifying Aussie rules.
@ NotASpy:
If you want to give sense to words, “soccer” is the sport that’s better described by the term “football”, no question about it. It’s also the most widely known and played “football” all around the world by a long shot, so it should be obvious what should be considered “real” football.
“Football” was used in England back in the ‘800 to describe ball sports where you could use feet too, but rules varied a lot. That “football” doesn’t exist anymore, but originated modern football, rugby, a plethora of other minor ball-handling sports like Gaelic football, hurling, camogie… and American football, too, which evolved in British colleges all around the US from association football and rugby.
The entire discussion is a trap. (My attempt to end the comment war before it begins)
The title of this strip should have been “Luna’s Run”.
@ Lucy:
I still recall an American exchange student when he first saw a game of Rugby. “You guys are nuts!”
Thisguy wrote:
Well it is somewhat unique. Not to mention interesting when you learn how to play.
@ Edhead:
Hi, Mr Trump.
Come on… Who even decided to call a Rugby in Armor, Football, when you foot almost never touches the ball anyway…
Calvinball is superior to all those other sports anyway.
@ Artanis:
True
There was a point in American football when the only way to score was by field goal. They may have even played with a round ball in the beginning. The game today little resembles the early game, when they wore brain bags and sweaters for protection.
@ cariad:
From what I understand, a mace is a stick with a spiky ball on one end, a Morningstar is a staff with a spiked ball on one end, and a flail is a chain with a stick on one end as a spikey ball on the other.
Don’t quote me on this, I’m just working off of memory.
I thought Luna was supposed to be from New Jersey? While a Jersey Girl might prefer association football to American football, she’d call it soccer.
And the best football is the Ba’ game they play in the streets of Kirkwall, in Orkney.
And that’s why I don’t wear my Real Madrid hat to football games.
very true, thomas, like the hate american muslims faced after 9/11
@ DavidSh:
She only lived there for 6 years, apparently before that it was outside the US, I’m guessing Ireland (Because somewhere like Mexico or Brazil would be too obvious knowing she is Hispanic.)
INB4 Thomas is Tommy reincarnated.
@ Artanis:
House Rules Parchisi also has its merits.
@ Hogtree Octovish:
Omg someone actually recognizing that it’s name isn’t just football.
Run Luna, run!!!!
psh rugby and football are easy mode, you get to hold the ball with your HANDS.
That’s a very European (i.e., fantasy-level unrealistic, wishful-thinking, fatuous) view of U.S. football fans with regard to the popularity of soccer beyond the borders of God’s Country.
The truth is that anyone in the stands at a football game who announces a preference for watching guys in short pants kick a soccer ball up and down (and back and forth, and over and over and over and over…) a big grassy field, looking kinda like ice hockey except much slower and with far less scoring, accompanied by NBA-style soap-opera emoting and falling down trying to draw foul calls, is going to be looked upon with the same sense of pity reserved by polite folks for any other harmless moron.
What, you furriners assume that American football fans feel somehow threatened by the popularity of “association football” anywhere else on planet Earth?
Look, our little children play soccer, chiefly because it’s cheaper to run kiddie soccer leagues and “Liberal” nanny-state suburban parents don’t want their little male larvae getting exposed to the physical contact and “combat sports” philosophy of real football. (Not to mention the predatory practices of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America bringing utter ruination to such youth sports leagues by way of tort lawfare.)
You guys go get along with your finger paints and Duplo blocks and participation trophies. At best we regard professional soccer as a game for Guatamalans, and that’s to the very teensy extent we accord it any regard at all.
While I disagree fully with Tucci’s personal views above of football vs fußball, he’s pretty much spot on for the American perspective. C’est la vie.
I find American Football to be fascinating, in how violent it is while also being incredibly complex and full of strategy. It’s not simply men banging helmets together, players have to understand very complex play schemes, and often change them on the run. One man on offense or defense out of position can lead to instant disaster.
I also like that it is a sport where there’s a lot of skill specialization that leads to people with a host of completely different talents participating. You have massive linemen who are entirely focused on blocking, smaller but tough backs that are dedicated running and breaking through crowded lines, quick, skilled receivers and the QB whose passing and fast decision making are actually the most valuable skills. A near 40 year old like Peyton Manning may be the most limited athletic player on the field at times but his ability to look over a defense, and recognize a weakness within a few seconds can be the difference between winning and losing.
And then the game often comes down to the talents of the least athletic person on the field with the field goal kicker.
Also, it’s basically a turn based RPG: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/01/18